#Economist

AJ Kay

AJKayWriter

Re: “Masking will save the economy.”At the consumer level, there are legions of people, like myself, who will not purchase subpar, muted, restricted experiences.There are also legions who *demand* subpar,

Aaron Carr

aaronAcarr

Slanted benches don’t reduce homelessness.Bolts on steps don’t reduce homelessness.Raised grate covers don’t reduce homelessness. Spiked windowsills don’t reduce homelessness. There’s only one thing that *does* reduce homelessness

modest proposal

modestproposal1

DFAST assumptions around credit card losses were based on double digit unemployment and no government stimulus. With mid single digit unemployment and potential line of sight to vaccinations, estimated losses

Eva Cantor, Water-Boiling Economist

PoRiverJamBand

Gonna chime in here as a behavioral economist and say this is ABSOLUTELY part of the design of these games. They are absolutely designing this as a core mechanic of

Elsa B. Kania

EBKania

Frankly, I find this commentary frustrating and consider it counterproductive for several reasons, even though (and perhaps especially because) I don’t disagree entirely with many of the basic points raised

Fatima Goss Graves

FGossGraves

This pandemic and its accompanying economic crisis and care crisis are unlike anything we have seen – the path forward cannot be business as usual. And it is precisely the

Christopher A. Neilson

ChrisANeilson

Its time to self promote our US work on COVID19 & PPP that was recently published in the @jpube. Our team at http://covid19sbs.org lead by @john_eric, @GUlyssea and myself +

Naren Menon

NarenMenon1

Indian LNG imports up 54pc in five years https://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/midstream-downstream/lng/2020/indian-lng-imports-up-54pc-in-five-years | "While LNG volumes are increasing rapidly, the uneven distribution of infras

Jessica Hullman

JessicaHullman

It's election forecast time! But can we take @FiveThirtyEight or @Economist forecasts at face value? What are forecasters' goals & incentives, especially post 2016 disillusionment? Excited to share a new

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

"The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure," says @DrTedros @WHO.>39 Million vaccine doses have been administered in 49 high-income countries. 25 (just 25) doses have been

Francesco Battaglia

Francescob

https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/1295959585572950018?s=20Here the Economist leading the charge to take advantage of the covid pandemics to further normalize universities: Get rid of "useless" (for them) subjects, online cou

Will Malone MD

will_malone

Time to fact-check @jack_turban 's latest article. Spoiler alert—it’s full of misrepresentations and errors. Jack’s mistakes could be forgiven as he is in medical training (a first year-fellow) with much

Esha K.

eshaLegal

Don't read Lenin's pieces that Anarchists pretend they have read. Read the little pieces. You learn more.Read "In Memory of Count Hayden" and compare it to the hagiography of John

Stefen Deleveaux

stefdelev

I'm still grappling with the idea of @Cent, at least philosophically.In technical terms it's brilliant: allowing people to make money from their own content in ways they couldn't before (creating

Las brujas del mar

brujasdelmar

Hoy el Reino Unido, @Mermaids_Gender (la famosa asociación de infancias trans, esa a la que @EmmaWatson donó cuando dijo que @jk_rowling estaba mal) es tendencia en Twitter y les vamos

Yuen Yuen Ang

yuenyuenang

Like in , China is undergoing deep disruptions. But certain things won't change: crony capitalism. How does crony capitalism REALLY work in China? One popular opinion: has “a rapacious

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