#Economist

Griff

grifftgaff

If @WeAreTogetherSF has a single goal it's to build diverse "social capital" — a term popularized by @RobertDPutnam that refers to "social networks and the norms of reciprocity associated with them."

Erin Cassese

ErinCassese

Advice for Picking a Lady VP Candidate (based loosely on political science research)Pick a woman who has never disagreed with you; disagreeable women are unlikeable, and we’re going to need

Romit Mehta

romitme

China led the global recovery out of the 2008 crisis and helped power a commodity supercycle. I was curious about if something similar could happen in the wake of COVID.

Doug Campbell

TradeandMoney

So, one thing I have never been able to understand as an empirical economist is the dominance of OLS in regression analysis. Because you are minimizing the sum of squared

Mukund Mohan

mukund

A thread in the "China stock" risks. I wanted to document for myself (after a discussion with a friend) what the risks are investing in stocks listed in the US

Ron Butler

ronmortgageguy

Canadian RE Bears: Just Wrong? To paraphrase Kermit: its not easy being a RE Bear Particularly in some big Canadian cities Prediction is a crap business at the best of

Diane Lim

economistmom

BRAND NEW (never before seen data on #AsianWomen) by me and @kimcheesquat (another Asian female economist): https://economistmom.com/2020/08/19/seeing-asian-women-to-better-understand-the-pandemic-she-cession/ #shecession The data are there

Stephanie Johnston

SoongJohnston

.@BrunoLeMaire at #WebSummit presser: It should be easier to convince the @JoeBiden administration to agree to move in the right direction on digital taxation. That would be "a major step

Ben Williamson

BenPatrickWill

Bit of a rant last night about the way an economist's gaze has interpreted education in terms of "learning loss" this last year. Lots of reasons to worry about what

Arun Deshpande

ArunDeshpande20

This is the Country where a few lakh Kashmiri Pundits are forced to flee, killed, their properties looted and their women raped, but the Government that allowed all these without

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

Marxists must necessarily be critical of capitalism; but no one can subsist on criticism alone. We must also put forth a set of concrete proposals to improve the lives of

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7I don't have all the data yet, but I think I am a bit more skeptical about the "big spending" story than many others are. Total consumption at major retailers

anon_fa_mous

anon_fa_mous

Has anyone heard of the Sursock family?They are known as the "Rothschilds of the East"The Sursock Museum and Sursock Palace are located just south of the explosion today When you

Carrie E. Fry, PhD

cefry437

Are you a health or education policy researcher? Health economist? Clinical epidemiologist? Do you analyze two-group/two-time-period (quasi-experimental) studies? If so, then this methods thread is for you! 1/ Inspired by

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis

James Lin

jamestwotree

Lee Teng-hui symbolized Taiwan's modern changes, not just through democratization and identity formation, but also as a paradigmatic developmental state technocrat. Through understanding Lee's rise, we can also understand the

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