#Economist

Nicholas A. Christakis

NAChristakis

There has been a lot of discussion of the Swedish approach to coping with the #COVID19 pandemic, and of whether their strategy of more voluntary restrictions and a more rapid

kate dc

katedc16

We’ve subjected power companies, and by extension consumers, to energy market traders that make money by waiting for the opportunity to price gouge desperate people for electricity. /14 But hey,

Strategic Cities

StrategicCities

I’ve been feeling blue hearing so many suggestions that coronavirus is “the end of cities”. So today I spent time with a favourite artwork to cheer myself up, and which

Binti Swahiliya

bintiswahiliya

I was listening to NPR the other day and they were presenting the work of an African American Economics researcher who linked lynchings and the Tulsa Race Massacre to the

Martin Aragoneses

m_aragoneses

Kandinsky was an economist before changing careers at age 30 to become a world renowned painter; his art remained highly influenced by math we use in Econ: e.g. Kakutani developed

Gita Gopinath

GitaGopinath

[1/N] My interview with @MESandbu in today's @FT covers a range of issues facing policy makers. My views on...https://www.ft.com/content/9dd38ca3-a07b-4905-813d-39261dbc3c91 [2/N] Fiscal Policy: Immediate need is health spending, widesp

Gady Epstein

gadyepstein

THREAD: Following our cover this week on Uyghurs, I wanted to highlight scholars, journalists, activists and exiles who have helped expose and explain what is happening in Xinjiang, from the

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

H/t @ChelseaHerps: If you visit Google's front page today, you may see a Black guy with glasses. If you're an economist #EconTwitter, you probably know who this is. If not,

Mohammad Akbarpour

akbarpour_

Accepted in Econometrica, Redistribution through Markets (with awesome coauthors, @skominers and Piotr Dworczak).Link: https://stanford.io/3gJQxbT We have multiple takes on how to present this, with no optimal one. Here's one take,

TakingHayekSeriously🧨

FriedrichHayek

Friedrich Hayek's graduate student Arthur Lewis was the first black man to win a Nobel Prize in an area other than the Peace Prize. "I got into the history of

Coleslaw

Khadz_J

If you know me, you know how much I love to see women thrive. Throughout this very bleak year there were many women whose stories, lives and work continued to

Bronwyn Williams

bronwynwilliams

Completely free non-fiction advent calendar thread. One book recommendation a day from my best-of 2020 reading list. Happy holidays. Day 1: Skin in the Game by @nntaleb - not new

Giacomo Rondina

giacomorondina

What can an economist with mainstream training learn from #MMT? I articulate my answer in a new paper titled “A Blue Paper on Modern Monetary Theory” #MMTBluePaper. https://bit.ly/30puulV Here are the

#WereRemovingADictator

LungeloN_Zulu

A bit of insomnia. Might as well do a thread on MMT. The difficulty with this expansionary monetary theory, is that the pool of country's that can borrow in their

G. Elliott Morris

gelliottmorris

Quick thread: There is some discussion over whether Trump will benefit from the increasing rate of likely voter polls as we get closer to November. We can use our polling

Laurie Adkin

LaurieAdkin

The Financial Post reported on December 7th that “at least 68 Canadian companies have continued to pay out billions in dividends to their shareholders” while receiving the Canada Emergency Wage

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