#Economy

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

This is a good thread that I think nails the lottery nature of academia as a result of marketization, but as always I think it is then necessary to ask

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

A claim I see often is: capitalism is great because of all this *stuff* we have. The poorest person in capitalism lives materially better than kings and emperors did. Isn’t

Chelsea O'Brien

ChelseaMDO1

So @PlanetMoney released an episode of the cost of going to college this fall https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897983620/college-failsIt failed to address many things. Here's my thread which covers a bunch of things they

Karam Bales

karamballes

They stripped CAHMS of funding, cut 15k support staff jobs mainly TAs, cut social services and MH provision, ignored 10s of thousands of students being off rolled, pushed working parents

Jared Wesley

DrJaredWesley

We can learn a lot about who politicians refer to as their "friends". In speeches & responses to questions, the people they choose to mention offer us insight into whose

Esha K.

eshaLegal

Corporate Death Penalty: The idea that after certain atrocities, a corporation no longer can exist. It's assets need to be nationalized and executives jailed and their assets seized. I'm going

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

MMT is a state theory of money, but what is needed now, as the title of my essay suggests, is a money theory of the state: how money power both

Oddgems (🅑) 🏝️🤘🏼

oddgems

Continuing with where I left on my previous $MRPH thread (https://twitter.com/oddgems/status/1356981039940341760), I made a point regarding @MRPHSupplyChain connections with China (Qingdao Maples & Xinlei)The previous thread is nothing

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update August 18: "I'm Joe Biden and I accept your nomination to be your next president. Normally I wouldn't give the pandemic portion of my speech through Andy Slavitt's

Adam Morton

adamlmorton

In case you missed some of the climate and environment news of the past 24 hours This story, and the ramifications of it, warrant a 2nd reading if you've already

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

Under Trump, the GOP stopped pretending by @johnastoehr https://stoehr.substack.com/p/under-trump-the-gop-stopped-pretending?r=5msd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter 1. Liberal democracy is not a good thing for

Sahil Mahtani

sahil_mahtani

I'm going to be retweeting some charts from our recent project, The Road to 2030. This sets out our framework for thinking about the key issues over the coming decade.https://ninetyone.com/en/international/how-we-think/road-to-2030

Riggs_Bud

Riggs_Bud

Thoughts on $PLOW: Leading NA manufacturer of snow plows (50-60% market share). Moving into adjacent custom truck solutions for commercial and municipal customers. 1. Company IPOed in June 2010. Was

Jacob T. Levy

jtlevy

My term as political theory editor for the Journal of Politics is ending soon. This thread is a review of what's been published or accepted on my watch (including many

Chris Bataille

bataille_chris

New! "Net-zero deep decarbonization pathways in Latin America", our open access synthesis paper from our ESR special issue on the DDP-LAC project https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X20300638, initiated &

ghost of daniel parker

SeekerOTL

1\THE TWO LIVES OF CLIFFORD G GADDYThe Second Life (1987-2020)a thread Part I can be found here:https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1320531338789818369 2\Like a real life Don Draper, Clifford Gaddy was reborn. In 1987, he

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