#Labor

Victor Ferguson

VictorAFerguson

1/6 Interesting. When the US pulled out in 2017 the idea of China joining was floated. I'd just written a thesis on the SOE chapter (17), and felt sufficiently skeptical

snacc

ivoteforpatches

Thoughts on how to avoid Discourse™ on Twitter:I rarely see discourse directly on my timeline, tho I might see folks complain indirectly about discourse. I believe it's possible to experience

Ann Bauer

annbauerwriter

Of all the things that confuse me (there are easily 3k this morning) this stumps me most: When did we decide that saving an 80-year-old's life is worth sacrificing a

Evan You

youyuxi

I see many people looking at this and say "then it's no longer OSS". To that my reaction is... "so what?" (thread)https://twitter.com/pomber/status/1337072168778260480 As consumers of OSS it is often too

Tinu Abayomi-Paul

Tinu

You are absolutely not reaching. We talked about this at length in the 90s.https://twitter.com/ghostinmypocket/status/1345129288664813569 The initial concerns were first,if all currency is digital, anyone with power over those digits can

Devi Lacroix

DeviLacroix

One of the arguments that Mark Fisher lays out in "Capitalist Realism" is capital's pernicious ability to not just deflect, but absorb and subsume almost any criticism into itself—that there

Cao Cao 🏁🐍

MacSmiff

The corporate elites wanted us to use REIMAGINE as our slogan. Highly palatable, friendly, vague... Indeed, campaigns to REIMAGINE everything from customer service to factory efficiency swept across the corporate

Cao Cao 🏁🐍

MacSmiff

Every successful movement requires alliances, so don't be ashamed if you're just an ALLY and not actually an ACCOMPLICE.Be ashamed if you lied about it all summer and chanted "BLM"

Sarah Bana

SarahHBana

Thanks @femonomics for starting this #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper challenge! I am excited to tweet about "Match Quality, Working Productivity, and Worker Mobility: Direct Evidence from Teachers." I stumbled upon this paper during

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

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

The idea of "centaurs" comes from automation theorists: it describes a system where a human and a machine collaborate to do more than either one could do on their own.

Nelini Stamp 🐺🐜

NelStamp

Taps : This is going to be a thread. If you are doing movement work and are committed to organizing and you have high profile events or get amplification from

Carina C. Zona

cczona

AB 5 was passed in 2019. Uber, Lyft, and Doordash are pretending it took them by surprise this week. Meanwhile have been spending a fortune to get it overturned. They've

Oren Danieli

DanieliOren

@SydneeCaldwell and I have a new version of our paper “Outside Options in the Labor Market” (my 2018 jmp).We develop a method to estimate workers’ outside options and show that

Public Math

Public_Math

Twitter, we need your help!We have an idea for @cheezit but they cannot accept confidential ideas, so we have to make it public.Check out the thread and let them know

Christian Christensen

ChrChristensen

1) Study: large excess #COVID19 mortality among Swedish residents born in Iraq, Syria, Somalia. March-May 2020, excess mortality rates (vs. 2016-19):Born Iraq, Syria, SomaliaAge 40-64: +220%Age 65+: +205%Born Sweden, Nordics,

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