#Economic

Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega

raulpacheco

For your personal enjoyment, I’m going to be writing a series of threads and tweets on risk perception, the social construction of risk, risk aversion and COVID-19. One advantage of

Stephen Barlow

SteB777

A big thank you to @GeorgeMonbiot for highlighting my response to him and I will try to explain what I meant in a tweet thread here. I have been inspired

NABEELAQ

nabeelaq

Pakistan's international positioning has improved multi-folds in the last 2 years under PM @ImranKhanPTI's leadership. This was a much-needed step to improve peace and prosperity in the area, but like

Sarah Constantin

s_r_constantin

This post on Roman-era peasants https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-i-farmers/ has made me question how I think about technology and economic growth. My model had been something like “humanity used to

Pooja.

vilegenius

Read along if you want to understand the technicalities of how and why Nepal amended its map, where the dispute lies, and what forced Nepal to drop its claim later.

Amani

freethebutts

Here we go: For anyone in Leb looking to get to Germany, I’m splitting it into 3: Work, studying, and living. Note: I have a German passport and didn’t go

darren, a dog liker

tai_nugget

I think Abby is conservative Catholic, but this is a very common evangelical retort to the suggestion that Christians aren’t doing enough to eradicate poverty. Reading her tweet as charitably

Mark Copelovitch

mcopelov

The robots fixation is unproductive. But so is the lazy way the China Shock has made its way into the political debate, where we talk only about the costs of

Judd Legum

JuddLegum

1. In this thread I'm going to talk about the problems with the Paycheck Protection Program (forgivable loans to small businesses)The Trump administration launched the $350 billion program on Friday

Gabriel Pogrund

Gabriel_Pogrund

EXC: Here's an overview of Labour Together's inquiry into 2019 election defeat, overseen by MPs incl Ed Miliband, per sourceIt addresses threat posed by Boris Johnson, Labour's relationship with working

Nikunj Pandharikar

Nik_Pandharikar

#Thread | #NarendraModi #HappyBdayNaMo |Today Honourable Prime Minister Sh @narendramodi ji Turns #70Year .First of All wishing him very Happy Birthday . Wishing all Good Health Needed for Building a

The New York Times

nytimes

The coronavirus has brought hunger to millions of people. Lockdowns and social distancing are drying up work and are likely to disrupt agricultural production and supply routes — leaving millions

Tim Legrand

timlegrand

Hello folks! I'm delighted to be first up in the "Understanding the Five Eyes" Twitter conference, with many thanks to @uOttawaCIPS Here, in just 13 short tweets, is my paper:

jaydeedubyu

JayDeeDubyu

1. I've seen various progressives suggesting we shld just run the airlines thru bankruptcy rather than bailing them out, so the shareholders who got fat on all those stock buybacks

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

In June, after reopening, #SARSCoV2 #COVID19 cases in Florida began to rise. Hospitalisations & deaths, however, stayed low.Perhaps it just wasn't so bad after all? Perhaps something had changed?We see

Yilan

redxyl

There is definitely mistreatment of Uyghurs in Xinjiang. That’s a fact. But the way that the US frames this discussion, the way that statistics are extremely exaggerated - that’s not