#Economic

I have reservations about this opinion I'm seeing expressed quite a bit:"academics on campus specializing in social sciences should have been more involved to better factor in human behavior." Thread...https://www.bloomberg.co
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Electoral organizing is a tool for some. And we got other tools. There are folks near you building people power, organizing around community needs, & making demands. If you're sad
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Garbage in, garbage out. Recently, a psych sci paper was retracted after reassessing the data it was based on. This data, the national IQ data derived from Lynn and Vanhanen,
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Didn’t read this until now, because I wasn’t ready. Last night I cried through dinner discussing how my generation of moms is being pushed out of and/or downgraded in the
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Australian Tragedy :Western Australia holds the distinction of having the highest Indigenous jailing rate on earth.Aboriginal people in WA are incarcerated at a rate eight times greater than the jailing
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CM Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray's address to the State:Firstly, I would like to thank everyone across religious and caste lines for keeping their religious festivals and celebrations aside for a national
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1/ Gender and Urban Transport A short introduction(Thread ) - feel free to add and to comment.#womenmobilize 2/ Against the common belief, transport is not gender neutral! Women
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As I get ready for bed, I have a few more closing thoughts on today's announcement from @AdrianaLaGrange. The first is about outcomes: what is it that we are trying
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haven't done a book thread in a whileObservations concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, & etc. By Benjamin Franklin Even in the 18th century anyone studying it noticed
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Today in #SOCR381, we're going to be discussing "the limits of modern medicine" and how #SDoH contributed to the "great victory over infectious diseases." A quick thread about how this
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π–π‘πžπ§ π“π‘πž π‹πžπ―πžπž (𝐨𝐫 πƒπšπ¦) 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐀𝐬1,000 km upriver from Shanghai and the mouth of the Yangtze Delta sits a marvel of modern mega-engineering:The Three Gorges Dam.It might be a
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:Yesterday we talked a bit about why stable nominal GDP growth is desirable. While my new paper speaks well of NGDP targeting, it is not the only content.In fact, much
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some countries are going to bounce back from coronavirus. americans are gonna struggle. we're probably not ready for how hard it'll be.and here's exactly why, in 2,000 charts(jk it's just
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Remember:1. bees declining2. ice disappearing3. emissions surging4. ecosystems collapsing5. photosynthesis malfunctioning6. oceans overheating7. overconsumption rising8. primates vanishing9. chemicals accumulating10. penises shrinkingThis e
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President Trump was slow to absorb the scale of the risk the coronavirus pandemic posed to the U.S. and to act accordingly, our examination of the administration’s response revealshttps://nyti.ms/2Vmt6MH  Dozens
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Having received a lot of pushback on my public school tweet below, I'd like to offer some public showing-of-my-work in a quick thread.Thesis: Christians shouldn't normally send their kids to
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