Jon Williams
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Professor at @unc_econ, director of @cris_uncecon, and @ohiou & @UVA alum. 🇺🇸 Personal views and opinions.
Chapel Hill
Joined July 2021
Crazy how localized the heavy rain was from this storm. The 10.05" dot is literally almost on top of my house in the second picture. 😱.
#Chantal left a narrow path of intense rainfall into Central North Carolina. A few spots saw 10-12" of rainfall in a single day. The Purple areas represent 50-100-year rainfall events for a 24-hour period. #ncwx #scwx
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Glad to see these practices dragged into the daylight.
NEW: Universities across the U.S. have embraced diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring. Administrators monitor the demographics of applicants throughout the process, with consequences for searches that don't "pass muster"—according to a trove of records I've obtained. 🧵
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If students are involved, immediately expel and prosecute. This is disgusting and unfair to the amazing students that come to campus every day to bust their ass for a better life. @MIT needs to send a strong message and stick up for their faculty members being threatened.
BREAKING: Direct Action Movement for Palestinian Liberation (DAMPL) vandalized an MIT professor’s lab, spray-painting “Death to the IDF” on a door. “This was not symbolic. This was a costly warning shot,” they say. “The resistance is alive. And it knows exactly where you work.”
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Our little creek rose about 8 feet. Driveway barely holding on. 🫣
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RT @JesusFerna7026: Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) consistently offers some of the sharpest takes on basic economics on X. His recent po….
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RT @Mrktng_Science: Newly Accepted Articles 05/25 (1 of 5). "The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Privacy Regulation for Consumer Ma….
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Huge amount of rain in just a few hours in Chapel Hill from tropical storm. Lots of folks in dangerous situations could use a prayer. 🙏.
Life-threatening flash flooding continues across parts of Central NC this evening. Around 10" of rain have fallen between Pittsboro & Chapel Hill, NC. Scattered considerable flooding has occurred, and the situation continues to worsen as heavy rain continues to fall. Avoid any
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I wonder why the SEC schools aren't having these problems. 🤔.
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"Market-oriented reforms" is the key. As someone who's entire field is based on the study of imperfect markets, I think academic economists have gotten way too confident about our ability to implement reforms that improve on those imperfections.
@cremieuxrecueil Milei is an economist and put good economists in charge of the market-oriented reforms. .
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I don't think "academics" should discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, politics, etc when making hiring and admissions decisions. Life gets easier when everything isn't viewed as an opportunity to signal your virtuousity while harming a deserving person.
I don't think "academics" should hide behind pseudonyms and misuse data.
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RT @MichaelAArouet: Sorry Comrades „Economists“, free market works, and it works really fast.
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RT @egsc_wustl: 🚨 Call for Papers! Last month to submit your work for the 20th edition of the EGSC at WashU!.PhD students in econ & finance….
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Universities right now. From admissions/hiring to fundraising, FOIA and hacking is going to reveal a lot about just how absurd things got over the last decade. Hope it leads to real change for the benefit of students and taxpayers.
I've received more death threats in the last four hours than I know what to do with. But when the stories and lawsuits regarding this little country's involvement at Columbia come out, I'm certain that number is going to multiply by a lot.
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RT @frankverboven: We completed a revised version of our paper on “Demand, competition and public policy in the automotive industry”, with….
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Saving this tweet, so I can share a paper in next month that shows reality (i.e., the data) is the complete opposite: increasing connectivity, decreasing prices, and substantial and successful entry that has benefited consumers tremendously and made air travel more accessible.
Is there an industry with prices less tethered to cost or any ideal of predictability or transparency than airfares?. Airline Deregulation was a despicable failure, creating the model for economy-wide price opacity. A seismic anti-consumer reorientation of our entire economy.
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RT @anup_malani: I am excited to announce that I am starting a new position this week as Chief Economist at the U.S. Centers for Medicare &….
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UVA needed this change. I hope they find a serious person that prioritizes research and teaching, not a political puppet.
BREAKING: UVA President Jim Ryan steps down, ending a controversial chapter in the university’s leadership.
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