Lawrence D. LaPlue
@LLaPlue
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@NMSU, Economist (enviro, energy, trade, development). Benefits 🔼cost ⏩sustainable dev. UT Knox '16 (Phd econ) Bryan College '08 (BA history, political comm)
Las Cruces, NM
Joined October 2009
RT @MichaelRStrain: It would be a fascinating and powerful twist of history if the first American pope provided a corrective to the America….
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Fascinating guest /topic combo recently on @EconTalker."EconTalk - Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)" in Podcast Guru:.
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Had the exact same thought when I saw the "screwing in tiny screws" quote. Who is actually clamoring for that job?? 🤔.
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Good observations highlighting complexity of the "reciprocal tariff" discussion and ways stats can clarify (when their construction is well understood) or obfuscate (when it is not). (eg compare current Rose Garden presentation by @POTUS to this figure shared by @JustinWolfers).
Some data worth pondering as the conversation shifts to "reciprocal" tariffs.
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RT @neoavatara: What country is the most self sufficient on the planet?. It's probably North Korea. Which tells you almost all you need to….
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Ahhhh. I was wondering why I couldn't see the mountains anymore 😊.
Unbelievable satellite imagery of a massive dust storm (haboob) roaring across New Mexico and northern Mexico. This dust storm, generated by severe thunderstorms, is over 200 miles in length!
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RT @Avik: David Kelly of @JPMorganAM: "The trouble with tariffs, to be succinct, is that they raise prices, slow economic growth, cut profi….
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Interesting case study for the "Porter hypothesis". Counterfactual absent the policy restriction is of course essentially unknown. "Kass, a former executive at OpenAI said DeepSeek's advances despite America restrictions "underscore a broader lesson: Resource constraints often.
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RT @colmflynnire: The beautiful sound of the Notre Dame ‘Worker’s Choir’ rehearsing. More than 80 engineers, architects, carpenters, crane….
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RT @UTBakerSchool: #ICYMI The @utbakerschool welcomed @AEI Director of Economic Policy Studies @MichaelRStrain and independent columnist @m….
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RT @MichaelRStrain: 🧵NEW PAPER. My new @AspenEcon paper is well titled: "Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded.". Link: .
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Interesting insight coming out in @ecmaEditors with potentially important implications for all manner of public policy (welfare, public health, environmental/climate, etc) : "I demonstrate that, under standard assumptions, these two questions are equivalent : carrying more about.
My paper, "The Cross-Sectional Implications of the Social Discount Rate", is forthcoming in Econometrica! The basic idea of the paper in 5 tweets, and then some acknowledgements.1/9.
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Quite the burn.
The Babylon Bee Writers Stand In Solidarity With Our Fellow Fake News Writers Going On Strike At The Washington Post
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Interesting energy history from the state I currently call home.
In the 1960s a group of nuclear weapons scientists at Los Alamos went rogue. Instead of building bombs, they began exploring a new form of clean energy. 50 years later, that technology is finally coming to market. It could solve one of renewable energy's biggest problems. 🧵
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