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Papi. 🇩🇴 New Yorker. Assistant Prof of Economics, University of Utah. @Center4EconDem #SjiPortalProject . He/him.
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Excited to share a new paper recently published in the American Journal of Economics & Sociology. It addresses a question that has been on my mind since I first arrived in Senegal in 2007: Why does the CFA franc still exist? 🧵
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Global inequality is so high that virtually all Africans are poor by Western standards and virtually all Westerners are rich by African standards.
Fewer than 1% of Africans have an income above the rich world's median, and fewer than 1% of the people living in the rich world have an income below the African median. (All in PPPs)
The ratio between the two median incomes is 12.6.
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The idea that mainstream folks get held to higher standards than heterodox folks is beyond laughable. No objective observer of elite economists' treatment of
@IsabellaMWeber
would ever make that argument.
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Whenever heterodox folks criticize neoclassical theory most economists will say "That's not where cutting edge research is now" which is true, but the problem is 99% of people will never get a PhD. What they are exposed to is Econ 101 which hasn't changed in decades.
A really frustrating aspect is that many heterodox economists argue against an economics circa 1979.
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From Dr shock therapist in the 1980s to Mr Aid in the 2000s to anti-colonialist?? Has any economist this famous ever had multiple lives/careers like Sachs?
"What's wrong with you, Africa? Why don't you govern properly?" 🧐
Jeffrey Sachs
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I'm excited to announce that I'm joining the Economics Department at the University of Utah this fall! It's an honor to have the opportunity to build on the department's legacy of critical scholarship. Let's go! 🏔️
Great news!
@EconUofU
concluded this year’s hiring process with the appointment of Sarah Small
@sarahfsmall
and Francisco Pérez
@platanomics
as assistant professors of economics. Welcome Francisco and Sarah!
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That RCT where they disconnected people's water in Nairobi was even more unethical than I understood when the original scandal broke
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My mom was subject to work requirements after welfare reform in late 1990s. They weren't meant to help her get a good job, but to humiliate and degrade her. I haven't trusted moderate Dems ever since. Dark Brandon my ass.
Again, the interest of the poor - those w the least economic & political power - is “compromised” for a “deal.” Work requirements for a basic right to food is a cruel and immoral publicity imposed labor market distortion. It should be considered bad antiquated 20th century policy
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Today is the day! It feels like I'm getting married to myself. Feel free to send gifts and flowers lol. 🎉😬💐🌍
#contreleCFA
@UMassEcon
@LEONCENDIKUMANA
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Goldin deserves the award but in acknowledging her contributions we shouldn't ignore the limitations of the neoclassical approach to gender which treats patriarchy as a given set of "constraints" instead of social structures to be explained and dismantled
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The best reason to go to a fancy school is to see firsthand that the rich aren't smarter and that meritocracy is a myth
I grew up working class. When I arrived at fancy college, I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to keep up with all the smart rich kids. It took one week before I had a revelation: most of these people are idiots. The PMC’s self-mythologizing about their brainpower is so funny.
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Instead of "reparations, corporate America and the political elite alike embraced the language of identity to assure those making radical demands in the streets that political change might just come one chief diversity officer at a time."
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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My fav thing about teaching economic theory is someone can write down an equation like Y=AF(K,L) and win a "Nobel" prize (Solow) and then millions of people can stare at it for decades and then someone else comes along (Romer) and is like "what if A = G(Y)?" and they too win.
After reading 90 page working papers with a dozen different robustness checks, one of the remarkable things about economic theory papers especially the classic ones is how short they are e.g. Domar's original growth model is just 11 pages long!
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Also there's literally a textbook called "Heterodox Macroeconomics" that's full of the mathematical models
@Noahpinion
claims hardly exist. So deeply unserious.
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Inflation is always and everywhere
a distributional conflict phenomenon. Trying to reduce inflation by increasing joblessness is class warfare. Yet these zombie ideas of the Phillips Curve and NAIRU refuse to die.
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Widely available street food is part of what makes New York a great city. Go back to the Jamba Juice at your suburban strip mall and let the rest of us enjoy city living.
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Just got this message from a student and it made my week! At least one student appreciates what I'm trying to do 😊
It's incredibly disheartening. In class we play games, do role plays, have small group discussions on films and podcasts, etc. and the students just look at me like "can you please stop so we can go back to scrolling on our phones/laptops" 😭
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Was looking up this book earlier today and still can't believe Kamala Harris' father is a heterodox economist.
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I was 22 and my gf got pregnant. I felt awful that she had to deal with the consequences of our mistake but was relieved she made the right decision. We both became parents when it made sense for us. Forcing us to have a child then would have been terrible for all involved.
dear men, i encourage you to share your abortion stories with us…
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@ASPertierra
This is my fear for Cuba. As bad as things are now economically, a rapid transition to neoliberal capitalism would be so much worse for the majority of the population.
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So many economics departments only hire graduates from a handful of PhD programs. The elitism in economics is even worse than I thought.
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What looked like obvious colonial plunder in the 1860s is just run-of-the-mill derisking today
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Jamaica is a poster child for the IMF. The govt has prioritized servicing its foreign loans for decades leading to lower growth and massive social costs. What could those 7% primary surpluses have yielded if they had been invested in the Jamaican ppl?
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Continually amazed that a *Bloomberg* podcast regularly features critical voices like
@NathanTankus
@IsabellaMWeber
and now Toporowski explaining Kalecki's insights on why full employment is politically impossible in a capitalist society.
FRIDAY BONUS ODD LOTS
There’s lots of talk now about the labor market being ‘too hot’ But what does that even mean and why is there so much apparent opposition to full employment anyway?
@TheStalwart
and I speak with economist Jan Toporowski.
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Degrowth debate reminds me of 'defund the police' debate in that both seem rhetorical. In both cases the goal is "let's spend less on the bad stuff and more on good things" and if they were framed as a "rebalance" or "shift" much of the disagreement on the Left would disappear.
I'm honestly tired of this debate, but one of the major Marxist journals has now fully embraced degrowth. I read JB Foster's introduction and wanted to tease out points of agreement and disagreement. 🧵1/x
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I still can't believe we went from "don't ever mention that people have millions riding on this game" to "halftime show presented by Draft Kings, over/under for second half is 100 points" seemingly overnight
I think it’s interesting that the US held the line on sports gambling for so long and then just decided to YOLO the legalization without basically any consumer protections or regs.
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I just wish we had laws limiting campaign times. Did we need two years (and $300 million) to learn DeSantis 2024 was DOA? A three month campaign window would do wonders for American political culture.
The damage these delusional ambition machines do angling for a job they never had a chance to get. From the Rockefeller Laws to this clown.
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This post highlights that PPP rests on the faulty premise of comparative advantage and the law of one price. My biggest gripe is that PPP adjusts for what we should be trying to explain "why don't prices equalize?" It reminds me of when ppl are like 1/2
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car dealership owners are often in the top 0.1% of income distribution
It's very dumb that in 28 of the 50 states carmakers are legally prohibited from selling cars directly and instead have to go through car dealership middlemen, who everyone generally hates. Car salesmen are a powerful political force.
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Why don't major US cities have trains as fast, clean and reliable as Tokyo? Oh right, racism and the refusal to invest in anything for "those people."
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So predictable. I wonder if business newspapers just use templates for these stories like "country_name" stock market and currency fall after "leftist_politician_name" wins election.
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Good to see someone set the record straight on decoloniality, Marxism and the relationship between the two.
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Yours truly on "Behind the News" talking about the CFA franc and French neocolonialism. Please listen and let me know what questions you have!
fresh audio product
• Francisco Pérez of the University of Utah on the CFA franc
• Caitlin Chandler on US interests in Niger
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IMHO the issue is the divorce, especially in micro, between the sophisticated research economists do and the crude theory that they teach
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Story time 😎
The current version of Economics for Emancipation (
@econ4freedom
) is the result of many years of work first led by the Center for Popular Economics (CPE) – a collective which was founded in 1979 by progressive economists out of the
@UMassEcon
...
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"What does it mean to decommodify land?" - Ananya Roy
The question makes me think about growing up in a limited equity housing cooperative in one of the most gentrified neighborhoods in NYC.
#MunicipalistMoment
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Haiti & DR do not have "broadly similar historical institutions." Anyone with even a basic understanding of Caribbean history knows that Haiti is one of a kind. This is why economists need to study history.
@radical_carib
@mrbig_panda
I mean, it's not like I haven't read anything about this, Keston.
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Loved this conversation between three of my favs
@OlufemiOTaiwo
@nssylla
@DanielaGabor
about our global financial system on
@thedigradio
. We 100% need a "Bandung Woods"!
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Developing a workshop w/
@Center4EconDem
for grassroots activists from Buffalo, Bay Area, Alaska & Kentucky on the political economy of monetary policy where we will take people from "what is an interest rate?" to "how do we democratize the Fed?" in about five hours
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Grading final exams for my class on African Economic History and one of my students wrote "Africa being a landlocked country..." After a whole damn semester they still think
@africasacountry
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So proud of
@AprilBurrage
who defended her dissertation today! Let's all work toward the moment when a Black woman getting a PhD in economics is no longer a rare and impressive feat.
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Legislators are finally starting to realize that public subsidies for stadiums are a scam. If the Millers want public money then we should get partial ownership of the team.
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This is one of those basic things economic theory gets wrong about human behavior. People aren't purely "self-regarding." They care what happens to others so both solidarity and spite are also major political motivations.
As a social scientist, I sometimes think we've underestimated the role of spiteful stupidity as a governing principle.
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Teaching the RCT debate in development economics this week and was reminded of this gem of an article by
@ingridharvold
that lays out (and links to) all the major criticisms.
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Mainstream macroeconomists: Listen to us, we are (hopefully) less wrong than the cranks!
Macroeconmics is a proto-science, still groping for a set of basic tools that will allow it to understand some very complex and difficult phenomena.
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3 yo: why aren't we going to school today?
Me: because today we celebrate MLK
3 yo: who is that?
Me: an important political leader who fought for our freedom
3 yo: is he coming to our house for dinner?
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A really fun episode except for Krugman's answer to last question on sci fi & alternative economic systems. Ursula LeGuin explored this extensively &
@yanisvaroufakis
has compared the economics of Star Trek vs The Matrix & uses sci fi to describe market socialism in latest book
BONUS FRIDAY ODD LOTS:
It's the podcast debut for
@paulkrugman
@tracyalloway
and I talked to the Nobel Prize winner about UFOs, aliens, superconductors, AI, interstellar trade, and how his love of Sci-Fi sparked his interest in becoming an economist.
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Great piece by
@NathanTankus
. Heterodox macroeconomics is the marriage of Marxist and Keynesian traditions. That Keynesianism has become synonymous with "reformism" usually just muddles theoretical debates.
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Good overview by
@bigblackjacobin
explaining why if banks have an implicit bailout guarantee they should be treated like public unitlities. Basically we the public already "pay the cost" so we may as well "be the boss."
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I used to work for
@CatholicRelief
on Food for Peace programs and everyone knew that buying and shipping food from the US made no sense but I was told point blank by lobbyists in DC that without agribusiness' support there would simply be no food aid.
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I'm going to be teaching development economics next semester and this is going to be a key theme: "the developmental state" is necessary to get capitalists to behave like "good capitalists."
Tugan-Baranovsky-Bortkiewicz-Leontief/Okishio thought is going to be the next revival. Assuming Marx might be right under specific circumstances, the state must make capitalists behave like capitalists rather than rent extractors.
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My favorite example is when the Uber CEO was like "it's called capitalism not laborism" in response to a question about workers rights
i like teaching lefty theory as much as the next guy but I can rarely do better at explaining the connection between capital and social-political domination than just pointing at what the guys with the capital do and say
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She's right
@NancyFolbre
&
@julie_nelson
also both deserve "Nobel" prizes but probably won't ever get them for going too far beyond "supply & demand."
"Economics should be a worldly philosophy, looking on the economy from a height—with among other telescopes those supply and demand curves."
My latest column for Folha de S.Paulo.
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It's incredibly disheartening. In class we play games, do role plays, have small group discussions on films and podcasts, etc. and the students just look at me like "can you please stop so we can go back to scrolling on our phones/laptops" 😭
The reason that students now use ChatGPT at record levels is simply that it's there. There is a distinctive sense of transactionality: I do the minimum effort and you give me an A. Nothing about the joy of learning thing anymore, it's very disheartening.
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@Kdenkss
@cchukudebelu
My friend worked for US State Dept and all the diplomats hated Abuja. They were stuck in (luxury) compound for security reasons just getting drunk the whole time.
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Exhibit
#1
,736,912 of how elitism and hierarchy hurt the profession. "How dare you a lowly graduate student challenge a Harvard professor!"
Data fraud is often framed as a victimless crime--or else the perpetrators frame themselves as the victim.
But the true victims are often graduate students who struggle to replicate a prominent study, face professional ostracism, and their only recourse is to leave the field or
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I was a women's studies double major at a fancy school and those classes were the most challenging and rewarding ones I took. The professors emphasized that we should focus on learning not grades and I'll be eternally grateful to them for that.
At Yale, 92% of grades in women's studies classes are either A or A-. Only 55% in mathematics are.
You couldn't ask for a better metaphor for what ails American academia and culture.
(h/t
@sfmcguire79
)
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I'll always remember Fischer for the stupid smirk on his face as he defended IMF policies in Jamaica in the brilliant documentary "Life & Debt." His influence has certainly been for the worse.
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Most academic economists now are Democrats true, but that says more about the radicalization of the Republican Party than any shift among economists. There are hardly any moderate Republicans left so a "young Bernanke" today is a conservative Dem by default.
Academic economists are not conservative as a group. The typical academic economist is a Democrat.
Academic economists are just not as left leaning as other academics on average.
There is a kind of cliche about economics that I just don’t think matches reality.
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#EEA2023
wrap up.
@sarahfsmall
organized one of my favorite panels of the weekend on care work. Sarah started off with a discussion of the effect of union coverage on the division of unpaid work within the household.
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Great Salt Lake drying up, thousands sleeping on the streets in freezing cold, housing increasingly unaffordable and our legislators waste their time on bathroom labels smdh
There is zero reason for us as a legislature to be involved in this space. None whatsoever.
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Happy to announce the publication of my latest paper with
@LEONCENDIKUMANA
& Karmen Naidoo in the Journal of African Development. It is currently free to download! 1/4
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A for profit chain of primary schools covered up multiple instances of sexual abuse of children in Kenya. The World Bank, an investor in this racket, then tried its own cover up and fired its own investigators. Just disgusting all around.
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@brian_callaci
I agree. The lack of any acknowledgement of a change of heart, let alone any apology for his past policy prescriptions, is suspect.
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Many of these debates could be avoided if more economists understood that supply & demand often set minimum and maximum possible prices (in this case for pasta) but not a unique, "market-clearing" price. Where the price ends up within that range depends on other factors.
Seeing attempted dunks on this piece declaring that I am confused and dumb, since being constrained by moral economy considerations and being constrained by a demand curve are the same thing. Nope, here's an illustration of what I mean
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Widespread deflation used to be common but has virtually disappeared since beginning of 20th century. The last time the median country experienced deflation was during the Great Depression. Source: Reinhart & Rogoff (2008).
That's not my "view;" it's a fact.
Falling prices (overall) are a sign of an economy that's falling apart and in a deep recession.*
*Some individual prices like gasoline and durable goods (especially quality-adjusted) can fall outside of a recession.
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The headline says it all. We need more economists like William Spriggs. RIP.
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"And yet all these founders are the same. Their biographers’ value judgments hinge entirely on whether they get to keep running their companies, not whether they’ve hurt everyone close to them and have ravaged society."
@ddayen
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What do you think of this summary? The goal is to help folks understand the different stories about the causes of inflation and that there are alternatives to increasing unemployment for the most vulnerable workers
@JWMason1
@Lprochon
@jcbecker_econ
@_TimBarker
@NathanTankus
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Never thought I would miss academic conferences but this panel of three brilliant women, Ilene Gravel, Rama Vasudevan & Ann Davis, on the international monetary system reminded me of why we keep attending
#EEA2023
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The E4E portal offers free access to the online curriculum materials, which includes 25+ self-guided video lessons, an interactive workbook, and a facilitator guide for the workshops.
These are at no-cost and available now:
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My latest: In Fortunately Mag, a new lifestyle publication for the solidarity economy. Some great pieces in the issue!
"The concept of artists needing a solidarity economy is easier to understand. We're the canaries in the coal mine of the gig economy."
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Excited about this conversation on the return of labor militancy Tuesday night hosted by
@thedigradio
@PeoplesForumNYC
w/
@Shut_downAmazon
,
@jazbrisack
,
@alexnpress
and the homey
@Lfelizleon
. Admissions is free and it will be livestreamed.
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I remember someone once describing the political class in a Latin American country as "una elite boba y servil." I think of that phrase every time I see a picture like this.
Un jefe de Estado se disfraza de soldadito para ir a donde una generala extranjera (Comando Sur de EEUU) y entregarle la construcciòn y operación de una base militar para controlar la Antártica desde su territorio nacional.
Luego son estos los que gritan "Viva la libertad"
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15 years ago I left Dakar for a long overland trip to Burkina Faso which meant that I didn't even find out about Lehman Bros' collapse until weeks later when I got to Ouagadougou and went to a cybercafé. Watching the crisis unfold partly inspired me to study economics.
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Great read by
@NakedKeynes
on the political economy of the foreign constraint, or why it's difficult for center-left & -right to accumulate foreign reserves & stop depreciation-inflation spiral. Dollarization would end inflation by sacrificing growth.
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One of the things I appreciate about Samir Amin is he was "‘creative Marxist’, by which he meant he would start from, rather than stop at Marx."
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"only 14% of US-born economics PhD recipients in 2010–18 were first-generation college graduates, compared with 26% across all PhD fields...This makes economics the least socioeconomically diverse of any major field for US-born PhD recipients"
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Had a great last day teaching "Socialism & Capitalism" my first semester at
@EconUofU
. Students wanted to keep learning a couple hours after class ended. Contrary to popular belief, the youth are not all socialists...
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Dominican New Yorkers remember the 1992 Washington Heights riots. I was 8 y.o. and it's my first memory that whatever the hell NYPD was doing, it wasn't "protecting and serving" me and my community.
Odd shit I discovered researching this last chapter: People might be familiar with the cop riot at City Hall that Giuliani helped incite, but not an earlier, related riot in Washington Heights
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Sadly it is still all too rare to find economic theory done by and for Africans so I'm happy to share my latest for
@africasacountry
. The late, great Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi was a monetary theorist whose insights into the dynamics of inflation, the
Cameroonian economist Joseph Tchundjang Pouemi died in 1984, either poisoned or by suicide. His ideas about the international monetary system and the CFA franc are worth revisiting.
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Being on the academic job market reminds me of being on dating apps. After two dates you're wondering what your kids will like look AND if they're ever going to respond to your last text message...
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Join me and
@Center4EconDem
's Sarah Wang on Friday to present our curriculum "Economics for Emancipation" (
@econ4freedom
) at EEA and how to do more popular education on heterodox economics and systems change with grassroots organizers!
Also on Friday at 9:30am, see Prof
@platanomics
present his work, "Popular Education is Essential for Advancing Radical Economics" in the special
@urpe1968
session on anti-capitalist pedagogy and teaching radical economics.
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My three year old son's first photo of
@conrazon
and I on our 7th anniversary of beginning this journey together ❤️ Happy new year, everyone!
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Amazing things happening
@azimpremjiuniv
More knowledge production in Global South is essential.
The Economics group
@azimpremjiuniv
is truly unique. Our BA & MA prog combine thematic diversity with strong training in methods & a solid grounding in the Indian social & historical context. Here’s some of the amazing things happening inside & outside the classroom:
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Great 🧵 I've always liked
@NakedKeynes
definition where Heterodoxy= 1. Surplus approach to distribution 2. Demand matters in short AND long run
Attempts trying to define heterodox economics end up highlighting different criterion defining it.
For example, Lawson (2006, 2009) explicitly claims that a non-insistence on mathematical modelling is the essence of heteredox economics 3/15
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A tribute to my father after some reflection time, post-dissertation defense 🙏🏽
"I don’t know about all this 'I’m my ancestors’ wildest dreams' stuff but I would like to believe that this one particular ancestor would be proud."
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@LittleKeegs0
Follow the work of
@ingridharvold
@devikadutt
@IsabellaMWeber
@radical_carib
@cacrisalves
@Kumar_EconIneq
@Econ_Marshall
@sarahfsmall
@NathanTankus
@JFCogliano
@econ_robinson
and that's just younger scholars whose handles I remember, there are so many more
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Congrats on defending your thesis today Dr.
@kabeer_bora
! Sorry I was too engrossed in your presentation on 🫖🌏💰 to get a better picture.
@EconUofU
Tomorrow
@kabeer_bora
defends their PhD Dissertation titled "Tea, Profit & Imperialism." Supervisory Committee includes Minqi Li, Ivan Mendieta-Muñoz,
@platanomics
, Brett Clark, and Deepankar Basu. Join us for what is sure to be a great presentation!
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"While mainstream economists, think tanks, and journalists obsess over every tenth of a percentage point of inflation and unemployment, profit analyses remain something you find only in shareholder reports, IRS filings, or Bloomberg consoles."
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@bad_dominicana
that number includes a lot of white Latinos. my guess is that (unless immigration rebounds) that number goes down as many white Latinos assimilate and begin to identify as plain white.
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As
@nssylla
argues the continuities between colonial and modern finance in Africa are remarkable
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@_BlackTrash
Yup when I started encountering upper middle class people it was weird to hear them talk about careers and callings. The people I grew up with just had jobs.
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"If Western countries...plan to compete with China in the developing world, they must move away from an approach based on arguing for quixotic institutional reforms while denigrating the role of the state in economic development."
@BrankoMilan
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Great thread on the fascinating life and ideas of Albert Hirschman, a true antifascist, cosmopolitan and social theorist. Like
@BrankoMilan
points out they just don't make economists like this anymore.
Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.
Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.
🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.
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