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NYU Economics Professor; author of The Tyranny of Experts; not partisan except against racism and xenophobia

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    Nov 7

    The whole article is ungated here:

    My new article in : how the War on Terror messed up our values in development.
    20 retweets 37 likes
  2. 7h

    Always hated this definition. Economics is the understanding of how scarce resources became a lot less scarce.

    Economics is the reallocation of scarce resources between alternative uses to satisfy human wants or needs folks.
    46 retweets 86 likes
  3. Nov 21

    You just can't make this stuff up.

    Trying to develop Africa while discriminating against African-Americans
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  4. Nov 21

    Trying to develop Africa while discriminating against African-Americans

    31 retweets 25 likes
  5. Nov 21

    Are we misled by "Development by Numbers"

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  6. Nov 19 Manhattan, NY

    There was an education gap in the election, but also a big health gap (from )

    60 retweets 47 likes
  7. Nov 18

    Perfect non-existence for over a century of American political rhetoric

    328 retweets 348 likes
  8. Nov 19 Manhattan, NY

    There was an education gap in the election, but also a big health gap (from )

    60 retweets 47 likes
  9. Nov 18

    Game of historical "precedents" might stop when it reaches indentured servitude for my white immigrant ancestors

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  10. Nov 18

    Perfect non-existence for over a century of American political rhetoric

    328 retweets 348 likes
  11. Nov 18

    featured in :

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  12. Nov 18 Manhattan, NY

    . thought "Hillbilly Elegy" made us Appalachians into a scary "Other"-- like development stereotypes!

    5 retweets 14 likes
  13. Nov 18

    Maybe this game of historical "precedents" will stop when it reaches indentured servitude for my white male ancestors

    5 retweets 17 likes
  14. Nov 18

    My friend , you need to register your Twitter account with RePEc, see instructions here

    Why do these lists always miss your friend ? With 282,000 followers he should be no. 2 here!
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  15. Nov 18 Manhattan, NY

    Economists on Twitter (from RePEc)

    10 retweets 35 likes
  16. Nov 17

    It would be too boring to just say "there was a random shock, followed by regression to the mean"

    A lot of what passes as financial journalism represents the victory of the English language over Economics
    32 retweets 53 likes
  17. Nov 17 Manhattan, NY

    . notes that Facebook's business model favors the distribution of biased news

    20 retweets 28 likes
  18. Nov 17 Manhattan, NY

    My fellow Appalachian favorably reviews Hillbilly Elegy by

    1 retweet 9 likes
  19. Nov 16

    The election wasn't about the education gap, it was about the gap in racial attitudes HT

    111 retweets 136 likes
  20. Nov 16

    Facebook may have been a little too quick to reject the null hypothesis that I am still alive.

    20 retweets 72 likes
  21. Nov 16 Manhattan, NY

    My old paper quoted by : GDP growth not strongly associated with quality of life improvements

    32 retweets 41 likes

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