Mike Makowsky is here to violently equivocate @mikemakowsky

Professor of Economics at Clemson University Crime, Political Economy, Religion #COYS Ramblings @ https://t.co/2hSo0X26Ej michaelmakowsky.com Joined May 2009

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Joy Buchanan @aboutJoy

4 weeks ago

Top posts for the 5th great year of @EconsEveryDay economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/08/09/top…

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Mike Makowsky is here to violently equivocate @mikemakowsky

3 months ago

Question for RCT people: do you register your pilot studies or just the main/full trials after you've worked out the kinks?

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Mike Makowsky is here to violently equivocate @mikemakowsky

4 months ago

economistwritingeveryday.com/2025/05/19/wer…

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Trump is basically asserting that he has the power to arrest and deport anyone -- even a U.S. citizen -- and immediately send them to a foreign prison where the U.S. court system can never touch them again. That is the power of a dictator. noahpinion.blog/p/the-authorit…

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Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 and 🇺🇲 @wwwojtekk

5 months ago

Everything about these tariffs was stupid, and everyone who defended it is economically illiterate, an opportunist or a moron (and often all of these). Even if this episode ends soon, the damage to US institutions and credibility is permanent and it's costly

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs

7 months ago

About 9 years ago my son was born. On our first day home and his third day of life he spiked a high fever and we rushed him back to the hospital. After days of waiting for tests (including a spinal tap) we learned that he had bacterial meningitis.

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac

7 months ago

Academic job market candidates: Did you know you can "make your own post-doc" by applying for external research funding? Many/most departments would be happy to provide office space to someone who brings their own funds. @Arnold_Ventures currently has multiple open RFPs. Apply…

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Christian vom Lehn @C_vom_lehn

2 years ago

🚨 New Paper 🚨 "Structural Change in Production Networks and Economic Growth" (with @nichiflu and Aspen Gorry) Production networks propagate SR and LR fluctuations. But they can change over time. How have they changed? What does that mean for growth? tinyurl.com/ynnhj7f9

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Mike Makowsky is here to violently equivocate @mikemakowsky

12 months ago

Can there be a better reason to head to the other site?

holden m. accountable @noahpasaran

12 months ago

Can there be a better reason to head to the other site?

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holden m. accountable @noahpasaran

12 months ago

hey here’s a guy bragging about getting paid to incite a pogrom against innocent Haitian immigrants. now, I can’t properly post what I think should be done to someone like that.

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Adam A. Millsap @AA_Millsap

12 months ago

I heard something the other day that stuck with me—every year there’s a draft for human capital and America has the first 100K picks and every year we trade them away for nothing.

Alex Tabarrok @ATabarrok

12 months ago

I heard something the other day that stuck with me—every year there’s a draft for human capital and America has the first 100K picks and every year we trade them away for nothing.

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derek guy @dieworkwear

12 months ago

Some misinformation in today's US presidential debate about who bears the cost of tariffs. So let's talk about how tariffs affect what you pay for a suit. 🧵

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Owen Zidar @omzidar

a year ago

The discussions of unrealized capital gains for the very rich (ie those with wealth exceeding $100M) are often missing a key fact - two thirds of unrealized gains at the very top is from gains in private businesses (From SCF data eml.berkeley.edu/~yagan/Capital…) @jasonfurman @MargRev

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman

a year ago

Hopefully last words on capital gains taxes. The platonic ideal in standard tax theory is: 1. Do not tax the normal return to capital, instead tax consumption. 2. IF you're taxing capital gains, better to tax a broader base & lower rate with more neutrality, so tax accruals.

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Paolo Crosetto @PaoloCrosetto

a year ago

Prisoners dilemmas, prisoners dilemmas everywhere

richard shotton @rshotton

a year ago

Prisoners dilemmas, prisoners dilemmas everywhere

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Alec Stapp @AlecStapp

a year ago

Low-hanging fruit to reduce housing costs for Americans: Stop imposing tariffs on raw materials from our closest allies.

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Max Ghenis @MaxGhenis

a year ago

Real net worth per capita of the bottom 50% was flat from 1989 to 2019, but since then it's grown an average of 13% per year. Overall it's grown an average of 1.8% per year over the past 35 years. fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgrap…

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Peter G. Klein @petergklein

a year ago

I don't disagree with the spirit of this thread but Milgram almost certainly misreported his findings. As with the Stanford Prison Experiment, the canonical version of the story is misleading at best, fraudulent at worst.