@stpinto.bsky.social
Labour Economist @ OECD | PhD, University of Maryland | Interested in inequality, labour econ, subjective well-being, IFFs | Views are my own, not my employer's | He/him https://sites.google.com/view/sergiopinto
An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)
The grad is from China
Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"
Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package
bit.ly/3LHpin8
I don’t have much hope that the economics discipline is willing and able to reform itself from the inside but here’s a pretty damn freaking obvious place to start.
Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
É incrível que, apesar disto, a narrativa perpetuada continue a ser a do peso excessivo do Estado na economia
Biggest terrorist attack on journalists since Charlie Hebdo. I'm sure everyone will be covering it
Don't miss tomorrow's event with @thomaspiketty.bsky.social on global #inequality including preliminary results from the #GlobalJusticeProject.
📍In-person and online public event
🎟️ Registration www.lse.ac.uk/events/globa...
@lsepress.bsky.social
This is happening right now.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
It is crisis for the West that agreeing with this Israeli newspaper headline can get you blacklisted, fired,
arrested, and deported.
Borrower were more likely to become homeowners after their student loan debt was cancelled
new research from @edinilaj.bsky.social @laurabmw.bsky.social Fouzia Landry Pierce @stpinto.bsky.social @econmarshall.bsky.social
New working paper:
"The Balance of Power in Franchising,"
joint with @ulrich.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, Pete Norlander, @stpinto.bsky.social, and newly-minted econ RA Blake Eliason.
marshallsteinbaum.org/wp-content/u...
#econsky /1
Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?
Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?
See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Working in what sense?
In supporting the goals of administrations to silence protestors.
For anyone who isn't yet aware of the problems with her "data-driven" approach to decision-making, I'd recommend reading more about the damage she's done with her research (and her op-eds) on HIV.
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-eco...