Replying to @hellosami
The lil reply guys going “um we need to know the context before we judge a man for punching a woman in the face” are telling on themselves.
Nathan Lane
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Nathan Lane
@straightedge
Economist and professor @ LSE. Humanism and hardcore punk music appreciator.
Oxford, England
Joined July 2008
- "We're gonna repeal the 20th century"
We’re coming for the Civil Rights Act next, then the New Deal. We’re gonna repeal the 20th century. - Walz is toast once lunch-pail Americans see his parallels with Chairman of the State Council of East Germany, Eric Honecker
- If US student debt forgiveness were purely a giveaway to the rich, the US would have already found a way to make it happen.
- Redoing my slides in LaTeX because I fear my MA students won’t see me as a true scholar unless I demonstrate mastery of a 1980s typesetting markup language
It seems shockingly easy to invade Russia- All the unfinished papers in my Dropbox when a new folder appears 📁📂
- This @QJEHarvard paper is fantastic. The type of big economic history work I wish there was more of. I'm teaching it tomorrow, which will be fun. I think it shows the fundamental power of careful, long-run historical data work. With the power to inform current policy debates.
- I will be joining Oxford University as an Associate Professor @OxfordEconDept this September, and as a fellow of the wonderful @MertonCollege.
- Look, we’re innocent. Like the guys who made Zyklon B.Neal Katyal argued Nestle and Cargill cannot be held liable for abetting child slavery, noting that Nuremberg prosecutors did not charge the firm that produced Zyklon B gas for the Nazis. slate.trib.al/fXkQFrZ
- Only to the 1970s oil shocks, but dang, Alan Binder’s Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States is engrossing & timely. He weaves together economic history & the macro intellectual history, revealing how academic ideas shaped postwar policy institutions—& vice versa.
- Replying to @straightedgeI recall the aha moment: realizing that the benefit of a doubt hinges on these affiliations and capital. As someone who never thought I’d go to college, or grad school, I was naive about just how deeply these things matter/mattered. I’m still learning how internalized they are.
- Just released—our new @nberpubs project on semiconductor industrial policy with @PennyG_Yale, @juhreka13, @GiuliaLoFort, & Jeff Thurk We examine the scope of semiconductor policies & their global impacts. We find *positive* global spillovers from chips industrial policies 1/N
