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@jmseabrook this was a fascinating article on agtech
This fact stuck with me—“the Netherlands is the world’s second largest exporter of food, in terms of value, after the U.S.”
Which shows sophisticated farming can work if we invest newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
A few of the bits that hit me—
“It had been eleven years since he died; the pain didn’t go away, but it’s sharp edge had been dulled and softened like sea glass.”
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I don't care what books the candidates like, the fact that they *read books* is already an improvement on our current apocalypse. I'm easy like that.
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A long-term view on literacy around the world.
Globally 85% of the population older than 14 is literate today.
From our entry on literacy, where you find data for all countries in the world:
ourworldindata.org/literacy
This is a great read by @KateRaworth—some frameworks are just so deeply embedded that they’re confused for fact
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I have to say the #EconTwitter response to my use of PPT in teaching has made me very concerned about the focus on form over content.
And for this reason, I am making a major announcement today. I'll start using transparencies to #MakeSlidesGreatAgain. Which is also MSG Again.
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"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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In 1990, Claudia Goldin became the first woman to be tenured at the Harvard economics department. Her work has helped identify sources of the gender wage gap.
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Using *per capita* real GDP, the picture is essentially unchanged, albeit even worse for older millennials (as seen in the 8 and 10-year growth rates).
[those responsible for tweeting the earlier figure based on an incorrect calculation have been sacked]
Economics originated in Ancient Greece as household management
And if you look at The Odyssey—Penelope was really cracking the whip on the economics of that household while Odysseus was busy globetrotting
So women really are the original economists
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.@AOC is all of America right now, regarding Republican inaction on climate change
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If calculus is the language of the universe, then @stevenstrogatz is its Homer. With verve & simplicity, he explains the deep ideas underlying one of humankind’s greatest intellectual achievements. Infinite Powers is an incalculable pleasure. amazon.com/Infinite-Powers-C…