Wojtek Kopczuk 🇵🇱🇺🇦 and 🇺🇲
@wwwojtekk
Economist, tax policy/inequality. Editor of @JPubEcon. Professional skeptic. Anti-illiberal.
Journalists seem keen on identifying "winners" and incapable of grasping that these "deals" are losses for everyone relative to where we were half a year ago
Certainly. Atoms do not maximize utility
No matter how much you try and will it, economics will never be equivalent to physics
It's summer. Loch Ness monster sightings are exactly what you'd expect
Once you solved the football hooliganism problem, the groups decided to coordinate under new notions of teams
🚨 NEW: Local Ashfield residents and ‘anti-racism’ protesters clash outside a church as demonstrators march to demand an end to illegal migration
There is only one realistic way to shift attention away from Epstein allegations: let the TikTok ban commence
200<400 and I will not entertain the "is it adjusted for inflation" question
bookmarked
The contention--which is pretty clear if you just read what I said--is that it's bogus for the WSJ to publish a hit piece without showing us the letter. I have no idea if the book exists--WSJ won't show it to us. I have no idea if the letter exists--WSJ won't show it to us. What…
One reason economists are unable to explain why wages haven't risen since the Cold War is the substantial increase in wages since the Cold War.
Our economists can model GDP growth to the decimal, but can’t explain why our kids can’t read. Or why trains don’t run. Or why wages haven’t risen since the Cold War. (8/11)