Hina Amber

PhD Development Economics @ZEFbonn.
Postdoc (Stephan Klasen Fellow) @uniGoettingen.
Gender Specialist at Pakistan Resident Mission (ADB)
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[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to make go through life.”

— Charlie Munger

[Noah Williams @Bellmanequation]

For some reason today I was remembering my first-year PhD econometrics class with Heckman. First day of class he announced he'd end lectures 2 weeks early & then we'd have review sessions. Not only did that not happen, but the final lecture (normally 90 min) ran for 3.5 hours.

[Shaykh Hasan Ali @shaykhhasanali]

❝I have never regretted my silence, but I have often regretted my speech.❞

Umar ibn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه

[Robert Greene @RobertGreene]

People's need for validation and recognition, their need to feel important, is the best kind of weakness to exploit.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Someone asked me, "Why is it important to be kind?"

I replied: Because you never know who is grieving, exhausted, or at their breaking point. Your kindness might be the only bit of warmth they feel today.

[Maleeha Lodhi @LodhiMaleeha]

Pakistan should condemn US-Israeli aggression against Iran without delay. The people of Pakistan expect no less than to stand in solidarity with Iran

[𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 @homemakinghunny]

Adult friendships require grace. People are busy. People are working. People are parenting. People are burnt out. People are healing. People are fighting health battles. People are prioritizing their true responsibilities. Don’t mistake minimal communication for a lack of care or love. Some of us are just getting by and giving everything we have to our families. Check in before you check out.

[بنت تراب 🇵🇸 @alfirdaus__]

Such a beautiful reminder by Omar Suleiman that nothing is random, our face, our story, our struggles, even the little things that make us us. Every detail was chosen by Allah swt. He is al-Musawwir, He created us and He is the Greatest of Artists.

[ع @pyari_eyesha]

No one is more excited for iftar than the little kids who have been eating all day

[~ @k__ii09]

You owe yourself ihsaan. You owe yourself good sleep, a word of encouragement, good treatment and unconditional love. Everyone you know will separate from you at some stage of your journey except for yourself. You will enter each chapter with you. So be good to you!

[Uncle Louxe @lebillouxe]

January doesn't start til Monday btw...
For now we're in the Upside Down.

[Jemima Goldsmith @Jemima_Khan]

Please watch the trailer for The Voice of Hind Rajab, which was nominated today for a Golden Globe and which opens in U.K. & Irish cinemas from Jan 16th 2026. It is powerful, important & heartbreaking. Congrats to the team, inc director Kaouther Ben Hania, producer @iamodessarae @AltitudeFilms @alphonsedoisnel @aliboombayoo & everyone who supported this film.

[Eckhart Tolle Quotes @EckTOLLEQuotes]

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

[Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad]

I award the 2025 @NobelPrize for Peace to the Palestinian emergency workers in Gaza - the doctors and nurses, the food suppliers and ambulance drivers, the care givers and musicians.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

no one talks about the resentment you have towards yourself after you didn’t listen to your gut

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

The most devastating transition ever:

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

More economists would be wise to realise that not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts.

[Jostein Hauge @haugejostein]

In economics, elite concentration, intellectual gatekeeping, and disciplinary homogeneity is higher than in all other fields.

This has been well-documented by now. Here are three papers on this:

Fourcade, Ollion and Algan (2015), “The Superiority of Economists”: Economics is a uniquely hierarchical and self-reinforcing field, where elite training pipelines dominate publication and influence.

Baccini and Re (2023), “Who Are the Gatekeepers of Economics?”: A small group of elite institutions and scholars controls the editorial machinery, reinforcing disciplinary homogeneity.

Freeman, Xie, Zhang and Zhou (2024), “High and Rising Institutional Concentration of Award-Winning Economists”: Economics has the highest and growing institutional concentration among elite academics across all disciplines.

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

The new charter of international relations.
Rule No. 1. There are no rules.