Jack Meyer 🏛️

Economist; Researching Institutions, Innovation, Public Goods, and Rural Development. (RT!=E)
MPhil Student @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Here it is, the article you’ve all been waiting for: https://t.co/u8dMP16EKn

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

I’ve been holding off in pursuit of other topics, but I think it’s about time I write a “why institutions” article

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The problem with “heterodox economics” is that when proven to be accurate it’s eventually just called “economics”

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Measures to reliably enforce vehicle and transit civil infractions, like speeding, running lights or fare evasion, represent meaningful improvements to public safety and directly impact the broader quality of living

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

We know how to make our streets safer, so we did it 600 times.

Red light cameras reduce red light running by 80% and T-bone crashes by 65%. Most importantly, they help New Yorkers get home safely.

That's why we installed new red light cameras at 600 intersections across the five boroughs to help stop dangerous driving before tragedy strikes, and make our streets safer for everyone who walks, rolls, drives, or takes the bus.

https://t.co/YsIjqfGFzy

[Stian Westlake @stianwestlake]

In terms of economics output per £, fixing @LSEEcon’s coffee machine might be the highest impact grant ESRC could make

[Meech @MediumSizeMeech]

These fake men’s fashion girls are always a year + behind in what’s going on in actual men’s fashion, the trickle down that they’ve received is directly from one of their friends’ boyfriends in the west village. They don’t know shit

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Maybe he has a point

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@RenaudFoucart I’m seeing this post having just left an IO lecture discussing this very paper

[Avery James @averyfjames]

NYT style is recommending tie-less suits with dress sneakers to disown the cons. Bleak.

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@MatthewGNagler I expressed my reasoning in terms of payoffs on interetemporal consumption choices

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My girlfriend questioned the wisdom of buying a £5 umbrella at a charity shop since we already have several in storage, but have been vindicated several times over by the weather. Always bet on rain in London.

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@jack_whitcomb_ The better question would be anyone in particular

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‘Econ 101’ as a guiding policy logic is a low bar to clear and any policy counter to that basic framework should be able to clearly articulate why. That being said, oversimplified models are too often deployed as a rhetorical device to trivialize debate over practical tradeoffs.

[Jack Whitcomb @jack_whitcomb_]

Economists when I let them drown in a fountain to avoid soiling my expensive suit:

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[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

I paid off all my student loans. Why would I pay income tax?

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@NewLeftEViews That’s right

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Gatekeeping my favorite Caribbean barbecue in London because it’s also my regular for pub trivia and I don’t need more competition getting in the way of my £50 bar tab

[Matthew G Nagler @MatthewGNagler]

The purpose of getting a degree in PPE is so that you can experience regret when you go to a cocktail party and everyone is crowded around the person with the economics degree.

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@AngusBylsma This sounds like my trip to Cornwall

[Jason Furman @jasonfurman]

I added the FOMC.

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Policymakers should at least be working from an intermediate micro or public finance level of economic reasoning