Megan Gallagher

MSc Emerging Economies and International Development. Feminist Economist.

[Megan Gallagher @MGallagher_FE]

Hey @SenatorWarnock & @ossoff — this week, Georgia are rising up to defeat #S158.

We demand you stand with survivors, not MAGA-led deportation policies.

Vote NO on S. 158. #StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJustice

@YoungFemParty @thefeministfrnt

[Megan Gallagher @MGallagher_FE]

@ossoff I’m from GA, and I believe in real safety for survivors.
Vote NO on S. 158.
Undocumented survivors deserve protection, not deportation.
#StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJustice

[Megan Gallagher @MGallagher_FE]

@SenatorWarnock I’m from GA, and I believe in real safety for survivors.
Vote NO on S. 158.
Undocumented survivors deserve protection, not deportation.
#StopS158 #FeministsForImmigrantJustice

[Professor Toby James @TobySJames]

What were the effects of the Trump Administration?

An all star cast examined this for a special issue of @PolicyStudiesTF shortly after he left office: https://t.co/MxbHnbezeS

Read the concluding summary:
https://t.co/GkmW7A7UNn

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

This year’s laureates in the economic sciences have helped us understand differences in prosperity between nations.

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity. Societies with a poor rule of law and institutions that exploit the population do not generate growth or change for the better. The laureates’ research helps us understand why.

#NobelPrize

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Must-read policy brief by the queen of development economics @Jayati1609 calling for food buffer stocks & cross-border capital flow management to prevent a re-run of the world food *price* crisis.

It would be a huge step forward, if South Africa added this to the G20 agenda.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

The introduction of more inclusive institutions, less extraction and the rule of law would create long-term benefits. So why don’t the elite simply replace the existing economic system?

The laureates’ model for explaining the circumstances under which political institutions are formed and changed has three components. The first is a conflict over how resources are allocated and who holds decision-making power in a society (the elite or the masses). The second is that the masses sometimes have the opportunity to exercise power by mobilising and threatening the ruling elite; power in a society is thus more than the power to make decisions. The third is the commitment problem, which means that the only alternative is for the elite to hand over decision-making power to the populace.

#NobelPrize

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

#NobelPrize

[Megan Gallagher @MGallagher_FE]

An amazing time at the @IAFFE conference in Rome! What a fantastic introduction into this community, participating in conversations about barriers to FE and listening to discussions on climate change, justice, and the care economy.

[International Association for Feminist Economics @IAFFE]

We Are at #IAFFE2024 📍