Asst Prof of Economics @Trinity_U | health insurance, health policy, & health disparities. Abundance bro. Past: @vanderbiltecon @LGBTPolicyLabVU and @aysps
@nomadj1s@besttrousers@jessespafford Basically the same insight as the hospital mergers literature. Local markets matter most for effective market power, and are defined by a complex combination of features commute times, ancillary services, and other factors that limit substitutability.
Two problems w/ this article from my old Twitter frenemy Unlearning Economics:
1) Price controls in imperfectly competitive markets (eg oligopolistic) can improve welfare.
2) That doesnβt mean rent control as it is currently proposed will do so. Depends on lots of things!
You guys should go ask an actual academic economist what they think of Tyler Cowen, who is ostensibly supposed to be an economist. The answer might surprise you.
youβre telling me all the same people who championed the anti trans panic now openly want to overturn gay marriage? you mean gay and trans struggles were inseparable this whole time?
@wwwojtekk We may never step in the same river (or policy regime) twice, but sometimes they're close enough to motivate good inference. History rhymes!
@AlexCaswen@tbsama03 I think thereβs a strong case to be made for preferential admission of young men into college for this reason. The point of putting your thumb on the scale is to ensure outcomes map onto the population distribution.
@RuxandraTeslo A genuine question: would course correction from several generations of white male dominance over all other groups not empirically look like a decline in the relative power of white men? Was that not the entire point of improving the prospects of women and minorities?
@tbsama03@Noahpinion Yeah. I think we should have priced this kind of stuff into our mental model. Not in a βnothing to see here way,β but in a βthis was to be expectedβ way.
One last (sobering) update on the #EconJobMarket before the winter holidays; data as of 2025-12-14. In terms of # of job listings on JOE, this is the worst job mkt in recent yrs for PhD Economists. # jobs down 20% from last yr, even 18.9% lower than during COVID (2020).