George Wheaton

Economics PhD student @NSSRNews | Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics | Political Economy

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

Proud of the great conference we put together! Stay tuned for another People's Policy Conference in the future...

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

establishment democrats and republicans weren’t fearful he’d fail and ruin nyc. they were worried he’d succeed and represent the threat of a good alternative

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

GOOD MORNING NEW YORK CITY.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

what a game i can’t believe my eyes, nyc broke the trump curse

[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

The Department of Economics at the New School for Social Research has just issued a statement on the New School's decision to layoff dozens of staff and faculty colleagues, including our own colleague and friend, Professor Sanjay Reddy.

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

It’s truly tragic to see the New School for Social Research being slashed at a time when its commitment to critical scholarship is urgently needed.

How about the City of New York rescues NSSR and integrates it into CUNY, @NYCMayor?

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Fascism is about hate and destruction, socialism is about building a better world in which we can all flourish.

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

In 1961, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was tweaking a weather simulation on a bulky early computer at MIT. To save a bit of time on a rerun, he rounded one harmless-looking number in the printout from 0.506127 down to 0.506.

When he returned later, the forecast had gone totally insane. The two runs, which should have been almost identical, had completely diverged after just a few simulated days. That tiny rounding error had snowballed into chaos.

Lorenz had just discovered sensitive dependence on initial conditions, the heart of what we now call chaos theory.

The idea exploded into the butterfly effect and reshaped entire fields from weather forecasting to physics, biology, stock markets, and even why long-term predictions are so hard.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit.

Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero.

We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people.

We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing.

Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run.

That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

Hell yeah

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

New QJE paper on France’s mandated profit-sharing: distributing excess profits to workers raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little effect on investment or productivity. Gains mainly go to lower-skilled workers; high-skilled pay unaffected.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

Just like @Columbia, The New School's administration would rather gaslight and punish their own students than listen to them. Everything in service of Israel. Democracy for thee, apparently.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The New School just sent an angry email to its student body saying that despite the vote of the student senate, Hillel will still get funding. The administration criticized the senate for trying “to hold students responsible for the acts of governments.”

Note: In this case, the students are literally funded to go to Israel and play a support role for the IDF.

[Mahmoud Khalil | محمود خليل @mahmoudkhalel]

A New York City councilwoman is publicly fantasizing about killing me, and somehow I'm the threat..

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

???

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

It is no surprise that Britain is struggling; after all, they were for many years a communist country.

[Dirk Ehnts @DEhnts]

Sad news: Robert Skidelsky, the biographer of Keynes and a very able economist and historian, has died. He will be missed.
https://t.co/O6SR003Euk

[Cea Weaver @ceaweaver]

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[Paulo L. dos Santos @plbds]

Come join this group of critical economists, policy thinkers, and trade union activists to discuss public provisioning, the limits of markets, and the future of NYC.

May 2 at The New School.

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

@JohnHCochrane Huh??

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

@NSSRNews

[George Wheaton @geowheaton]

It's a pleasure to be able to announce the first "People's Policy Conference" at the New School, scheduled May 2nd (Sat) from 9AM-6PM!

20+ guests including Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) and Isabella Weber (@IsabellaMWeber)!

Registration: https://t.co/pLoFkzGVZL