Kunal Agarwal

Interested in the realm of political economy and macroeconomics (financialization). Looking for pre-doc positions.
MS @GeorgiaTech; BTech. @IITGuwahati

[Kunal Agarwal @subcon_epiphany]

"Finance capital no longer spurs industrial development, but is geared at extracting maximum returns, even by dismantling or destroying industrial capacity. Its metabolism is now fundamentally parasitic." - Hein Marais
#Finance #FinancialCrisis

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

This belongs to all of us.

[Premier League @premierleague]

The wait is over.

@Arsenal are Premier League champions.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

ARSENAL ARE THE 2025/26 PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS! 🏆🔴

[Fyodor Dostoevsky Collection 🪓 @Dostoevskyquot]

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

[David Spencer @Spencer_DavidA]

Pleased to see this paper is now out. In it, I compare the visions of Marx and Keynes on the future of working time. Their visions overlapped and can still inspire thinking in the present https://t.co/IGZXk3FDFT

[Kunal Agarwal @subcon_epiphany]

In 21st century, mindless entertainment and debates is the opium of masses.
#Sociology #society #entertainment
#economics #quotes #quotes

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature herself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

-- Werner Heisenberg

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

“Greedflation” is now a take of his Holiness the Pope!

[Friedrich Nietzsche Notebook @QuoteNietzsche]

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.

[Daniele Tavani @danieletavani]

There are now at least 4 up-to-date textbooks covering alternative #macro approaches. A short thread with links.

1) Blecker and Setterfield, 2019: #Heterodox Macroeconomics, Elgar. Kaleckian, Harrodian, Kaldorian, and BoP growth models.

https://t.co/vE63bqMcoD

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Some of my slides for tonight's discussion:
Smith

[Relearning Economics @RelearningEcon]

"Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

-Kenneth Boulding

[Bassem Youssef @Byoussef]

"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
Martin Luther King Junior 16 April 1963

[Dalai Lama @DalaiLama]

It’s important to have a sense of the oneness of humanity. That’s why wherever I go and whoever I talk to I try to promote this idea in an effort to break down barriers between us.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) worked regularly at the Maggioni Canning Company.

Work began at 4 AM, and the three would make from $9 to $15 a week.

Sophie would do six pots of oyster a day, and her mother, who also worked with her, said, "She don't go to school. Works all the time."

Through such photos, Lewis Hine documented the harsh working conditions borne by thousands of children, who were sent to work soon after they could walk and were paid based on how many buckets of oysters they shucked daily.

Mr Hines wrote of one photograph: ‘All but the very smallest babies work. Begin work at 3:30am and expected to work until 5pm.’ He covered around 50,000 miles a year, photographing children from Chicago to Florida working in coal mines and factories.

These photos helped to raise an outcry against child labor and made the American public widely aware of the scope of the problem.

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

War crimes are happening in real time, yet our political leaders lack either the courage or the humanity to hold the Israeli government to account.

They should call for an end to the siege and the release of hostages — that is what compassion for all human life would look like.

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

The fog of war lies thick all around. It’s so hard to sort out pebbles of fact from mountains of propaganda.

But here’s one thing I know: I’m just appalled.

Appalled by what Hamas unleashed: the slaughter of civilians, homes drenched in terror and raw vengeance. 1/8

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

Adolescents get 237 notifications per day (median). 97% of them use their phones during the school day. There is not much attention left over for everything else.

This is madness. Schools can give them all 7 hours off, 5 days a week. Go phone free.

https://t.co/lWSp5CzLFU