Will Robinson

@NCState Economics PhD student studying environmental and natural resource policy.

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

Having fun in Colorado. I got engaged!

[𝔐𝔽𝓩 @mean_field_zane]

Walking in to College Republicans and telling them I’m a single-issue voter on the matter of Federal Reserve independence.

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

OK: the interest is clear, so here we go! The All-of-Cicero Give-away could win you the complete works of Tully, in Latin, in 1 vol (printed 1850, since rebound & sturdy). Just retweet this message, make sure you follow us, and a winner will be picked at random on Friday evening!

[Lomez @L0m3z]

"Growing up I learned Latin... I was always into that sort of stuff. I read a lot about the Roman Empire."

You could improve the US government 100x by staffing it exclusively with guys who "read a lot about the Roman Empire" for fun

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

Naming Denali, one of the world’s Seven Summits, after an Ohioan who wasn’t a mountaineer or a naturalist, and who never set foot anywhere near it, made zero sense the first time. Why on earth try to do it again?

[Teton Gravity Research @TetonGravity]

Backyard Sessions 🔥

@vebjorngraberg getting creative with what he's got and redefining the backyard set up into something from a dream 🏠
#tgrlivethedream

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

@Jackbmeyer The perfect screenshot doesn’t exis-

[Jeremy Horpedahl 🥚📉 @jmhorp]

This cartoon is from 1894, when the average wage for production workers was $0.13/hour

Today the average wage is $30.57, or 235 times as much.

CPI prices are only 38 times higher today. So the problem has not "gotten worse," rather workers are much better off today

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Used to be you would post about US international aid on Twitter and someone in the replies would say “umm sweaty that’s not an effective intervention compared to deworming”, now it’s all “cry harder gay boi I want more African refugees to die”

[Ahmad Lashkaripour @ALashkaripour]

There's been a lot of debate about what economic theory says regarding tariffs.

Drawing on my research with quantitative economic models, here's a thread explaining the textbook logic for why "tariffs are bad" for revenue generation.

🧵 Let’s dive in!

[Simplified US History @Simplified_US]

Trump Hush Money Trial (2024)

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

The best part about thanksgiving this year will be getting to hear your “polices-over-personality” uncle explain over and over how every PhD economist actually misunderstands tariffs

[Itai Sher @itaisher]

What scares me:

What constraints can there be if you can run a campaign like that and win? If you can do Jan 6 and win? Not to mention the Supreme Court immunity decision.

Not much about our society and freedoms we’ve become accustomed to we can take for granted going forward.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

So it begins.

MAGA is about to find out how tariffs actually work first hand.

[Dr Ellie Murray, ScD @EpiEllie]

idk but i just don’t think ceding one of our few rapidly diminishing community spaces is the answer🤷🏼‍♀️

like, not talking to people is just not a great way to change things

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

I wonder whether we are going to see a burst of spending on consumer durables in Q4, as people pull forward spending on big ticket items ahead of the tariffs. I'm already hearing anecdata of this.

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

Relistening to this concert. It's so cool to see a band you've followed since the early days make their dreams come true!
@Futurebirds

Futurebirds - Live @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre (10/3/22 Night 1) https://t.co/bjcKeiiYhG via @YouTube

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

What is the best way to get a word count for a LaTeX document that combines multiple files with \include{}?

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

@johnwhitehead81 Mid-June. I had surgery last Monday

[Will Robinson @WMRobinEcon]

Me when I tore my Achilles