Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy.
I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all.
Out in October with Random House.
A lot of interesting stuff in this thread, but this figure is especially striking - shows what an outlier the US on carbon.
Even during the "ceasefire", the Israelis are still demolishing entire villages in southern Lebanon with armored bulldozers. In fact, civilian contractors hired by the army receive pay which is based on the number of buildings destroyed.
Schumer voted against blocking the sale of these bulldozers.
A difficult concept to navigate properly is that *testing* is itself a major problem in education (most exemplified by the No Child Left Behind testing regimes. This can mean that the very tests revealing declines in learning are themselves part of what is causing the decline.
My 14 year old has also gotten into making pasta recently. (Using that exact machine, I think.)
Thanks for this reply. As an academic, I really appreciate getting the perspective of a practitioner.
I agree that the expected rent required for new market-rate development is higher in New York than in Texas. But there are many reasons for this beyond inclusionary zoning. I would imagine that pretty much every category of costs is higher in New York than Texas.
"Strong priors lead to overconfident stories about noise" describes a great deal of writing about the economy.
I think there are good reasons to think that the public sector both should have and does have a lower discount rate than the private sector.
I broadly agree, but tax abatements seem like an inefficient form of subsidy. The present value for the private sector of tax relief many years in the future will be low; much better for government to issue bonds and provide the subsidy directly in the form of below-market financing in some form.
Like, this screenshot calls up in vivid detail the layout of the University of Chicago computer lab as of 1992.
I spent so much of my time in college looking at this exact interface.
No man can reign innocently.
Perfect distillation of all complaints about social media: my inferiors should not be allowed a voice.
Hemingway said that when good Americans die they go to Paris. But me, if I’m good enough, I think I’ll just come back to the Prospect Park farmers market.
OUT: Carney's speech.
IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing
"navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused"
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...
oh wow, that looks good
It’s the prettiest time of the year here at our house.
This feels like progress.
"tankie" is an immediate mute or block, for me.
It also hasn't even been there that long.
I am 100% in favor of upzoning (almost) everywhere. I just think that it needs to be supplemented by other policies in order to really make a dent in housing costs and raise densities.
I don't know, I haven't looked at that site in a long time. I did see him in person a few months ago, and we talked about bananas among other things.
Yes, the fact that Gowanus is a former industrial area and the other areas of major upzonings are not is also a factor here.
(I was staying in Virginia last week in an area where they actually have paw paws growing wild. I was very disappointed not to be there when they were in season.)
Banana discourse is what led me to originally quit twitter.
(I was on the Malcolm Harris anti-banana side of that one. Time to rediscover the paw paw.)
Man I have biked by the coffin factory so many times. And it did add character!
Building apartments is better, tho.
Gowanus is a great project that took waaaaaay too long to get approved, and, honestly, should have gone 10-stories taller.
Yes, there are a lot of variables for sure.
Yes, that is also a reasonable way of looking at it.