Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
RT @MSchularick: The indispensable nation in action. Meanwhile Berlin is slow on weapons and undermining EU consensus on an oil embargo. Even industry is on board with this in Germany. Getting really hard to rationalize what is going on in Berlin.
https://www.ft.com/content/116c4be0-6a80-4c8e-81cd-3800e73e4a98?sharetype=blocked
RT @noclador: Timeline of 🇩🇪's @OlafScholz's many lies:
1) At the end of February Germany's defense industry sends Scholz a long list of all available weapons.
2) Scholz doesn't share the list with Ukraine.
3) Scholz says that there are no more weapons left in Germany to give to Ukraine.
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RT @HannoLustig: when you mothball nuclear power plants because you're concerned about a nuclear accident and you end up funding a guy who threatens nuclear war every other week. that's when you know it's time to reconsider your plans, Mr Scholz. even if it's complicated.
RT @CatherineDVries: As 🇪🇺 scholar, I considered the key weakness of Chancellor Merkel’s 🇪🇺 approach to be: offering smallest possible concessions at the last possible moment. Maybe understandable from domestic viewpoint, but destructive for 🇪🇺. We see some of this playing out again now. A🧵
@Birdyword Academics are a complaining lot. The question is whether they would be happier doing something else.
My take: doing a PhD in Econ was the best thing I did. I suspect most of my colleagues would say likewise.
Some German politicians argue against a gas embargo on Russia because it is counterproductive. Other metrics show that perhaps it is because they just don't care.
Ranking of "Ukraine Support" by @kielinstitute👇
RT @Ch_Trebesch: In percent of donor GDP, Eastern European countries stand out as particularly generous
@ExpositoCOPE @linternacope ¡Enhorabuena Ángel @ExpositoCOPE !
RT @miquelroig: Lo que está costando sacar la excepción ibérica y la dureza de las negociaciones con Bruselas por la luz -Moncloa ya despliega sus herramientas heterodoxas de presión-, demuestran que lo del consejo europeo de marzo no fue una victoria épica de Sánchez, sino algo más modesto.
RT @AntonSpisak: I admire Robert Skidelsky for his economics work, but not only is his claim factually invalid (the 1948 treaty ceased with the dissolution of the Soviet Union), but his analysis is also biased (Finland, as a sovereign nation, is entitled to make own decisions about its future).
RT @AntonSpisak: When we let Russia dictate the terms of what sovereign nations can, and cannot, choose (as this post suggests), the set of values and norms on which the entire post-1989 world now stands will fall apart. Skidelsky must understand that.
RT @alexstubb: @RSkidelsky With all due respect:
1. Get your facts straight.
2. Do not lecture us on our security.
3. We have survived with 1340km of border with Russia.
4. We know what we are doing.
5. Joining is better than leaving if you want to maximise security and influence.
@HannoLustig Not former: they have done nothing to expel Schoeder, AFIK.
For #econtwitter: huge if true -would revolutionize our understanding of TFP, and shift our expectations of what is possible drastically down.
RT @ThomasPHI2: (1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential.
This is a paper I did not expect to write...
Se esté o no de acuerdo con Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, siempre se aprende mucho leyéndolo. Esta entrevista, sobre demografía mundial, por ejemplo.
https://www.elconfidencial.com/economia/2022-04-18/inflacion-demografia-fernandez-villaverde-paro_3409925/?utm_source=share-article&utm_medium=copy-link&utm_campaign=1
This SPD politician complaining about expensive Ukranian cars and about men driving.
1) You don't need to be poor to be affected by war.
2) Men can exit if they have kids
3) You belong in AfD... Or maybe SPD is right for you after all (Schröder wing)
RT @FlorianPost: Ich habe in den letzten Tagen sehr teure Autos mit ukrainischem Kennzeichen in München gesehen. Am Steuer männliche Personen. Sollten das Ukrainer sein, hoffe ich, das…
It takes courage. See thread from top green politician advocating heavy weapons supply to Ukraine and admitting mistakes. Very welcome news.
RT @GoeringEckardt: Es fällt mir natürlich schwer, für die schnelle Lieferung von Waffen, schwerer Waffen einzutreten. Ich tue es aber. Und zwar nicht, weil ich finde, es sei nur wichtig für die #Ukraine. Hier geht es letztlich um unsere Werte, Freiheit, Demokratie, die verteidigt werden.
Mario Draghi calls for action in the "short term" to limit Russian gas- "it is possible and feasible".
Hopefully @OlafScholz is listening.
RT @POLITICOEurope: Limiting Europe's dependence on Russian energy in the short term is "possible and feasible," Italian PM Mario Draghi says.
As it stands, Russia supplies 45 percent of the EU's imported gas.
RT @POLITICOEurope: Limiting Europe's dependence on Russian energy in the short term is "possible and feasible," Italian PM Mario Draghi says.
As it stands, Russia supplies 45 percent of the EU's imported gas.
RT @carlbildt: If they were to watch this in the Kremlin 🇷🇺 they might start to understand what they are up against 🇺🇦.
RT @JeremyCliffe: The German left at its sanctimonious, self-gratifying worst: “peace” at any cost, even if that cost is the genocidal subjugation of a democratic state.
The goal for which Germans (and other Europeans) should march is unequivocal Ukrainian victory.
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Economist. Back at LSE as a Professor at @LSEPublicPolicy Summer 2023. Non-resident Fellow @bruegel_org. Recovering MEP. Currently @ChicagoBooth.
Joined Apr 2022
