Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
RIP in 2022 the argument that #Crypto is a hedge against the debasement of our currencies through inflation.
In sum:
- A bad means of payment,
- A terrible store of value
- A useless unit of account
Is money laundering and crime financing the only remaining use case?
RT @mattsteinglass: @lugaricano Somehow I thought that even anti-imperialists would grasp that in 1972 and 1975 the NVA did, in fact, stream across the 17th parallel and drive towards Saigon. Sigh
@mattsteinglass You love sarcasme and irony in Twitter - I follow you and I am ready for it. But it NEVER works- you should know by now!
RT @thorstenbenner: "Most important thing is that everyone will accept that you come here. But they will have to accept our rules,” 2022 FIFA World Cup ambassador Salman said.
"It's haram. I'm not a strict Muslim. But why is it haram? It's damage in the mind."
How welcoming.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/world-cup-ambassador-describes-gay-people-as-having-damage-in-the-mind/t9o7sn9wg
RT @FrankLuntz: "Be an adult, set a good example, accept your loss and move on, damnit!"
As I told @JoeNBC this morning, election denial undercuts our democracy and our basic human decency. #ElectionDay
Me llega esto ahora del Parlamento Europeo (gracias @petras_petras !) y me hace muy feliz.
¡Felicidades, @chefjoseandres! ¡Muy contento de que hayas ganado el premio de la Ciudadanía Europea por tu brillante trabajo en Ucrania! (Un recuerdo de nuestro encuentro en abril en Kiev)
RT @HannoLustig: any examples of other advanced economies where the mere logistics of counting the votes dominates news coverage for weeks around elections?
@IlDuomoAntiquo Se trata de si te da igual irritar a una parte sustancial de tu clientela potencial.
@raffasadun Done! Thanks! Let's see how it works
RT @TimTkehoe: We ran the workshop year around, whether UMN was in session or not, for more than 11 years, supervising 36 PhD students. The workshop lives on:
https://users.econ.umn.edu/~tkehoe/workshop.html
Ed and I even brought our workshop to @uvigo in Spain in 1996, where it became as institution.
@JAlonsoCarrera
@gp_mihalache Yep. Beautiful, and scary.
Global warming, New York edition: today lunch time temperature in Columbia was 25 degrees Celsius, 77F.
It was supposed to be undetectable in short term... but every day is a record day!
Discuss: Musk inept handling of his new toy, Twitter (just today, sending "vote republican"messages and this pic of a Wermacht soldier) will damage not just Twitter's brand, but also Tesla, the jewel in his crown.
RT @elonmusk: How times have changed
RT @miquelroig: Drama en 4 actos
1. El @empleogob se niega a publicar el informe que encargó para valorar el impacto de la subida del SMI que finalmente efectuó en 2019.
2. El @InstitutOstrom reclama el informe vía Transparencia y gana.
3. @empleogob se salta la fecha límite y no publica.
The story told here, the story of George Klein, his escape from the Holocaust, his friendships, is absolutely extraordinary.
RT @YouAreLobbyLud: George Klein, the cancer biologist. He tried to tell the Jews of Budapest what fate awaited them if they got on the deportation trains. They didn't believe him. They died. People don't react to unimaginable catastrophe with panic. They react with denial.
RT @YouAreLobbyLud: George Klein, the cancer biologist. He tried to tell the Jews of Budapest what fate awaited them if they got on the deportation trains. They didn't believe him. They died. People don't react to unimaginable catastrophe with panic. They react with denial.
Así mueren las democracias: sólo un tercio de los candidatos republicanos consideran legítima la elección presidencial de 2020.
RT @mathieuvonrohr: This is how democracies die.
RT @mathieuvonrohr: This is how democracies die.
RT @RadioFreeTom: A short thread here about why so some scholars including in intl relations are saying useless things about the Ukraine war.
Nearly thirty years ago, political science as a field became obsessed with being "scientific." That is, one of the human sciences got tired of humans. /1
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
