@claudiaoliver74
Awake my spirit! Think through whom
Thy life-blood tracks its parent lake,
And then strike home!
[On My 37th Birthday]
Using @tylercowen terms, we should consider #Brexit the non-complacent choice: change at the margin that spins-up global trade dynamism.
David Collins does a great job explaining how a #Brexit deal and sequels can be negotiated & why the sky will proba… https://t.co/kESrqrPRLC
RT @davidcollinslaw: Me being optimistic about Brexit
https://t.co/xg9wlANJ7M
Secular trends? #Brexit would be the biggest result in trade agrmnts in 20 yrs: mega-regional bubble has burst (RECEP?) & WTO is sclerosing.
“This appears to be no more than a thought bubble” (PHS a net energy sink) https://t.co/ICFAxGM9qF https://t.co/J5NDEiLOWl
Modelling export growth with firm-level data on price & quantity trajectories, sunk costs & exporter learning.::https://t.co/KZuDcVkAeK
A bit glum? Here’s an inpiring story (h/t @tylercowen )::https://t.co/Fr15V0c5df
Stories AU might choose between trade, alliance with CHN, USA: silly, baseless, desperate. https://t.co/BL3P2SqoG7 https://t.co/U0wkGKGW8x
alanbeattie Not that there’s been a big surge of protectionism since (there hasn’t), but WTO/FTA commitments far more important in restraining it. 2/2
@UKIPNFKN @alanbeattie Well sure: “follow the $/€â€â„¢. But ag is off the table, Bxl prefers multilat. srvcs deal & FDI not a big issue. So… ?
One argument for considering closer ties with China is that the People’s Daily is saner than the loopy NYT::https://t.co/iEK9fb8KXc
Data in article cited by NYT links coral death only to 3 severe El Niños. Claim of ‘global warming’ is pure fluff::https://t.co/AFHhZ19Fja
In what mad-green dystopia wd NSW import 97% of its natural gas? This one thanks to mining bans + solar/wind targets:https://t.co/CN5oZrpGPe
Human research deregulation? Great! But even low (clinical)-risk research can abuse individuals’ privacy, autonomy::https://t.co/5dAGtr1Xf4
A PM who publicly bullies (regulated) banks, energy companies for maximising profit seems out of ideas (and time?)::https://t.co/LisnXMI029
Because Southey betrayed his youthful liberalism in 1813 to accept a pension as a Tory lap-dog & Poet Laurate to th… https://t.co/rQf5RsG7jB
“… A full wind/solar system [wd be] 3 times the cost of coal plus whatever is the final price for the [Tesla] batteri@alan_john_moran_moran
“Returns to… publicly financed R&D are near zero“ (https://t.co/v3T5A43BVV) So much for the “volumetric†(more government research $) model.
The @mattwridley (and others) model where innovation <—tech. + spillovers + scientific catch-up is more plausible::https://t.co/L38ieyvBe5
The Jones et al paper Mankiw mentions (https://t.co/kXN9V5vDh5). Meh! What evidence for volumetric models of innovation (ideas=research $)?
Mankiw on #stagnation “Their interpretation is that big ideas are just getting harder to findâ€::https://t.co/AkQUQWeNNc
Might CHN sign-up to #TPP now USA has pulled out? Or are they just [del]trolling[/del] signalling?::https://t.co/pcTJm9eXQh

bill_easterly Newly discovered review of Adam Smith’s grant proposal from 1776. pic.twitter.com/MSm63xaCjE

Fortunately, Smith had a cushy job: tutor to the Duke of Buccleuch, then as now one of The Nation’s Wealthiestpic.twitter.com/5noRff5K1a1a
Perhaps, in e.g. Guangzhuo, they are happy with “forceful safeguarding of thought and public opinion†from disturbi… https://t.co/SW4QdJElF8
Is the CPC an icon of @tylercowan’s #complacency or just deeply reactionary?::https://t.co/SnRUD8Aerc
RIP Clayton Yeutter. A skillful diplomat and canny analyst. Across the table he was great, even when we disagreed::https://t.co/ir0ghOrwIk?
… And even then, it could not last because supply chains and exch rates. The idea is bonkers, in fact.
“Reducing a trade deficit through… negotiations is a way to increase net exports”:Navarro. But negns wd be with consumers (*really* tough)
“… a sound polity has to be based on ideas other than just redistribution of weal@tylercowenrcoreddit.com/r/IAmA/ndGqHP
RT @snlester: Eric Posner explains the politics of Trump’s wiretapping accusations: https://t.co/O1WN43j2Gt
Turmoil surrounded Byron as he worked on Canto VI of Don Juan, yet the brilliance of the wit, verse is unaffected::https://t.co/Tr6HAR9Mj5
OK! No action. Still, 60 verses of romance, feminism (hah!), sex, satiation, litigation, polygamy &…um, pheromones::https://t.co/2sUudAmIlE
Where’s the evidence this $100m (each!) committee-designed-camel (F-35A) constitutes an arms threat worth the $$?::https://t.co/vjVPl3zVMj
Reading #Byron is great fun. Still Juan’s brilliant epic is layered deep. My guide, il miglior fabbro @CoherentCrap::https://t.co/2sUudA57u6
Great to have approval from an expert like Claudia. See https://t.co/94pvQCQPaN for her book on the faithful Tita::https://t.co/8yrrhlCilI
May I offer you a sample from my recent recordings of Don Juan (from Canto VI)? Would love to know what you think::https://t.co/2sUudAmIlE
The “pivot to Asia” was looking like a wobble well before Trump nixed #TPP. US/Pacific relations are all good. Hope JPN is top of FTA list.
Voguish Teen anxiety? AU (& probably JPN, NZ) planned to join a workable #RCEP whatever the fate of #TPP:: https://t.co/byTrz2eGaY