Economist; Researching Institutions, Innovation, Public Goods, and Rural Development. (RT!=E) MPhil Student @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist
Vermont/Oxford
Joined March 2015
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Two things are true
1. Economists are, in expectation, correct about the effects of any given policy and you’d be foolish to ignore them
2. Economists are, by and large, not in the business of asking “What the hell is water?” style questions about our economy.
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Julius Koschnick presenting his paper, testing the idea that a feedback loop between propositional and prescriptive knowledge catalyzed self-sustaining economic growth.
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Captivated by this fascinating paper. In the history of technological unemployment, nothing is as simple as it seems.
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These fake men’s fashion girls are always a year + behind in what’s going on in actual men’s fashion, the trickle down that they’ve received is directly from one of their friends’ boyfriends in the west village. They don’t know shit
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Economists when I let them drown in a fountain to avoid soiling my expensive suit:
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I paid off all my student loans. Why would I pay income tax?
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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The purpose of getting a degree in PPE is so that you can experience regret when you go to a cocktail party and everyone is crowded around the person with the economics degree.
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POV: DPhil Nuffield college tutor schools 2:1 history grad
Mark Carney, as Bank of England Governor, interfered in the vital Brexit vote by publicly warning of recession and financial chaos if Britain left the EU. He denied taking sides, yet Conservative MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg exposed his bias and demanded he resign for violating the Bank’s required political neutrality.
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Indicting the UK’s “fiscal mess” and welfare spending is strange given that almost all growth in the last four years has been driven by public service volumes and associated spending, especially health.
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Astounding revelation from @SecSmithEllis's time as NJ Higher Ed commissioner: public university president refused to name how much state $$ would enable her to set tuition transparently, affordably, and progressively. Because maximizing extraction is how you get the next job.
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
at some level you gotta engage with the fact that Americans can read ~90% of major novels for free via their library and don't do it
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading.
Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Today CPE is publishing some revisionist history about BIL and IRA: Because the laws didn't touch muni markets and focused more on infra grants than loan authorities, they didn't juice local economic development much.
Here's a short note laying out how we could change that:
Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Fascinating how many interesting, very smart young people (young men particularly) interested in policy I've met in NYC who refer to themselves as socialists or DSA-adjacent, but when you talk to them they seem to have at most, the views of market-friendly social democrats
