Andreas Menzel
@AMenzel_Econ
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Assistant Professor, Development and Growth Economics, University of Padova
Joined April 2014
@Guardian frontpage article today implies that sourcing clothes from Bangladeshi factories is morally wrong. This is a deeply problematic. These factories give income to millions of poor people. I worked for years with these factories. Long THREAD 1/37
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@paulnovosad Are they actually getting anything "done" besides telling staff not to come to work anymore, stopping grant payments, and muscling themselves into buildings to download all the data? The first two aspects will be brought to courts which may reinstate them, if the law still holds.
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RT @paulnovosad: DHS surveys—an essential piece of global health infrastructure—make you describe a research project before you can downloa…
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RT @AuschwitzMuseum: Eighty years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were lib…
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@Mario_Macis Unfortunately the one country that hasnt yet even really started going through its populist right cycle is Germany 😕
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@Rainmaker1973 This will shape the world in 20-30 years as much as climate change and AI. Astounding to see the numbers for Turkiye, or Poland. Also my adopted homecountry Italy is fairing abysmally.
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@sweatystartup So happy that I have a job that allows me to work a lot from home and be around my child in these precious few years. Higher acceptance of WFH is one of the accidental good things coming out of the pandemic. Had I had children a few years earlier, I would have missed so much.
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@EuroBriefing disappointing to see "centrist" writers copy the right's ploy to equate expressing anger or opposition with "having a meltdown". It leaves no way to counteract the right. Same writers then often lament that "the media" can't deal with the right, is too timid in its response.
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@MaxCRoser Why are we seeing the number of children predicted to increase a bit again after the current dip (even if not to the previous maximum)?
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@schnellenbachj Irgandwann merkt man das familiengeführte metzgereien und beckereien mit das meiste zur Lebensqualität beitragen. Ich wünsche meinen örtlichen betagten Bäcker und Metzger noch viele gesunde Jahre :)
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@APHClarkson greens have a solid, sizable core constituency (educated progressives). They sometimes stay home when they are disillusioned, but tend to rally back when its important
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RT @SahilBloom: For 10 years, you are your child’s favorite person in the entire world. After that, they have other favorite people: Best…
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RT @mbateman: 10pm, heard faint noises from 1yo’s room, turned up baby monitor, he’s just laying in bed in the dark singing Jingle Bells to…
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RT @dpatrikarakos: As ever with comrade @simonmontefiore you get astute political analysis combined with broad historical sweep. The essay…
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An ad-hoc theory of markets rise and fall: - When introduced into a state of no markets (planned economies...), they improve most peoples well-being and are popular. - If left unchecked for too long, they concentrate profits in the hand of increasingly few, making them unpopular
I became a Republican in the 1980s because I believed in markets, competition, and innovation - and ceased to be a Republican in the 2020s because I believe in markets, competition, and innovation.
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RT @PeterRNeumann: Assad ist Geschichte, und Syrien ist... frei? Niemand sollte unterschätzen, welch enorme Konsequenzen die aktuellen Entw…
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RT @dSEA_Unipd: 👨🎓Our PhD candidate, Lorenzo Mori, is on the #EconJobMarket this year! Lorenzo is an empirical macroeconomist with expert…
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RT @EfremCastel: Exciting news! Our PhD candidate, Lorenzo Mori, is on the #EconJobMarket this year! Check out his profile and research her…
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@_alice_evans I think the "progressive dilemma" is not just about language, it is much more structural. Left dogma dictates that the poor/disadvantaged are in solidarity with everyone else from poor/disadvantaged groups, while in reality they instead often feel deep rivalry for them.
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