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6 Apr, 6 tweets, 2 min read
doing some research on poverty rates and wow the data is sketchy AF
gosh for a global hegemony that's all about 👋🏼economic growth👋🏼 and 👋🏼 markets👋🏼 the State sure isn't trying very hard to see poverty with any accuracy
receipts: data.oecd.org/inequality/pov… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…
oops forgot to add the link for that screenshot data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.P…
I do understand why this is difficult data to a) find and b) compare (I have a masters in development economics) but there are a lot of difficult data that economists "find" and "compare" all the time
just a little surprised at how INCREDIBLY sus the data looks, that's all.

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To prepare for my talk at @BelferCenter in a few hours I'm reviewing the literature on technological disasters belfercenter.org/event/nuclear-…
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superficiality vs substance
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4 Mar
(I have other things I should be doing but much easier to live-tweet a report I wrote 7 years ago so) let's talk about reactor 3!
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There was so much interest in this thread tracing the Fukushima Dai-Ichi crisis as it happened with reactor 1 that I'm going to do the same for reactor 2 and maybe 3. It's a lot, so I'll be adding to it sporadically. But it's an important story to tell.
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Later today I'm giving a talk on Fukushima Dai-Ichi as part of @UniLeiden's very cool semester-long study of a crisis, with different sector-area specialists invited to talk. I'm in mainly because of this report I co-wrote years ago for @suretenucleaire
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