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Ph.D.-student, University College London, @IIPP_UCL 🚀 Green finance🌱 Member, @KOR_Danmark☝️ Board member, @RE_Danmark. Asker.Voldsgaard@ucl.ac.uk
May 27, 2022 15 tweets 5 min read
Great 🧵 and article by @jryancollins summarising our new @IIPP_UCL working paper on how the UK government finances its spending - co-authored with Andrew Berkeley @spatchcockable, Neil Wilson & Richard Tye @widespreadhaze.
Let me add some illustrations from the WP:🧵 First, our general findings on UK government financing can be read here in Josh's @NewStatesman article:
newstatesman.com/economy/2022/0…
Feb 19, 2020 8 tweets 7 min read
NU er et godt tidspunkt for økonomer i #dkøko at træde frem og tage afstand fra William Nordhaus' indflydelse på klimadebatten. @OttoBrons henviser til Nordhaus' pseudoforskning og påstår at 6 graders temperaturstigning stort set ikke vil påvirke vores levestandard i år 2100. 1/6 Brøns lyver endda om, at Nordhaus' model skulle indeholde 'tipping points'. Det gør den ikke. Han har bare trukket en parabel ud fra et sted, hvor solen ikke skinner. Der er ingen 'brud' i skaderne ved højere temperaturer. 2/6
Sep 23, 2019 6 tweets 3 min read
Happy Hyman Minsky's 100 year birthday!
A quick Minsky citation review:
While most of the academic world had its 'Minsky Moment' in 2008...
(citations in all journals per WebofKnowledge) (1/4) The 'news' of the capitalism being a destabilising system was not quite as pronounced in the four prominent heterodox economics journals... (JPKE, JEI, CJE, ROKE) (2/4)