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Ben Harrell
@elben
Economist studying Health, Labor, & Experimental Econ. Postdoc @LGBTPolicyLabVU @VanderbiltEcon. Previously @aysps @GeorgiaStateU. #BLM He/Him/His 🏳️‍🌈
Apr 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I think we could stand to steelman the left-NIMBY position accurately memed in this great thread, if for no other reason than to have a principled response to people who *ACCURATELY* point out that market power could/may even be driving rent dynamics. /1 First, I want to reference a tweet from an old thread I did on teaching market power in Intermediate Microeconomics from a few years ago.

Joan Robinson points out in the Economics of Imperfect Competition that market power manifests in firm behavior /2

Aug 29, 2021 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
I have a theory of EJMR that contrasts it from sites with ostensibly the same function like Urch or Reddit (r/badeconomics, etc).

Econ grad programs are extremely hard to get into for the average undergrad, and so you look under every rock for info, an edge to help you out. 1/N Somewhere along the way, you learn something horrifying: unless you were EXTREMELY lucky, took all the right classes, double majored, got a perfect quant GRE, RA’d for a major name, did a predoc, then the top programs are out of your reach. This is the Econ Red Pill. 2/N
Oct 20, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Putting the finishing touches on my JMP this week, so I'm going to drop a teaser. I'll post a full thread in the coming weeks, but here's my paper in one figure /1 On the y axis is per-capita (per 100,000 residents) counts of prescriptions for drugs used to treat viral STIs that were reimbursed by Medicaid. On the x axis is each year-quarter from 2011-2018. 2014 q1 is marked with a red line. Why? Medicaid expansion happens then. /2
Oct 20, 2020 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
This is one of the most difficult post-quals task that an econ PhD student following the American grad school model will ever navigate. I want to give some less-practical, more philosophical advice to rising third years. /1 Choosing a research agenda is the most important thing you will do in graduate school. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. Qualifiers are a distraction. Field comps are a distraction. You MUST choose a topic that speaks to you or you will spend the next 2-3 years adrift. /2
Jul 23, 2018 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Ok, so as promised to @deficitowls and @txex, it’s time for a thread on MMT! My purpose here was to (in good faith) read as much MMT literature as I could bear, and to respond beyond the usual “this is meaningless quackery” many academic economists offer. 1/N Let’s start with my reading list. Several blog posts from neweconomicperspectives.org like the MMT Primer, Huang’s Essays in Monetary Theory and Policy, and Tymoigne’s Money and Banking; also Warren Mosler’s “7 Deadly Innocent Frauds”, in addition to many others. 2/N