Enemies of the people were the educated elite, targeted by the Soviet authorities for they posed a threat to the propaganda-dependent regime. Along with millions of other non-political criminals, they were sent to forced labor camps scattered across the Soviet Union, the Gulag.
Nov 14, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Just read the first chapters of Banerjee/Duflo and get the same impression! The part on migration is full of positive vibes. On trade the tone is so downbeat. On migration they cover papers with cool data and superb natural experiments. On trade... 1/9
On trade they focus on a theoretical model of the small gains from trade for the US. To think of it this might be because the leading migration literature is much “cooler” than the leading trade literature. 2/9
