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Shahin Ashkiani

@shaahin-a.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Data Analytics, Interested in #MMT #PK #EcologicalEcon #Worker_Cooperatives. // “Opinions are mine"

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Fascinating slides by Guadalupe Moreno exploring visions of a classless society within the Global South and the complexities of the global divide. @mpifg.bsky.social @anninak.bsky.social @shaahin-a.bsky.social @nathantankus.bsky.social @csissoko.bsky.social
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Shahin Ashkiani @shaahin-a.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"We find a statistically significant, economically large and robust negative effect of deregulation on the labor share. [...] job protection deregulation may have contributed about 15 percent to the average labor share decline in advanced economies." IMF research
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
NEW PIECE: I'm launching a new #MonetaryPolicy201 series going through the fundamentals, starting with at least 6 pieces going through how to think about the concept of "monetary finance". This first part is on the legal meaning of "open market" www.crisesnotes.com/what-exactly...
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What Exactly is an “Open Market” Operation? #MonetaryPolicy201
#MonetaryPolicy201 is a monthly series about the basics of monetary policy. It’s a “201” series because I will be grounding the basics of monetary policy on their largely forgotten legal foundations. ...
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Karina Patrício @kpatricio.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This interesting report by CEPA which has just come out provides a detailed examination of the economic policies implemented during the first year of the Milei administration in Argentina, beyond the libertarian overhype on the internet. 🧵
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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
New piece by James Galbraith has strong parallels with what @nathantankus.bsky.social wrote recently. www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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Why Bidenomics Was Such a Bust
A large majority of voters gave the Biden administration a failing grade on the economy. For the sake of future policy battles, it is worthwhile to try to understand their reasons.
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Legal Alien UK @legalalienuk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
For #MMT people interested in the UK, curious what you think of the new consultation paper from the BofE today, and their move from a supply to demand driven reserve framework. www.bankofengland.co.uk/paper/2024/d...
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Transitioning to a repo-led operating framework
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Shahin Ashkiani @shaahin-a.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
In September 1931, having heard that the UK had repealed the gold standard, Von Mises predicted that: "In one week, England will be in hyperinflation!" Austrian Economics: 94 years of continuously incorrect hyperinflation prediction 🔥🔥🔥
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Shahin Ashkiani @shaahin-a.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
One of the few things that neoclassical economists are good at is "gatekeeping." They have methodological gatekeeping: our method, or your research is not scientific/economics. Some feminist economists see this phenomenon from the lens of feminism From Tejani, 2019
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