Very sad to learn that Anwar Shaikh has died at the age of 80. One of the only heterodox economists to offer a synthesised alternative!
Unlearning Economics
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![Screenshot continuing Derek Thompson's tweet thread. The text reads: "...All these policies feel like solutions because they're brisk, they name enemies, and they take on the most visible source of frustration. But they are much better as villain-naming exercises than they are as a complete public policy. On their own, each creates other problems: less housing built, less clean electricity built, abdicating energy policy by encouraging AI firms to build data centers abroad in unsavory countries with more emissions, etc. I can't think of a single economic populist idea that wouldn't be helped with a little dose of economics, which is why it's troubling when I see the left participating in, and even celebrating, the great unlearning of economics." Below the text is a quoted tweet from Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) dated April 30 sharing the article. It reads "an economist explains how rent control is actually fine and good" with a link to currentaffairs.org. The quoted tweet includes a preview image showing protesters holding red signs reading "WE NEED RENT [CONTROL]" with a person speaking at a microphone, and the article headline "Rent Control Is Fine, Actually."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:odirquz55urhatqrqqe2dzhl/bafkreifrn4je4pp5l5w5mokdgwh36yc6zchhrlx4lg6gu6ipor3wy6r3te)
