David Jacobstein retweeted
florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe
David Jacobstein retweeted
Thrilled to see this working paper out in print courtesy of @HarvardBSC !! bsc.cid.harvard.edu/publicat…. This is a 'preview' some of my (still being drafted) book Mission Driven Bureaucrats, with a view to improving the book. 🧵 1/
David Jacobstein retweeted
Awesome interview with Lant Pritchett on Where Development Economics Went Wrong. discoursemagazine.com/econom…
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Calling all scholars working on the Political Economy of Development! Please consider submitting your papers to the @JPublicPolicy PED workshop I am hosting with Dan Honig @rambletastic. More info below. Please retweet!
Anjali Thomas and Dan Honig are leading a workshop seeking to build connections between Political Economy of Development (PED) and the study of public policy. Find the call for papers here: ow.ly/XGMA50HYR4y
David Jacobstein retweeted
Insightful Alicia Juarrero quote coming:
1. "The human sciences have often been tempted to model their subject matter after the (idealized) linear, closed systems near equilibrium that the hard sciences studied and that, for those very reasons, were tractable [...]
David Jacobstein retweeted
If anyone had a right to question whether our democracy was worth redeeming, it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because in the face of billy clubs and lynchings, poll taxes and literacy tests, he never gave in to violence, never waved a traitorous flag or gave up on our country.
David Jacobstein retweeted
Pay everyone $1500 to get vaccine
It is a stimulus check & big vaccine incentive rolled into one
Result: more people get vaccine, it saves lives, helps people financially, and the $400 B pays for itself w/ economic boost from ending pandemic
RT if you agree #vaccinestimulus
David Jacobstein retweeted
I have a new paper out in @Gov_Journal! Tl;dr: Just putting @WorldBank personnel in the field doesn’t do much. Country Directors DO matter; but only after the Strategic Compact gave them more power, and not always positively. 1/
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Recommendations for measuring organizational capacity getting noticed - what do you think?
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