Magnus Rasmussen
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@RasmussenMagnus
Professor Political Science focusing on historical political economy.
Studying how cash transfers affect work and health, from @myklebest, @FelipeLobel, and Valdemar Pinho Neto nber.org/papers/w35006
But I was told many times this week that we are all ideologues and, also, more than once that the department at GMU was filled with propagandists. Maybe the weekend keyboard warriors that never studied economics are less informed than we thought about what economists do in economics department.
Tyler Cowen in his new book on why economists write about topics outside their area of expertise: “The dirty little secret is that what distinguishes economics as a field, right now, is a mix of higher standards, harder work, better math, and higher IQs.” This is clearly true.
People who see doctors are sick so it must be the doctors causing the sickness
I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. The empirical record is devastating: documented negative impacts on wages, poverty, inequality, maternal mortality, infant mortality, healthcare access, etc. SAPs inflicted misery on the periphery in order to curtail their consumption, scupper independent development, and make labour and resources more cheaply available for the core. gh.bmj.com/content/11/Sup…
