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Ben Fowler retweeted
Geopolitics is not the only reason investors are leaving China, it’s simply much cheaper to produce in other countries
Ben Fowler retweeted
Canada has not gained "a single thing of tangible value" for US$159.2 million purchase of shares in Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, says Canadian who worked as senior exec. blacklocks.ca/chinese-bank-d… #cdnpoli @BobPickard
Love the frankness in your testimony @charles_burton! A definite breath of fresh air. The lack of awareness of or concern about the problem is the most worrying part for me.
"Global Affairs Canada's response to #China's comprehensive and coordinated malign challenge to our democratic institutions has been, to be frank about it, pathetically weak and highly ineffective," testified @charles_burton.
@AliEhsassi @MichaelChongMP @sbergeron
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Today the U.S. can produce around 30,000 artillery shells a month. In 1995 the army could produce 867,000 shells a month. gao.gov/assets/nsiad-95-89.p…
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How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.
Ben Fowler retweeted
34. Our social hierarchies select for high ambition low curiosity people. Productive, socially intelligent, people on the top tend to be shockingly narrow minded
They can't think out of the box, because they don't have out of the box knowledge. They never had time to acquire it
Ben Fowler retweeted
1/ VF: “In Canada, a government lab’s decision to ship Ebola samples to the WIV set off a scandal that resounded all the way to the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and played a role in the dissolution of parliament in the fall of 2021.”
#cdnpoli
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A dramatic drop from when I left Canada but something I've been sensing when I return. Feels tragic
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An OPEC-style coffee “cartel” would have far more bargaining power on prices and tariffs vis-à-vis the Global North, points out @SNUnow's @icatchup. bit.ly/3tLytKl
Classic case study of American vs. Canadian customer service. Call @ADP USA to make an account change and I have the forms I need emailed to me in 5 minutes. Call ADP Canada and have the complete opposite experience. Not helpful, won't help find a solution, surly, etc.
Amen. This is a problem affecting most sectors of the Canadian economy. Let's change this.
My latest, on a pervasive problem in the Canadian economy -- lack of competition -- and its effects: poor service, obscenely high prices and sluggish productivity growth.
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Ben Fowler retweeted
I'd like to tell you about one of the biggest and most effortful studies on behavior change ever conducted and its strange findings (that may not even be obvious if you read the paper - I only realized its implications on my 2nd reading!)
Let's begin:
[study megathread]🧵
Ben Fowler retweeted
The link from Henry VIII to the Industrial Revolution. The monasteries dissolved in 1536 had no feudal lords, so the farmers that occupied them became the gentry who led to innovation & reform
More monasteries in an area= more factories 3 centuries later. scholar.harvard.edu/files/jr…
Ben Fowler retweeted
The @federalreserve 2% inflation target is no longer credible. De-globalization, the transition to alternative energy, the need to pay workers more, lower-risk, shorter supply chains are all inflationary. The Fed cannot change its target now, but will likely do so in the future.
Ben Fowler retweeted
What are your favorite, relatively recent development-related nonfiction books?
Bonus points if by an author from and/or based in the Global South.
(No edited volumes. Define development as you wish and broadly.)
This study's findings are really relevant for organizational design.
Though we can hope this is changing, an analysis of 20M research teams finds that the further team members are located each other, the less likely they are to come up with a disruptive, breakthrough innovation. Time zone differences really kill innovation. arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2…
Excited to be at @aeaweb annual conference in New Orleans! Great choice to have a longer lunch break at this year's sessions
Ben Fowler retweeted
The West has no clue how far it fell behind.
For example, how long does it take to build a train station?
🇨🇳: 9 hours
🇨🇦: 7 years snd counting, and no sign of a station exists.
<thread> 🧵👇 – at Toronto, Ontario
Relevant for social norms studies
"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion"
economist.com/graphic-detail…
