2. “Equilibrium implies optimality or social efficiency.” In the Harris-Todaro model, unemployment in the Urban sector is consistent with equilibrium.

Today's MUST READ: One of the biggest problems in schools right now is no one is empowered to ever hold the line on a standard. The result? "We have a two-speed student population."

We liberals have a way of letting good intentions run amok.

Another concerning trend in higher education is lowering test standards. Many quantitative courses allow multiple attempts or resubmissions, and there's a movement to eliminate tests altogether. This is for all students, not just the one with accommodations.

John B. Holbein But it probably is our job to talk about trends in education and our view of whether the bureaucracies that run are institutions are doing a good job.

If your department can fill 67,000 seats seven times a year, get on national TV twelve weeks a year, and generate $144 million in revenue, we will pay you like the football coaches.

I allow this👇

This is beautiful. The smiles! Bondi beach hero Ahmed Al-Ahmed with the doctors looking after him at the hospital in Sydney. And… The doctors are *also* Syrian! Tamer Al-Kahil from Homs. Anas Natfaji from Aleppo. *Three* heroes.

🇦🇺JEWISH MAN: “Ahmed Al-Ahmed, he saved my life and my four-year-old's life. If Ahmed Al-Ahmed didn't stop that guy, he was coming to do absolute horror. I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother that came and took it upon himself and risked his own life to save us”

Amtrak had a lot of fanfare around its fancy new trains that can go 160 mph, but it turns out that the limiting factor is the super-outdated track infrastructure, so the actual speed hasn't changed much, averaging 65 mph. Whenever I hear about an amazing new productivity

Your students are complaining that they don’t know their grade in your class and you keep telling them to just compute the weighted average of test scores and assignments. This is so unfair, I am an associate dean and I can’t compute a weighted average!

The image of Dipu Chandra Das should haunt the collective conscience of Bangladesh. If it does not, with a Nobel laureate at the helm of affairs, then it must remember that this savagery will have implications for human lives across the sub continent

Worst thing on twitter TL today is this god debate. All sections declaring their victory. Such arguments happen in teenage days & then you read. Faith is an intimate relationship b/w human & god. No logic exist. Explaining religion with science happened as response to modernity.

Simply by agreeing to accept the offer to lead Bangladesh’s interim government, Professor Yunus became public enemy number one for the Awami League and its supporters in India. If the Modi Government had simply reciprocated Yunus’ initial desire to reframe the relationship

I really enjoyed watching Thinking Game. Parents, let your kids play video games; one day, they will solve the most intractable problem in biology—protein folding.

Bangladesh’s interim government deserves great credit for successfully managing one of the most tumultuous periods in the country’s history. This fortnight began with the assassination of Sharif Osman Hadi and included his funeral, Tarique Rahman’s return, and Begum Zia’s death

I watched Haq on Netflix last night; I enjoyed it. It highlighted issues about women's rights and the conflict between religious texts and their interpretation. I liked how the main character reminded us that the Quran's first line is "read."

"I’ve been pretty relentless at telling Brits that they are the PPE society and that they excel in the sounding-clever industries — television, journalism, finance, and universities." Source: Dan Wang's letter danwang.co/2025-letter/ Some in the UK call it PPE bollocks.

american craftsmanship is declining. 20 years ago, if you wanted to manufacture a reason for a war, you had to make a map and do a little presentation at the UN. now you just say anything.