De week van Went in tweets #183

Slight advantage pic.twitter.com/e0jLF0BzSN

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

Blockchain in de polder: Wordt blockchain een facilitator van gemeenschappen of van cowboys in een wildwest-omgeving? — Goed stuk @CoenvdVen in @DeGroene https://t.co/5kUAmCDu2R

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

My latest, in which I defend (some kinds of) economic populism https://t.co/raVbSZ4oCa

— Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) January 9, 2018

Is Populism Necessarily Bad Economics? — Paper @rodrikdani — https://t.co/1oZ4K05FRH pic.twitter.com/1N9S3fyGsX

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 13, 2018

How to fix Facebook before it fixes us: We’ve seen where self-regulation leads, and it isn’t pretty https://t.co/c9V7yettbJ

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 8, 2018

Why should we take the trajectory of technical change as given? Why can it not be altered to suit social priorities? — Ravi Kanbur https://t.co/CYtAxypbEZ

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 9, 2018

For those who say the Doughnut is nothing new – of course it isn’t. It’s been ignored for centuries. Millennia…. pic.twitter.com/jW5wWedKLp

— Kate Raworth (@KateRaworth) January 15, 2018

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— Kate Raworth (@KateRaworth) January 15, 2018

Walmart is raising its minimum wage to $11 an hour, giving employees a $1,000 bonus, and expanding its maternity and parental leave benefits https://t.co/9KkYYMnxpP

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 11, 2018

Here are the real reasons Walmart is raising wages https://t.co/ytW83fi2VP

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 11, 2018

leest met veel plezier “De Zaak Organon: Geneesmiddelen in de Greep van Bedrijvenpoker”, van sociologen Jack Burgers en Johan Heilbron (met hulp van tientallen anderen). Een mooi voorbeeld van publieke sociale wetenschap https://t.co/j0pyQeTdy3

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 16, 2018

This is a very nice textbook! ‘Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics’, edited by members of the @rethinkecon network — https://t.co/Pvn1aMx7Hd pic.twitter.com/NygortJjOP

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 11, 2018

World Bank Gamed Data to Make Chile’s Socialist Party Look Bad https://t.co/u6H1y4noAj

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 13, 2018

I never put much importance on WB doing business rankings and found governments’ focus on them misplaced. Same with WEF competitiveness rankings. https://t.co/iWLfSN6qqd

— Dani Rodrik (@rodrikdani) January 13, 2018

Time to read this one again (ht @MEDevEcon)#doingbusinesshttps://t.co/dbkU1jKoG4 pic.twitter.com/yp3sYQWZsO

— Andrea Presbitero (@a_presbitero) January 13, 2018

50-jaar ISDS: een mondiaal machtsmiddel voor multinationals gecreëerd en groot gemaakt door nederland — rapport @TNInstitute @bibothends @SOMO en @milieudefensie — https://t.co/LjEfKR5jB6 (via @freeksels) pic.twitter.com/jinlUC6HNy

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

Inequality In Europe — Free pdf Social Europe (in cooperation with Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Hans Böckler Stiftung) https://t.co/dmdpO4EAUQ

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 11, 2018

Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Work— Paper by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo — https://t.co/iaOHXgEexx (ht @FabianDekker) pic.twitter.com/6Ivd2AkTJP

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

With the Internet of Things, we’re building a world-size robot. How are we going to control it? Markets alone can’t solve our security problems — https://t.co/e4yKWDToMH (ht @azeem)

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

Fascinating (and moving) documentary ! Really enjoyed ‘AlphaGo’ on @NetflixNL, in which South Korea’s Lee Sedol (a Go world champion) takes on an algorithm in a five match tournament in Seoul https://t.co/7JblSj4ShI

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 14, 2018

Moron — Dilbert today pic.twitter.com/N9FHLBK6qw

— Robert Went (@went1955) January 12, 2018