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Mark Thissen
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Professor of spatial networks and economic development

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Benni Leemhuis @bennileemhuis.bsky.social · 10h
Ik ben dringend op zoek naar een huurhuis in de stad / gemeente Groningen, waar ik met mijn zoons (14 en 12) kan wonen, dus met drie slaapkamers. De verhalen kloppen: Er zijn bitter weinig woningen beschikbaar, dus daarom ook dit bericht.

Iedere tip (of huurbaas die die leest🙂) is meer dan welkom!

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Nov 20
Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse.

NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers.

Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · Nov 14
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Oct 31
NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Oct 20
Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market.

Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army.

Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.
handle.invalid Morning Brew ☕️ @handle.invalid · Oct 20
BREAKING: Amazon Web Services

A massive AWS outage early this morning sent major websites and apps down for several hours

Tracking site Downdetector has received over 8 million reports around the globe

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · Jul 24
UK vehicle manufactures have fallen to the lowest level since 1953 reports BBC and Guardian. Lots of stuff on Trump tariffs and EVs. Yet, looking at the data the dramatic rupture seems to be in 2016. A total mystery what that was....
UK car production

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Stefania Fiorentino @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social · Jun 10
📢 CfP @cjres.bsky.social SI on "Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times" exploring new regional futures in an era of uncertainty and transformation.
🔍 we call for a debate on alternative #regionaldevelopment models & policy.

📅 Deadline:1/07/25
Details: academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...
Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times: Towards new Regional Futures?
Editors: Emil Evenhuis, Stefania Fiorentino, Huiwen Gong, Ron Martin, Johan Miörner and Christian Schulz. The world is facing a number of historic challenges,
academic.oup.com

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · May 24
Britain’s export competitiveness has been eroding for years, but since #Brexit the decline has accelerated. The UK is losing global market share across nearly every sector. Reversing this slide must be part of any growth plan.

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Read here: buff.ly/eTsNvzx

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Mark Thissen @thissenm.bsky.social · Apr 30
Just in time processing and long value chains: waiting for the supply shock
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Waiting for the Supply Shock
Today on TAP: It’s coming, and we know approximately when.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 3
1. I'm reluctant to pose as an overnight expert in international trade, but I do have a couple of thoughts about the official explanation from the White House that I think would be obvious to anyone who had even a rudimentary grasp of economics.
Reciprocal Tariff Calculations
Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that pe...
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · Apr 3
I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.

Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

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Spatial Economic Analysis @spatialeconomic.bsky.social · Feb 25
The dataset is a system of interregional social accounting matrices (SAMs) for the EU for the year 2017 consistent with the Eurostat regional and national data used as input. The dataset uses Eurostat’s microdata on labour income and educational attainment. 3/5

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Feb 10
More than 50% of the public now think Brexit was "Wrong", and the gap between whose who think it was "Wrong" vs. "Right" is now 25%.

=> the room for manoeuvre in their "reset" of the UK's relationship with the EU is probably larger than Starmer & co. think

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · Jan 30
UK car production falls to lowest level since 1954 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK car production falls to lowest level since 1954
Number made fell to 780,000, the lowest for seven decades barring the pandemic, as carmakers battle weak demand and EV transition
www.theguardian.com

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Dec 31
Hoogste tijd voor een verbod op vuurwerk door particulieren, in combinatie met professioneel vuurwerk waar iedereen veilig van kan genieten.
vuurwerkverbod.petities.nl

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 4
Contrarian take: What if the global economy has room for a couple of tech hubs and financial centers, which ended up in America (and London) less because of fundamental factors than because of historical accidents? I'm not 100 percent there, but geography should be considered 5/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 4
Draghi report argues that *all* of the US excess productivity growth has been in digital tech (although mentions finance as a secondary source, which is why I include Manhattan). But is this a story about America and its risk-taking business culture, or a story about regional external economies? 4/