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Alistair Munro
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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8h
‘Posh-poor divide’. The fence shouldn’t be there. But as someone who grew up on the wrong side of it, let’s just say Aldi isn’t posh and the people on the other side of the fence are not the millionaires and princelings of the Guardians’s London-based imagination.
‘Posh-poor divide’: the rise in areas of England where wealth and deprivation appear side by side
Data shows increase in neighbourhoods where few metres of asphalt, hedgerow, or wall can separate deep inequality
www.theguardian.com

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 16h
I think you’ll find it’s Sophie’s Choice

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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 20h
Now that we're no longer on X, we could really do with some help sharing our podcast! As we're getting into the #Christmas spirit, anyone (in the UK) who reposts our 'Santa PLC.' episode over the next 24hrs (see below) will be entered into a prize draw to win one of our fabulous books! #EconSky

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d
Eye-opening piece on the economics (and politics) of official land valuation in Japan. Amazing that when two independent assessments are made of land values for a sample of >25,000 properties, in 69% of cases they match exactly. #Econsky

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Philip Brasor @philipbrasor.bsky.social · 1d
The fix is in: How Japan's land ministry determines property values. bit.ly/443oWxA #固定資産税 #国土交通省 #不動産鑑定士
Fixed values
What’s it worth to you? As anyone who regularly reads this blog knows, we have issues with the Japanese media’s coverage of real estate prices, since they almost exclusively cover Tokyo…
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 2d
R.I.P. Tom Stoppard, playwright most famous for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia he fled his home during the Nazi occupation and found refuge in Britain at the age of eight. He later discovered all four of his grandparents had died in the Holocaust.
Sir Tom Stoppard, playwright famed for his wit and depth, dies at 88
Winning an Oscar for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love, he captivated the hearts of audiences for more than six decades.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 2d
The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.

Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.

They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has

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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 2d
We all had teacher like Mrs Nelson. This is a gentle reminder of the life lessons grown into

There is a great irony in the title, the wisdom being shared on the one day the poet was absent

The line ‘The English lesson was that I am is a complete sentence’ is a poem in itself

#poetry
#poemoftheday

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
It’s £3,000 in the UK for the equivalent. Which is ridiculous but nevertheless 491,000 people got the permit last year, so high cost is not the same as telling immigrants to fuck off.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
Pixies ahead of the competition with that blessed 6-7 meme

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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 3d
🌊🌾💨 Should we redirect more farm water to the drying Salton Sea to reduce harmful dust—despite the costs?
A new #JAERE study finds that the marginal social benefit of adding water to the Sea exceeds the agricultural marginal cost across all water-availability scenarios.
📊#JaereFigureFriday
🌎#EconSky

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
Yeh, but was the vote unagimous?

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 4d
Signatories to the Washington convention have voted to reject a proposal to restrict the trade of all eel species, including the Japanese eel.
International conference rejects blanket restriction on eel trade
The proposal was submitted by the European Union, which claimed that eel populations are declining mainly due to catches of eels for export.
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
The 臨海 park train enters the conversation
Rinkai park train

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RetireJapan @retirejapan.com · 4d
Are the good times over for UK citizens living abroad? Maybe.

All the details of changes coming in 2026 in our new blog post.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4d
Fascinating and chilling exploration of how an initially peaceful culture once imagined to have been Edenic apparently devolved into an orgy of violence—and then disappeared.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org

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Kosta Derpanis @csprofkgd.bsky.social · 4d
Statement by OpenReview on X

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 4d
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
Mmm. Japan, collectively, has a modal share well above half the cities in the “top 30”. Individual cities would rank still higher. Yet not a single city included. Personally I shall boycott Little Mermaid bakeries until the Copenhagen list is properly global. 🚴

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Economics at Southampton @sotonecon.bsky.social · 4d
Our department hosted a great seminar this week by my colleague @tfwerner.com titled "Experimental Evidence That Conversational AI Can Steer Consumer Behavior Without Detection". Eye-opening insights into conversational AI and consumer choices! #AIResearch #BehavioralEconomics #AcademicResearch

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Matthew Meyer (The Yokai Guy) @yokai.com · 5d
It's happened again... An e-commerce site called Tokyo Tiger has stolen my art and is selling t-shirts and putting ads on IG/X with my artwork.

Do not buy from them.

These are not licensed products. They are stolen.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
What setting should I use to safely clean my gold leaf Ohtani in the human washing machine?

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Ali Sheridan @alisheridan.bsky.social · 5d
Big development as the UK government rules out any new North Sea oil and gas exploration. A decision which recognises the ongoing movement away from fossil fuels and underscores the urgency of managing the transition in a planned and just way.

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6926de...

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Read Japanese Literature @readjapaneseliterature.com · 6d
I don’t want to undermine the economic blackout or We Ain’t Buying It campaign, so I’m releasing the 2026 New and Upcoming Japanese Fiction Releases list a little early this year. Please enjoy!

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Euronews @euronews.com · 6d
Margrethe Vestager, former European Commissioner for Competition, reacts to tense EU-US trade talks.

We asked the EU digital czar how she would handle this if she were still in office.

Watch #EuropeToday: https://l.euronews.com/QOyB

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d
Could I be any more surprised?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d
This is not a great argument because average stay by foreigners is only 6 days (JNTO). In other words you need to divide tourist numbers by 365/6 or about 61. Reported crime by Japanese is low and crime by foreign residents is possibly a bit higher but still very low. We are not a threat.

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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 7d
Now that we are likely to cross 1.5°C, there is increasing discussion on "overshoot".

There is a lot of uncertainties on overshoot, but there is one thing that we are 100% sure about:

GHG emissions need to go down >90% in decades for overshoot to be a reality.

www.swp-berlin.org/publikation/...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d
Ghosting is a real pain and feels increasingly common, but I would say that some journals have very out of date reviewer databases. People move jobs.

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Bartosz Bartkowski @bartoszbartk.com · 7d
I'm still relatively new to this journal associate editor business, but it already sucks… I've had a paper on my desk for more than a month now:

Reviewers invited: 12
Of those…
Declined: 5
No response: 7