Andrew Lee
@andrewlee23.bsky.social
Economics professor in Germany. I spend my time teaching economics and supporting Bolton Wanderers, both thankless tasks.
Ah, the joys of Germans using made-up English phrases.
An interesting new hobby emerges in Germany, and British expats do a double take. Maybe one for Germany correspondents to look into @tomnuttall.bsky.social
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/hundet...
An interesting new hobby emerges in Germany, and British expats do a double take. Maybe one for Germany correspondents to look into @tomnuttall.bsky.social
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/hundet...
Hobby Dogging: ein neuer Trend? Trainerin will Gassigehen ohne Hund professionalisieren
Kommt nach dem Hobby Horsing das Hobby Dogging? Kann sein. Eine Trainerin will das Gassigehen ohne Hund jetzt professionalisieren.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Ah, the joys of Germans using made-up English phrases.
An interesting new hobby emerges in Germany, and British expats do a double take. Maybe one for Germany correspondents to look into @tomnuttall.bsky.social
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/hundet...
An interesting new hobby emerges in Germany, and British expats do a double take. Maybe one for Germany correspondents to look into @tomnuttall.bsky.social
www.sueddeutsche.de/leben/hundet...
Oh my word, this is massive for European and in particular Swiss academia. What a coup for @econ.uzh.ch
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.
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October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Oh my word, this is massive for European and in particular Swiss academia. What a coup for @econ.uzh.ch
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"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
September 26, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"experts say"
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...
30 C and blue sky in SW Germany, Bolton smashing Wigan 4-1 in NW England and one of the very few times that I actually *enjoyed* watching a match as opposed to suffering through it/anxiously checking my watch/pacing the living room. This is the life.
COYW! #bwfc
COYW! #bwfc
September 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM
30 C and blue sky in SW Germany, Bolton smashing Wigan 4-1 in NW England and one of the very few times that I actually *enjoyed* watching a match as opposed to suffering through it/anxiously checking my watch/pacing the living room. This is the life.
COYW! #bwfc
COYW! #bwfc
Honoured to be quoted along with an economist I very much admire, @jdportes.bsky.social, in an article about the current state of the UK economy in the leading German weekly Die Zeit.
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
Labour-Regierung in Großbritannien: Wachstum, verzweifelt gesucht
Keir Starmer versprach den Briten einen Aufschwung. Doch seine Labour-Regierung wirkt planlos und getrieben von den Rechten. Warum ihr kaum Handlungsspielraum bleibt.
www.zeit.de
July 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Honoured to be quoted along with an economist I very much admire, @jdportes.bsky.social, in an article about the current state of the UK economy in the leading German weekly Die Zeit.
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
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Germany getting its political and economic act together (with Merz at the helm!!) on the same day BWFC crush the league leaders leads me to ponder two questions:
- What on earth is going on?
- What is this strange feeling commonly known as optimism?
- What on earth is going on?
- What is this strange feeling commonly known as optimism?
March 5, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Germany getting its political and economic act together (with Merz at the helm!!) on the same day BWFC crush the league leaders leads me to ponder two questions:
- What on earth is going on?
- What is this strange feeling commonly known as optimism?
- What on earth is going on?
- What is this strange feeling commonly known as optimism?
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When Europe threw in its lot with America it always suspected one president might turn its back on the alliance. But we assumed the establishment—especially senators from the president's party—would hem a rogue president in.
That's the surprise really. The total moral cowardice of GOP senators.
That's the surprise really. The total moral cowardice of GOP senators.
March 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
When Europe threw in its lot with America it always suspected one president might turn its back on the alliance. But we assumed the establishment—especially senators from the president's party—would hem a rogue president in.
That's the surprise really. The total moral cowardice of GOP senators.
That's the surprise really. The total moral cowardice of GOP senators.
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I think what makes this moment feel so big and groundbreaking is that even those among us who have been talking about the need/danger of a Europe without the US for a long time, were usually in the mindset of a US disinterested in Europe. But not a US actively hostile to Europe& European interests.
March 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I think what makes this moment feel so big and groundbreaking is that even those among us who have been talking about the need/danger of a Europe without the US for a long time, were usually in the mindset of a US disinterested in Europe. But not a US actively hostile to Europe& European interests.
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NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
February 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
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Yeah seems pretty obvious to me that this huge gender divide in the politics of young people is being driven by men's rights / manosphere videos that act as a gateway into alt right politics.
February 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Yeah seems pretty obvious to me that this huge gender divide in the politics of young people is being driven by men's rights / manosphere videos that act as a gateway into alt right politics.
Privileged and honoured to vote in probably the most significant German election since the 2nd world war.
For some reason, I can’t get the Fine Young Cannibals out of my head today:
“There’s no denying
Life would be better if I never ever had to live with you
Blue - it’s a colour so cruel”
For some reason, I can’t get the Fine Young Cannibals out of my head today:
“There’s no denying
Life would be better if I never ever had to live with you
Blue - it’s a colour so cruel”
February 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Privileged and honoured to vote in probably the most significant German election since the 2nd world war.
For some reason, I can’t get the Fine Young Cannibals out of my head today:
“There’s no denying
Life would be better if I never ever had to live with you
Blue - it’s a colour so cruel”
For some reason, I can’t get the Fine Young Cannibals out of my head today:
“There’s no denying
Life would be better if I never ever had to live with you
Blue - it’s a colour so cruel”
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Trump has little leverage over Ukraine.They’ll fight because they don’t want to be exterminated.
Nordics Baltics and Poland will support UA.They can’t let Russia grab its resources and men.
W Europe has a choice tomorrow: run from UA and split the EU, or back them and save its honour and security.
Nordics Baltics and Poland will support UA.They can’t let Russia grab its resources and men.
W Europe has a choice tomorrow: run from UA and split the EU, or back them and save its honour and security.
“Ukrainian officials will not attend Russia-US talks to be held in Saudi Arabia in the coming days, the BBC has learned. A government source tells BBC News that Ukraine has not been invited and will not send a delegation” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...
Ukraine not attending US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, government source tells BBC
Elsewhere, European leaders are preparing for an emergency summit in France as the continent responds to US moves on Ukraine.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Trump has little leverage over Ukraine.They’ll fight because they don’t want to be exterminated.
Nordics Baltics and Poland will support UA.They can’t let Russia grab its resources and men.
W Europe has a choice tomorrow: run from UA and split the EU, or back them and save its honour and security.
Nordics Baltics and Poland will support UA.They can’t let Russia grab its resources and men.
W Europe has a choice tomorrow: run from UA and split the EU, or back them and save its honour and security.
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1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there *still* no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?
February 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
1/ Europe at Munich Security Conference looked like deer in Trump administration's headlights. How have we got this far without a concrete European plan for Ukraine to put on table? How is there *still* no proper consensus among major EU governments (+UK) on how far Europe is willing to step up?
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Like other economists I'm being asked to comment on Trump tariffs.
We should do so - it's our job.
But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/c26b...
We should do so - it's our job.
But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/c26b...
February 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Like other economists I'm being asked to comment on Trump tariffs.
We should do so - it's our job.
But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/c26b...
We should do so - it's our job.
But first we should make the point stated eloquently here by @alanbeattie.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/c26b...
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My Trade Secrets today. The tariffs are crazy and illogical, and there's not much in their way. (Not the courts, not Congress, certainly not the Democrats. Maybe markets and the economy.)
But the real nightmare is the seizure of the state by the likes of Elon Musk.
on.ft.com/3EnZZ60
But the real nightmare is the seizure of the state by the likes of Elon Musk.
on.ft.com/3EnZZ60
Trump’s cataclysmic damage is going way beyond tariffs
[FREE TO READ] The functioning of US government is facing a systemic crisis
on.ft.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My Trade Secrets today. The tariffs are crazy and illogical, and there's not much in their way. (Not the courts, not Congress, certainly not the Democrats. Maybe markets and the economy.)
But the real nightmare is the seizure of the state by the likes of Elon Musk.
on.ft.com/3EnZZ60
But the real nightmare is the seizure of the state by the likes of Elon Musk.
on.ft.com/3EnZZ60
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A certain hysteria has overtaken Germany in the last week and it's rather unnerving.
February 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
A certain hysteria has overtaken Germany in the last week and it's rather unnerving.
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As a very proud former USAID staffer, I reject this filthy, false, insane statement.
This person’s powers must be immediately abrogated.
This person’s powers must be immediately abrogated.
February 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
As a very proud former USAID staffer, I reject this filthy, false, insane statement.
This person’s powers must be immediately abrogated.
This person’s powers must be immediately abrogated.
My claim to fame: I went to school with Julian Darby. OK, he was in the 5th form when I was in the 1st and he wouldn’t know me from Adam, but still. He was the talk of the school back then.
Absolutely delighted for him, he’s Bolton through and through and always has been. #bwfc
Absolutely delighted for him, he’s Bolton through and through and always has been. #bwfc
January 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
My claim to fame: I went to school with Julian Darby. OK, he was in the 5th form when I was in the 1st and he wouldn’t know me from Adam, but still. He was the talk of the school back then.
Absolutely delighted for him, he’s Bolton through and through and always has been. #bwfc
Absolutely delighted for him, he’s Bolton through and through and always has been. #bwfc
Is there anything more irrational than being a football fan? You spend so much of your week reading news and analyses, listening to podcasts, etc, yet the 90 minutes are rarely enjoyable as you’re too nervous. And then you have days like these when irrationality is taken to another level #bwfc
January 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Is there anything more irrational than being a football fan? You spend so much of your week reading news and analyses, listening to podcasts, etc, yet the 90 minutes are rarely enjoyable as you’re too nervous. And then you have days like these when irrationality is taken to another level #bwfc