Angus Armstrong
@angusarmstrong.bsky.social
Director of Rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk and Research Professor at Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL.
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Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK
2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc
3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
November 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.”
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com.
✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
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Exciting times ahead at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social this academic year.
Bringing a dose of Cambridge Social Ontology into the policy world, let’s see what unfolds! ✨🙌🤓
#ontology #economics @angusarmstrong.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Bringing a dose of Cambridge Social Ontology into the policy world, let’s see what unfolds! ✨🙌🤓
#ontology #economics @angusarmstrong.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Exciting times ahead at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social this academic year.
Bringing a dose of Cambridge Social Ontology into the policy world, let’s see what unfolds! ✨🙌🤓
#ontology #economics @angusarmstrong.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Bringing a dose of Cambridge Social Ontology into the policy world, let’s see what unfolds! ✨🙌🤓
#ontology #economics @angusarmstrong.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Adam Smith is an economics legend, but what gets left out of modern conversations about this iconic thinker? Philosopher Eric Schliesser (@nescio13.bsky.social) unpacks Smith’s overlooked views on inequality and concentrated political power. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/3YdiCkj
August 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Adam Smith is an economics legend, but what gets left out of modern conversations about this iconic thinker? Philosopher Eric Schliesser (@nescio13.bsky.social) unpacks Smith’s overlooked views on inequality and concentrated political power. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/3YdiCkj
Wonderful workshop @sfiscience.bsky.social on Structural Transformation in Complex Systems in energy transition.
February 19, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Wonderful workshop @sfiscience.bsky.social on Structural Transformation in Complex Systems in energy transition.
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Good news in the North-east! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sunderland Lit and Phil Society relaunches after 150 years - BBC News
The founder believes Sunderland needs "to take ownership of where we're going culturally".
www.bbc.co.uk
February 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Good news in the North-east! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Great work by Lagakos, Michalopoulos, and Voth on personal narratives from 1930s to ask what gives people meaning. Work and community top the list. Neither enters economists' understanding of well-being directly. A big blind spot in how we evaluate policy impacts. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ej7c...
January 22, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Great work by Lagakos, Michalopoulos, and Voth on personal narratives from 1930s to ask what gives people meaning. Work and community top the list. Neither enters economists' understanding of well-being directly. A big blind spot in how we evaluate policy impacts. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ej7c...
It is difficult to listen to two US Presidents claiming credit for a ceasefire which could have happened long ago had they really wanted it.
January 20, 2025 at 9:36 AM
It is difficult to listen to two US Presidents claiming credit for a ceasefire which could have happened long ago had they really wanted it.
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My latest interview @bloomberglp.bsky.social
Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration.
Thanks @ferrotv.bsky.social @lisaabramowicz.bsky.social
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Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration.
Thanks @ferrotv.bsky.social @lisaabramowicz.bsky.social
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January 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My latest interview @bloomberglp.bsky.social
Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration.
Thanks @ferrotv.bsky.social @lisaabramowicz.bsky.social
x.com/bsurveillanc...
Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration.
Thanks @ferrotv.bsky.social @lisaabramowicz.bsky.social
x.com/bsurveillanc...
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With higher gilt yields fuelling talk of the need for tighter fiscal policy, here's one I wrote earlier on how fiscal conservatism is in theory compatible with radical economic policy elsewhere: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
Fiscal conservatism, economic radicalism
Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out significant rises in public spending under a Labour government. He's partly right. What his supporters and many critics fail to appreciate, however, is that a tight fisc...
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January 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
With higher gilt yields fuelling talk of the need for tighter fiscal policy, here's one I wrote earlier on how fiscal conservatism is in theory compatible with radical economic policy elsewhere: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_an...
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Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
January 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
January 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
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It’s impossible not to know what’s happening in Gaza. Article by two prominent Israeli economists Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza | Opinion
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www.haaretz.com
December 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
It’s impossible not to know what’s happening in Gaza. Article by two prominent Israeli economists Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
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Daily background noise. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Children among 58 killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, say medics
Victims reported to include six people escorting aid convoy, and eight in tent encampment in humanitarian zone
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Daily background noise. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
December 22, 2024 at 3:41 PM
After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
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NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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Our December Newsletter is here 👇
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December 9, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Our December Newsletter is here 👇
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Our December Newsletter is here 👇
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December 9, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Our December Newsletter is here 👇
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Very enjoyable and stimulating evening with @michael.muthukrishna.com discussing his great book ‘A Theory of Everyone’ at the inaugural IGP Book Club at The Gilded Acorn bookshop. Thank you Michael.
December 7, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Very enjoyable and stimulating evening with @michael.muthukrishna.com discussing his great book ‘A Theory of Everyone’ at the inaugural IGP Book Club at The Gilded Acorn bookshop. Thank you Michael.
Very much looking forward to hosting this event!
I'm giving the last public book talk & signing of the year tomorrow (Thursday Dec 5) at the Institute for Global Prosperity Book Club, Gilded Acorn at 6:30pm.
The discussion will be hosted by Angus Armstrong. Hope to see you there!
@angusarmstrong.bsky.social
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The discussion will be hosted by Angus Armstrong. Hope to see you there!
@angusarmstrong.bsky.social
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IGP Book Club — Fast Forward 2030
Join us at IGP BookClub: A Theory of Everyone as we dive into the pages of this captivating story together!
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December 4, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Very much looking forward to hosting this event!
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Hi #EconSky,
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Hi #EconSky,
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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10 Great Books on Institutions and Economics (Nobel Special)
1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance - Douglass North
A foundational work in institutional analysis, explaining institutions from first principles and explaining their development through time.
1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance - Douglass North
A foundational work in institutional analysis, explaining institutions from first principles and explaining their development through time.
November 23, 2024 at 10:15 AM
10 Great Books on Institutions and Economics (Nobel Special)
1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance - Douglass North
A foundational work in institutional analysis, explaining institutions from first principles and explaining their development through time.
1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance - Douglass North
A foundational work in institutional analysis, explaining institutions from first principles and explaining their development through time.
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if you haven't already, it's well worth reading this piece by @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the politics of inflation and the need for a toolbox that contains more than just interest rate hikes: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/o...
Opinion | The Lesson of This Election: We Must Stop Inflation Before It Starts
Our nation needs an economic disaster preparedness tool kit to avoid the scourge of inflation.
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:27 PM
if you haven't already, it's well worth reading this piece by @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the politics of inflation and the need for a toolbox that contains more than just interest rate hikes: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/o...
Looking forward to reading this. As Peter Garber used to say, ratio of good banks to bad banks that have runs approaches zero.
🔥Bank runs don’t cause banking crises; they’re the symptom🔥 Emil Verner joins the show to discuss his research that finds historically it was bad fundamentals, not panics, that brought banks down. In this clip, we discuss why the Diamond-Dybvig model remains popular despite being ahistorical (1/2)
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Looking forward to reading this. As Peter Garber used to say, ratio of good banks to bad banks that have runs approaches zero.