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December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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anti-reactionary modernism aktion
December 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Revisiting this excellent review of the new literature on old financial markets. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a longer view.
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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I'm ride-or-die ggplot2, but after seeing Grant demo tinyplot as a co-panelist as a very useful, lightweight, quick and easy replace for base R plot function, I've been using it for quick glances into data. It fixes a lot of the things that made base R plots annoying, e.g. legends. Highly recommend.
`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes.

Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

#rstats #dataviz
September 23, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Great new episode of UCLA Housing Voice podcast @shanedphillips.bsky.social, featuring @holz-bau.bsky.social on single-stairs & ecodistricts, and how they differ from TOD. Definitely worth the listen to learn more about these issues:
Episode 97: Single-Stair Buildings and Eco-Districts with Michael Eliason (Incentives Series, pt. 1) - UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies
We discuss Michael's recent book, Building for People, with a focus on single-stair building code reform and eco-district redevelopment.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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There's a lot to like in @samd.bsky.social's recent piece on housing policy under a future Zohran administration. Some thought/questions, in a spirit of dialogue. www.liberalcurrents.com/zohrans-5-st...
Zohran's 5-Step YIMBY Playbook to Fix New York's Housing Crisis
Mamdani made housing affordability and transit the centerpiece of his campaign. Here's everything he could do as mayor to move the needle.
www.liberalcurrents.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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One of the best on one of the best on one of the best!
August 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.
August 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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so okay! first piece out from me at Common Wealth

"Beyond Bidenomics: On what is living and what is dead in economic policy"

the argument is that progressives should take credit for the successful parts of the pandemic policy response and build the next Thing

www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...
Beyond Bidenomics | Perspectives
On what is living and what is dead in economic policy.
www.common-wealth.org
August 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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That doesn't mean blindly adopting the tools, it means asking how potential alliances change now that these tools are coming, it means re-evaluating where we can best save meaning from capitalism, it means asking serious questions about how we find (and make) potential for the good life in the bad
August 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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New issue of RP is out! As always, it’s a mix of different formats and there are some really great pieces in this edition.

Find it out all open access here. Below a quick overview and my special recommendation for Gillian Rose nerds!

1/3
Radical Philosophy issue 219 (Summer 2025)
Philosophical journal of the independent Left since 1972.
www.radicalphilosophy.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I do think it says something that whenever we ask ourselves questions like this, we get a jumble of 500 policies. What are the unifying concepts that explain why that agenda is cohesive and desirable? That tells us how and why to prioritize certain goals at certain times? That's what the right has.
The question to ask here is: What would a Democratic Miller even want? Stephen Miller has a crystal clear picture of the America he believes should exist in his head. It motivates him. It determines the policies he prioritizes and the strategies he chooses. What would be the Democratic equivalent?
I will note something I keep hearing from different lawyers, immigration activists, Dem operatives et al:

There is no Democratic Stephen miller . And that’s a problem
August 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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A new paper by Vincent Rollet at MIT replicates Li's 2022 finding that new construction reduces rents within a 500-foot radius in NYC vrollet.github.io/files/city_s...
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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🚨 Tariffs on inputs = tax on downstream products.🚨

Here’s cement’s granular production network. A 50% duty on key inputs propagates costs through roads, buildings, data-centres, and renewable infrastructure.

Public data, method & our paper in thread 🧵 0/8
July 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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New release for the HHP project. We now have rent and sales price indexes for 30 cities along with rental yields, capital gains, and housing returns for the years 1890-2006. Online data viz tools and download here:

www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-...
Historical Housing Prices Project
The Historical Housing Prices (HHP) Project at the Philadelphia Fed provides new data on the price of housing for sale and for rent over the 20th century using the real estate sections of historical n...
www.philadelphiafed.org
July 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🏭 Just accepted in #JAERE! 🏭
"On the Feasibility, Costs, and Benefits of an Immediate Phasedown of Coal for U.S. Electricity Generation" by Matthew J. Kotchen, Stephen P. Holland, Erin T. Mansur, and Andrew J. Yates.
Read it here: buff.ly/lIBbs3j
📈📉 #Econsky
July 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Earlier this week, we concluded our symposium on Sandeep Vaheesan's new book *Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States.*

ICYMI, here's a brief run-down of the five excellent posts in the series! 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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📣 Fresh "Spatial Economics for Granular Settings" at jdingel.com w/ new results:
- Analytical results about overfitting and idiosyncrasies in special cases
- SVD approximation is better than we realized
- Code for main-text exhibits at github.com/jdingel/Ding...
June 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Starting a little curated list of books on AI & Big Tech here!
Critical AI & Tech Books
Checkout out this list on Bookshop
bookshop.org
June 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Since Mamdani won the Dem NYC mayor nomination with a free bus proposal, let's talk about free transit.

Research suggests that free transit:
a—increases ridership
b—doesn't get people out of cars
c—benefits youth, elderly & low-income ppl
d—doesn't add employment
e—maybe ups operational efficiency
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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New article out in Capitalism:

“Making Money Modern: Keynesianism and the Search for Noninflationary Growth” - on the bailout state, rentierism, austerity, MMT, and Minsky’s Keynes.

DM or email if you can’t access but would like a copy!

muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
June 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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This whole section on the supply chain is really good (and specifically what the IEA is quite good at) - and also an amusing reminder of how severe the self-own was when big tech CEOs cuddled up to Donald Trump and are now facing tariff nightmares on their promised magic AI growth
April 28, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM