Erin Hengel
@erinhengel.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics at Brunel University of London and Ken Arrow stan. She/her
The Erasure of American Working Women www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | The Erasure of American Working Women
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October 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The Erasure of American Working Women www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
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The judge said Cook had made a strong argument that her “purported removal was done in violation of the Federal Reserve Act’s ‘for cause’ provision.”
Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Firing Of Fed Governor Lisa Cook
The judge said Cook had made a strong argument that her “purported removal was done in violation of the Federal Reserve Act’s ‘for cause’ provision.”
www.forbes.com
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The judge said Cook had made a strong argument that her “purported removal was done in violation of the Federal Reserve Act’s ‘for cause’ provision.”
"So if you want to know why markets aren’t reacting to the risk of very bad policy if Trump takes over the Fed, you should know that major market reactions to that kind of risk are rare. In fact, I can’t come up with a single example."
Ackshually, Liz Truss's "mini budget" is a pretty good example.
Ackshually, Liz Truss's "mini budget" is a pretty good example.
Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out?
Of Trump, Keynes and Wile E. Coyote
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September 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
"So if you want to know why markets aren’t reacting to the risk of very bad policy if Trump takes over the Fed, you should know that major market reactions to that kind of risk are rare. In fact, I can’t come up with a single example."
Ackshually, Liz Truss's "mini budget" is a pretty good example.
Ackshually, Liz Truss's "mini budget" is a pretty good example.
"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – higher education is an endeavour that is profoundly unsuited to very rapid expansion and very rapid contraction at programme, subject and institutional level."
wonkhe.com/blogs/beware...
wonkhe.com/blogs/beware...
Beware the sharing issue in the depths of the higher education iceberg
Jim Dickinson explores the hidden depths of the higher education iceberg - from misconceptions about value to the quiet crisis of overstretched resources and shrinking provision Jim Dickinson explores...
wonkhe.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – higher education is an endeavour that is profoundly unsuited to very rapid expansion and very rapid contraction at programme, subject and institutional level."
wonkhe.com/blogs/beware...
wonkhe.com/blogs/beware...
'You get a much better economic policy outcomes if you actually do economic analysis, including tedious ideas about deadweight loss and consumer surplus, than if you do policy on the basis of vibes, naming villains, and hand-waving about “power.”'
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Ride-sharing apps are good, actually
The real "cautionary tale" is that the old taxi cartels were bad
open.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
'You get a much better economic policy outcomes if you actually do economic analysis, including tedious ideas about deadweight loss and consumer surplus, than if you do policy on the basis of vibes, naming villains, and hand-waving about “power.”'
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...
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My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
Wokeness: a Retrospective
In recent times my online sphere has had a fair few people make the claim that, in some sense, the culture has moved on from Woke. The d...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com
August 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My Retrospective on Wokeness in detail! Blogs are for just saying stuff, after all. So here is my attempt to say what was distinctive (if anything) about a recent era of socio-cultural life, what (if anything) changed, and what (if anything) was to the good
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/08/woke...
The crisis of expertise is about values
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
The crisis of expertise is about values
There's more to life than facts and science
www.slowboring.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
The crisis of expertise is about values
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
www.slowboring.com/p/the-crisis...
Dear Marc Andreessen. There are 8 Ivy League universities. Assuming each admits 1700 students a year, that means only 13,600 OUT OF AN ESTIMATED 4 MILLION high school seniors are going to an Ivy League university next year.
July 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Dear Marc Andreessen. There are 8 Ivy League universities. Assuming each admits 1700 students a year, that means only 13,600 OUT OF AN ESTIMATED 4 MILLION high school seniors are going to an Ivy League university next year.
TIL that Year 1 tuition fees at the private school near my house are 20% higher than uni tuition fees.
July 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
TIL that Year 1 tuition fees at the private school near my house are 20% higher than uni tuition fees.