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Santiago Sanchez-Pages
@sanpages.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at King's College London. Specialises in Political Economy and Experimental Economics. Editor @nadaesgratis.bsky.social. Author of 'The Representation of Economics in Cinema'. Proud citizen of nowhere. https://www.sanchezpages.com/
"The Soviet soldier is the cheapest soldier there is [...] Unequipped and unprotected. Expendable. The same way it was in 1941... It'll be the same in 50 years time."
- Boys in Zinc (1989), by Svetlana Aleixievich
November 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Remember: autocrats never lose arguments. They just change the conversation.
November 8, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If misoginy could be transformed into energy, we’d solve the energy crisis overnight.
Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
“la brecha de género en el hogar persiste más allá de los años de crianza, incluso cuando los hijos ya son adultos y las necesidades de cuidado se reducen (y cuando ellos mismos podrían contribuir también a las tareas de la casa).”
November 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM
¿De verdad era tan malo el Botànic?
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Yet another desk rejection:

“A full review would only delay a negative outcome, which wouldn’t serve you well.”

Do you know what would serve me well? Referee reports. Even negative ones. Feedback is how we improve.
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
We've all seen it on #econtwitter: "Thrilled to share my paper was accepted at [journal]!" or "Humbled to receive [grant] among thousands of applicants..."

Does all this (humble)bragging actually affect productivity? @cubel.bsky.social, Ann-Kathrin Koessler and I ran an experiment to find out 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
40 million Bluesky users
Blueskyユーザー4,000万人
40 milhões de usuários Bluesky
40 Millionen Bluesky-Benutzer
40 millones de usuarios de Bluesky

🎉 bsky.jazco.dev/stats
October 31, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We've all seen it on #econtwitter: "Thrilled to share my paper was accepted at [journal]!" or "Humbled to receive [grant] among thousands of applicants..."

Does all this (humble)bragging actually affect productivity? @cubel.bsky.social, Ann-Kathrin Koessler and I ran an experiment to find out 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
“AENA no falta a la verdad, pero practica una selección parcial de los datos; entre varias métricas posibles, elige la más benigna para la foto y el mensaje que pretende transmitir. ofrece una cifra equívoca e interesada y elude la crítica de fondo a la prevista ampliación de la capacidad.”
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Classic sci-fi: post-scarcity is BAD
October 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
How exposed is the USS pension fund to investments in AI? #askingforafriend
October 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not the type of home improvement a guy who thinks he will leave the White House in 2028 would undertake.
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Trump isn’t planning on ever leaving the White House.

That doesn’t mean he isn’t leaving—one way or another—but it’s clear he’s not planning on it.
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
No se si es mas preocupante que sea tonto o que se lo haga.
#EnDirecto | Feijóo dice que las horas trabajadas en España "han caído un 8,9% desde 2018" y pide "que valga la pena volver a trabajar": "Es decir, que hemos bajado la productividad. Hay más de 2 millones de trabajadores que desean trabajar más horas"
October 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If the EU still exists by then, we will see a rapprochement once Brexiteers are biologically gone.
This in FT this morning 👇
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
"PowerPoints that no one will read, filled with metrics that do not matter for decisions already taken"
October 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
Hoy, en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social publicamos un texto de @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social sobre la imposibilidad de que las politicas de disuasion migratoria sean efectivas.
nadaesgratis.es/admin/por-qu...
¿Por qué nadie consigue detener las pateras?
Por Apurav Bhatiya. La migración irregular es uno de los temas más politizados de Europa. Aunque la mayoría de las personas migrantes llega por vías legales, los cruces maritimos, ya sea por el Medite...
nadaesgratis.es
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Hoy, en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social publicamos un texto de @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social sobre la imposibilidad de que las politicas de disuasion migratoria sean efectivas.
nadaesgratis.es/admin/por-qu...
¿Por qué nadie consigue detener las pateras?
Por Apurav Bhatiya. La migración irregular es uno de los temas más politizados de Europa. Aunque la mayoría de las personas migrantes llega por vías legales, los cruces maritimos, ya sea por el Medite...
nadaesgratis.es
October 16, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Reposted by Santiago Sanchez-Pages
“Quien ha soportado dificultades extremas, no se va a frenar por amenazas de detención, deportacióno cárcel. La disuasión, como estrategia de política migratoria, está condenada a fallar: nunca podrá competir con la esperanza.”
October 16, 2025 at 5:28 AM