Unlearning Economics
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)
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Unlearning Economics
I run the YouTube channel Unlearning Economics. I make videos analysing the economy and the economics profession from a critical perspective.
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This is the best type of article: reads vaguely like an Onion headline, but actually gives you a new insight into a big problem (cars)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Kids Who Get Driven Everywhere Don't Know Where They're Going
A new study suggests vehicular travel affects children's ability to navigate their neighborhood and connect to their community.
www.bloomberg.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This is the best type of article: reads vaguely like an Onion headline, but actually gives you a new insight into a big problem (cars)
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
*someone fails to unmute themselves before speaking*
Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder
*I fail to unmute myself before speaking*
Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz
Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder
*I fail to unmute myself before speaking*
Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz
December 22, 2025 at 3:48 AM
*someone fails to unmute themselves before speaking*
Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder
*I fail to unmute myself before speaking*
Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz
Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder
*I fail to unmute myself before speaking*
Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz
too many people cannot understand the difference between general skepticism + specific critiques of economic data; versus blanket rejection of them, usually from a position of complete ignorance
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I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?
I don't think this a particularly accurate description.
December 20, 2025 at 4:32 AM
too many people cannot understand the difference between general skepticism + specific critiques of economic data; versus blanket rejection of them, usually from a position of complete ignorance
bsky.app/profile/opin...
bsky.app/profile/opin...
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Here's a pretty incomplete list of YouTube channels owned or funded by private equity.
December 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Here's a pretty incomplete list of YouTube channels owned or funded by private equity.
Cars are another area where failure to invest publicly costs us down the line: road repairs, traffic, accidents, pollution, and state-subsidised car trips theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
How the UK’s dependency on cars slows down the economy
Clogged up Britain
theconversation.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Cars are another area where failure to invest publicly costs us down the line: road repairs, traffic, accidents, pollution, and state-subsidised car trips theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
Things are increasingly homogeneous and boring: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
www.experimental-history.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Things are increasingly homogeneous and boring: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
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I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response.
Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter
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Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter
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December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response.
Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter
1/N
Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter
1/N
Theres plenty of competition, but Douglas Murray is in the running for ‘most insufferable modern charlatan ’
www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...
Douglas Murray’s “Expertise” Is a Sham
In “On Democracies and Death Cults,” Murray offers a straightforward “good versus evil” account of the Israel-Palestine conflict. He does this by excluding every piece of information that undercuts hi...
www.currentaffairs.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Theres plenty of competition, but Douglas Murray is in the running for ‘most insufferable modern charlatan ’
www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...
I didn’t watch the 2022 World Cup and I’m not gonna watch the 2026 one either
December 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I didn’t watch the 2022 World Cup and I’m not gonna watch the 2026 one either
Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
How Kerala eliminated extreme poverty | Brookings
Jayant Menon and Vinod Thomas examine how Kerala nearly eliminated extreme poverty through sustained social investment, targeted safety nets, and community-led monitoring.
www.brookings.edu
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah.
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I'm not going to pretend these are bad films (I don't even mind the Woody film) but this doesn't exactly scream "voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema" so much as "dad who watches a lot of TNT."
December 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah.
bsky.app/profile/andr...
bsky.app/profile/andr...
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I'm kind of shocked by the idea that anyone mentioned here thinks that any of these statements provides meaningful/useful information comparable to the atomic structure of matter
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm kind of shocked by the idea that anyone mentioned here thinks that any of these statements provides meaningful/useful information comparable to the atomic structure of matter
When you get down to it, most mainstream economists are fundamentally pro-market, pro-growth, and individualistic in their outlooks
www.ft.com/content/e196...
www.ft.com/content/e196...
The essence of economics
Why write about markets at all?
www.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
When you get down to it, most mainstream economists are fundamentally pro-market, pro-growth, and individualistic in their outlooks
www.ft.com/content/e196...
www.ft.com/content/e196...
Anyone remember when the director of High Speed 1, Paul Charles, wrote a letter to the editor about High Speed 2 and how they'd gone wrong with the contracting process?
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Anyone remember when the director of High Speed 1, Paul Charles, wrote a letter to the editor about High Speed 2 and how they'd gone wrong with the contracting process?
Rebecca Watson is the GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...
So I'm in the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Rebecca Watson is the GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation"
h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Has Britain become an economic colony?
The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that may cost it dear
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation"
h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...
anyway this @unlearnecon.bsky.social interview is instructive as to the state of play in UK politics. it's very well might be Green vs Reform for the top spot in the next election youtu.be/sPugXPiTuHE...
Fixing the UK Economy - with @NoJusticeMTG
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
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November 24, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...
One thing that’s become blindingly obvious over the past year is that the right have no ideas whatsoever. All of the recent solid ideas have come from the left (and let’s say a few from the centre). This is why the right just can’t deliver on anything once in office and end up floundering.
November 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
One thing that’s become blindingly obvious over the past year is that the right have no ideas whatsoever. All of the recent solid ideas have come from the left (and let’s say a few from the centre). This is why the right just can’t deliver on anything once in office and end up floundering.
The main thing I've learned from starting a book club is that most contemporary books are kind of bad once you dissect them
November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The main thing I've learned from starting a book club is that most contemporary books are kind of bad once you dissect them
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a good while
November 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a good while
The main thing I’ve learned from my trip to Amsterdam is how similar the UK and Netherlands are. Both culturally reserved, a bit rainy, enjoy bland food, both early cradles of capitalism, and both wrestling with similar economic issues today - austerity, immigration, and wealth inequality.
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The main thing I’ve learned from my trip to Amsterdam is how similar the UK and Netherlands are. Both culturally reserved, a bit rainy, enjoy bland food, both early cradles of capitalism, and both wrestling with similar economic issues today - austerity, immigration, and wealth inequality.
