Liz McFall
@allartmarkets.bsky.social
Professor in the Sociology of Markets, University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social | sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, architecture, cities | EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
still naming your naval patrol ships WBYeats, James Joyce and George Bernard Shaw is bold [very Mac unfraidhy] on.ft.com/4oUYBKp
black dog for black dog
November 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
black dog for black dog
A queue of huge things in western harbour
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A queue of huge things in western harbour
Kind of intriguing that’s it’s PE linked insurers that seem heaviest holders of private letter ratings. If you were worried about the ratings arbitrage that might be funding AI data centre boom bubble this is a place to start.
November 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Kind of intriguing that’s it’s PE linked insurers that seem heaviest holders of private letter ratings. If you were worried about the ratings arbitrage that might be funding AI data centre boom bubble this is a place to start.
One day, in the far future people will realise that big sheds are made of insurance 💷
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
One day, in the far future people will realise that big sheds are made of insurance 💷
see this, I am literally in the pink and from that snapshot you'd never guess I'd lost myself in metaphor knots by way of Roland Barthes' Panzani ad all the way to why we ever started talking about cultural economy when the correct answer was either a. coffee or b. anchovies or c. an avocado wrap
October 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
see this, I am literally in the pink and from that snapshot you'd never guess I'd lost myself in metaphor knots by way of Roland Barthes' Panzani ad all the way to why we ever started talking about cultural economy when the correct answer was either a. coffee or b. anchovies or c. an avocado wrap
American Gothic, Mill of Meanie, Trump resistance chapter 2010, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
October 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
American Gothic, Mill of Meanie, Trump resistance chapter 2010, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
it's been over 20 years since I submitted an abstract to the BSA and already I'm exasperated by the process. THERE ARE NO FAVOURITES in my head
October 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
it's been over 20 years since I submitted an abstract to the BSA and already I'm exasperated by the process. THERE ARE NO FAVOURITES in my head
I posted a thing on LinkedIn - which is not like me - about an event @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social on insurance in the polycrises earlier this summer. 🧐 Greta Krippner, @maijutanninen.bsky.social @rfelliott.bsky.social ++ taking the view on an insurance city www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...
September 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I posted a thing on LinkedIn - which is not like me - about an event @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social on insurance in the polycrises earlier this summer. 🧐 Greta Krippner, @maijutanninen.bsky.social @rfelliott.bsky.social ++ taking the view on an insurance city www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...
It is completely valid to make keto soda bread when you’re reeeeally trying to meet a deadline by avoidance. I have not eaten bread for a very long time but this tastes like the actual
September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
It is completely valid to make keto soda bread when you’re reeeeally trying to meet a deadline by avoidance. I have not eaten bread for a very long time but this tastes like the actual
Tirane’s beautiful airport and its 4 euro achey 59 yo knee tea. I’m not ready to return to semester or the world
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Tirane’s beautiful airport and its 4 euro achey 59 yo knee tea. I’m not ready to return to semester or the world
More things to like in Tirane
September 6, 2025 at 10:32 AM
More things to like in Tirane
I mean look at it this way, that’s a face of a building
September 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I mean look at it this way, that’s a face of a building
Or it could be the sun and all the kindness but
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Or it could be the sun and all the kindness but
I think there’s maybe something about a place that’s suffered as much as Albania and come back with such architectural swagger and charm that makes me feel this
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I think there’s maybe something about a place that’s suffered as much as Albania and come back with such architectural swagger and charm that makes me feel this
This is the most fun I’ve had writing a thing in a long time. From super sheds to the private equity nexus and catastrophic risk. ( #insurance all the way down)
September 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
This is the most fun I’ve had writing a thing in a long time. From super sheds to the private equity nexus and catastrophic risk. ( #insurance all the way down)
On the beach @jcultecon.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 AM
On the beach @jcultecon.bsky.social
Watching the Tirana storm from a position of safety while writing about super sheds and environmental insurance PE nexus meltdown.
August 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Watching the Tirana storm from a position of safety while writing about super sheds and environmental insurance PE nexus meltdown.
My um, Albanian storms are a lot more than an upturned wheelie bin
August 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
My um, Albanian storms are a lot more than an upturned wheelie bin
Incidentally I landed on Berle & Means via this Bill Maurer which he must’ve written when he was about 12. It is SO good I can’t decide what to think about it, this is something that happens …
July 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Incidentally I landed on Berle & Means via this Bill Maurer which he must’ve written when he was about 12. It is SO good I can’t decide what to think about it, this is something that happens …
July’s delay-repay lands in lockerbie where enough of the passengers hit the Royal pub to cause a last minute rescue of a missing elder drinker when the train got the all clear 80 minutes late
July 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
July’s delay-repay lands in lockerbie where enough of the passengers hit the Royal pub to cause a last minute rescue of a missing elder drinker when the train got the all clear 80 minutes late
Clean safe monorails would whizz through the city.. on a track way above the people atop a network of mesh ready to catch any suicidal jumpers in a ‘resilient wire hammock’ #MiltonKeynes Fred pooley’s vision via guy ortonalo 2019
July 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Clean safe monorails would whizz through the city.. on a track way above the people atop a network of mesh ready to catch any suicidal jumpers in a ‘resilient wire hammock’ #MiltonKeynes Fred pooley’s vision via guy ortonalo 2019