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Anton Muscatelli
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Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow. Chair, Royal Economic Society. Economist. President, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Inter Milan fan. Opinions mine.
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holyroodmag.bsky.social
Scottish Labour will this morning publish a report on regional economic growth by former Glasgow University principal Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli www.holyrood.com/news/view,an...
Anas Sarwar: Muscatelli report will stop Scottish politics being an ‘economics-free zone’
Scottish Labour vows to 'push power out' of Holyrood and into communities
www.holyrood.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
As Brazil prepares to welcome global leaders for COP30, research led by Prof Joao Porto de Albequerque @uofgussp.bsky.social is aiming to reduce climate change impacts on health and wellbeing in the country’s favela urban communities.

More: gla.ac/3LJDhbW
A densely packed hillside community with many small, colorful houses built closely together, surrounded by scattered trees and greenery
November 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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pugliaguys.bsky.social
This olive tree in the heart of Puglia’s Piana degli Ulivi Monumentali (the Plain of the Monumental Olive Trees — a landscape that stretches between Ostuni, Fasano, Monopoli and Carovigno) is over 1,600 years old.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Puglia
October 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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replicatedtypo.bsky.social
It was cool to see that Mokyr got the Nobel in economics. @antonhowes.bsky.social has a nice write up here: www.ageofinvention.xyz/p/age-of-inv...
Age of Invention: Joel Mokyr's Nobel
A triumph for history and the importance of ideas
www.ageofinvention.xyz
October 14, 2025 at 7:47 AM
antonmuscatelli.bsky.social
It will be a difficult Monday (tomorrow) on the global financial markets as they try to decode what happens next. Starting when Asian markets open tonight…

Via @FT “China blames Trump and US for escalating trade war”
October 12, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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uoe-llc.bsky.social
"Every country has its scapegoats... David Rizzio became one of Scotland’s most haunting."

Read Dr Emanuela Patti's timely piece on why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary was a political scapegoat in @scotsman.com

www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Why Mary Queen of Scots' murdered private secretary David Rizzio was a political scapegoat
History shows that political anger is often channelled towards outsiders, a pattern that is being repeated today
www.scotsman.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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jameschalmers.bsky.social
An in memoriam piece by @fionaleverick.bsky.social and me for the incomparable Sir Gerald Gordon, who died last week at the age of 96: www.uofgschooloflaw.co.uk/blog/2025/9/...
Sir Gerald Gordon CBE KC LLD HonFRSE: in memoriam — University of Glasgow School of Law Blog
Sir Gerald Gordon, who died recently at the age of 96, made an extraordinary contribution to the criminal law of Scotland during his lifetime. Born and educated in Glasgow, where he graduated in philo...
www.uofgschooloflaw.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
'Over the last 16 years, it’s really been the greatest privilege to lead this remarkable institution.’

UofG Principal @uofgvc.bsky.social shares a message ahead of his retirement next week. 
 
‌‌Anton reflects on his time at UofG and thanks the community for all their hard work and support.
Prof Sir Anton Muscatelli's message for the UofG community
YouTube video by University of Glasgow
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September 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
(2/2)

So what *should* the government do? Some suggestions from me & colleagues ( @uofgvc.bsky.social @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @elerianm.bsky.social, Jim O'Neill, Gus O'Donnell) here:

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The only route to fiscal sustainability lies in finding a more sustainable growth model for the economy as a whole. This will not be achieved without a significant further increase in public investment. On the current trajectory, public investment is set to remain flat as a share of GDP over the course of this Parliament, substantially lower than both the OECD and the UK’s own post-war averages. Having set out clear priorities across the missions, the Industrial Strategy and the Ten Year Infrastructure Plan, the government must now invest in these at the higher level needed to provide the foundations for a credible, serious plan for growth. To deliver the stability you have rightly emphasised, you must find additional tax revenue at the coming Budget. There are progressive, pro-growth options available if the government is willing to undertake more fundamental reforms to the tax system. Above all, the tax and pension system needs to be rebalanced so that better-off older people, especially those with substantial property and pension wealth, make a much larger contribution to addressing the fiscal pressures that result from increasing spend on the NHS, social care and pensions. These and other pressures on public spending must also be managed in a more sustainable way.
September 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
As @benzaranko.bsky.social argues here, the fiscal constraints -and the resulting requirement for tax rises - the government faces are not the result of either the fiscal rules or the OBR, but simply reflect economic realities. (1/2)

observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Remember, remember Liz Truss this November | The Observer
Three years after the former PM sparked an economic crisis, here’s how the chancellor can avoid the same mistakes
observer.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
11am Student Representative Council President reads from
We Lived Happily During the War
BY ILYA KAMINSKY
“And when they bombed other people's houses, we
protested
but not enough, we opposed them but not
enough.” @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgunescorila.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
9am Chief Stand Up Comic and Exquisite University Gardener, Davie, tells the never finishable story of the peace tree and his work trying new things and learning with @uofglasgow.bsky.social grounds
Two men taking in a circule at a circular bench
September 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
A song from Guatemala and an Eritrean Coffee Ceremony

Peace work with women at 8am
Kettle on stove by Olive tree with Eritrean coffee pot
September 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
Dawn

Today we inaugurate the Peace Bench, round the Peace Tree @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Reflections with and for the whole University Community - from the youngest in our Nursery to those serving the longest.

A yearning for peace in our heart, lives and universe.

@uofgunescorila.bsky.social
Circular bench in dawn light
September 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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alisonphipps.bsky.social
10am “If wars are made in the minds of people then it’s in the minds of people that the defences of peace must be constructed” @unesco

The outgoing Principal speaking and joining the coffee ceremony and dedication @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social
Group of people at olive tree
September 22, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Very good explainer by @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social on the UK's productivity underperformance vs the US - exaggerated but real.

www.thetimes.com/article/54cd...
America is leaving the UK economy behind. How can we catch up?
The UK’s productivity gains are poor, while the US economy has proved more resilient to the economic shocks of the past two decades
www.thetimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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jdportes.bsky.social
Higher investment, sustainable spending, raise taxes/reform pensions so better-off older people pay their share.

Advice for the Chancellor from Gus O'Donnell, @mazzucatom.bsky.social, Jim O'Neill, @uofgvc.bsky.social @elerianm.bsky.social, @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social & me.

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To deliver the stability you have rightly emphasised, you must find additional tax revenue at the coming Budget. There are progressive, pro-growth options available if the government is willing to undertake more fundamental reforms to the tax system. Above all, the tax and pension system needs to be rebalanced so that better-off older people, especially those with substantial property and pension wealth, make a much larger contribution to addressing the fiscal pressures that result from increasing spend on the NHS, social care and pensions. These and other pressures on public spending must also be managed in a more sustainable way.
September 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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investinbritain.bsky.social
Some of the UK’s most distinguished economists have written to the Chancellor warning that fiscal sustainability will not be achieved “without a significant further increase in public investment” to drive economic growth: www.thetimes.com/article/5acc...
Policymakers urge Rachel Reeves to tax ‘better-off older people’
Economists and academics tell the chancellor to stabilise the public finances by boosting investment with levies on wealth and stamp duty reform
www.thetimes.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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investinbritain.bsky.social
The letter was signed by: Lord Gus O’Donnell, Lord Jim O’Neill, Professor @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @elerianm.bsky.social, Professor Sir @uofgvc.bsky.social, Professor @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social and Professor @jdportes.bsky.social.
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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As he prepares to retire from @uofglasgow.bsky.social after nearly 40 years, @uofgvc.bsky.social Anton Muscatelli discusses HE leadership Scottish sector funding, and research culture. Interview by @jgro-the.bsky.social: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/anton-...
Anton Muscatelli: ‘I was quite happy being an academic’
The retirement of arguably the UK’s most politically adept university leader leaves big boots to fill. The Glasgow principal talks to Jack Grove about 40 years of sectoral evolution, his thoughts on S...
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
“We need to think about research training – in particular, PhD training and training down to master’s level. If we look back 10 to 15 years, to the time when the [UK] business department’s budgets were a bit more flush, we saw a lot of investment in doctoral training programmes".
Anton Muscatelli: ‘I was quite happy being an academic’
The retirement of arguably the UK’s most politically adept university leader leaves big boots to fill. The Glasgow principal talks to Jack Grove about 40 years of sectoral evolution, his thoughts on S...
www.timeshighereducation.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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ianelliott.bsky.social
A huge team right across the university have helped bring #EGPA2025 to Glasgow. Our main conference starts tomorrow but today we have our doctoral symposium. Excited to show everyone how great our university and city are! #TeamUofG @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgpolicy.bsky.social @uofgvc.bsky.social
a purple heart with a bell and a bird and the words team u of g
ALT: a purple heart with a bell and a bird and the words team u of g
media.tenor.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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productivity.bsky.social
Great event in London launching “Joining Up Pro-Productivity Policies in the UK” alongside @niesrorg.bsky.social. Insightful panel, packed room, and a big thanks to all contributors! 📄🔗 www.productivity.ac.uk/research/joi... 1/4
July 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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uofglasgow.bsky.social
Over 90% of the world's museum collections are locked away in storage. Not anymore.

UofG’s Museums in the Metaverse is bringing hidden treasures to life through 3D technology.

Sign up to be first to hear about the beta launch www.gla.ac.uk/mim
July 9, 2025 at 8:03 AM
antonmuscatelli.bsky.social
I always knew Akira Kurosawa would find his way into economics some day…

on.ft.com/3Gwcttx “The global economy is suffering from the Rashomon effect”
The global economy is suffering from the Rashomon effect
I’ve never seen as many potentially market moving vectors simultaneously in play
on.ft.com
July 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM