Dan Gay
@dangay.bsky.social
Political economist who advises on and writes about economics and sustainable development, international trade & the least developed countries. Former UN. Scottish. Likes running, cycling & the outdoors. www.emergenteconomics.com | dangay.substack.com
I'm currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where my friend Mohammad Razzaque writes: "In this evolving and tumultuous era, development cannot be delinked from geopolitics, nor can industrial transformation be imagined without strategic economic statecraft." asia.fes.de/news/adaptin...
Adapting to new realities: Bangladesh prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country status amid geoeconomic disruptions
As Bangladesh prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026, it faces rising global protectionism and the loss of key trade privileges. In this article, Mohammad Abdur Razzaqu...
asia.fes.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'm currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where my friend Mohammad Razzaque writes: "In this evolving and tumultuous era, development cannot be delinked from geopolitics, nor can industrial transformation be imagined without strategic economic statecraft." asia.fes.de/news/adaptin...
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"International liberalisation was supposed to raise economic growth for all, as trade and capital flew between countries, levelling out prices and boosting efficiencies. But ..."
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Neoliberalism – lurching onwards
Part one showed how neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth – here, the author shows how it succeeded in its true aim
bylines.scot
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"International liberalisation was supposed to raise economic growth for all, as trade and capital flew between countries, levelling out prices and boosting efficiencies. But ..."
@dangay.bsky.social
@dangay.bsky.social
Imagine being the guy tasked with telling MBS his hideous vanity mega-project is doomed.
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
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Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Imagine being the guy tasked with telling MBS his hideous vanity mega-project is doomed.
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Here's the BBC again with its refusal to identify the perpetrator during the Israeli genocide in Gaza: "there's no hiding what this war has done."
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Here's the BBC again with its refusal to identify the perpetrator during the Israeli genocide in Gaza: "there's no hiding what this war has done."
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Dan Gay
Check the figures and find out how the economy behaved before and after neoliberalism.
bylines.scot/news/economi...
bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 - Bylines Scotland
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
bylines.scot
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Check the figures and find out how the economy behaved before and after neoliberalism.
bylines.scot/news/economi...
bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 - Bylines Scotland
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
bylines.scot
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 bylines.scot/news/economi...
🧵1. In the hundreds of consultations with governments and companies in countries in the global South, everyone mentions the lack of inter-Ministerial coordination. Different parts of government don't speak to each other. This is also true of some richer countries.
Why?
Why?
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🧵1. In the hundreds of consultations with governments and companies in countries in the global South, everyone mentions the lack of inter-Ministerial coordination. Different parts of government don't speak to each other. This is also true of some richer countries.
Why?
Why?
Interesting paper asking whether the EU is an environmental leader in trade. Conclusion: to some extent because it's the biggest importer and exporter of environmental goods, but it's got a lot of work to do in some areas. I didn't realise the UK ranked so highly
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Interesting paper asking whether the EU is an environmental leader in trade. Conclusion: to some extent because it's the biggest importer and exporter of environmental goods, but it's got a lot of work to do in some areas. I didn't realise the UK ranked so highly
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
1. Now we know where power really lies open.substack.com/pub/dangay/p...
Now we know where power really lies
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on. First of a three-part series.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
1. Now we know where power really lies open.substack.com/pub/dangay/p...
A thought-provoking piece. One of the shortcomings of AI that's less talked about is that its main perception of intelligence is goal orientated and utilitarian - an 'intelligence' that concerns end-states not process: much like those who promote it.
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
A thought-provoking piece. One of the shortcomings of AI that's less talked about is that its main perception of intelligence is goal orientated and utilitarian - an 'intelligence' that concerns end-states not process: much like those who promote it.
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
As so often, Scotland presents a slightly more humane and sensible face.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As so often, Scotland presents a slightly more humane and sensible face.
Important stuff: MEPs voted to ban the term veggie burger. And we wonder why countries like China are overtaking the EU.
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods
Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Important stuff: MEPs voted to ban the term veggie burger. And we wonder why countries like China are overtaking the EU.
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This post is ironic.
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This post is ironic.
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🧵1. Wise words at the UN from my friend Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change. That it takes leadership from a tiny Pacific island nation on such an existential issue should make governments of the big emitters look at themselves in the mirror. I'd say he's brave, but it's just truth.
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
🧵1. Wise words at the UN from my friend Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu Minister for Climate Change. That it takes leadership from a tiny Pacific island nation on such an existential issue should make governments of the big emitters look at themselves in the mirror. I'd say he's brave, but it's just truth.
Thanks. Quite good but doesn't mention power as a motivator of economic behaviour.
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Thanks. Quite good but doesn't mention power as a motivator of economic behaviour.
So Milei's ridiculous austerian nonsense policies are failing, badly. Quelle surprise.
But it's OK because the US is bailing him out.
Wonder if they'd do the same for a centrist or left-wing government?🤨
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei - on.ft.com/3Kgo3dV
But it's OK because the US is bailing him out.
Wonder if they'd do the same for a centrist or left-wing government?🤨
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei - on.ft.com/3Kgo3dV
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei
Scott Bessent says ‘all options’ are on the table to support the country through period of market volatility
on.ft.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So Milei's ridiculous austerian nonsense policies are failing, badly. Quelle surprise.
But it's OK because the US is bailing him out.
Wonder if they'd do the same for a centrist or left-wing government?🤨
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei - on.ft.com/3Kgo3dV
But it's OK because the US is bailing him out.
Wonder if they'd do the same for a centrist or left-wing government?🤨
US offers financial lifeline to Argentina’s Javier Milei - on.ft.com/3Kgo3dV
"Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was asked how much money he plans to invest in the U.S. and replied $600 billion. Shortly afterward, he was caught on a hot mic telling Trump “Sorry, I wasn’t ready … I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with.”
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Can a Despised Autocrat Consolidate Power?
Trump is losing the public. Will that matter?
paulkrugman.substack.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was asked how much money he plans to invest in the U.S. and replied $600 billion. Shortly afterward, he was caught on a hot mic telling Trump “Sorry, I wasn’t ready … I wasn’t sure what number you wanted to go with.”
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/can-a-desp...
paulkrugman.substack.com/p/can-a-desp...
It's just dawned on me that today's richest two people, Ellison and Musk, are each richer than Croesus, who's estimated to have had a mere $372 billion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus
Croesus - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's just dawned on me that today's richest two people, Ellison and Musk, are each richer than Croesus, who's estimated to have had a mere $372 billion.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus
Intriguing article on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation by Farwa Sial developingeconomics.org/2025/09/05/n...
New World Order against Tariffs: SCO Development Bank as an anti-sanctions tool?
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent development…
developingeconomics.org
September 6, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Intriguing article on the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation by Farwa Sial developingeconomics.org/2025/09/05/n...
Quality insights from @stephenkb.bsky.social here. Labour should start attacking Reform. on.ft.com/4lOifFs
"if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself".
"if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself".
August 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Quality insights from @stephenkb.bsky.social here. Labour should start attacking Reform. on.ft.com/4lOifFs
"if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself".
"if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself".
Stories matter.
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Stories matter
Social scientists are trained to banish anecdote. Yet storytelling is part of what makes us human. Squeezing out narrative can deaden understanding.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Stories matter.
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Much to agree with here. Trump knows he now owns European leaders. Presumably in private he's sniggering at their sycophancy. He (and Putin) only understand and respect power. Yet more proof of Europe's weakness, fragmentation and lack of direction. on.ft.com/4p6unVo
Europe is selling its soul to Trump
What masquerades as pragmatism is self-harming opportunism
on.ft.com
August 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Much to agree with here. Trump knows he now owns European leaders. Presumably in private he's sniggering at their sycophancy. He (and Putin) only understand and respect power. Yet more proof of Europe's weakness, fragmentation and lack of direction. on.ft.com/4p6unVo
Trump has actually put the US car industry at a disadvantage over foreign competitors.
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
August 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Trump has actually put the US car industry at a disadvantage over foreign competitors.
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...