David Woodruff
@dmwoodruff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE. CPE, central banks, monetary history, intellectual history of social science, Karl Polanyi, Soviet economic history, complaining about neoliberalism, etc. He/him.
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Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Whole fucking thing makes me sick to my stomach. An abject fucking liar, a man who lies as easily as he fucking breathes, threatening an organisation which strives for truthfulness. And plastic patriots like the Mail and Farage urging him on. Jackels.
Not an easy thing to knit the social fabric.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Not an easy thing to knit the social fabric.
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1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
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From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
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"A Stunning Rebuke Of Anti-Trans Politics"—Dems Win Elections Nationwide Despite Anti-Trans Ads
As election results poured in on Tuesday night, it became clear that Democrats were winning nationwide against anti-trans opponents.
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November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
1. On Tuesday Night, Democrats won elections nationwide in a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
From Virginia to New Jersey to New York and beyond, anti-trans candidates fell left and right after spending tons of time and money campaigning on hate.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
An outstanding policy analysis, but should be made more general: *any* business that has a return on equity < 10% automatically gets a tax adjustment so it reaches that level. Also, the magic of the market requires businesses have absolute freedom on salaries and bonuses.
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
An outstanding policy analysis, but should be made more general: *any* business that has a return on equity < 10% automatically gets a tax adjustment so it reaches that level. Also, the magic of the market requires businesses have absolute freedom on salaries and bonuses.
Read this, seriously.
This is a must read.
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Read this, seriously.
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This is a must read.
If you want to understand the emotional end intellectual malaise of British politics, this piece by @mjrobbins.com is a pretty good place to start. It effectively describes a country that has gone mad. open.substack.com/pub/martinro...
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This is a must read.
Some Threadneedle-ologists say BoE will hold rates this week and wait to see how budget looks. To act on this reasoning would contradict long-stated, albeit entirely arbitrary, policy, which implies implausibly assuming government makes no change.
November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Some Threadneedle-ologists say BoE will hold rates this week and wait to see how budget looks. To act on this reasoning would contradict long-stated, albeit entirely arbitrary, policy, which implies implausibly assuming government makes no change.
OM, and with apologies for the language, FG.
It's ok, all holders of these securities need to do is buy an over-the-counter credit derivative to hedge their default risk, then securitize and tranche those derivative contracts and sell the resulting income streams. Assuming the top tranches get AAA credit ratings, what could possibly go wrong?
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 AM
OM, and with apologies for the language, FG.
Excellent, excellent, excellent from @danielagabor.bsky.social on a podcast with Andy Haldane, ex-BoE. She doesn’t let him get away w/ saying stuff he knows not to be true, eg claiming the BoE could ‘go bust’. It’s mainstream central bank speak that’s bankrupt! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 29/10/2025 · 1h 6m
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October 30, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Excellent, excellent, excellent from @danielagabor.bsky.social on a podcast with Andy Haldane, ex-BoE. She doesn’t let him get away w/ saying stuff he knows not to be true, eg claiming the BoE could ‘go bust’. It’s mainstream central bank speak that’s bankrupt! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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The 🇺🇸 has a floating exchange rate and issues the world’s dominant reserve currency & is absolutely nothing like 🇬🇷 or 🇮🇹, which are constrained by belonging to a modern day gold standard. We need to stop using fearmongering analogies & discuss actual tradeoffs when we talk about 🇺🇸 debt.
October 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The 🇺🇸 has a floating exchange rate and issues the world’s dominant reserve currency & is absolutely nothing like 🇬🇷 or 🇮🇹, which are constrained by belonging to a modern day gold standard. We need to stop using fearmongering analogies & discuss actual tradeoffs when we talk about 🇺🇸 debt.
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A central fact about education, but one which almost disappears in discussions of education policy, is the enormous amount of effort and creativity and commitment teachers put into finding ways to help students actually learn. In every classroom people are struggling to find ways to do better.
Important update from two months into my “experiment” (lol) assigning college juniors and seniors to read whole physical books and then having a seminar where they use the physical book and physical notebooks and their ideas and questions to fill three hours of class time:
It rules
It rules
October 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A central fact about education, but one which almost disappears in discussions of education policy, is the enormous amount of effort and creativity and commitment teachers put into finding ways to help students actually learn. In every classroom people are struggling to find ways to do better.
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Under 50 U.S.C. § 1701(a), it is an “unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” that Canada is being mean to me on TV.
BREAKING: Trump says he's punishing Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down an anti-tariff ad sooner.
Trump punishes Canada with 10% extra import tax for not pulling down anti-tariffs ad sooner
President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10% because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
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October 25, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Under 50 U.S.C. § 1701(a), it is an “unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States” that Canada is being mean to me on TV.
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"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
October 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
October 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I'm so sick of discourse from supposed allies about where trans people went wrong.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
Where we "went wrong" is that billionaires spent unimaginably large sums to attack us repeatedly and major media outlets have spent a decade piling on.
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If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
October 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?
Divorce in haste, repent at leisure.
October 20, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Divorce in haste, repent at leisure.
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It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
October 19, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets
Hey, let’s write an article about the politics of central banking! -Great, who’s got expertise in that? -Oh, economists of course.
The populist shadow hanging over central banks and QE on.ft.com/48lEPm2 #FTEdit
The populist shadow hanging over central banks and QE
The massive bond purchases are being unwound at a time of fierce political criticism of the monetary authorities. The controversy could limit options in future crises
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October 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hey, let’s write an article about the politics of central banking! -Great, who’s got expertise in that? -Oh, economists of course.
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Game theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, the civil rights movement, and more all agree on this: unite for independence or lose.
Great piece by Henry Farrell
Great piece by Henry Farrell
Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Game theory, democratic theory, feminist theory, the civil rights movement, and more all agree on this: unite for independence or lose.
Great piece by Henry Farrell
Great piece by Henry Farrell
Very important insight here.
This sets me thinking if the current pattern concentration of wealth is a key contributor to authoritarianism because it means there are monopolies that are very sensitive to political pressure and few enough of them that you can blackmail them one by one
New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."
"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."
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"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."
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October 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Very important insight here.
RIP Claus Offe. He built his own monument in his work; here’s something great.
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October 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
RIP Claus Offe. He built his own monument in his work; here’s something great.
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Another giant...I don't think anyone could so effortless move between theory, sociology, and political economy
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
October 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another giant...I don't think anyone could so effortless move between theory, sociology, and political economy
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I hope Starmer doesn’t retreat from the tone he struck yesterday. Lesson from the U.S.: the far right will accuse you of everything they already do. The shamelessness IS a tactic. Biden simply retreated from engaging. But people need to keep hearing a version of what starmer said. Every Single Day.
People often claim it's a mistake to call far-right figures racist. But it's extremely telling how much they hate being called racist. Farage doesn't welcome it. He is afraid of it. And he has benefited from people's reticence about using it to describe his policies.
Harry Cole here, suggesting that because someone in Utah shot Charlie Kirk 3 weeks ago, Keir Starmer shouldn’t be nasty about Nigel Farage in the U.K.
October 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I hope Starmer doesn’t retreat from the tone he struck yesterday. Lesson from the U.S.: the far right will accuse you of everything they already do. The shamelessness IS a tactic. Biden simply retreated from engaging. But people need to keep hearing a version of what starmer said. Every Single Day.