Paulo L dos Santos
@plbds.bsky.social
Political Economist, often mathematically. Associate Professor of Economics @NSSRnews. Formerly @SOASeconomics. Thinking Marxist of some sort. #InformationTheory. Money and Contemporary Finance.
https://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/paulo-dos-santos/
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Paulo L dos Santos
@plbds.bsky.social
· Jan 8
Smith & Marx gave us an expansive vision of the part played by economic organisation in the historical evolution of societies. Economic analysis is but an important moment in a much broader search for an understanding of humanity and the possibilities for our development.
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Our 3rd session is on 💸Cost of Living Crisis and Inflation💸.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Our 3rd session is on 💸Cost of Living Crisis and Inflation💸.
Join the discussion with @plbds.bsky.social and Ramaa Vasudevan, chaired by @hwanheebae.bsky.social on ⏰Wednesday 12 Nov 6-8pm (UK) / 1-3pm (NY) / 12-2pm (OK).
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Is there an accepted term to describe the presumed division of people into different groups like “us” and “them” in regular speech? It is one of the most revealing things about a speaker’s outlook.
Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Is there an accepted term to describe the presumed division of people into different groups like “us” and “them” in regular speech? It is one of the most revealing things about a speaker’s outlook.
Dominant economic theory would have you believe this roughly reflects this man’s marginal contribution to Tesla’s bottom line, not the pervasive cultish sycophancy and groupthink in US corporate governance.
November 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Dominant economic theory would have you believe this roughly reflects this man’s marginal contribution to Tesla’s bottom line, not the pervasive cultish sycophancy and groupthink in US corporate governance.
Stumbled on a punchy way to make an old point while talking with my sons about Cuomo, the Dems, Mamdani, and the history of capitalist polities being more hostile to socialism than to fascism.
Most capitalists would rather lose their all of their rights than lose some of their property.
Most capitalists would rather lose their all of their rights than lose some of their property.
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Stumbled on a punchy way to make an old point while talking with my sons about Cuomo, the Dems, Mamdani, and the history of capitalist polities being more hostile to socialism than to fascism.
Most capitalists would rather lose their all of their rights than lose some of their property.
Most capitalists would rather lose their all of their rights than lose some of their property.
Economics is not just the art of confusing stocks and flows, it is also the art of confusing monetary relationships in distribution with realities of production.
#EconSky
#EconSky
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Economics is not just the art of confusing stocks and flows, it is also the art of confusing monetary relationships in distribution with realities of production.
#EconSky
#EconSky
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My 401(k) realizing that the entire US economy is now dependent on the AI bubble not popping.
a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him
ALT: a cartoon of ralph from the simpsons sits on a bus with the words " chuckles i 'm in danger " below him
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
My 401(k) realizing that the entire US economy is now dependent on the AI bubble not popping.
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November courses are filling up👀
Political Economy International School | @plbds.bsky.social
Activists' Corner | Izzy G
Strategy Series | @flyingwithsara.bsky.social
TU & WC History | @louiseraw.bsky.social
Political Economy Conference
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Political Economy International School | @plbds.bsky.social
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Political Economy Conference
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October 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
November courses are filling up👀
Political Economy International School | @plbds.bsky.social
Activists' Corner | Izzy G
Strategy Series | @flyingwithsara.bsky.social
TU & WC History | @louiseraw.bsky.social
Political Economy Conference
Sign up today🔥 - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET
Political Economy International School | @plbds.bsky.social
Activists' Corner | Izzy G
Strategy Series | @flyingwithsara.bsky.social
TU & WC History | @louiseraw.bsky.social
Political Economy Conference
Sign up today🔥 - https://gftuet.org.uk/education
#GFTUET
Reminded me of the comparison of the Hayekian entrepreneur to house cats--fiercely asserting its independence and individuality, all while living in a comprehensively controlled environment fined-tuned to its needs.
October 12, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Reminded me of the comparison of the Hayekian entrepreneur to house cats--fiercely asserting its independence and individuality, all while living in a comprehensively controlled environment fined-tuned to its needs.
An industry on the verge of a paradigmatic breakthrough? Or a giant circle-jerk cartelising an industry and propping up valuations towards the end of a wild speculative run?
#EconSky
#EconSky
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
An industry on the verge of a paradigmatic breakthrough? Or a giant circle-jerk cartelising an industry and propping up valuations towards the end of a wild speculative run?
#EconSky
#EconSky
It only dawned on me recently that I've been working towards the development of a canonical approach to statistical analysis, grounded only on axioms defining, (a) probabilistic measures of rational belief over events, and (b) measures of uncertainty over aggregations of events 🤯
October 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It only dawned on me recently that I've been working towards the development of a canonical approach to statistical analysis, grounded only on axioms defining, (a) probabilistic measures of rational belief over events, and (b) measures of uncertainty over aggregations of events 🤯
A recent picture of me, caught in the wild.
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A recent picture of me, caught in the wild.
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Having one of those days where "intelligent people lacking the courage to call out the bovine idiocy of dumb people" seems like a compelling, exhaustive explanation for much of what ails the world at the moment.
September 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Having one of those days where "intelligent people lacking the courage to call out the bovine idiocy of dumb people" seems like a compelling, exhaustive explanation for much of what ails the world at the moment.
Using tariffs to obstruct justice in Brazil, using the Dollar’s international dominance to influence elections in Argentina. The use of US economic power to subvert national sovereignty is seldom this brazen.
Building a duly multilateral world where no country can do this is long overdue.
Building a duly multilateral world where no country can do this is long overdue.
Bessent on Argentina: "The plan is as long as President Milei continues with his strong economic policies to help him, to bridge him to the election, we are not going to let a disequilibrium in the market cause a backup in his substantial economic reforms."
September 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Using tariffs to obstruct justice in Brazil, using the Dollar’s international dominance to influence elections in Argentina. The use of US economic power to subvert national sovereignty is seldom this brazen.
Building a duly multilateral world where no country can do this is long overdue.
Building a duly multilateral world where no country can do this is long overdue.
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CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
September 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
CNN has identified at least 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents after ICE deported them - including newborns.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
As a parent I cannot imagine the horror of being separated from my child, but that trauma is even more acute for the innocent children left behind.
One day, two articles. Both diagnosing deep malaises in the Chinese economy. All economies face challenges. But as the US & Europe head into a damaging downturn, expect more articles in this genre reassuring Western audiences that it is China’s model of economic management that is failing. #EconSky
September 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
One day, two articles. Both diagnosing deep malaises in the Chinese economy. All economies face challenges. But as the US & Europe head into a damaging downturn, expect more articles in this genre reassuring Western audiences that it is China’s model of economic management that is failing. #EconSky
A media ecosystem that has spent decades ignoring the suffering of ordinary people, helping governments manufacture support for endless wars, helping police lie about killing civilians, and more recently covering up a genocide, is not about to take up the fight for free speech.
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Disney capitulation over Jimmy Kimmel sparks fears for US media under Donald Trump
Bob Iger’s suspension of comedian’s show over Charlie Kirk comments fuels free speech controversy
on.ft.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A media ecosystem that has spent decades ignoring the suffering of ordinary people, helping governments manufacture support for endless wars, helping police lie about killing civilians, and more recently covering up a genocide, is not about to take up the fight for free speech.
on.ft.com/48mMi3V
on.ft.com/48mMi3V
“A new equity culture ” sounds a lot like a “permanently high plateau”. But this time is different…
JPMORGAN: “.. Given the continued emergence of ‘a new equity culture’, a scenario where the equity allocation by investors globally keeps grinding higher over the next three years towards its previous 2000 peak, would imply 47% equity upside from here.” 👀
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“A new equity culture ” sounds a lot like a “permanently high plateau”. But this time is different…
“Bringing American jobs back and reindustrialization are legitimate motivations. When the US raised the banner of neoliberalism, Brazil warned of its harmful effects…
“unilateral action is the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer, more balanced solutions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
“unilateral action is the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer, more balanced solutions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
Opinion | Lula: Brazilian Democracy and Sovereignty Are Non-Negotiable
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“Bringing American jobs back and reindustrialization are legitimate motivations. When the US raised the banner of neoliberalism, Brazil warned of its harmful effects…
“unilateral action is the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer, more balanced solutions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
“unilateral action is the wrong remedy. Multilateralism offers fairer, more balanced solutions.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...
The fact that US corporate elites have talked themselves into sinking $400bn this year, and possibly $3tn by 2028, on a technology that summarizes, often poorly, the work of others and presents it as “intelligence” is a little bit on the nose—no?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...
What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?
Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts
economist.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The fact that US corporate elites have talked themselves into sinking $400bn this year, and possibly $3tn by 2028, on a technology that summarizes, often poorly, the work of others and presents it as “intelligence” is a little bit on the nose—no?
economist.com/leaders/2025...
economist.com/leaders/2025...
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vou dizer um negócio pra vocês: quando esse julgamento acabar, se o resultado for o previsto, FAÇAM FESTA
comemorem. encham as ruas. gritem. façam carnaval, manifestação, soltem fogos, saiam correndo pela rua beijando a camisa do Brasil, encham as redes sociais de meme
isso também é narrativa.
comemorem. encham as ruas. gritem. façam carnaval, manifestação, soltem fogos, saiam correndo pela rua beijando a camisa do Brasil, encham as redes sociais de meme
isso também é narrativa.
September 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
vou dizer um negócio pra vocês: quando esse julgamento acabar, se o resultado for o previsto, FAÇAM FESTA
comemorem. encham as ruas. gritem. façam carnaval, manifestação, soltem fogos, saiam correndo pela rua beijando a camisa do Brasil, encham as redes sociais de meme
isso também é narrativa.
comemorem. encham as ruas. gritem. façam carnaval, manifestação, soltem fogos, saiam correndo pela rua beijando a camisa do Brasil, encham as redes sociais de meme
isso também é narrativa.
Am I the only one here who is both very aware how far from general intelligence LLMs really are AND still writes "please" and "thank you" to the ChatGPT bot in case our future AI overlords decide to judge us by how kind we were to their cognitively distant ancestors??
August 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Am I the only one here who is both very aware how far from general intelligence LLMs really are AND still writes "please" and "thank you" to the ChatGPT bot in case our future AI overlords decide to judge us by how kind we were to their cognitively distant ancestors??