@tina-hearn.bsky.social
Interesting article 'power not economic theory created neoliberalism' #Keynes #Hayek and thoughts on the #politics of change jacobin.com/2025/12/neol... @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
Power, Not Economic Theory, Created Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism didn’t win an intellectual argument — it won power. Vivek Chibber unpacks how employers and political elites in the 1970s and ’80s turned economic turmoil into an opportunity to reshape ...
jacobin.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Interesting article 'power not economic theory created neoliberalism' #Keynes #Hayek and thoughts on the #politics of change jacobin.com/2025/12/neol... @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
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#WeekendPlaying 🔖 A NEW TOOL ON MONETARY POLICY 🏦
With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇
With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇
Monetary Policy Dashboard - NIESR
What factors affect the MPC members when they are assessing Bank Rate? Our dashboard contains analysis of the main determinants and likely policy responses.
niesr.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
#WeekendPlaying 🔖 A NEW TOOL ON MONETARY POLICY 🏦
With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇
With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇
#openaccess book, 'The Global Origins of Capitalism' global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#openaccess book, 'The Global Origins of Capitalism' global.oup.com/academic/pro...
@hazzyc.bsky.social depressing reading 😞 hope all is well with you ...
Exotic animal cafes are marketed as harmless fun, but research findings suggest a more complex truth.
Exotic animal cafes: cute trend or welfare crisis?
Exotic animal cafes are marketed as harmless fun, but research findings suggest a more complex truth.
tcnv.link
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
@hazzyc.bsky.social depressing reading 😞 hope all is well with you ...
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Die Klassendimension von Inflation:
The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest.
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵
scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Die Klassendimension von Inflation:
#BenefitsStreet budget? A clear refutation in numbers ...
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
#BenefitsStreet budget? A clear refutation in numbers ...
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Helen Whately, on BBC Laura Kuenssberg's TV programme, claimed that taxation is stopping people from buying cars.
No challenge from Laura, but there should have been because Whately's claim is objectively untrue, eg scrapping tax will require many people to take out health care insurance etc
No challenge from Laura, but there should have been because Whately's claim is objectively untrue, eg scrapping tax will require many people to take out health care insurance etc
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Helen Whately, on BBC Laura Kuenssberg's TV programme, claimed that taxation is stopping people from buying cars.
No challenge from Laura, but there should have been because Whately's claim is objectively untrue, eg scrapping tax will require many people to take out health care insurance etc
No challenge from Laura, but there should have been because Whately's claim is objectively untrue, eg scrapping tax will require many people to take out health care insurance etc
#Migration #RefugeesWelcome ‘Hospitality, Vulnerability, Resilience: An Introduction to Working with Refugees and People with Lived Experience’ ... early bird discount .... tickettailor.com/events/willi... promo code: INVITE25 code is valid for two weeks: 4 Dec-18 Dec 2025.
Buy tickets – Hospitality, Vulnerability and Resilience
Hospitality, Vulnerability and Resilience, Mon 19 Jan 2026 - Fri 6 Feb 2026 -
An Introduction to Working with Refugees and People with Lived Experience
In today’s world marked by divisions,...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
#Migration #RefugeesWelcome ‘Hospitality, Vulnerability, Resilience: An Introduction to Working with Refugees and People with Lived Experience’ ... early bird discount .... tickettailor.com/events/willi... promo code: INVITE25 code is valid for two weeks: 4 Dec-18 Dec 2025.
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The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The era we are living in offers too many illustrations of greed, narcissism, and hatefulness. But I still believe we can recommit ourselves to serving the common good of all Americans. [Artwork by Jennifer Bloomer]
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Tax rises are coming in the Budget.
But many people are asking “Shouldn’t welfare be cut instead?”
Let’s examine the feasibility of doing this….🧵
But many people are asking “Shouldn’t welfare be cut instead?”
Let’s examine the feasibility of doing this….🧵
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Tax rises are coming in the Budget.
But many people are asking “Shouldn’t welfare be cut instead?”
Let’s examine the feasibility of doing this….🧵
But many people are asking “Shouldn’t welfare be cut instead?”
Let’s examine the feasibility of doing this….🧵
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Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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‘Human’ skills like leadership and empathy will be increasingly prized by employers.
AI won’t replace you – but it will redefine what makes you valuable at work
‘Human’ skills like leadership and empathy will be increasingly prized by employers.
tcnv.link
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘Human’ skills like leadership and empathy will be increasingly prized by employers.
@hazzyc.bsky.social interesting angle of vision although question the take on 'information' ... hope all is well with you!
ICYMI: Mickey Vallee, 'Animal, Body, Data: Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming In-formation' - demonstrates that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Animal, Body, Data: Starling Murmurations and the Dynamic of Becoming In-formation - Mickey Vallee, 2021
The aim of this article is to demonstrate that data modelling is becoming a crucial, if not dominant, vector for our understanding of animal populations and is ...
journals.sagepub.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@hazzyc.bsky.social interesting angle of vision although question the take on 'information' ... hope all is well with you!
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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.
It doesn't have to be this way.
It doesn't have to be this way.
The bond markets have a simplistic, misplaced view on welfare cuts ... #CareNotCuts www.theguardian.com/business/202...
The bond market is wrong. Reeves should not cut welfare to placate the City | Richard Partington
Keeping the markets on side is the chancellor’s priority but it’s not an easy task given their simplistic, misplaced views on welfare cuts
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The bond markets have a simplistic, misplaced view on welfare cuts ... #CareNotCuts www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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cc @oldtrotter.bsky.social @chrisdillow.bsky.social @francescoppola.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social @flipchartrick.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neilscho...
open.substack.com/pub/neilscho...
The Age of Uncertainty revisited
The BBC is currently repeating John Kenneth Galbraith's monumental series on the history of economics. What can a programme made nearly half a century ago tell us about our modern economic plight?
open.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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@autonomy-institute.bsky.social shows that for every £1 of political donation, private sector
companies received £ 1,294 back in government contract awards over a decade.
Some RoI!
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
companies received £ 1,294 back in government contract awards over a decade.
Some RoI!
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
Givers and Takers: uncovering the donor-contractor nexus at the heart of government
Read our new report revealing the extent to which UK companies donating to major political parties are rewarded with lucrative government contracts.
autonomy.work
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
@autonomy-institute.bsky.social shows that for every £1 of political donation, private sector
companies received £ 1,294 back in government contract awards over a decade.
Some RoI!
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
companies received £ 1,294 back in government contract awards over a decade.
Some RoI!
autonomy.work/portfolio/gi...
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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🚨 NEW🚨
We’re really excited to launch ‘Tax Reforms for Growth’ today along with experts from across the political spectrum.
Consensus on tax policy is rare, but we have a joint plan for fair, pro-growth tax reform in the UK🧵
centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...
We’re really excited to launch ‘Tax Reforms for Growth’ today along with experts from across the political spectrum.
Consensus on tax policy is rare, but we have a joint plan for fair, pro-growth tax reform in the UK🧵
centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🚨 NEW🚨
We’re really excited to launch ‘Tax Reforms for Growth’ today along with experts from across the political spectrum.
Consensus on tax policy is rare, but we have a joint plan for fair, pro-growth tax reform in the UK🧵
centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...
We’re really excited to launch ‘Tax Reforms for Growth’ today along with experts from across the political spectrum.
Consensus on tax policy is rare, but we have a joint plan for fair, pro-growth tax reform in the UK🧵
centax.org.uk/tax-reforms-...
Important food for thought as technocratic approaches to governance promote digitalisation & AI as 'the competencies solution'
New substack: why governments cannot offer competence alone: chrisdillow.substack.com/p/on-compete...
On competenciness
Centrists don't offer actual competence, but merely a false illusion of it.
chrisdillow.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Important food for thought as technocratic approaches to governance promote digitalisation & AI as 'the competencies solution'
New book: 'The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century', LSE press, a really interesting read, you can download the book here: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
The London Consensus | LSE Press
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press.lse.ac.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
New book: 'The London Consensus: economic principles for the 21st century', LSE press, a really interesting read, you can download the book here: press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...
@oxfamgb.bsky.social latest report on 'Climate Plunder: ...', and the enormous size of the global super-rich's carbon footprints policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl... and cartoon summing up their response www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Climate Plunder: How a powerful few are locking the world into disaster - Oxfam Policy & Practice
Ahead of the major international climate conference COP30 in Belem, Brazil, new Oxfam research finds that the high-carbon lifestyles of the super-rich are blowing through the world’s remaining carbon ...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 AM
@oxfamgb.bsky.social latest report on 'Climate Plunder: ...', and the enormous size of the global super-rich's carbon footprints policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/cl... and cartoon summing up their response www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The "Two Minutes Hate" is a daily event from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four where citizens of Oceania are forced to watch a film about their enemy, Emmanuel Goldstein, and express intense hatred towards him. Its political purpose is to allow citizens to vent personal frustrations...
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The "Two Minutes Hate" is a daily event from George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four where citizens of Oceania are forced to watch a film about their enemy, Emmanuel Goldstein, and express intense hatred towards him. Its political purpose is to allow citizens to vent personal frustrations...
How does democracy stack up against autocracy - what democracies do and don't do, OA paper muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - What Democracy Does … And Does Not Do
muse.jhu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
How does democracy stack up against autocracy - what democracies do and don't do, OA paper muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🏴 Who owns Scotland's offshore wind assets?
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind
Our new interactive map with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social lets you explore who really owns ScotWind projects – and who stands to benefit
Highlights in 🧵
Explore the map 👉 www.futureeconomy.scot/scotwind