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Tony Addison
@tonysangle.bsky.social
Non-Resident Research Fellow & former Chief Economist UNU-WIDER Helsinki. 🇺🇳🇫🇮Former Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.🇩🇰Also Manchester & Warwick universities 🇬🇧
https://www.wider.unu.edu/expert/tony-addison-0
Abhijit Banerjee ‘Social Protection for All’ @unu-wider.bsky.social
Annual Lecture
June 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Start of @unu-wider.bsky.social
conference "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of impactful research 👍
June 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🇺🇳🇫🇮... @unu-wider.bsky.social
conference 2025 in Helsinki "Safeguarding tomorrow - innovative approaches to growth and equity". Celebrating 40 years of policy research 👍
June 9, 2025 at 7:04 AM
🇬🇧 UK’s dismal trade performance.
Martin Wolf in today’s FT 26.05.25👇
May 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
☃️"Six thousand inflatable snowmen and holiday figurines are sitting in .. a Guangdong factory with nowhere to go".
(WSJ today) ☃️
May 9, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Gender gap persists in (🇬🇧British) economics education despite rise in its popularity at school & in university @financialtimes.com 👇
May 1, 2025 at 8:41 PM
📉🛢️Brent is testing early 2020s lows: $58-59 a barrel (intraday), on global recession fears (& OPEC+ announced higher oil output). Such a sudden & large sell off is usually a good recession predictor📉 😨

Source: tradingeconomics.com/commodity/br...
April 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
No doubt the good citizens of the Heard & McDonald Islands are alarmed by the 10% US tariff on their exports👇

Current inhabitants; the southern elephant seals, Antarctic fur seals, Leopard seals 🦭🦭🦭

Humans: 0 (unless David Attenborough is visiting this week) 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Australia
April 3, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My sentiment entirely 📚👍
(Outside a Helsinki bookshop)
September 9, 2024 at 8:43 AM
👍Great UNUWIDER annual lecture by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social yesterday in Helsinki www.wider.unu.edu/event/billio...
September 5, 2024 at 10:06 AM