The recording of my talk about the philosopher Mary Midgley and economics is already online. Thanks to the whole @inparenthesis.bsky.social team & to @philosophellie.bsky.social, @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social, @amytaggart.bsky.social, @iangr.bsky.social for joining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNC...

I got to see the brilliant @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social perform in Bath last night. So full of energy, verbal dexterity and invention, and an excellent mimic too. Hard to do justice to the show 'Pub Grub' in a few words, but...

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I'm doing an online webniar tomorrow at 3pm (UK) with the wonderful @inparenthesis.bsky.social team on 'Mary Midgley among the economists' Looking forward to joining the dots between one of our best recent philosophers and the critique of mainstream economics More info & zoom link below 👇

Chris has been doing amazing work highlighting carbon trading scams of all sort for at least the last 15 years. So it was a pleasure to speak to him about climate, forest-carbon markets, and the visions of free market economists...

I might write something about this kind of comment (left on @unlearnecon.bsky.social recent video). I see no value at all in 'proving' in a perfectly contextless world that countries A & B could benefit form trading X & Y. What makes anyone think this logic then maps onto reality?

NEW VIDEO: The Death of Free Trade youtu.be/XsOYGt7EKG8

Me talking about David Ricardo & comparative advantage on the excellent @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social pod

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! My actual book launch event - which is only 6 months late - is at LSE October 13th, you can sign up here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-w...

Good video essay from @unlearnecon.bsky.social riffing on Ricardo’s Dream, about politics & power relations that exist alongside “free” trade and profoundly shape commerce. And the recent, mysterious “rediscovery” 🙄 of this fact by previously dominant states. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOY...

I've listened to a lot of Pitchfork Economics over the years so it was a real pleasure to be a guest on the show. Listen here: buff.ly/jQUTct6

I had to deleted Bluesky app from my phone again... just get too sucked in otherwise & it's not great for productivty or my mood.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

"Man is not adapted to live in a mirror-lined box, generating his own electric light and sending for selected images from outside when he happens to need them. Darkness and a bad smell are all that can come of that. We need the vast world, and it must be a world that does not need us; a world...

New paper on Susan Strange's concept of structural power @bhaggart.bsky.social - one for www.susanstrange.org

This deserves to have way more than 6k views It's beyond time to move from economic horror stories to stories for life www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Yr...

Yuval Noah Harari dropping some truth here about leaders who built their careers built on division & distrust

The assumptions do so much work: "standard economic models typically presuppose that the question of peaceful coexistence is already resolved at the micro level (rule of law) as well as the macro level (peaceful international collaboration)." - Jakob Kapeller

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

Midgley on ‘theory-induced blindness’

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.

Enjoying Zohra’s quick burst of an English accent at the beginning here. Great message & comms as usual

This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it? Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Congratulations to 'Africonomics' and the other shortlisted works in the British Academy Book Prize! (Ignore photo below which is last year's list - books in link) @britishacademy.bsky.social www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/british-academy-book-prize/

Super excited for this! The first talk ‘Midgley Amongst the Economists’ is on the 22 October by @natjdyer.bsky.social

ICYMI - I guest hosted an episode of @macrodosepod.bsky.social over the summer on my book 'Ricardo's Dream' Links below. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7nYq... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/r...

One of my favourite quotes from any neoliberal economist

I’m reading (and really enjoying) Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray. And thanks for responding!

Two years ago today, I got to visit David Ricardo’s home, Gatcombe House Still impressive with a sense of power & prestige.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The use of the US Magnitsky Act to penalise the judge overseeing the Bolsonaro trial in Brazil is perverse & a new low. This legislation was meant to punish serious human rights abusers not judges conducting trials. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

One of my favourite quotes

I’m late to this but… Dopesick is one of the best political/human dramas I’ve ever watched. Even if it did rip out my heart & stamp on it a few times. (Streaming on BBC iPlayer for those in the UK)

Thanks Blayne!

I just spent £30 ordering a hardback, gilded edge copy of Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. I hope he'd be amused.

Thank you - Ha-Joon Chang! “I remain an optimist. Two hundred years ago, buying and selling people was legal in many countries. A hundred years ago, women were jailed for demanding the right to vote. Progress never comes easily. You can’t simply hope that societies will evolve in the right…

"Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost colleagues in conflicts. Some have been injured, others taken prisoner. "But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger."

Welcome to Bluesky @davidellis95.bsky.social 👋

The replies and quotes on this are a useful reminder of what a very, very bad job the British financial services industry have done of persuading people they operate in the public interest.

QUIZ. Which fierce critic of monopoly power wrote this?

Bullshit precision is everywhere & should be called out more for what it is…

It's paperback launch day for HISTORY FOR TOMORROW! 'Enlightening and thrilling' - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 'Brimming with ideas' - @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Find out more: www.romankrznaric.com/history-for-...

More ‘free lunch thinking’ @tombergin.bsky.social

I've done events, videos, podcasts, articles etc. since my book came out... but not social media threads. I'm going to be experimenting with them on here in the next few weeks. Any feedback about what works or doesn't welcome 😀

Spotted in St David’s last week. Two excellent-looking ‘philosophy in the wild’ sessions by @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social Shame I won’t be able to make it back for them

Big crowd for Carole Cadwalladr interviewing Carol Vorderman at @bylinetimes.bsky.social festival

Economics has never been this fun! @kateraworth.bsky.social brings her economics circus to @bylinetimes.bsky.social festival. Here she’s the ringmaster in the fight between Nature & Finance 🌍💰

The silences in orthodox economics transforms “the violence of mercantile trade, conquest, colonialism, and the development of capitalism into stories of universal progress … and freedom.”

Genuinely inspiring by @kateraworth.bsky.social on rewriting economics for a thriving world at @bylinefestival.bsky.social. Full of enthusiasm & zest!

This is also a great piece of art & raises awareness of the royal-backed RAC & slave trade… But it also completely leaves Brazil & South America out of the triangular trade