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

This faux medieval exhibition of billionaires: ‘Stinking Rich’ by Andrew Swan is really quite good This is Bezos

I’m at the Byline Times Festival this weekend First session on truth and extremism - at Keele Uni’s chapel - with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @nafeez.bsky.social

We all have too much to read… so appreciate those who’ve taken the time with RICARDO’S DREAM and shared their thoughts 📖👍🏼

Global Governance Futures is a broad-minded & insightful podcast led by Tom Pegram at UCL. I got to speak to him about Economics, Power and the Real World. More specifically on my problems with William Nordhaus and my love of Susan Strange. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tS0...

Watched this yesterday, lots of gems in there.

Someone needs to be reading 'Ricardo's Dream' by @natjdyer.bsky.social - simplify the model to the point it becomes pointless! 🤣

“The BVIs’ proposed access regime is not compatible with global corporate transparency efforts.” @margotmollat.bsky.social @transparencyuk.bsky.social #DirtyMoney #AntiCorruption www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@natdyer.bsky.social rejoinder to my review of his book. (And a bit of Nat's review of my Ricardo chapter in "Visions of Inequality".)

Also last week, on a hot day in London, I got to see behind the scenes of @macrodosepod.bsky.social podcast. Guest episode coming from me sometime in the summer 🔥

'This is a seriously readable book... It's the top 1% of readable books about economics that I've ever read.' - Cahal Moran of @unlearnecon.bsky.social Delighted to do a YouTube livestream with Cahal last week

Very interesting reply to Milanovic. Must read.