Some good news: Cycling journeys up by 43% in London, report finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest: #COP30, global climate politics, and what happens next — for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It was a real pleasure & honour to be David Runciman's guest on his History of Ideas podcast (which is just brilliant - worth checking out the series if you don't know it!) Have a listen to our conversation about citizens' assemblies: #delibwave #citizensassemblies #sortition

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

📣 Call for Papers - Philosophy and Economics Conference on the theme of Paradoxes and Contradictions! All proposals at the intersection of economics & philosophy will be considered. Abstract deadline 31 December 👉https://philoeco2026.sciencesconf.org

"Taxe Zucman light": @gabrielzucman.bsky.social appelle à "ne pas répéter l'échec intellectuel et politique" des socialistes sur l'ISF en 1981 www.franceinfo.fr/economie/bud...

Michael Sandel makes a clear and common sensical diagnostic about the philosophical failures of neoliberal political economy, but it's not clear how to establish a 'pol econ of citizenship' in an interconnected world without global regulator podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/o...

Excellent take on the Econ Nobel by @undercoverhist.bsky.social

The Revolution is under way and Montréal is in the North American vanguard ✊ economist.com/internationa...

There have likely been 10,000 or more university redundancies in the academic year 2024-25. @gsoh31.bsky.social, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Oxford Brookes, argues that the Higher Education system as we know it is coming to an end.

You might have missed great book reviews in the latest issues of EJHET. In 32(4), Tribe, Le Chapelain, Marcuzzo, @ivan-moscati.bsky.social @massaf.bsky.social reviewed books by Drakopoulos & Katselidis, Mosca, Garegnani, Zappia, and @vhalsmayer.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

So many wrong things here 🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

basic econ: restrictions on migration and low salaries for further education teachers means not enough builders to reach new homes target www.bbc.com/news/article...

JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.

Bernard Arnault qualifie de "militant d'extrême-gauche", l'économiste Gabriel Zucman qui propose de taxer les grandes fortune 😂 www.franceinfo.fr/economie/bud...

I had a rich and wide-ranging conversation w/ Professor Philip Kitcher for the podcast this week. We discuss his intellectual journey, interventions in creationism, sociobiology & the genome project, his philosophical evolution, and vision for philosophy serving the common good. A real privilege.

We are now on Bluesky. Follow us from updates about new articles and book reviews in the journal, as well as the JHET writing workshops and other relevant events, workshops and conferences! The new editorial team Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Alexandre Mendes Cunha, Harro Maas

😢 In Our Time has been my favorite programme since I started listening to podcasts nearly 20 years ago. I loved the range of subjects and the way Melvyn Bragg conducted the discussion in clear and orderly fashion. Well researched topics, not pretentious guests www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Warm from the press @leaypi.bsky.social

A new issue of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought is available online www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds - Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic impacts #climatecrisis #AMOC www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Compared to some of those GenZ South Koreans, my coffee shop addiction sounds very normal 😅 - 'Two laptops, six plugs': The South Korean cafes grappling with students who don't leave www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today David tells the tale of the Dreyfus Affair that split France down the middle and revealed the grip of a whole host of conspiracy theories. The story of a letter found in a wastebin turned into a saga about who really controlled the country. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Penrose: "The essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers." Shapin asks rhetorically "What possible appeal could there be in stories about the passions and interests of people like that?" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Wiley officially closes the Journal of Political Philosophy, which was abandoned by its editorial team and shunned by academics after Wiley attempted moves that would have compromised the journal's editorial independence.

Catching up on good summer readings - Will Davies on TikTok and Nigel Farage www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This may be an exaggeration but ... the International Court of Justice has just ruled that continuing the fossil-fuel economy is illegal.

🔥 New paper w @alxndrtrc.bsky.social, F. Claveau & V. Larivière on Gender Homogeneity in Philosophy and Methodology of Economics, forthc in Journal of Economic Methodology. We find a larger gender imbalance in phil & methodology of econ than its parent disciplines econ & phil: osf.io/preprints/so...

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‘Even academics with secure jobs don’t feel secure. Meanwhile, those of us on fixed-term contracts sit and wait for our funding to run out.’ Ed Kiely on precarity in higher education: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Philippe Van Parijs just sent me this photo from when I hosted the September Group (formerly known as the Non-Bullshit Marxist Group) at UCL in 1994. Guess whether I felt entirely comfortable with their horsing around.

The British government announced plans to grant 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections, marking a major overhaul of the country's democratic system reut.rs/3IzsfV8

Numbers like these are why I’m in favor of the widespread adoption of AC in Europe What’s the point of fighting climate change if you’re already dead because of the heat?

JUST RAISE TAX After last night’s U-turn, Rachel Reeves cannot tweak her way out of this crisis. The system must be torn down.

EJHET current issue contains reviews of books on Greek economic thought, slavery and colonialism, British coop. Read Zouboulakis, Mueller, Dos Santos Ferreira and @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social take on Psalidopoulos, Pisanelli, Maurice Allais and Madden & Persky www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

#RechercheUL CELEST, nouveau CRET de l'Université de Lorraine, réunit plus de 8️⃣0️⃣ chercheurs en SHS pour penser les grandes transitions. Interdisciplinaire, critique et engagé. 📢 Rencontre avec son directeur Samuel Fere👉https://www.sharee.me/t/06Bm

I wrote a review of Backhouse, Baujard, & Nishizawa (eds.), "Welfare Theory, Public Action, and Ethical Values: Revisiting the History of Welfare Economics" for Oeconomia, open access. Great book, well worth a read: journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/16...

‘Mass urban living brought new sensory pleasures but also required distinctively modern subjectivities articulated through ideas about personal space, autonomy and consent.’ @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social on a history of the sense of touch in Victorian Britain: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conclusion: Sauvy’s histories should be read as ideological interventions—not neutral accounts. They turn personal defense into public doctrine, portraying the expert as guardian of truth against political error. A case of memory politics through economic historiography.

Does Keir Starmer really want to be remembered as the Labour prime minister who presided over an increase in child poverty? By Ben Jackson. open.substack.com/pub/thepolit...

How did liberty as non interference came to replace liberty as independence in the 18th c? Skinner strikes again! (Reviewed by Colin Kidd) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

EJHET is presenting a collection of its recent papers on the theme of the conference: is it the end of economics as we know it? Check it out 👇🏻 www.tandfonline.com/journals/rej...

#eshet2025, 22-24 May 2025, University of Turin. The final program is online! Over 20 co-organized sessions and about 300 speakers. www.eshet-conference.net/torino/progr...

4 years, 5 countries, 6 languages, 8 archives,thousands of pages later, bound proofs of INDIGNITY have landed on my (or, rather, Beatrice Webb’s) desk at LSE! Publishing @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in the UK in Sept +🇦🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇸🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇱🇮🇹🇸🇮🇧🇷 + more. So excited (and terrified) to share with you all ❤️🧿!

This is an absolutely disastrous framing to adopt. “Immigration beings great gains but it needs to be controlled to maximise benefits” was/is right there on the table. Instead they have opted to lead with the strongest possible “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” headline.

Incalculable = when we calculated it, it didn't give us the answer we wanted