I'm not sure I could ever forgive this government if it allows the BBC World Service to die

What an incredibly cool FT article and WWI story! The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Très perturbant la différence entre Bluesky et X : rien dans mon fil ici mais là-bas, surtout depuis hier, tous les économistes (mainstreams) ne parlent que de papiers générés de A à Z (et en moins de 2h) par Claude Code et autres IA.

"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools." — Thucydides

Je suis l'auteur. C'est un rappel que nous cotisons tous pour offrir des rentes illimitées aux GAFAM qui peuvent ainsi financer leur avance sur de nouveaux enjeux technos de pointe et empêcher une concurrence d'émerger, jusqu'à siphonner nos propres compétences. Résoudre ça est vital pour notre

Quel article ! A travers lui on lit toutes les absurdités du gouvernement australien, des ambitions britaniques et de la politique sociale américaine. C'est d'une violence inouïe, comme l'est généralement le lourd parpaing de la réalité sur la tartelette aux fraises de nos illusions

Is the answer to the fertility crisis more winter sports?

[Blog] Le constat fait par le Cevipof sur le rejet de la classe politique par les citoyens est effrayant. Il est indispensable de réagir, et pas juste d'attendre 2027 en espérant reprendre le train-train d'avant authueil.fr/2026/02/13/d...

"everyone has to get back to the office because the important thing about business is human interaction" is dying, but "white collar jobs will be replaced by AI agents within 18 months" cannot yet be born; in this interregnum a variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Anyone who fancies supporting this absurd effort by donating to an all-too-serious charity, please do. I'm very grateful for everything who has chipped in. www.justgiving.com/page/tim-har...

Obviously not, but also really not in Britain www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Le critérium du Dauphine rebaptisé tour Auvergne Rhône Alpes. Paris Roubaix renommé Paris Roubaix hauts de France. Deux raisons de plus pour cette évidence: il faut supprimer les régions.

New Substack post: what does our modern obsession with work say about us? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/working-ha...

Has China peaked emissions? We may not know for years to come, but new analysis from @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social shows CO2 emissions fell by 0.3% last year — the first time China has recorded a decline while energy demand growth remained strong. Free link here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

He who doesn’t pay the piper doesn’t get to call the tune

Comment expliquer le maintient d’u taux d’épargne historiquement élevé en France en sortie de pandémie ? Des éléments de réponses par les économistes de la BDF ! 📊📉📈 www.banque-france.fr/fr/publicati...

Exhibit 12,239 for this theory that the stochastic radicalisation engines we've built have this revolutionary feature that they give the same exact brainworms to the genius billionaire as they do to the drunk uncle at the pub bsky.app/profile/news...

C'est le moment de rejoindre l'équipe IPP ! 👇

Stefanie Stantcheva is EfIP's (@econfip.bsky.social) guest this week

Up to 3 postdoc positions starting on Jan. 2027 on Land Economics (in a broad sense), hosted in the Econ group of NYUAD, Social Science Division, and associated to the center Cities. Candidates can now apply to the vacancy via this link: apply.interfolio.com/181408 @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social

Ou comment prouver qu'un compte institutionnel peut parfaitement trouver sa place loin de X sur un RS.

[Blog] Il faut relativiser l'impact des recasages de macronistes dans la haute administration. Amélie de Montchalin ne changera pas la face de la Cour des Comptes authueil.fr/2026/02/11/l...

The EV debate in one picture: Even the smallest, most efficient gas car has a higher life-cycle footprint than the largest BEV. Size matters. Power matters. Powertrain matters more. This figure comes from this great paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

a society losing the plot in real time

Un deuxième choc chinois arrive www.alternatives-economiques.fr/vincent-vica...

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My simple model of fertility decline - Marginal REVOLUTION

I do recognize Grace Jones, but this is not how I remember Kate Moss.

1/6 According to Greg Ip, in the US economy today, "rewards are going disproportionately toward capital instead of labor. Profits have soared since the pandemic. The result: Capital is triumphant, while the average worker ekes out marginal gains." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

François Villeroy de Galhau : « La Banque de France a été la plus belle mission de ma vie » : lesechos.fr/finance-marc... via @LesEchos

It's impossible to be comfortable with "ID verification for social media" when the companies handling your sensitive data, continuously fail to keep your data private and safe. Last year, an age verification firm working with Discord was hacked, exposing 70,000 ID photos of Discord users.

My review of @brankomilan.bsky.social's great book, taking issue with its implicit pessimism. On @grandcontinent.bsky.social: legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/02/1...

Western-style forest fires have come to the east. "There were 77,850 US wildfires in 2025, and nearly half—49%—ignited east of the Mississippi... Over the past 40 years, the [east and southeast have] seen a 10-fold jump in the frequency of large burns." Nice piece by @jeva.bsky.social

Sujet d’économie de l’Agrégation externe de SES : « Les inégalités sont-elles toutes injustes ? »

My quick take on what Europe needs to do to provide the leadership the world needs from it. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...

Really interesting column from @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/e79f... Is this the way the world ends?

By @bondhack.ft.com, a journey deep into the Epstein files to figure out whether he was the CDO whale or a mark. as.ft.com/r/8eaf07ad-d...

Today in the worlds least surprising news www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

France, World War I. This photograph illustrates the difficult logistics of supplying the front line in winter. French soldiers, known as Poilus (‘the hairy ones’), are transporting pinard (wine) to the front lines.

Martin Sandbu is right. But to make progress, EU has to invert its founding logic. It must prioritize unity in national defense and geopolitics while encouraging countries to experiment freely in economics (on their own or in groups of their choice) www.ft.com/content/52d2...

Examining the relationship between the rise in cocaine-related overdose deaths in the US and increased coca cultivation in Colombia in the late 2010s, from Xinming Du, Benjamin Hansen, Shan Zhang, and Eric Zou www.nber.org/papers/w34788

Manley Series: 1659-2025. Growing Season Temperatures in Central England. The Manley series is the world’s longest instrumentally measured temperature record. It refers to Central England, beginning in 1659 and spanning 367 years. Here is a link to the data: www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadce...

Lecture recommandée, si vous y avez accès. www.nber.org/system/files...

A 1964 French brochure for the new Massey-Ferguson Tracteur MF 44 vigneron à chenilles, a crawler specifically designed for vineyard work. Built in Italy by Landini (Reggio Emilia) for Massey-Ferguson and remained in production until the mid-1960s. The 40 hp tractor was a narrow crawler, 1.05 m wide

Fantastic use of AI. Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee economist.com/finance-and-...

Everybody knows about the great Irish famine. TIL that the share of the 1845 potato harvest that was lost in Belgium (90%) was 3 times higher in Ireland - but the plague lasted much longer in Ireland. One of the numerous aspects of the plague that is hard to imagine for the modern mind, /