I’m puzzled like many — what British gov’t can do better than Chinese here — they were making a loss of £700k per day. Is it to save 2,700 jobs? Of course Jeremy Corbyn supports #nationalisation of any industry. If that’s US tariffs, again what British gov’t can do better here?

Looking forward to the talk by Ahmad Lashkaripour @lashkaripour.bsky.social On ‘Can Trade Policy Mitigate Climate Change? joint by Farid Farrokhi @leuveneconomics.bsky.social

Activiste Sharifeh Mohammadi uit Iran heeft de doodstraf gekregen. Alleen maar omdat ze demonstreerde voor vrouwen- en arbeidersrechten. Ze is geheel onschuldig. Teken nu de protestmail. www.amnesty.nl/forms/email-...

Looking forward to the talk by Farid Farrokhi (Boston College) @leuveneconomics.bsky.social on ‘A Framework for Integrating Climate Goals into Trade Agreements’ joint with @lashkaripour.bsky.social and Homa Taheri

Shutting down already installed infrastructure isn't "efficiency," it's sabotage electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

Happy to see the Faculty of Economics and Business of KU Leuven @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social is now an ex of X

And welcome to the Department of Economics of KU Leuven to #bluesky 🙌

We recently launched NEP reports in Bluesky. Get announcements of new economics working papers in 100 fields, curated by volunteer, human editors. bsky.app/starter-pack... #RePEc #EconSky

The Department of Economics KU Leuven (feb.kuleuven.be/economics) is recruiting motivated students to the PhD program, across all major fields of Economics! Deadline to apply for the fully funded positions is January 31, 2025. feb.kuleuven.be/research/eco...

Looking forward to presenting at the Southern Economic Association (#SEA) conference in Washington DC. It’s HUGE: sea.mymeetingsavvy.net/program #EconSky

How great it is that in #bluesky there is no advert! We may need to think about buying customised domain to help it paying its bills — I’d be happy to do that as long as it wouldn’t give me any privilege (c.f blue tick in #xitter)

Here is Vol. 1 of the Bluesky Energy & Environmental Economics starter pack. If your account is still active at the Nazi Bar, feel free to share there to help get new feeds primed--there are a lot of people here! Let me know if you'd like to be included in the next batch! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Very proud to see that Mansurabad, a village in Rafsanjan of #Iran founded by my grandfather, Yousef Moin, more than 70 years ago, has been the recipient of Markhor Award of the #UN at COP16 on #Biodiversity for its exceptional community-led conservation.

Please repost and spread the news! And time to complete that political environmental economics paper of yours! (Submission deadline Nov 1) www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

Congratulations to Emanuele Tarantino, the new chief #competition economist of the #EuropeanCommission !! All the best, Emanuele! #EconSky

Pls re-skeet for reach: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of EER in honor of Nora Szech editors: S. Huck, N. Schweizer, M. Serra-Garcia #econsky 📉📈 www.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...

📣 AERE@OSWEET returns *this Friday* September 13th at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) with 3 terrific talks health and the environment! Presenters: ⚡️ Xinming Du (NUS) ⚡️ Kaiyi Wen (Binghamton) ⚡️ Ammazia Hanif (Tsukuba) Register: ubc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

I look forward to this webinar: "The Optimal Design of #Climate Agreements: #Inequality, #Trade and Incentives for #Carbon #Policy" by Thomas Bourany ( U of Chicago) Monday, September 16, 2024 11:00AM NY, 4:00PM LONDON, 5:00PM ROME mailchi.mp/e-axes/invit... #environmentalecon #EconSky

Call for papers for Vienna Workshop "The Political Economy of the Environment" sites.google.com/view/polecon...

Calls for scholarships and fellowships at UniCredit: www.unicreditgroup.eu/en/microsite... #EconSky

Yes, we, as academics around the world, should support female students from #Afghanistan who have been kicked out of universities by Taliban: www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

And here is Energy & Env Econ Volume 2: bsky.app/starter-pack...

A recent article in #Nature: #Canada is ranked fourth among the major polluters in 2023 because of its #wildfires (!!) Wildfires in eastern Canada are mostly human-made. Another reason to call for more ambitious climate policies by the North (+Australia) where wildfires mostly occur

Why #economics is such a concentrated discipline? This NBER WP looks at 18 major fields: natural sciences, engineering, and #socialsciences. In all the award winners are diffused around the world, except in economics! #EconSky

#ElonMusk publicly used X to incite violence in UK: predicting a civil war, comparing Britain with Soviet Union, constant direct clashes with Keir Starmer. We must promote migration to #BlueSky and scale back our use of X, but tweets on high-stake issues may stop the spread of #disinformation on X.

Today, it's 60y since Tanzania was formed by the combination of TANganyika & ZANzibar. Tanzania has protected nature of the size of Norway and has the largest lion population in the world but is poor, loses 1% of forest a year, and needs more $ from the North to conserve (for us)!

A great conference by @LeuvenEconomics with an excellent lineup of invited speakers in a beautiful and easily-accessible town! Submit your paper! #econtheory #macroeconomics #labourecon #publicecon #econometrics feb.kuleuven.be/leuvensummer...

If #migration and emergence of more right-wing politicians are concerns of the western world, alongside combating #ClimateCrisis they should support democratisation in #MiddleEast and #Africa