Unlearning Economics
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Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)
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New video: A Wealth Tax Wonât Work the Way You Think
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A Wealth Tax Wonât Work the Way You Think
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://youtu.be/cmK74mfpHQA
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New video: A Wealth Tax Wonât Work the Way You Think
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A Wealth Tax Wonât Work the Way You Think
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://youtu.be/cmK74mfpHQA
2 days ago
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I'm glad someone is saying this! HS2 was a disaster but it's only the tip of the iceberg in super corrupt Britain.
chriscollins756.substack.com/p/how-corrup...
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How Corruption Became Legal in Britain
An investigation into how Britain is looted in broad daylight.
https://chriscollins756.substack.com/p/how-corruption-became-legal-in-britain?r=15n6xs&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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Samuel Moyn
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One of his best ever: âIn retrospect it seems we might have gotten ahead of ourselves in tabulating all the things, beyond who was in power, that had really changed about the country as a whole.â
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/o...
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Opinion | What if the MAGA Vibe Shift Was Just a Mirage?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/opinion/politics/trump-vibe-shift.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Grace
10 days ago
Amazing
https://load-bear.ing
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Athena Kugblenu
12 days ago
ULEZ proves good policy over popularity is what we need. Not dickhead politicians lapping up the support of idiots who want us all to be as miserable as them
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Toxic air death estimates in London drop by 40%, study suggests
A new study suggests estimated deaths linked to toxic air in London fell by about 40% in five years.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czj8v7z1njgo
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Duncan Robinson
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A Copernican revolution in British politics, after the discovery that literally everything revolves around Ed Miliband
www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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Forget Andy. Forget Keir. Itâs Edâs Britain
Ed Miliband is the Copernican centre of British politics
https://www.economist.com/britain/2026/06/25/forget-andy-forget-keir-its-eds-britain
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Claude is so funny "I'll actually read the article, rather than guessing" yeah man nobody is suggesting the latter
12 days ago
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JW Mason
12 days ago
Kind of fascinating to watch Warsh struggle with the question of how to be a central banker when your vision of the world is one where central banks should not exist.
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Pwnallthethings
14 days ago
turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart
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This is really good
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https://aeon.co/essays/lets-save-the-enlightenment-baby-from-its-muddied-bathwater
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With LLMs I think a key tell - one that's kind of subtle - is that they generally don't/can't go back and correct existing wording. So they have to add new text if they've forgotten something. "That's a sharp question. Your second question also deserves answering."
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That's not what I said though, is it? I asked why they were reporting the things Trump said *plainly*, as if they were credible and didn't change every hour. Most of what he says is noise and responsible reporting means pricing that in.
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Writing and researching is obviously a challenging process, but I honestly don't get how much writers complain about writer's block. It's not *that* hard to write *something*, and what's more, it's fun!
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I'm not sure why the BBC main headlines continue plainly reporting the things Trump says. Seriously, I want to know what it is! Is it fear of his threats? 'Impartiality'? Extremely dry sarcasm?
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I'm convinced that there was a webcomic a while back, maybe SMBC, that joked about social scientists presenting things obvious to most people as 'puzzles'. Does anyone remember this or have I imagined it!?
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I'm convinced that there was a webcomic a while back, maybe SMBC, that joked about social scientists presenting things obvious to most people as 'puzzles'. Does anyone remember this or have I imagined it!?
24 days ago
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Really rnjoyed chatting on the Making Money podcast!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnb...
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Economist: The Government Saved ÂŁ200m and Created a ÂŁ1bn Problem
YouTube video by Making Money Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hnbh4Majgc
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Iâm not really up to date with the Henry Nowak, anyone have a solid synopsis?
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Somehow, every time I read about the eurozone crisis I get even angrier about it than I was before
about 1 month ago
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I have no pension, wonder if my patrons will stick around through my retirement
about 1 month ago
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Trish Greenhalgh
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Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years Iâve had SIX messages from people who saved a kidâs life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning Doesnât Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
https://slate.com/technology/2013/06/rescuing-drowning-children-how-to-know-when-someone-is-in-trouble-in-the-water.html
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Pleased to see that Rethinking Economics have launched their membership! Join up if youâre fed up with mainstream economics
www.rethinkeconomics.org
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I like to read the generic marketing emails I get from start to finish. Theyâre just so incredibly soulless that somehow they become art again.
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NEW VIDEO: Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops?
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Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops?
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9E7QAHJF0w
about 1 month ago
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Yep, gonna try this. Except my next video will knock on 4 hours. But after.
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about 1 month ago
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While itâs probably best that weâre past the ârich guy observes thingsâ era of social science, it was still better than the âamateur statisticians overconfidently prove ridiculous hypothesisâ era
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NEW VIDEO: Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops?
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Why is the Whole Economy Just Coffee Shops?
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9E7QAHJF0w
about 1 month ago
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Everyone whinges about culture 'moving left' until they actually examine how gay people were treated 20 years ago
about 1 month ago
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I've not watched many YouTube videos recently, but this one is worth the 90 minutes!
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Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
https://youtu.be/U8dcFhF0Dlk?si=SDBha8qOhaVNldlA
about 2 months ago
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Jake Grumbach
about 2 months ago
New for the Vibecession Debate. Working paper argues that using microdata to get household-specific inflation rates (rather than aggregating first like CPI), you find -lotta variation in household inflation -greater avg inflation during price upturns -lower real wages for lower income people
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Duncan Weldon
about 2 months ago
Increasingly think there is a strong case for an explicit wealth tax in order to make the politics of a more general tax rise more manageable. About fairness and burden sharing rather than revenue raising as such.
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"It's not that conservatives are stupid people. It's that conservatives want people to be stupid."
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...
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The Right Wants You Stupid
The eternal quest to preserve the âpleasing illusionsâ that hold society and its authorities together.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wants-you-stupid/
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"Thompson now concedes that even where planning reforms have passed â to âlegaliseâ housing â housing isnât getting built." đŽ
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âAbundanceâ and why trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew
Trickle-down housing economics just admitted what town planners always knew, argues Tim Sneesby in this article that tackles the truth about housing supply â 95 per cent of applications for developmen...
https://thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spinifex/abundance-and-why-trickle-down-housing-economics-just-admitted-what-town-planners-always-knew/
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Sonja Drimmer
2 months ago
Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.
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EconomicsInTen
2 months ago
Excellent conversation between
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
and
@hettieobrien.bsky.social
- it really makes you want to read the book & it gets you angry as to why this model of capitalism has been allowed to gobble up so many businesses that impact our lives. Have a watch.
youtu.be/tyNFosOFUDM?...
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How Private Equity Ruined Everything - with Hettie O'Brien
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://youtu.be/tyNFosOFUDM?si=UFNd-fZTCaCLirPA
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"If universal basic income enables even one more Einstein to become Einstein over the course of the next century, it will have paid for itself a thousand times over."
www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...
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The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI
Why Angine de Poitrine's viral microtonal math rock KEXP session, Ireland's permanent basic income for artists, and Albert Einstein are three sides of the same human triangle Two guys in papier-mâc...
https://www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-de-poitrine-argument-for-ubi/
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This is a completely fair point- obviously there is a clear difference between East and West Germany and I didn't mean to gloss over it. What I was really getting at was that stable employment and community can be found around Germany, which contrasts starkly to the UK
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2 months ago
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caseman
2 months ago
Look
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he even put a really simple numbered list in the article if the word count was too daunting for you
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EconomicsInTen
2 months ago
Good article by
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and it is an odd response by
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as the whole article is about identifying trade-offs and the nuances of the rent cap debate. Have a read...
#EconSky
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Love to see a tenured professor being factually proved wrong and then calling people 'tards' in response. Not sure which is to blame, the economics profession or twitter. Glad I left them both!
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AdyBee đ
2 months ago
Why we are getting poorer âŚ.
#Money&Macro
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
#YouTube
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Why we are getting poorer | dr. Cahal Moran (Unlearning Economics)
YouTube video by Money & Macro Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TRqGuFhCzM
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One of the authors of Abundance went on an angry rant about my rent control article, seemingly without reading it. Wonder if he knows about my negative review of his book? (Which I actually read!) Links:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/rent-co...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxzd...
2 months ago
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Arthur Lewis on the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, 1954
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James Medlock
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JW Mason
3 months ago
My book Against Money, coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, is coming out from University of Chicago Press on May 5.
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Against Money
A powerful deconstruction of humanityâs most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card ...
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo265118979.html
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Sad to hear that Keynesâ biographer Robert Skidelsky has died. He was a force for good in the economics world. Sadly had some lapses in judgment later in life, but his overall legacy is a positive one.
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Bill
3 months ago
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits heâs the dog that caught the car
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