Unlearning Economics
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Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)
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Duncan Weldon
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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."
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The Right Wants You Stupid
The eternal quest to preserve the āpleasing illusionsā 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 ā to ālegaliseā housing ā housing isnāt getting built." š®
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āAbundanceā 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 ā 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
11 days ago
Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.
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EconomicsInTen
11 days 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."
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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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caseman
16 days ago
Look
@dkthomp.bsky.social
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
17 days ago
Good article by
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
and it is an odd response by
@dkthomp.bsky.social
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 š
17 days ago
Why we are getting poorer ā¦.
#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...
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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
about 1 month 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 humanityās 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 Keynesā 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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about 1 month ago
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Bill
about 1 month ago
Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits heās the dog that caught the car
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Oh good, Iām sure the discourse on this will be balanced and non-hysterical
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Green Leader Zack Polanski calls for rent controls for all homes
Limiting how much landlords can increase rents by is a flagship housing policy for the Green Party.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cql77nrgv67o
about 1 month ago
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Emma the Sewer Socialist
about 1 month ago
I find Joan Robinson very useful here, when she talks about how that Marx followed Smith and Ricardo and then Marx asked big questions of value, while Marshall turned them into little questions of price.
www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2019/05/joan...
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Ketan Joshi
about 1 month ago
The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now
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EconomicsInTen
about 1 month ago
Watched the latest from
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
and thought it was interesting. Have a watch and see what you think.
#EconSky
youtu.be/Vhts1xt1ZQQ?...
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Menonomics?
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://youtu.be/Vhts1xt1ZQQ?si=ltwL_vJDidTkoLd7
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If you had kept watching just a little bit longer, you would have heard me make this exact objection!
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about 1 month ago
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Harbinger Media Network
about 2 months ago
On šļø
@srslywrong.bsky.social
šļø ep361 the Wrong Boys explore why the economy is so uneven with Cahal Moran, economist and host of the youtube channel
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
, in a conversation discussing the problem of the economy and what we can do about it.
srslywrong.com/podcast/361-...
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Went on the high-effort podcast
@srslywrong.bsky.social
and it was super fun, they even let me join in on their little skits!
srslywrong.com/podcast/361-...
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361 ā Why Weāre Getting Poorer (w/ Cahal Moran) ā srsly wrong
https://srslywrong.com/podcast/361-why-were-getting-poorer-w-cahal-moran/
about 2 months ago
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I'd be more sympathetic to this viewpoint if economists' books outside their expertise didn't say things like "black people should stop naming their kids Roshanda"
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about 2 months ago
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EconomicsInTen
about 2 months ago
Agree with this. After teaching about 'Nudges', this is a real eye opener conversation between
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
& Nick Chater. We've been given some book vouchers by students and will certainly be buying this book - It's On You. And we love the term 'internalities' as well!
#EconSky
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Anyone remember when people like this were complaining about participation trophies?
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about 2 months ago
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Kieran
about 2 months ago
Wonderful conversation on
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
's live channel regarding behavioural science. Worth a listen for all who are skeptical that "nudging" people toward better choices can solve our societal issues!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxAN...
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How Behavioural Science was Hijacked - with Nick Chater
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxANpQiRoQk
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Hettie OāBrien
about 2 months ago
Look what just arrived! THE ASSET CLASS is out on 9 April with
@wnbooks.bsky.social
- you can read more about it and pre-order through my website (Iāll also be posting in the coming weeks on there about events Iāll be doing in April, May and beyond)
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Guess the government should hire lots of actual experts and direct resources towards the policy areas then!
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about 2 months ago
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Karthik Sankaran
2 months ago
I donāt see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.
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JW Mason
2 months ago
I hope everyoneās got your Minsky books somewhere where you can reach them easily.
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One of the dumbest narratives that has emerged about the UK economy is that net zero is whatās holding it back. Iām not sure how anyone can thinking switching to renewable energy is a cost at this stage
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/11/reaching-net-zero-by-2050-cheaper-for-uk-than-one-fossil-fuel-crisis?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
2 months ago
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The sheer volume of narratives about the Iran War on social media makes it impossible to keep up with what's actually going on.
2 months ago
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Neil Lewis
2 months ago
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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derek guy
2 months ago
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
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Zack Polanski
3 months ago
The choice is stark. Reform are the party of foreign wars and high bills. The Greens want de-escalation and energy security through renewables. Solar and wind prices don't fluctuate when rogue US presidents launch illegal bombing campaigns.
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James Medlock
3 months ago
It's funny to me when people who love to go on about second order effects of economic policies and the challenges of central planning without local knowledge suddenly drop all of that when it comes to foreign policy.
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Jo Michell
3 months ago
Thereās a scenario here ā not yet the central scenario by any means ā where we have to revisit the debate about how to handle inflation driven by external supply shocks AKA terms of trade shocks and reconsider the lessons we failed to learn in 2023-24. Policy interest rates are a blunt tool.
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Rose Schmits
3 months ago
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Iām glad someone finally noticed this! Itās a huge problem for the abundance agenda in my opinion, because it puts them face to face with the kind of question they didnāt want to ask
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3 months ago
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wasnāt expecting such direct support for my loose mental theory that progress in gaming has replaced progress in real life for my generation (See also: gym)
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Received the best birthday present ever
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Kieran
3 months ago
Wonderful vid by
@unlearnecon.bsky.social
. Complex issues require this level of analysis to get the outcomes we want.
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What Abundance Misses
YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxzdZC-R6Rc
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Peter
8 months ago
i actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, thatās how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl
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