Being so used to reading news articles online that I think I’ve lost the ability to search for the article on the newspaper. (also, why the hell do articles have different titles online and on the papers?)

Smith… Keynes. Pettis... Klein www.continuousvariation.com/p/smith-keyn...

We launched the China Index (中文版) with a press briefing on how Beijing shapes narratives & influence in Taiwan. A major challenge is how broad and varied these efforts are, often reaching those left out of the social safety net — a reminder how social gaps can turn into leverage points.

Yeah, that’s going to be fun. #ECB

Not least given that Marx did literally move the HQ of the First International to New York City in 1872 for... reasons...

Totally excited to be teaching parts of Amy Offner's Sorting Out the Mixed Economy this week! An absolutely brilliant book that is not remotely appreciated as much as it should be. 1/

*Willy Brandt energy intensifies*

trying to get into research is like a lottery, it becomes further out of reach.

G.E.R. Gedye lived in Vienna as Central Europe correspondent from 1925-1938. I had the privilege to write about his extraordinary yet forgotten book "Fallen Bastions", describing Austria's descent into dictatorship, for @datum.at. It's now also available in English: www.esiweb.org/cafe-europe/...

Today, @rooseveltinstitute.org is hosting a conference "From Crisis to Confidence: Building a Government for Working Families." We have oodles of panels digging into our new report. Part post mortem on Biden admin, part Fight Song for the future. Follow along! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Does anyone have leads on research positions and work in the area of political economy in Germany?

for research project w @cnewf.bsky.social been reading old World Bank: 'By controlling finance, the Korean government became an effective risk-sharing partner with the industrialists. It could thus encourage their venturesomeness and induce them to have long-term horizons for their companies'

The old Tietz department store (later Hertie), built between 1904 and 1911, dominated Alexanderplatz until it was destroyed in WW2. Here it dominates the image too; note the Berolina statue in the foreground. Date of image/source unknown. #berlin www.slowtravelberlin.com/alexanderpla...

The American voter dreams of a combination Hukou-Kafala system where they can pat themselves on the back for letting immigrants nanny their kids but also hunt them for sport if they ask for higher wages or try to live nearby

Excellent distillation of the Nobel Memorial Prize by @maiamindel.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/someunpl...

Anyone remembers this great podcast by FT, Alphachat? has there been a great successor since then (and don’t say the excellent Odd Lots )

My polling average has now been updated with the Takaichi government's first wave of polling. As of 10/27, the government's ten-day moving average is: APPROVE 67.66% DISAPPROVE 20.44% Adjusted for house effects: APPROVE 68.67% DISAPPROVE 19% observingjapan.substack.com/p/tracking-t...

brilliant documentary - stringing together some of the readings and critiques I have encountered on the myths of the Wirtschaftswunder: www.arte.tv/de/videos/12...

Ich würde sagen, die Stimmung zur wirtschaftlichen Lage und Zukunft Deutschlands ist ziemlich mies. Das Überraschende: Wenn man sich mal das große Bild anschaut und ein bisschen zurücktritt, sieht es, zumindest was den Status Quo betrifft, eigentlich ziemlich gut aus.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Excellent and stimulating. "The political economists were practitioners as much as scholars.."

»In „Geschichten aus der Geschichte“ erzählen sich Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner historische Anekdoten – woraus einer der beliebtesten deutschsprachigen Independent-Podcasts entstanden ist. Ein Gespräch über diesen unerwarteten Erfolg.« Ohne Paywall: archive.is/67Cx1

"Beijing can use its control regime to paralyse production in key industrial sectors. With detailed applications for export licences, Beijing is forcing German companies to disclose trade secrets and wants to make it impossible for them to build up reserves."

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

A comparison of Hong Kong's population pyramid from 1961 with mid-2025, where I superimpose the graph published in 1969 with current data. For mid-2025, 5-year intervals for ages 85 and up are estimates. 1961 population: 3,129,648 2025 population: 7,527,500 (provisional)

Happy International Archaeology Day! #InternationalArchaeologyDay 🏺 #Archaeology

What’s with the recent spate of INSM ads in Berlin Mitte? Are they a new iteration of some DOGE/chainsaw political lobby entering German politics?

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.

Ehemaliger BND-Chef Bruno Kahl ist neuer Botschafter im Vatikan: Nach fast zehn Jahren als Chef des Bundesnachrichtendienstes vollführt Bruno Kahl nun einen kuriosen Karrierewechsel: Seit diesem Samstag ist er deutscher Botschafter im Vatikan.

Pure incompetence of @deutschebahn.com in light of regional train disruption between Berlin and Leipzig is forgoing adding carriages and capacity. The result: overcrowded trains and slow boarding. Dismal third world management.

I had no idea that Thomas Pynchon is still alive.

US criticises European defence production as too slow

Excited next week for the most important ‘Nobel Prize’.

How can we make immigration durably popular? Alex Kustov has an answer & a bunch of novel evidence in his new book The key is not for liberal politicians to stoop to xenophobia, they must instead to make immigration policy *demonstrably* beneficial to the nation www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

And that's a draft

One of the most painful thing about being unemployed is the inability to relate to anybody.

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid... My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation www.ft.com/content/de31...

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

Virginia Woolf’s work of experimental fiction, The Life of Violet, publishes for the first time on October 7. Learn more about how volume editor Urmila Seshagiri discovered the draft typescript—and how it fits into the Woolf canon—in the @washingtonpost.com:

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

I like my operas a dramatic 5 hours.

Eight members of the OPEC Plus oil producers group said on Sunday that they would raise their output of crude by a modest 137,000 barrels day in November. The group’s move, which was led by Saudi Arabia, is the latest in a series of increases beginning earlier this year.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

As Trump pursues a trade pact with the US’s biggest economic and strategic rival, advocates of a tougher China policy fear they’re being sidelined inside the administration as the tech industry’s influence grows