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he/him | Australian economist living in Sydney | Views expressed are my own | Posts about Econ and welfare states
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Here are some reading recommendations for the current moment

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Some recommendations in economic history

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Here are some of my history book recommendations

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People often ask me what my strategy is to finish books. I basically do this: 1) listen to audiobooks x2-x3 speed 2) listen while doing chores that don't require much mental effort (laundry, cleaning, cooking etc)

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Interesting @brankomilan.bsky.social passage on Adam Smith's love of low interest rates. Smith both viewed low interest rates as a sign of capital abundance, and helpfully, that it made it difficult for people to live purely off capital income. Similar to Keynes' "Euthanasia of the rentier"

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By popular request, here are 9 more books on neoliberalism

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My favourite readings on Neoliberalism

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Nice Banerjee and Duflo quote on the real benefits of economic development: "Our real advantage comes from the many things that we take as given. We live in houses where clean water gets piped in—we do not need to remember to add Chlorin to the water supply every morning."

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My recommendations on unions and the labour movement

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With all the pope discourse, I thought I'd share this passage about when Henry George sent the Pope a 100 page letter on why Land Value Taxes are good

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Evergreen

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"spicy reading lists"

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Happy Easter folks! Ask me anything

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My reads of this year (so far)

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My recommendations on economic growth and development

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My recommendations on inequality

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Okay, I see the appeal now

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Easterlin versus his haters

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Here are some reading recommendations for the current moment

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"Abundance" is getting a lot of discourse, so here's my 10 great books with similar themes: 1) How China Escaped the Poverty Trap - Yuen Yuen Ang An excellent work on complexity economics, describing how optimal institutions develop and change through the development processes

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The conclusion of every lefty econ book

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Nice of him to wish me luck

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For the real heads

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I enjoyed reading Abundance, but I can't stop thinking about their utopian vision of the future, in which we all have Ozempic delivered to us via drone

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Credit to @JoeyEnlaiii on Twitter

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My contribution to the discourse

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If you'd like some book recommendations, reply to this post with a topic you're interested in

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Unironically this is also why you should support child benefits

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Marxists when Acemoglu & Johnson write about the dialectical relation between technology and power

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I haven't posted much recently but these are my recent reads this year

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Fascinating @brankomilan.bsky.social passage comparing Marx to neoclassical Econ in treatment of production and distribution. Neoclassical models treat endowments of capital and skill as outside the model. The market generates incomes, and redistribution is left to political processes 1/3

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This is an interesting Orwell passage, that the worst landlord is counterintuitively not a large rich one, but a poor desperate one

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