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jimtomlinson45.bsky.social
economic historian-emeritus at Glasgow. Working mainly on deindustrialization.
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From this morning's Guardian. Beavers building infrastructure is a new move? A re-imagining of growth and animal spirits?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

A striking testimony to the mutability of economic arguments. For decades the British trade deficit was used as evidence of British economic weakness. Now Starmer uses our deficit with the USA to argue we should be exempt from tariffs...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Extremely sensible advice from @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social "Economic policy is not supposed to be about scrabbling around for small savings in pursuit of a distant target viewed through the cloudiest of telescopes. There are bigger fish to fry." www.thetimes.com/article/ef85...

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

Pleased to say my new book with Bloomsbury is now out.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

With Farage enthusing about Elon Musk's activities, can we assume that Reform will embrace large public subsidies for electric vehicles, a key foundation of Musk's fortune?

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Christmas in Kolkata. As they will tell you, Bengalis love a festival!

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Here in Kolkata the book trade seems to be thriving.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Today's Times of India reports for first time Indian service exports exceed goods exports. Some significance forr debate on "service path to development"?

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Very interesting… “In an economy where only 8% of workers are employed in manufacturing, a policy that promises to restore the middle class by bringing manufacturing back home is not only unrealistic; it also rings hollow...”

submitted 124 days ago • 6 comments

Thanks @jdportes.bsky.social, and I agree. Here are some proposals on these good jobs policies for the UK economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/wp-content/u... and for France (in Section 4) drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola....

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

I have joined the defectors from X. Gives me a chance to "re-announce" that my book with Chris Whatley has just come out!

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments