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"crusades against regulation—the use of hilariously outdated metaphors like “red tape” and “blueprint” is always a warning signal—can end up creating massive damage, and making or unmaking rules in a rush to fulfil a political imperative is a sure-fire way to get it wrong." @alanbeattie.bsky.social

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#sociologyofeconomics drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications...

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We're going to take good news when they come :) First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Lost folk wisdom from a (then) recent immigrant in the US

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Peter the Great and the Ottomans were desperate to acquire the war-making power of the modern bureaucracy. It is what "modernization" meant for ~200 years. It will be very funny to watch the global hegemon throw it away for memes.

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Meanwhile US Defense Secretary says U.S. won't be "primary guarantor of security in Europe" 🧐

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"businessmen, obsessed with a devil theory of government, will attempt to use their economic power to suppress democracy and place in its stead a dictatorship" - the danger was real, concluded young economists from Harvard and Tufts in their Economic Program for American Democracy published in 1938

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My latest on how not to respond to Trump's tariff threats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

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The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

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Excellente discussion sur Sismondi avec Nicolas Eyguesier et Pascal Bridel www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

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Pollution : réduire les niveaux de particules fines et de dioxyde d'azote permettrait de sauver plusieurs dizaines de milliers de vies, selon Santé publique France www.francetvinfo.fr/monde/enviro...

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Article: The Rise of the Conjuncturists: Building Economic Expertise on the Fall of the Popular Front, by Nicolas Brisset & Raphaël Fèvre https://buff.ly/3PHvOJd

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EJHET’s first issue of 2025 is out on time. It includes book Reviews by Richard van den Berg, Biancamaria Fontana, Pascal Bridel, Dorian Jullien, @dkuehn.bsky.social on topics ranging from Mary Wollstonecraft, trade, Kahn, to economic methodology and neoliberalism www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

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Reportage intéressant 🧘🏻‍♂️ ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s episode in our series on revolutionary ideas is a conversation covering two millennia with the historian @holland-tom.bsky.social exploring the never-ending upending of human understanding brought about by Christianity. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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I agree that mainstream media failed us in normalizing Trump's fascist policy announcements. Like many corporations and some American civil society organizations, they seem to lack consciousness or political courage. It's not because Trump was elected at majority that what he says is acceptable.

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"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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I think @leaypi.bsky.social is right, we are living in a reactionary period of history

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"The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order [of merchants and manufacturers] ... whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the publick, …have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it." (Adam Smith, 1776, I.xi.p.10)

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Mise en perspective lucide de @gabrielzucman.bsky.social sur la fiscalité trumpiste et une proposition alternative qui mérite d'être discutée: un 'protectionnisme d'interposition' pour renverser la course au moins-disant en matière de concurrence fiscale internationale.

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Une belle occasion de mieux faire connaître mon ancien patron, pour qui j’ai le plus grand respect, pour son intelligence, mais surtout pour ses valeurs.

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[Call postdoc] "up to 4 two-year fellowships for advanced studies on Rethinking the Origins of Political Economy in the European World: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations" (dir. Sophus Reinert) www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

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Sign me up! 😁 Why Canada should join the EU www.economist.com/europe/2025/... from @economist.com

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NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

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Brillant review of Shapin's new book by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social Food is a good case to study the history of moral and scientific entanglements. As well as "continuity through change" as old metaphors of the body rarely disappear completely.

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EJHET is catching up on the backlog of issues. A special issue on Walter Bagehot is complemented by 4 fantastic reviews of books by Nelson, Tavlas, Burns, and Bigg on the history of 20th-century monetary theory (Reviewed by Clerc, Emmett, Laidler, Mehrling) www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

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What's the fiscal politics behind the rise of Trump? Are economists responsible? Melinda Cooper points at supply-side economics and public choice theory. Read about her new book in my forthcoming review doi.org/10.1215/0018...

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Issue 4 of EJHET contains great reviews on 18th and 19th century Britain and France, Keynesian behavioural economics and the history of inequality. @18thc-finance.bsky.social @brankomilan.bsky.social Read from Tribe, Hudson, @alxndrtrc.bsky.social ... www.tandfonline.com/toc/rejh20/3...

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Really good episode of "In Our Time" on Friedrich Hayek - a much more interesting thinker than many of his disciples. With Ben Jackson, Melissa Lane and Bruce Caldwell. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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