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mikejbeggs.bsky.social
Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
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My review of @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social 'Politics, Inequality and the Australian Welfare State After Liberalisation' has be published in The Economics and Labour Relations Review! This fascinating work analyses the development of the Australian Welfare State since 1980

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

the academic urge to nod encouragingly at flight attendant giving safety demonstration

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

Good summary open.substack.com/pub/philosop...

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Now this is exceedingly interesting: Data on monthly retail spending, broken down by household income and other characteristics. www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

I just learned that you can pre-order books as part of @versobooks.bsky.social's end of year sale. The Master's Tools will be out Jan 7. Throw it in your cart before Jan 1 for some chunky discounts. www.versobooks.com/products/755...

submitted 80 days ago • 2 comments

Checking in to see if I’m missing anything on Twitter

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

Only tipping your health insurer 10% to punish them for bad service is childish behavior

submitted 86 days ago • 2 comments

Our emails about "stop leaking about ANU's toxic management culture" keep getting leaked to the media, once again, we are reminding you to please be nice to the executives who plan to fire 600 of you

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

Someone at ANU really needs to set up a webinar and sort all this out

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

My full thread from the Monash Uni Federal Court wage theft hearing is here 👇

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

According to RBA explainer video the most important problem with high inflation is that "if prices are rising faster than wages, you won't be able to buy as much as before". What is the RBA solution? Make sure wages grow more slowly than prices. If that sounds crazy, it is. www.rba.gov.au/about...

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

This is a very entertaining sequence for anyone who works in an Australian uni and also enjoys classic tropes of courtroom drama

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

A thread of mystifying and hilarious data visualisations from the "Australians" books, published in 1987 by the Australian Government. (originally brought to my attention by @mikejbeggs.bsky.social ) #ausecon #chartcrimes #dataviz 1. Spikes

submitted 88 days ago • 12 comments

In session in the Federal Court for Monash Uni’s wage theft case. I’ll be live posting from this hearing today. The NTEU alleges Australia’s largest university has not lawfully paid hundreds, perhaps thousands, of its casual teachers going back to 2016. Justice Snaden is the judge.

submitted 89 days ago • 15 comments

Here's a new comic I've been working on with CreativeNZ, trying to explain the state of arts funding in NZ. It's a been a big project, hope it helps. In some ways it's complex, in other ways it's simple: art and creativity are a public good thespinoff.co.nz/partner/29-1...

submitted 94 days ago • 4 comments

You don’t hear so much about The Three Amigos these days

submitted 94 days ago • 1 comment

Issuing a correction to this post on the advice of my wife and daughter. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta… etc.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Some days you just gotta unwind with a single malt and a two-decade-old forum flame war about weapon-type vs armour-type modifier tables across successive editions of AD&D

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

NSW Council of Civil Liberties has put out a statement on the Hodgkinson recommendations at USyd, calling on the state government to ‘urgently intervene to protect the right to the freedom of expression at the University of Sydney.’ www.nswccl.org.au/hodgkinson_r...

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I remember reading about the Berkeley Free Speech Movement as a sixties-obsessed teenager and finding the campus rules they rebelled against amusingly quaint. Hard to imagine outside of black-and-white photos of crusty old chancellors and cops in giant hats

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submitted 95 days ago • 4 comments

I feel bad for the student who accidentally uses a word or phrase before the commencement of class, requiring them to identify to the audience the context in which it is used, but thereby breaching the prohibition on addressing those present

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments

Getting expelled from Sydney Uni for saying “hi everyone” at the start of the tutorial I’m attending as a student

submitted 96 days ago • 2 comments