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neillee.bsky.social
Professor of Economic Geography, LSE
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People want to believe that Musk is running the government like he runs SpaceX but he’s running it like he runs X.

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This is really excellent. Donald Trump’s first month in charts: tepid approval ratings, huge number of executive orders & lawsuits, and not enough on inflation on.ft.com/4189Q7E

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Why are birth rates crashing? This was great fun!!

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The latest Economics Show w/ @draliceevans.bsky.social & @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is going straight onto my course ‘reading’ list podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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So parliamentary systems are the best, are they now, political scientists? Make your mind up

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Really interesting Dieter Helm piece recommending territorially mobile industries pay only the marginal cost of energy production Better energy policy could save British industries www.thetimes.com/article/d721...

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Meanwhile, join me at Sciences Po in Paris! Assistant Professor position for a social scientist who focuses on digital inequalities (French not required to apply) www.sciencespo.fr/cris/en/news...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote about Labour’s lack of a growth vision for not-the south east on.ft.com/4jQN4tz

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Re-upping a favourite paper: Being born in a high unemployment area: 1. Reduces your incomes later in life and, accounting for this, 2. Changes your political views: makes you more pro-government intervention, less progressive on gender, and less likely to vote Tory doi.org/10.1016/j.ju...

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The #UK government's #growth plans include a National Wealth Fund that looks more like a Green Investment Bank. On @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social @neillee.bsky.social and Cassandra Chong distil four lessons that Labour can learn from other green banks.

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Labour’s growth plans include a National Wealth Fund. But this is unlike any other Sovereign Wealth Funds. In fact it's more like a Green Investment Bank. @neillee.bsky.social and Cassandra Chong distil four lessons that Labour can learn from other green banks. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

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The UK will become the most populous European country in 2059, according to the UN population projections (medium fertility)

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PhD opportunity at Manchester on (Inclusive) Innovation Districts www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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A common claim: scale economies matter more now than they did - but beyond anecdote, are there papers which show this?

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An alternative possibility is that it is simply compositional. Imagine an economy of 2 people 1 earns £750 1 earns £1500 GDP per worker is £1125 Next year everyone’s income rises 10% and another low income worker joins 2 earn £825 1 earns £1650 GDP per worker is £1100 but everyone better off

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Wages in Milton Keynes are now higher than in Oxford, what a massive policy success / failure

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@poid-lse.bsky.social is recruiting a research assistant to work with me and Steve Machin on UK spatial disparities in private and public capital stocks, self-employment and productivity. Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Urbanisation isn't just about skylines; it’s about semantics. Lewis Dijkstra will reveal how flawed definitions distort projections of urban growth and that cities grow more by births than migration. 📅 13 Feb | 📍 LSE & Online | 🎤 Dr. Lewis Dijkstra www.lse.ac.uk/canada-blanc...

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I do wonder if it would be easier to build reservoirs if we renamed them 'lakes' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The term “sovereign wealth fund” is being stretched, but they are rapidly becoming the most interesting policy tool

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The banter heuristic is if Brexit helps the UK escape an EU-US trade war

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