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Really important paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Brexit uncertainty led to a 9.2% annual reduction in UK services exports, equivalent to a cumulative loss of USD 146.8 billion between 2016 and 2019.

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A university MMA club - how cool is that ?

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Praise be - researchfish done for another year - IYKYK!

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Report into productivity in the midlands for @productivity.bsky.social www.productivity.ac.uk/research/the...

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Just reflecting on the amazing empathetic and sympathetic people caring for my dad in the NHS - without any discussion of what he’s entitled to under his “plan”

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Clearest exposition I have seen of trumps strategy www.facebook.com/share/p/17Zb...

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Oh no ! Who else got this with the usual dread ? If you don’t know, complying with this takes about a day 3 grants , probably 50 engagements to assign and categorise …

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Wise words on deregulation and growth www.ft.com/content/a1b9... I have always found that business want less regulation - right up to the point where they discover that regulation protects their firm specific advantage

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I recall once the dean if a business school in London saying to me “I reckon we all at least twice a week have a nightmare that UCL starts a proper business school” www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

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Farage pours poison into the ear of the uber-toad Musk. The toad amps it, garbles it, and then spews it forth. Cue outcry. Farage shrugs. Spread his palms helplessly. Says “free speech”and “What can I do?” And happily watches the poison spread. Rinse and repeat.

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If you know me, you will know how hard my son worked at taekwando, overcoming dyspraxia to achieve his 3rd dan. he is taking part in a “fight night” - all the different martial arts at his university for an event for Help for Heroes. even £1 would be very gratefully received. Many thanks

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Sir Jim Ratcliffe has cut funding to the Association of Former #ManUtd Players, a trust supporting low-income ex-players The charity was set up in 1985 to support ex-players following retirement

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Interesting read for anyone interested in devo deals etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... by @dgbailey.bsky.social

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Lots if discussion of mergers in HE again, reminded me if this : www.hepi.ac.uk/2020/06/05/l...

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Diane Coyle, Greg Clark & tradeunionists Kate Bell & Roy Rickhuss all good. But only 1 from UK mfg (Anita Frew)! & Would prefer academics with place based views - think Philip McCann, Lisa De Propris, Nigel Driffield, Phil Tomlinson… www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society ... we can't go around the world saying, 'in Russia Putin has an oligarchy.' Well we got an oligarchy here too."

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Nick Candy says he will raise more than £40 million to make Nigel Farage Prime Minister. Oh ok. That’s how it’s going to work now, is it? Democracy torched by spoiled brat billionaires buying power for themselves and their arsehole mates. It couldn’t be more critical for us all that they fail.

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No westenglandbylines.co.uk/region/was-t...

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I dont normally do “hey ive written a paper posts, but this is at the very practical end of academima - with lord harrington on FDI policy so may be interest to a wider group of people www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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For anyone interested in « levelling up » and the role FDI can play www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

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"Some jobs are productive and others less so," says Kemi Badenoch, whose own job has involved trying to start a culture war with autistic children, calling for civil servants to be locked up, and attempting to start an online spat with Doctor Who

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Based on the number of econ followers i have, great to see that econbluesky doesn’t seem to have the same aversion to business schools as econTwitter did !

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Yes! @annagoeddeke.bsky.social did the starter pack of starter packers 👇🙏

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Seeing uni applications from the other side, one university in particular prioritises applicants who actually want to go somewhere else, over applicants for whom they are first choice. Interesting strategy.

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Been doing some analysis of outward fdi post brexit. FDI to EU12 increased - uk firms servicing markets from there not here. FDI to Asia increased - offshoring in anticipation of lower tariffs from Asia. So basically investment went from south east hitting productivity and jobs went from RUK

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Aye. Need to understand value chains and fdi motives before making up policy www.briefingbook.info/p/why-broad-...

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Just realised I forgot to post this the other day. Me and @pmdfoster.bsky.social on the scramble to get a hearing in the govt’s industrial strategy on.ft.com/4fPy24e

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@tazeeb.bsky.social any more IB people on here ?

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I’ve had lots of follows from regional people - which is lovely and thank you. However I feel a fraud because @tasoskitsos.bsky.social put me on his “to follow” (thanks) but I’m not really a regional person, I just publish with people who are !

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My (draft) starter pack for my Topics in Regional and Urban Economics module (that one day will exist!) 🙏flag more to add, I know I'm missing loads go.bsky.app/LHQB6NW

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