sjbeconobot.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading
He/him, autistic
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The 2020 DNC delegates were awarded by proportional representation but no one would have been able to infer that from the discourse.
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Seems like your classic case of managers insisting on process which creates problems which justify their oversight.
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@uniofreading.bsky.social
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“This protagonist doesn’t seem terribly heroic” discourse is bad enough but the people who sympathise with the antihero make me despair for humanity.
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I agree we should be interested in empirical facts for their own sake. But people will always ask “what else would have to be true if this” and that’s a useful disciplining heuristic on empirical work for science as a whole.
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There are many people who would argue the existence of the gender equality paradox vindicates gender essentialism. IMO if it exists it’s more parsimoniously explained by social identity polarisation. But the anti-essentialist argument is easier to make if it’s just an artefact.
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There is no future in England’s dreaming.
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If material goods are infinitely abundant then land (for its amenity value) and labour (to produce services) are still valuable. The most desirable thing to have for a very wealthy person in this society is a large estate and retinue of servants?
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Graeber, like many radicals past, was uniquely clear-eyed in pointing out civilisation’s load-bearing structures and way too optimistic about the prospect of knocking them down.
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The cost-push vs. demand-pull debate last appeared in 2022 so by my naive reckoning someone will re-discover rational expectations before 2030.
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Pizza, like god, has multiple consubstantial manifestations.
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Vance should know because that’s also what happened to the Rust Belt.
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now that sounds more like Calvin
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Society: circular, absurd.
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People need people but have you considered that they only need people because people need them? No reason for any of it, I say.
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Degrowthbrain:
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Ironically the waiting lists for autism diagnosis are already so long that anyone referred today won’t be seen until Nige’s premiership 🙄
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Easy to say for someone who isn’t mis-PHed on the regular.
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Shot of whiskey every time Thiel says “marginal” gets you out of watching the whole thing because you’ve died of alcohol poisoning 10mins in.
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Do it! The world needs more treatments of this topic which are less annoying than watching David Graeber debate Peter Thiel.
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retvrn
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Congratulations to us Britain we are more conservative than a guy who thinks Donald Trump is a king.
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How do you reconcile this with German behavior at grocery store checkouts? They’re angry if you bag even slightly slower than the items come down the belt!
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“I believe in punching bears. But sometimes they hit back! If the state were serious about protecting my beliefs they would put bear traps everywhere.”
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The bad news is no one remembers what 1945 was like. The good news is everyone remembers what 2024 was like.
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Most authoritarians legitimate themselves as the stationary bandit who is preferable to chaos. Trump is only possible because so many Americans refuse to believe that bad things could ever happen to them, and will persist in this belief until it is disconfirmed.