Unlearning Economics
Economist, YouTuber, gamer, author, academic (in that order)
- Reposted by Unlearning Economicsi actually prefer it when the mods actively hate the user base and vice versa, that’s how every great message board worked for years and i think we should give it a whirl
- Reposted by Unlearning Economics“If you read or share only one article today, make it this: HOW TRUMP HAS POCKETED $1,408,500,000 … Historically, one thing that has helped bring down authoritarians is public awareness of their use of power of the office for self-enrichment.” @leahmcelrath.bsky.social No paywall: archive.is/ZmfJC
- ”[Trump] is running a crypto scam where he can receive millions of dollars anonymously. Meanwhile the DOJ has shut down the crypto investigations unit. Truly no corruption scheme like this in our history — at least out of the White House.” @timmiller.bsky.social @thebulwark.bsky.social
- Started reading this without looking at the author and after a few paragraphs I was like "wait, is this @mattbruenig.bsky.social" and sure enough, it was jacobin.com/2025/03/abun...
- Pretty good write-up on the rent control debate by the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Rewatching shawshank and my first thoughts were “wow, look at all the outside space they have” and “must be peaceful without social media”
- Getting rejected from academic journals is a bit like dying in FromSoft games. It's really depressing, but you have to see it as a necessary part of the learning process.
- Reposted by Unlearning Economics"Yes, obviously" 💀
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- Ben Shapiro interviewed a woman on his podcast, probably a Fox News pundit or something, and she literally said out loud that one reason to fight transgenderism is because it undermines and traditional nuclear family. It was a good few years ago. I also recall her being blonde. Anyone remember?
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsImagine knowing your political leader is mentally unstable, dangerous, and corrupt and refusing to admit it or do anything about it. Now meet all GOP representatives and senators.
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- DOGE was a deliberately inflicted disaster donmoynihan.substack.com/p/a-year-on-...
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsGabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States…. gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
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- Reposted by Unlearning Economicspretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsI realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
- Reading Friedrich Bastiat on pollution in the 19th Century just convinced me that reactionaries have been imagining a guy being mean to them and letting it change their politics since forever www.econlib.org/library/Bast...
- This essay might be a tad unfair to Graeber. But it makes a valid point. dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
- This post by @newqueuelure.bsky.social on the credibility revolution in economics reminds me of the 'intuitition dance' economists do, both with theory and empirics informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com/2022/09/is-c...
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- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsI was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!
- I'm honestly starting to feel bad about my critiques of Sowell
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- NEW VIDEO: Everything Was Already AI youtu.be/Km2bn0HvUwg
- Sweet video on housing coops! www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Q4...
- Leftists often misunderstand the right, this is something I've been thinking about a lot recently and @mattpolprof.bsky.social has nailed it www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-fas...
- The worst thing is that you can hear how horny he is bsky.app/profile/zack...
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- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsWhatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.
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- My New Year's Resolution is to listen to fewer podcasts bsky.app/profile/drma...
- Watching Stranger Things, it struck me that contemporary programs could be improved a lot simply by cutting about a third of the dialogue out
- This is the best type of article: reads vaguely like an Onion headline, but actually gives you a new insight into a big problem (cars) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- *someone fails to unmute themselves before speaking* Me: haha, what an idiot. A fool - so easy to avoid such a simple blunder *I fail to unmute myself before speaking* Me: oh it’s just me, I’m just a lil guy. So easily done guys, lolz
- too many people cannot understand the difference between general skepticism + specific critiques of economic data; versus blanket rejection of them, usually from a position of complete ignorance bsky.app/profile/opin...
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- Damn, that’s some cynical manoeuvring from Starmer and co. archive.md/yR4Cp
- Cars are another area where failure to invest publicly costs us down the line: road repairs, traffic, accidents, pollution, and state-subsidised car trips theconversation.com/how-the-uks-...
- Things are increasingly homogeneous and boring: www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
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- Theres plenty of competition, but Douglas Murray is in the running for ‘most insufferable modern charlatan ’ www.currentaffairs.org/news/douglas...
- I didn’t watch the 2022 World Cup and I’m not gonna watch the 2026 one either
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- Fantastic news! Kerala continues to set the pace for how to approach extreme poverty www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
- Part of me absolutely loves this list. Like fuck it, Quentin. Just pick the most basic ass man films of all time. Hell yeah. bsky.app/profile/andr...
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- When you get down to it, most mainstream economists are fundamentally pro-market, pro-growth, and individualistic in their outlooks www.ft.com/content/e196...
- Anyone remember when the director of High Speed 1, Paul Charles, wrote a letter to the editor about High Speed 2 and how they'd gone wrong with the contracting process?
- Rebecca Watson is the GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsI wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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- Follow @nojusticemtg.bsky.social (and me!) bsky.app/profile/ryan...
- One thing that’s become blindingly obvious over the past year is that the right have no ideas whatsoever. All of the recent solid ideas have come from the left (and let’s say a few from the centre). This is why the right just can’t deliver on anything once in office and end up floundering.
- The main thing I've learned from starting a book club is that most contemporary books are kind of bad once you dissect them
- This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a good while
- The main thing I’ve learned from my trip to Amsterdam is how similar the UK and Netherlands are. Both culturally reserved, a bit rainy, enjoy bland food, both early cradles of capitalism, and both wrestling with similar economic issues today - austerity, immigration, and wealth inequality.
- Really enjoyed my interview with Echo Box Radio in Amsterdam! www.echobox.radio/shows/talk-t...
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsTRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
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- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsIt’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
- Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
- Labour's balanced budget politics is based on a false understanding of how the governments fits into the economic mosaic. Me and Ganga Shreedhar on the LSE blog: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsGreg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...
- Reposted by Unlearning EconomicsThe Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
- Watching an outsider comment on British culture is so eye-opening. I thought Christmas crackers were universal youtu.be/HcBs-lL5Txs?...
