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21.04.2025 04:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Do economists matter? – The Mail & Guardian
Last week, South Africans got a taste of the kind of influence economists hold, despite them being part of an often fallible tribe
5/ Last in last week's good reads. Point of personal disagreement: it's not what one is taught in economics courses that guides what one does -- economics is, first and foremost, a study of how to operate under finite resources/scarcity. Anyyywayyy. Rant for another time.
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29.01.2024 12:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mental note: instead of cheering and wishing for more exciting games, the current cricketing dispensation in India is going to go for four unplayable pitches. Losing with grace is something we have forgotten.
28.01.2024 10:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How the Hindu Right Triumphed in India
A razed mosque, a new temple, and the rise of Narendra Modi.
3/ While I do have some differences in opinion on this one, a very informed and balanced take on the big event that happened back home this week.
www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
26.01.2024 09:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
How venom poisoned a beloved suburb
The pandemic might be over, but it caused a traumatic rift in Sea Point.
Collected readings of note from the week of 22 Jan 2024:
1/ On the continuing otherisation (arbitrarily) linked to Seapoint's Tent City:
www.vryeweekblad.com/en/opinions-...
26.01.2024 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hello world?
24.08.2023 09:18 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ACEIR is the first of 13 centres of excellence set up by the African Research Universities Alliance. By producing excellent and innovative policy-relevant research, we aim to lead African research in overcoming inequality & poverty | www.aceir.uct.ac.za
Collecting biographical data on politicians to understand their role in Wealth Reproduction. Funded by the VW Foundation
Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit - applied empirical research & capacity building in inequality, labour markets, human capital & social policy
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Post Doc at the University of Strathclyde | FSU Ph.D. | Comparative political economy & gender | https://www.giuliaventurini.com/
PhD Student at University of Marburg | Working with the "Politicians, Policies, and the Reproduction of Wealth" project
Postdoc @ Institute of Political Science & Centre for Conflict Studies - Uni Marburg, Germany | Part of the Inequality and Distributive Politics research team: https://inq-dp.eu
Professor of Inequality and Poverty, Marburg University. Interested in economic inequality, political attitudes, protest, political inequality, responsiveness, and social policy. Inequality and Distributive Politics (IDP) research team https://inq-dp.eu
Prof. of Comparative Politics at Uni Marburg, political behaviour, inequality, clientelism, and accountability.
Inequality and Distributive Politics Research Group. https://inq-dp.eu/
Political Economy Researcher, Reader at GPP, University of Strathclyde, Author of "Ideologues, Partisans and Loyalists", Swimmer, Mother of 3.
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Economics post doc at CREST (ENSAE / IP Paris), previously uni lausanne, visited ETH and LSE.
Labour econ, job search, using data from online platforms
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Lecturer (assistant prof) at Surrey University, also associate at CEP LSE and SALDRU UCT.
Economist working on firm wage setting power, inequality and development. South African.
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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a 19th century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
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