Unlearning Economics

YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick) So I'm in the Epstein Files

Rebecca Watson is the GOAT www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNLd...

I 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

Has Britain become an economic colony? The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that may cost it dear

Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation"

h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

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

Aren’t* dammit

It’s definitely a real issue in that something needs to be done about immigration policy, the main problem is that the prevailing consensus is ‘immigrants are being brutalised enough’ instead of the opposite

A Spotify comment on Coleman Hughes’ recent podcast with Ben Shapiro by one Dudi Avraham: Regarding the argument that “west colonialism tradition made Muslim countries fail” Well. Just see Israel. The Jews were colonized by the brits. But Israel is successful. This means that western colonialism was never the problem.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve read in a good while

There’s a big national debate about immigration in both countries

Yeah and they still have a robust social safety net

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.

Echobox - Talk That Science Antenna anarchy from below sea level. Independent radio broadcasting from Amsterdam.

Really enjoyed my interview with Echo Box Radio in Amsterdam!

www.echobox.radio/shows/talk-t...

TRUMP [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

The Long Con Comes To An End The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)

as Phillips O'Brien also points out, this plan has been in negotiation for a long time, probably since Trump took office.

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

It’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.

Why we are getting poorer and what the government can do about it | British Politics and Policy at LSE As Rachel Reeves gets closer to delivering her Budget, it's becoming increasingly clear that further austerity will only lead to us getting poorer.

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...

Unlearning Economics I run the YouTube channel Unlearning Economics. I make videos analysing the economy and the economics profession from a critical perspective.

Finally got round to launching a buy me a coffee!! Help me I'm poor buymeacoffee.com/unlearningec...

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

Greg 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...

The 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.

YouTube video by J.J. McCullough What’s interesting about Britain?

Watching an outsider comment on British culture is so eye-opening. I thought Christmas crackers were universal youtu.be/HcBs-lL5Txs?...

@nathantankus.bsky.social am I tripping or did you write a few years ago about Blackrock and Vanguard being passive and not attending shareholder meetings?

Unlearning Economics I run the YouTube channel Unlearning Economics. I make videos analysing the economy and the economics profession from a critical perspective.

Finally got round to launching a buy me a coffee!! Help me I'm poor buymeacoffee.com/unlearningec...

Larry Summers had an "insight" in an email to Epstein.

The Times on Polanski is pretty laffo

archive.ph/okSv6

“0% woke shit”

a black man with a physical disability leads an environmental terrorist cell trying to save the planet from mega-billionaires and you play as a cross dressing twink femdomed by two different women ending and the final boss against the gayest angel of all time

Thank you!

www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Marx's misfire is in knowing the cost, but not the value of the coat: warmth and protection against the elements.

I have to say, in the long history of “Marx failed to consider” takes by internet reply-guys, “Marx failed to consider the use-value of warm coats” should win its own category of award

Spain offers Europe a lesson in modern economics Spain remains the euro zone’s fastest growing economy, outperforming its peers yet again in the third quarter. The Iberian country’s successful policy mix offers several lessons that fly in the face of global political trends.

Go Spain! This article doesn’t mention their aggressively progressive policies to help people with the cost of living crisis: price cap on energy, subsidies for households, and tax cuts

www.reuters.com/default/spai...