Neil Lee

Does Nobel winner have R&D cure for Europe’s ills? - Research Professional News Philippe Aghion wants Europe to emulate US innovation—four economists give verdicts on his model

Is Europe's best economic hope to follow Silicon Valley model of tech-led innovation?

Four economists, incl @neillee.bsky.social, debate a big question prompted by Philippe Aghion's Nobel prize for economics win and his agenda for European R&D.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

‘Look what you’ve done to my children!’: a tale of winter wonderland disasters These events are meant to make Christmas magical, and while many do, a few fall spectacularly short. Here, in no particular order, are some of the worst offenders

Never clicked a link faster in my life.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Totally obsessed with this www.tiktok.com/@googleearth...

Totally obsessed with this www.tiktok.com/@googleearth...

Agree or disagree (I agree), superb to see a politician do actual policy

Problem: you have two left wing parties in British politics.
Solution: start a new left wing party to unify the movement
Problem: you now have four left wing parties in British politics

JOB

Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic Geography / Urban Planning

Please share widely - any questions let me know

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

JOB

Assistant Professor (Education) in Economic Geography / Urban Planning

Please share widely - any questions let me know

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Please join my campaign for six innings test matches

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The relative tax treatment of the employed and the self employed is simply not fair. Action should be taken.

Do not have a Labrador, *yet*

Maybe time to check in with Mrs Zacharzewski...

How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did Target has perfected the technique of analyzing consumers' shopping habits to figure out who's pregnant. How can they send customers congratulatory coupons without freaking them out?

www.forbes.com/sites/kashmi...

Some straight up populism from the Greens here - very interested to see how this works

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?

🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.

👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

Reeves in Zugzwang Incremental politics no longer works

Reeves should risk it all on one last roll of the dice.

Raise income tax, break the triple lock, slay the deficit, spend the money on the things she believes in.

It may not work - but better than waiting for doom to overtake her.

open.substack.com/pub/edrith/p...

Sensible but depressing that it has to be spelt out

I suspect oxford (where I’m from) has hollowed out more: my mates who got mid earning jobs have often been pushed out to nearby Bicester or Abingdon

According to the IMD, the best way of improving the lives of people in deprived areas is to replace them

This is sort of the problem with the IMD: tells us about relative performance not absolute, ignores composition

You could sell change in Sunnymead as good (upgrading) or bad (gentrification) but you don‘t really know

(I don’t doubt Oxford‘s problems are real)

I am certainly enjoying my (sadly) limited exposure to US tech stocks right now. I'm not sure I will be quite so happy in a year!

Article used as source here says 4.4% in text, so I guess just axis issue: on.ft.com/3XxLUtI

I think you're right: Certainly shouldn't be 0% surely?

Ooof

Pension fund allocations into UK equities, 1997-2022

From the very interesting select committee report on scaling

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Don’t tell the landlord or they will charge you extra

In England we call this a skylight