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Shell facing first UK legal claim over climate impact of fossil fuels Survivors of a deadly typhoon in the Philippines have filed a claim against the UK's largest oil company.

"Shell is responsible for 2% of historical global greenhouse gases.... The company has "materially contributed" to human driven climate change, the letter says, that made the Typhoon more likely and more severe."

I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response.

Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter

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China’s open-source AI is a national advantage The models are akin to studying together to ace a test instead of relying on individual knowledge

China’s open-source AI is a national advantage on.ft.com/48XybSx | opinion

How many Syrians have returned home one year since the fall of al-Assad? One year after al-Assad’s fall, nearly 1.8 million displaced Syrians and 780,000 refugees have returned home.

One year after al-Assad’s fall, nearly 1.8 million displaced Syrians and 780,000 refugees have returned home.

Chart of emigration of British citizens

Fears of Brits all moving to Dubai are overblown says @economist.com
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Buying Time Warner is now an official point in every bubble

Elon Musk’s X fined €120m by EU in first clash under new digital laws Ruling could put European Commission on collision course with billionaire, and possibly Donald Trump

How it’s going: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Top European official: if Twitter ignores the law, penalties will 'haunt' Elon Musk In her first interview since Musk took the reins of Twitter, Margrethe Vestager said there will be serious penalties against Twitter if the platform ignores new European speech laws.

“A new European law known as the Digital Services Act forces tech companies to quickly remove posts considered illegal in the countries where the content appears. It also requires that tech companies provide users with information about how their algorithms work” www.npr.org/2022/10/31/1...

Pourquoi le train est toujours plus cher que l’avion Si voyager sur rails se révèle être structurellement plus cher que par les airs, c’est notamment parce que l’aérien bénéficie d’un coût artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales.

[1/8] Pierre Breteau montre pourquoi le train reste structurellement + cher que l’avion. L’article compare coûts, fiscalité et infrastructures. Il explique que l’aérien bénéficie de prix artificiellement bas grâce à des exonérations fiscales qui faussent la concurrence. #geography #transport #train

RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.

There were only two women professors at the university when I started having kids and because I came back from our OE pregnant, the university almost didn't take me back. I won't say which professor was difficult, but a very feisty anthropologist called Nancy Bowers swore at the men in the staff meeting. She said, 'You've got three children and you have two! What are you talking about?!' So l only got my job back because a female colleague stood up for me.

Great interview with New Zealand anthropologist and @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Anne Salmond including this on life as a female academic
www.nowtolove.co.nz/celebrity/da...

Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off Shares tumble as group warns of loss of up to $5.5bn if digital asset prices do not rebound

Bitcoin champion Strategy launches ‘dollar reserve’ amid crypto sell-off on.ft.com/3Y16mm6

Repeated increases in the real minimum wage in early-2000s Argentina – implemented amid moderate inflation and an economic recovery – did not lead to higher job destruction.

Firms were able to absorb higher costs without resorting to terminations.

Vietnam's solar boom was built on three key pillars:
1⃣ Foreign direct investment (FDI) (mostly from China)
2⃣ Access to subsidised Chinese inputs
3⃣ Productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic suppliers.

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What is development economics? I asked development economists for their definitions of development economics.

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AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians We are failing to invest in the mathematical community at a time when we need it more than ever

AI doesn’t add up if you neglect the mathematicians on.ft.com/4rB8BKH | opinion

Aurélien Saïdi, @cescoeco.bsky.social & I have a new JEDC paper on Michel Juillard's contribution to macro, aka his role as architect & curator of open-source Dynare software—used worldwide to estimate and simulate DSGE models

It's important for 2 reasons:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

What is the most profitable industry in the world, this side of the law? Not oil, not IT, not pharma.

It's *scientific publishing*.

We call this the Drain of Scientific Publishing.

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Background: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...

Thread @markhanson.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy 👇

Meet Grok, the artificial sycophant

Le nombre de féminicides conjugaux reste toujours élevé. En 2024, 107 femmes ont été tuées dans leur couple.
➡️ Décryptage dans notre graphorama : https://www.altereco.media/oST

Bossuet’s oft-cited quote comes to mind.

Deutsche Bank Warns of Japan Capital Flight in Echo of UK Crisis Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans have sent Japan’s bonds and currency tumbling, raising the specter of an unruly capital flight reminiscent of the turmoil that nearly broke the UK bond market in 2022, ...

(Bloomberg) - Sanae Takaichi’s spending plans have sent Japan’s bonds and currency tumbling, raising the specter of an unruly capital flight reminiscent of the turmoil that nearly broke the UK bond market in 2022, according to Deutsche ..

@bloomberg.com
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France’s birds start to show signs of recovery after bee-harming pesticide ban Analysis shows small hike in populations of insect-eating species after 2018 ruling, but full recovery may take decades

This was already demonstrated over half a century ago with the banning of DDT.

Why are we on repeat here?
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Joel Mokyr?

The beginning of a secular stagnation in the Econ PhDs job market?

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

Comparing Experimental and Nonexperimental Methods: What Lessons Have We Learned Four Decades after LaLonde (1986)? (Fall 2025) - In 1986, Robert LaLonde published an article comparing nonexperimental estimates to experimental benchmarks (LaLonde 1986). He concluded that the nonexperimental methods at the time coul...

An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

The Case for a European-Chinese Green Pact Jean Pisani-Ferry & Beatrice Weder di Mauro think both sides have much to gain from pursuing closer economic ties through clean energy and technology.

It is far more cost-effective for Europe and China to help emerging markets and developing economies expand through renewable energy than to pay for rapidly increasing climate-related costs, @pisaniferry.bsky.social and Beatrice Weder di Mauro find. bit.ly/4hSz3uO

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:

One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

You should quit social media for good Platforms optimized for engagement warp our politics, erode attention, and harm our wellbeing. Here’s how I minimize time on the (anti‑)social web.

this post will publish tomorrow at 7:30 am
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