@jimtomlinson45.bsky.social
economic historian-emeritus at Glasgow. Working mainly on deindustrialization.
Pleased to see my essay on "Deindustrialization as world history" in this excellent Handbook.
24.05.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
FREE TO READ: Economic historian @jimtomlinson45.bsky.social subjects the influential right-wing policy paper "Foundations" to a thorough fisking, highlighting the analytical flaws and bad history behind its neo-Thatcherite prescriptions
renewal.org.uk/articles/bui...
Tariffs on fentanyl!!
02.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
From this morning's Guardian. Beavers building infrastructure is a new move. Growth and animal spirits re-imagined?
From this morning's Guardian. Beavers building infrastructure is a new move? A re-imagining of growth and animal spirits?
28.02.2025 13:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A striking testimony to the mutability of economic arguments. For decades the British trade deficit was used as evidence of British economic weakness. Now Starmer uses our deficit with the USA to argue we should be exempt from tariffs...
28.02.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Extremely sensible advice from @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social
"Economic policy is not supposed to be about scrabbling around for small savings in pursuit of a distant target viewed through the cloudiest of telescopes. There are bigger fish to fry."
www.thetimes.com/article/ef85...
Pleased to say my new book with Bloomsbury is now out.
05.01.2025 14:17 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0With Farage enthusing about Elon Musk's activities, can we assume that Reform will embrace large public subsidies for electric vehicles, a key foundation of Musk's fortune?
04.01.2025 08:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christmas in Kolkata. As they will tell you, Bengalis love a festival!
24.12.2024 13:25 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Here in Kolkata the book trade seems to be thriving.
22.12.2024 08:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Absolutely. Above all, the fact that in China hundreds of millions were lifted out of extreme poverty by an export-driven expansion was the most extraordinary event in economic history since the European/American industrialization of the nineteenth century.
21.12.2024 06:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today's Times of India reports for first time Indian service exports exceed goods exports. Some significance forr debate on "service path to development"?
17.12.2024 06:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Very interesting…
“In an economy where only 8% of workers are employed in manufacturing, a policy that promises to restore the middle class by bringing manufacturing back home is not only unrealistic; it also rings hollow...”
Thanks @jdportes.bsky.social, and I agree. Here are some proposals on these good jobs policies for the UK economy2030.resolutionfoundation.org/wp-content/u... and for France (in Section 4) drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/sites/schola....
08.12.2024 14:43 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
I have joined the defectors from X. Gives me a chance to "re-announce" that my book with Chris Whatley has just come out!
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