Robert Bigg

Still have a copy, one of the best replies was the single paragraph from the Senior Tutor of Magdalene: “…you are evidently either an ingenious hoaxer or labouring under a massive misapprehension. I therefore return your £5 note herewith.”

Equally (more so outside the US) where government has gradually limited its own support and forced academia to seek alternative funding

While I have been preoccupied reporting on Kevin Warsh's Fed nomination, it seems the administration has proven me wrong about Minnesota. The president is not backing off and the assault on Minneapolis continues. Don't let it get lost in the blizzard of other news.

What’s the logic here? It would seem to only further undermine the UK’s international position in research.

Can hardly believe what I'm seeing here. No doubt there'll be time to add some more insult to injury every day next week, like every day this week, but surely it can't go on forever.

Reading original sources is always key, read first, read more, then look at commentaries, reviews etc, but always come to your own view - then critique/discuss it. AI does none of this just facile summaries at best.

We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.

So much for my IT skills! I finally resolved the underperformance of my home network by replacing an old Cat5 cable between the router and the ISP’s modem - now 3x better!! Should stick to the history of economics…

Unwinding the experience and learnt wisdom of the last century. So sad to see it play out.

Interesting retrospective- I recall this being published, Adrian Wood was then still lecturing in Cambridge but left shortly after.

Baumol’s Economic Theory and Operations Analysis was also our primary micro textbook for prelims in 1976/7 - still on my bookshelf!

With others too, yet still the politicians don’t hear, or, if they do, remain unwilling or brave enough to act on it. I had hopes, even when ambushed into a corner during the election, that we might see a change. But we still lack that wider public debate or, it seems to me, any route to it.

Congrats … I enjoyed reading some more of your background

This looks interesting - a Palgrave Macmillan lecture on decolonisation with @nakedkeynes.bsky.social Esteban Pérez Caldentey, @jayatighosh.bsky.social & Wyndham Hacket Pain

cassyni.com/events/GFrm3...

Brazelton 1989 (American Journal of Economics and Sociology) describes him as a prime pupil of Hansen’s

A pdf link would be fantastic!

I am reminded of "the appropriateness of a particular economic measure can only be judged relatively to surrounding circumstances. He insists on misconstruing Hansen's teaching that a public debt is sometimes a good thing into a doctrine that it is always a good thing."(Wright AER Sep 1943 p.579)

Setapp is a similar Mac app model for indie developers but never been interested in enough to make it worthwhile.

My point was that there are some aggregate subscription models that may be an option if you are interested in enough of the package, such as Apple News+ which provides eg The New Republic and The Atlantic alongside a pile of consumer titles

Sorry that created more of a link to setapp than I intended…

Many congratulations

Virtually…. On the Zoom feed, so you wouldn’t have seen me :-( but I will need to be back in some libraries over the coming months so one never knows!

PS please post a link to the recording for those that missed it!

Great event, very informative from all the authors- thanks

@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social should have some excellent suggestions …

No worries… thought you might be interested

@cacrisalves.bsky.social Hi, at my suggestion, Bob Cord has been trying to reach you… maybe his email ended up in spam?

So I was a bit off there!

Sounds quite Taoist?

I should have said “paying postwar reparations” for the sake of clarity