Robert Bigg

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

For the US the New Deal started a recovery that was reversed by fiscal tightening until the mobilisation of WW2, for the UK there was, despite the debt, an inevitable post-war reconstruction. One could also argue that postwar reparations helped transform the Finnish economy in the long run.

Hahn’s Mitsui Lectures (Money & Inflation 1982) are also a great read. Maurice Peston (Robert’s Dad) posed the question in 1980 “Whatever happened to macro-economics?”

Hahn in Toics in Disequilibrium Economics ed Strøm & Werin, Macmillan 1978

Disequilibrium perhaps had its heyday In the 70s/80s, for example, Frank Hahn looked at conjectural equilibria & found “if it will prove possible to make conjectures less arbitrary it will have to be done in a Marshallian way. This is not a conclusion congenial to a general equilibrium man.”

Indeed it seems effective for local groups, from what I hear. I would agree, and would endorse a social media strategy.. but it’s neither journalism nor open debate but more of an echo chamber of whispers.

I was trying to find some glimmer of a positive. I am sorely disappointed with the performance of the Labour leadership on so many fronts now. Having boxed themselves in there seems to be no initiative to escape, a triangulation that leads further away from a solution.

Never joined, don’t wish to. However sadly it’s now what a lot of people use as news. Crowd ‘wisdom’ is not, especially due to the algorithms, a reliable source.

On the plus side both Rowan Williams and Stephen Cottrell have made helpful and reasoned contributions.

I despair - there’s no sensible debate (or media commentary) about so many issues. I had really hoped for better - thus far I have been bitterly disappointed. I can’t make up my mind about what’s more broken politics or the the media: what it lacks is a compelling story of contribution & humanity.

Blush Floyd

Mmm, Senate House Lamp appeals, but as we haven’t had a Clare image and there’s just a corner of Old Court in the King’s Chapel moon it has to be that ;-)- so 1 top left gets my vote - what could be more Christmas than King’s?

A hard choice between the bottom two, Park St has a definite attraction but surely my vote must be for smoke on the water which is sublime…

If we can widen and reorient the economic debate then perhaps the major journals might even rethink their move away from book reviews, obituaries, etc after the 1990/2000s? There is value in our wider culture and history as a profession that needs to be appreciated rather than ignored.

Reading the latest @resmedia.bsky.social newsletter I am encouraged that there seems to be a growing argument about narratives, in-between methods, radical uncertainty etc. that move, if not away from, then at least, wider than formal models.

St John’s Boston Ivy ….

Gosh you have made this one difficult! … the top right is Hopper-inspired framing, but the out of focus woman by the punt at Trinity Hall (bottom right) narrowly gets my vote.

Whilst the couple in the fields at sunset is perfectly atmospheric it’s also perhaps too autumnal, for me the favourite is thus the hay bales from King’s wildflowers in front of Clare Old Court - so a vote for 4: bottom right.

Has to be the hollyhocks at King’s, top left.

However tempting the two May Ball images are, June should be full of light, so for me the rower and splashes in the light top left

Thanks

The St John’s Choir on the tower for May Day seems a little brighter for May than the Morris dancers with a rather glowering sky, so bottom right please

Although the worry then is the growing reliance on oligopolistic suppliers.