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Hands hold a copy of "The Growth Story of the 21st Century" by Nicholas Stern, with a backdrop of green leaves.

Happy publication day to The Growth Story of the 21st Century: The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action by Professor Lord Nicholas Stern 🎉

Read online or download for free: https://bit.ly/4qu1BhR

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Just out: New G20 report led by @josephestiglitz.bsky.social
warns of an “Inequality Emergency.”

It calls for an International Panel on Inequality as global shocks deepen poverty and widen wealth gaps.

Read report here: ipdcolumbia.org/event/landma...

#Inequality #G20

Can the Global Economy Be Healed? A noted Harvard economist presents an optimistic vision of a world after Donald Trump.

"We spend so much time on the global economy and global agreements. But there is so much that can be done internally”--Dani Rodrik, the Harvard economist, talking to me about his new book "Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World."

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

nature is healing

“Clear-eyed and pragmatic, it maps a realistic path from crisis to renewal through investment, innovation and international cooperation. A hopeful work that redefines growth for a sustainable age.”

— @peterfrankopan.bsky.social

Free to read & download from 5th Nov doi.org/10.31389/lse...

Justin Wolfers Justin Wolfers is a Professor of Economics and a Professor of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and a Visiting Professor at the UNSW. He was previously a Visiting Professor at Princeton,…

Finally got organized and set up my YouTube channel. In just a few weeks, it’s passed 10,000 subscribers—maybe there’s something to this! For now it’s mostly talks and interviews, but it's sparking some exciting plans for more econ-goodness.

Subscribe here👉 www.youtube.com/@JustinWolfers

Why optimists build better infrastructure History credits the Victorians for their grand — and enduring — schemes but we need our eyes on the future to emulate them

I’ve written for @financialtimes.com about the need for belief in the future to get things built on.ft.com/47cO3Qs Why optimists build better infrastructure

Donald Trump’s approval rating | The Economist

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Economics In Ten Social Sciences Podcast · Economics In Ten is your go-to podcast if you want to learn about the lives, times and ideas of the world's greatest economic thinkers. Each episode is a fun exploration of a...

Have finally deactivated our Twitter account. It was great whilst it lasted & good for promoting our podcast but at the end of the day, we can't justify being there anymore. Hopefully enough folk can see our work via BlueSky, Insta & other platforms. 🤞#EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

To say this is a problem is a gigantic understatement. We live in the golden age of AI slop. Hopefully we will soon gain the right control the algorithms that control our online life in order to filter out AI slop to a large degree.

Final call for papers for the Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, to be held from 13–15 April 2026 at the University of Glasgow.

The deadline is 4 November 2025. #EconSky

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We’ve just added 4,500+ new meetings to our Open Access database of Westminster and Holyrood meetings with external organisations.

🔎 Check out the new data here: openaccess.transparency.org.uk

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

Prize motivation: “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy”

"Democracy relies on people who refuse to stay silent"

Great news as the Nobel Peace Prize recognises Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado. A brave woman and the true leader of a country who deserves to be free

Fantastic news! Well deserved! A clear signal to authoritarian leaders.

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Abundant AI geniuses will be great, but only if we can work out what to use them for, from Ajay K. Agrawal, @joshgans.bsky.social, and Avi Goldfarb https://www.nber.org/papers/w34316

It has arrived. Out in December. Cover by me with ChatGPT assistance.

Have we passed peak social media?

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AI and Task Efficiency | NBER

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@mclem.org on the broader economic effects of high skill migrants:

"From 1990 to 2010, rising numbers of H-1B holders caused 30–50 percent of all productivity growth in the US economy. This means that the jobs and wages of most Americans depend in some measure on these workers."

How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries? How does monetary policy transmit through developing economies? New evidence shows that firms do react to both monetary policy contraction and expansion, but not symmetrically.

🆕 How does monetary policy shape economic activity in developing countries?

Today on VoxDev, Djeneba Dramé (Université Paris Nanterre) & Florian Léon (@fondationferdi.bsky.social) discuss how firms react to monetary policy contraction and expansion: voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

New book: Uncertainty in Economics: A History, by Carlo Zappia
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Where to find development economics resources: Newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos Where can you find articles, podcasts, and videos about research and topics in development economics? This blog is your one-stop shop for accessible resources related to development economics.

🆕 Where to find development economics resources

I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

Figure 1.7 illustrates the extent to which countries that spend more on health have better health outcomes. There is a clear positive association between health spending per capita and life expectancy at birth (Figure 1.7). Among the 38 OECD countries, 18 spend more and have higher life expectancy than the OECD average (top right quadrant). A further 11 countries spend less and have lower life expectancy than the OECD average (bottom left quadrant). Of particular interest are countries that deviate from this basic relationship. Eight countries spend less than the OECD average but achieve higher life expectancy overall (top left quadrant). This may indicate relatively good value for money of health systems, notwithstanding the fact that many other factors also have an impact on health outcomes. These eight countries are Korea, Spain, Italy, Israel, Portugal, Chile, Costa Rica and Slovenia. The only country in the bottom right quadrant is the United States, with much higher spending than all other OECD countries but lower life expectancy than the OECD average.

Check out this scatterplot of health spending per capita (x axis) & life expectancy (y axis) in OECD countries (lines = averages).

The United States sits alone in the bottom right area due to its very high spending rate and below-average life expectancy.

More www.oecd.org/en/publicati... 🧪

Sharing without clicking on news in social media - Nature Human Behaviour Over 75% of links to news shared on Facebook during the election seasons of 2017–2020 were forwarded without the sharer first clicking on them. Extreme and user-aligned political content was shared mo...

Three quarters of the news stories studied were shared without clicking and reading the article - something I’m guilty of myself all too often. But it’s not good practice!

“virality of political content on social media (including misinfo) is driven by superficial processing of headlines and blurbs”

How the Battle for Control Could Crush AI’s Promise A shift toward centralization and concentration could snuff out technology’s productive potential

How the Battle for Control Could Crush AI’s Promise www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

Panel 1. image of a huge nuclear plant. “Reactor Overheating” 2. A worker in a hazmat suit works at a computer. The screen reads: “Press cancel to avoid critical overload” 3 - 9. The worker continues to type at the computer. The screen changes in each panel and reads: “Enter password to confirm” “Incorrect password” “Incorrect password” “Do you want to reset your password?” “Reset link has been sent to your email” “Please choose a new password” “New password can't be the same as old password” The colour gets hotter in each panel. Starting blue in 1 and ending in red in 9. Panel 10. Wide view. The entire earth is blown up.

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Interesting thing about the end of the Atlantic slave trade is, which had the bigger impact, the British suppression of the trade (supply) or the end of demand at the source?

Demand is overwhelmingly more important (as the authors also argue). Yet the British naval campaign gets far more attention!

From @economist.com