Economist; Researching Institutions, Innovation, Public Goods, and Rural Development. (RT!=E) MPhil Student @OxfordEconDept, MSc @LseEcHist

Vermont/Oxford
Joined March 2015
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Captivated by this fascinating paper. In the history of technological unemployment, nothing is as simple as it seems.
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In terms of economics output per £, fixing @LSEEcon’s coffee machine might be the highest impact grant ESRC could make
The coffee machine at the 4th floor of @LSEEcon has been broken for months, and our PhD students are sarcasm-bombing it
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These fake men’s fashion girls are always a year + behind in what’s going on in actual men’s fashion, the trickle down that they’ve received is directly from one of their friends’ boyfriends in the west village. They don’t know shit
i've said it before i'll say it again: the samba era is ending. a slim sneaker in a color that isn't black and white is what the coolest guys are wearing next. you heard it here.
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Economists when I let them drown in a fountain to avoid soiling my expensive suit: log(log(log(log(log(log(log...
Capitalism is good when: (ln(a)/ln(b))*((1+i)^(n/-π^rt)) + (log(log(log(c)))*sqrt(𝜕c/𝜕b)) + b^3-a^3 +(𝜆sqrt(N) * ∫U(x) And it can be bad when: sqrt(x)+log(y)sin(cot(b))+𝜆*z)ln(ln(ln(a))) -  ∑∞ x^n/n! + ∮F *dr C - economists, probably
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I paid off all my student loans. Why would I pay income tax?
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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The purpose of getting a degree in PPE is so that you can experience regret when you go to a cocktail party and everyone is crowded around the person with the economics degree.
is PPE just a degree in being good at cocktail parties
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I added the FOMC.
Surveyed Anthropic staff's answers imply 17.1% GDP growth in 2030
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POV: DPhil Nuffield college tutor schools 2:1 history grad
Mark Carney, as Bank of England Governor, interfered in the vital Brexit vote by publicly warning of recession and financial chaos if Britain left the EU. He denied taking sides, yet Conservative MPs including Jacob Rees-Mogg exposed his bias and demanded he resign for violating the Bank’s required political neutrality. ⬇️⬇️
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Indicting the UK’s “fiscal mess” and welfare spending is strange given that almost all growth in the last four years has been driven by public service volumes and associated spending, especially health.
It's a remarkable endorsement for Britain's ingeniosity that despite: - The highest energy prices in the OECD - Dismal infrastructure/housing - Welfare state that gives terrible incentives - Fiscal mess - Brexit (?) The UK is outperforming many of its Euro neighbors on growth
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Astounding revelation from @SecSmithEllis's time as NJ Higher Ed commissioner: public university president refused to name how much state $$ would enable her to set tuition transparently, affordably, and progressively. Because maximizing extraction is how you get the next job. /1
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at some level you gotta engage with the fact that Americans can read ~90% of major novels for free via their library and don't do it
Jacobin
@jacobinOct 12
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading. Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Today CPE is publishing some revisionist history about BIL and IRA: Because the laws didn't touch muni markets and focused more on infra grants than loan authorities, they didn't juice local economic development much. Here's a short note laying out how we could change that:
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Jack Meyer 🏛️ retweeted
Fascinating how many interesting, very smart young people (young men particularly) interested in policy I've met in NYC who refer to themselves as socialists or DSA-adjacent, but when you talk to them they seem to have at most, the views of market-friendly social democrats
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Economists will look you dead in the face and call this science
Economists will look you dead in the face and call this science
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The Great Stagnation
What did people talk or think about before ai
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Artificial Intelligence solves the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis, but Natural Stupidity continues to find r = 1 correlations between latent variables.
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This week's review!--H.J. Habakkuk's 1962 American and British Technology. Why Britain fell behind America, technologically, in the 19th century (and why the answer isn't a lack of entrepreneurial spirit). For those craving yet more 1960s ec hist classics. unevenandcombinedthoughts.su…
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I'm reading this as "Why isn't OpenAI studying the origins of the industrial revolution?"
Gotta wonder how it looks to the average person when instead of using this incredibly powerful tool to solve actual problems/their problems resources are used to study pretty abstract math problems.
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