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Lecturer in Economic History @Cardiffbusiness Econ. Historian (IIRP🇵🇱); honorary Scythian Mapping as I write. "A blue forget-me-not; a piece of the grey sky."
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WAIT IT'S REAL
The phrase "a torrid homosexual affair between the two ugliest men imaginable" has been tattooed into the lines of my heart.
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I appropriated a Finnish tradition and bought a post-PhD sword. Here it finally is.
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Has anyone written a paper about monetary policy in the West Indies and titled it 'π Rates of the Caribbean'?
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The UK government on why British submarine forces have no safeguards preventing unauthorised launching of their nuclear weapons: ‘idk I guess we’re just built different’
(Also: how do you prevent nukes from falling into the wrong hands? UK answer: use a bike lock.)
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@yuanyi_z
My grandparents used to listen illegally to the World Service during the war in occupied Poland, and never forgot it. Something profound in the BBC's mission is at risk the more the World Service can be Great Firewalled off.
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I hope someday to teach this level of shitposter once, and only once, in my life.
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Q: How does Anglicanism advertise itself?
A: Via media.
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Delighted to announce that I will be accepting a lecturership in economic history at
@CaiusCollege
@Cambridge_Uni
starting this fall!!!
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Thinking of how the Spanish saw bouncy balls for the first time in Central America and had no idea wtf was going on.
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You may be landlocked, but are you landlocked to the 33rd degree like Chippewa County, Michigan?
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It's only causality if it comes from the Causal region of Inference.
Otherwise it's just sparkling correlation.
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Thrilled to announce that I will be starting in a permanent position as a Lecturer in Economic History at
@cardiffbusiness
from the new academic year!
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Properly reading Hayek and calling him 'such a lib' every few pages.
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@Scriblit
"That's cool bro, I led my country while it shot down dozens of attack helicopters."
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The two types of really important econ paper:
‘It shouldn’t exist but it does. Why?’ (E.g. Akerlof 1970)
‘It should exist but it doesn’t. Why?’ (E.g. Coase 1959)
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Honoured to have attended the Matriculation of my tutees today at
@CaiusCollege
@caiuslib
@Cambridge_Uni
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🇵🇱 Data alert!
I am releasing around 18,000 files' worth of material on
interwar Polish economic history collected from various archives, online and physical, with more to come very soon. Full list below.
All free for you to use as long as you credit me!
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@ademrudin
Fact: the Manhattan Project (the whole thing, adjusting for inflation) cost about a fifth of what decontamination of just the Hanford Site in Washington is projected to cost.
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Not sure it's time to celebrate quite yet, but I passed with "very" minor corrections. (How very is very remains to be determined, but it seems to be mostly a matter of citing a few papers and fixing an axis on a graph.)
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Mildly infuriating: the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border.
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Acceptance of elven as the adjective for elf implies the validity of milven and I'm not sure that I like that.
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Not sure how much I can announce at this point, but I'm co-authoring a book on Polish monetary history!
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"Mom, can we have the Annales School?"
"No, we have the Annales School at home."
The Annales School at home:
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Akerlof (1971)
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Please more international monetary policy in my RPGs.
When people say they "don't want politics" in X, they ain't saying, "No more international monetary policy in my RPGs!" or "I can't believe Top Gun: Maverick has military spending as a plot point!"
They're saying they don't want POCs, women, and/or LGBT+ people.
They're bigots.
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Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan’: Expectations vs reality.
I rather like this sedate wicker man of 1700, who seems sublimely indifferent to all the screaming victims inside him
#mindfulness
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So this dropped here. (I know you know my surname and I don't need to censor it on here but I went and did it earlier so...)
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@lastpositivist
“Ontology’s haunted.”
“What?”
*loading a pistol and getting back on the Ship of Theseus* “Ontology’s haunted.”
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In 1919 it took the US Army 62 days (including seven rest days) to drive across the US. Being the nerd I am, I reconstructed their slow itinerary.
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*Although* as an economic historian it's a pretty good bet, if you see a 6% growth rate, that something's gone either acutely wrong recently or chronically wrong for a very long time.
In Jan, Feb and March of this year an average of 2,285 people a day died of COVID—an unspeakable tragedy that would never have know about if all you looked at was the 6.3% annualized GDP growth rate for that quarter.
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For those interested, this is the 1934 pattern Polish cavalry sabre, probably the last sword designed as a standard piece of fighting kit rather than a parade decoration
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@mattiekahn
A vintage writing slope! Two months on and it's still sparking joy at a hair-raising rate.
(Honourable mention to the stationery I'm getting for it, which marks a commitment to tell my inner critic to get in the car, loser-- we're going economic history-ing.)
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@LinkofSunshine
That’s right, restrict the franchise to just the people who click on the ‘Do you have an IQ of 130?’ ads on here.
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@Historycourses
There were two! From context I think the reference is to the younger one, who apparently served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1998?
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A paper nobody expected! Exciting stuff.
New working paper with
@joachim_voth
and Jordi Vidal-Robert on the long run effects of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Frequentism is when something has been happening over and over for centuries and you still call it a five-sigma event.
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You know, I'm something of a simulator of the Roman economy myself...
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Shoutout to the guy from a rabbit hole I fell down who lived in a substantial Chelsea townhouse with a family and five servants, without coming from money, on a naval commodore’s salary in the 1880s.
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When you find the secret menu (the central bank’s off-balance sheet funds.
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"It is true that Henry VIII is legally married, but that is a legal fiction."
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2000 followers and I do one on why I'm not a left-liberal and why a humane and inclusive liberal conservatism (as distinct from neoliberalism and libertarianism) is not only possible but must be salvaged, not least because its absence produces monsters.
I wrote a longish blog post on why I'm not a liberal. Ultimately of course the boundaries of any political coalition or ideology are fuzzy. But I hope this at least clarifies what I mean, and reject, and think you ought reject, in Liberalism.
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It's a shame the author of 'To His Coy Mistress' didn't write longer, more narrative poems like his contemporary Milton.
We could have had a Marvell Cinematic Universe.
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You call him Jean Baudrillard, but to his friends he's just Dril.
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The Victorians did many things wrong, but one thing they did well that’s become debased since is letter-writing. Bring back the manuals!
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My 'All of the National Bank of Poland's actions are legal and satisfy the highest international standards' sign is raising a lot of questions already answered by my 'All of the National Bank of Poland's actions are legal and satisfy the highest international standards' sign.
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A cryptocurrency based on the inalienable natural right to property.
Lockechain.
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Technically most of this is post-1945 and built as social housing, too. (Gdańsk was trashed during WW2 and rebuilt by the communist government so as to keep the historic styles externally-- though replacing German with Polish influences-- but as a workers' residential quarter.)
I love a modern skyscraper just as much as the next guy, but this is hard to beat.
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❌ Calling fandom things 'canon' and 'non-canon'.
✅ Calling fandom things 'doctrine' and 'adiaphora'.
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For what is probably the last time, I had a graduation ceremony.
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If you have a piece in your wardrobe, like this tricorn, that the term ‘statement’ is too moderate for… I recommend wearing it to the supermarket sometimes. Worth it for the old lady spittake alone.
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Philosophers should know that it's only a symposium if it includes alcohol and carnal pleasures. Otherwise it's just a sparkling seminar.
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I mean if your name is Phil everything you write is philosophy so fair play to the guy.
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"One becomes great by striving in all things to be mid."
-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
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Ok but Le Guin missed a trick by not having the people of Omelas partake in a ritual Twitter dragging of those who have left over their columns in The Atlantic.
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Thirst trap? Oh, you mean like how Saladin defeated the Crusader army at Hattin in 1187?
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I was asked to prepare a bio slide for the first lecture of a premodern economic history course I’ll be teaching. After Poland, the second thing I don’t want people to forget is where the pirates met their end. (Don’t trust Wikipedia on this one, it’s been captured by publicans.)
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This is your brain on Dwarf Fortress.
In case you're interested this is what one floor would look like.Eight rooms to each pod, eight pods to each house, eight houses to each floor (512 students per floor). The windows are in an area shared by 64 students) I am guessing 9 floors so 4608 bed capacity.
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@JohnHolbein1
>looking for a new journal to submit paper with null result to
>ask the journal editor if they publish null results or not
>editor laughs and says 'if it's a good paper, we'll publish it'
>submit paper
>they don't publish null results
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We may disagree very fundamentally on gender, but this is how it should be done, and I applaud your sincerity in willing to be challenged. I will admit I was wrong and Arif right in how we each thought it would go. See you at the next of these for my turn to grill you, perhaps.
So grateful to Arif Ahmed for arranging and Partha Dasgupta for facilitating. And very grateful to the young people who turned up and asked probing questions, rather than joining the pot-bangers or curling up in the safe space. You should be genuinely proud of yourselves
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Benjamin Strong was a central banker and resident of Bar Harbor, the final holiday town on the Maine coast before you reach Canada.
A true lender of last resort.
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Not quite the Star Wars opening crawl but it'll do.
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"Back in MY day, when a major geopolitical crisis was happening you put a von Habsburg on the throne and got on with it!"
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-CK3 loading screen tips
it can be convenient to understand marriage first and foremost as a social alliance
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Deirdre McCloskey pre-emptively dropping truth bombs on the past week's discourse.
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@fedtanyl
Don’t you know that just 100 corporations produce 71% of the homophobia in the world?
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"Actually, it's pronounced Pro*meth*eus and he stole drugs from the gods."
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❌ Using a time machine to kill Hitler
✅ Using a time machine to persuade William III to drop that whole silly Protestantism angle and instead tell the world that James II is hoarding undeclared weapons of mass destruction.
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No way, I got a copy of Quentin Skinner’s “Liberty Before Liberalism”, given as a gift by the author himself before its official publication, for £3.12 secondhand!
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Added 1500 words to the job market paper today. Is it still appropriate to call it that? No idea, but I intend to put earplugs on and write this thing like it's still 2019 out there.
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It's only 'being the next Henry Ford' if you pay your production workers twice the going wage.
Otherwise it's just sparkling oligopoly.
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