Let's do this again! For #BlackHistoryMonth I'm going to highlight some of the all time greats from the world of sports and performance. The trailblazers, the record breakers, the game changers... One every day. Settle in...

acemoglu's work gives us no insight into how institutions work, this is one of the worst nobel decisions of all time blog: georgeberry.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-da…

What this doesn't say is that the innovation has been in rip-offs rather than in providing useful products: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

🧵1/5 Acemoglu or Paul Baran’s Prize? Acemoglu’s argument on settler versus non-settler colonialism was first presented, in almost the same language, by the Marxist economist Paul Baran decades before the publication of AJR 2002 in his book The Political Economy of Growth.

Blogged: Westminster politics is dominated by the Scooby Doo ideology of capitalism. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

1/9 🧵The right wing press, informed originally by its allies in History Reclaimed, is repeating this misinformation again and again in its attempts to prevent a conversation about reparations. Each time it is repeated it needs to be called out because it is being used to suggest

Blogged: political debate has a blindspot about the failures of British capitalism: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: the assisted dying bill raises an overlooked issue in lots of policy-making - that of legibility: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: the public sphere has suffered from a tragedy of the commons: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: the question is not just: "what should the government do?" It is rather: "how can we create pressures that force governments into positive change?" stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

With higher gilt yields fuelling talk of the need for tighter fiscal policy, here's one I wrote earlier on how fiscal conservatism is in theory compatible with radical economic policy elsewhere: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: there are good economic reasons why the centre-right has collapsed: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Musk has dominated UK politics without (AFAIK) spending a cent. Which proves Smith words: there's a "disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful". The problem is, this disposition is incompatible with any worthwhile conception of democracy.

Blogged: there are two political agendas - one on how to improve the real world and another dealing in fantasies and crank issues, and the latter is dominant: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: what Shakespeare can teach us about how to win power: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: how capitalism undermines the value of democracy: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: the government is using market forces where it shouldn't, and not using them where it should: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: a (partial) defence of the government's approach to economic growth: stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…

Blogged: constraints aren't "given" as Econ101 claims, but have to be discovered - which is a political as well as economic issue. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_…