10 Favourite Reads in 2024 (so far) 1) Pax Economica - Marc-William Palen (@mwpalen.bsky.social) A wonderful recent work, covering an often forgotten history, left wing visions of free trade. Covers: radical liberals, socialist, feminist and radical Christian groups, and reasons for the decline in this thought

Hi #EconTwitter! 📈 Looking for some excellent graduate #econometrics lecture notes? Check out 👇 the material from Michal Kolesar's (@princeton) "Advanced Applied Econometrics" course. It covers a lot of important topics, with an emphasis on inference (including the

Supposing Jimmy Anderson's run-up is about 19 yards, and he's bowled 40,002 deliveries in Tests... Well that's 760,038 yards, or 430 miles. Which is, by chance, the distance on foot to walk from the Utilita Bowl to Chester-le-Street via every Test venue in England.

The most important geospatial concept? Spatial Autocorrelation. It can make the difference between spurious and accurate results. Here’s what you need to know about it:

Mark Hart opens the GEM UK 2023/2024 report launch, highlighting significant progress and enduring challenges in the UK’s entrepreneurial landscape over the past 25 years. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Read the report here enterpriseresearch.ac.uk/global-entrepr…

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Hi #EconTwitter!📈 Curious about #deeplearning for unstructured data, and its applications to #economics? Check out this brand new introduction by Melissa Dell (@harvard). A great read for economists interested in using deep learning in their research.📚 Bonus: accompanying

One of my favourite lectures to deliver is the very first lecture I give at the start of the academic year at Cambridge. It's titled, "Neoliberalism and Its Global Deployment", and here is the reading list for my upcoming version of that lecture.

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In my mid 40's I started to get hip pain. I went to a doctor who told me I'd have to live with the pain the rest of my life. I said screw that, searched for a solution, and fixed my hips. Here's how I did it:

🚨New Puplication🚨Great to see in print, coauthored with ⁦Andrew Johnston⁩ and ⁦Peter Wells⁩, our paper in The Journal of Technology Transfer. Using Panel Variance Autoregressive models, we estimate t-dynamics of research & knowledge exchange. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

A 40-minute routine for guys over 40 to build muscle, lose weight, and prevent injuries. Bookmark this for your next gym day:

Exploratory data analysis used to take me 1 week. It takes me less than 60 minutes now. Introducing explore, a new R package for EDA. Let's dive in:

Have you heard of Upset Plots? It's a new plot type designed to understand intersections between many categories.

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In the 1960s, MIT Professor Jay Forrester created something that changed the way we think about supply chains—The Beer Game. This game is a simple simulation, but it messed with the minds of thousands. Here's the game:

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Harvard University just released free online courses. No payment is required. Here are 12 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:⤵️