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"The length of the working day. Yesterday. Today. Tomorrow. The USSR will have the shortest working day in the world and the shortest working week", Soviet poster, 1960
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Mark Bryan
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Reader in Economics, University of Sheffield
Sheffield, UK Katılım Eylül 2009
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Monopsony power reduces the costs to employers of paying a slightly "wrong" wage.
When firms have more wage-setting power, profit function is flatter near the optimum. A wage far below w* barely hurts profits, but costs workers a lot.
Envelope theorem - from my class today.
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That's what mathematical economists do.
Curiosity@CuriosityonX
Would you leave Earth forever to explore deep space if given the chance?
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@BrankoMilan I suspect we are physically weaker (in terms of muscular strength) than 100+ years ago. We are certainly fatter.
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"On the other hand, contemporaries tend to exaggerate the negative impact of technological change. The fact that machines instead of people pick cotton has not made us physically weaker. We have substituted going to the gym for picking cotton. Perhaps we shall likewise replace thinking about people or about books by another intellectual activity. It is just hard for us, the contemporaries, to tell what it could be."
Branko Milanovic@BrankoMilan
Note on new technologies in China and on our human future branko2f7.substack.com/p/note-on-new-…
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Most people don’t know this:
Heat pumps REDUCE gas consumption even if running 100% on electricity from a gas fired power plant.
More here in my piece for @CarbonBrief 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/heat…
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A lot of things associated with ‘decline’ (flytipping, industrial scale shoplifting in certain places, infinity tik toks on loud speaker on public transport, infinity vape shops, HMO-ification of terraced streets) doesn’t need much £ to make immediately better. 1/2
Clean Up Britain@cleanupbritain
Very sadly, just a normalised sight now in Britain. Please help us fight the epidemic of litter and fly-tipping blighting our country. cleanupbritain.org
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He's flying too close to the sun. We don't need to colonise the Moon or Mars to "secure the future of civilization".
Elon Musk@elonmusk
For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.
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We rarely think of economics as scandalous, but maybe we should. Sam Bowles, in conversation with @sndurlauf & @ethanbdm, argues that a core assumption in the field impedes moral reasoning about wealth redistribution. Watch the full panel → bit.ly/3Yj4F3B
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"It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met."
Yoshida Kenkō
Essays in Idleness
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The employees secretly working a four-day week ft.com/content/a9f405… via @ft
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A reminder that the proportion of people not working in the UK is actually at near record lows.
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@Radiojottings None of them is available. I'm guessing it's to do with copyright (on the music played), but they could surely make each one available for a limited time in turn.
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@M_L_Bryan There are over 600 of them on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00…
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The BBC should put these outstanding episodes back up on BBC Sounds.
Andy Walmsley@Radiojottings
From 2019. Mark Tully talks to @SimonOHagan of the Radio Times about the BBC Radio 4 series Something Understood
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@KateLeeComms @SangitaMyska The BBC should put Something Understood back up on BBC Sounds.
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@SangitaMyska Yes. Mark Tully's programme Something Understood was one of my favourites. Wise and thoughtful.
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Sad news about the passing of Mark Tully, the BBC’s greatest former India correspondent. He made the country his home & was well respected. Loved by audiences around the world, he had a deep, balanced understanding of India’s complexities & contradictions. He was a class above.
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More evidence that technology is useless at best or harmful at worst for learning.
…-economist-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/united-states/…
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I'm trying to figure out where to live next, and one big consideration is the climate. So naturally I made a tool that represents monthly average temperatures for cities as 3D rings so they can be compared more easily. Check it out: awjuliani.github.io/weather-explor…
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