Trineesh Biswas

My letter/rant to the FT on the uses and misuses of globalisation and @rodrikdani's trilemma. ft.com/content/2d86a1…

WE'RE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!! #WANTITALL

My middle-aged heart is still racing 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

Words fail me at this point. I am completely heartbroken and devastated to hear about Zakir Bhai. Ustad Zakir Hussain was a phenomenon. He was indeed one of the most loved musicians the world saw.

WTO General Council reappoints Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Director-General for a second term @NOIweala dlvr.it/TGT8QZ

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 And happy 80th anniversary of the start of the Bretton Woods Conference, which ran from 1 to 22 July 1944 at the Mount Washington Hotel in New Hampshire.

Dewey defeats Truman, courtesy the Guardian #EURo2024

Enjoyed @DmitryOpines book launch (amazon.co.uk/Why-Politician…) 3 comms insights: D: trust ppl to deal with real trade-offs, don't pretend it's all win-win @AliceTipping: simplicity - #StopFundingOverfishing not 'reform subsidies sth sth' @Matthewbarbados: know yr target audience

. @AvinashPersau15: developing countries need large-scale access to capital on affordable terms to grow sustainably. "The Industrial Revolution was partly funded by - and partly contributed to - the inequities of empire. Let's do the green transition better. " #WTOPublicForum

Click on this Finance & Development piece w/ @IMFNews MD @KGeorgieva on the centrality of trade to economic interdependence (not over dependence) recovery & growth. Trade as a tool for building global resilience & solving challenges of the global commons bitly.ws/GHiM

@kmac @PaulBlustein would know; if memory serves he wrote about it in one or two of his books. This @B_Eichengreen JEP paper google.com/url?sa=t&sourc… puts Krueger's proposal in context, and briefly describes how it failed to advance

I thought it might be easy to find an account of the IMF's attempt to introduce a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism around 2002, but seems not. Anyone?

Other parent to me at the school gate: "We're very late today. Even after you."

Robert Lucas is no more. Though most famous for the eponymous Lucas Critique, his most quoted sentence is from a 1988 paper — On the Mechanics of Economic Development. And, interestingly, he wrote that sentence in the context of Indian economic underperformance.

@SoumayaKeynes @FT Congratulations! Look forward to reading your byline. (And maybe crossover podcast episodes with @ChadBown?)

** SOME EXCITING NEWS ** After almost eight wonderful years at The Economist, in July I’m moving on to join the @FT as an economics columnist and podcaster. aboutus.ft.com/press_release/…

@mattyglesias Even if people were singing the early Industrial Revolution's praises - and Engels' Pause suggests many weren't - it would hardly have mattered: most people didn't have the vote. The UK's 1832 Reform Act sharply expanded the franchise - to 18% of the adult male population.

@tweeter_anita @EmpirePodUK @DalrympleWill @EmpirePodUK In the 1820s, even as the British elite celebrated their own growing empire, the UK supported Greek independence from the Ottomans. Did anyone see an inconsistency?Was it about balance of power politics? Or did they simply view Greeks as civilised and Indians as not?

Special Q&A episode klaxon! Got a question about/for the podcast? Get in touch via @EmpirePodUK and @DalrympleWill and I will do our best…

I'm no Bayern fan, but at least I can trot out my comparison of PSG to a big firm within an overprotected and uncompetitive domestic market, dominant at home but unable to succeed abroad. 2023 out in R16 2022 R16 2021 SF 2020 lost in F after single-leg QF, SF 2019 R16 2018 R16

.@NOIweala on how women, particularly women of colour, often get stereotyped the moment they walk into a room: "Let them underestimate you. Then you take them by surprise." #InternationalWomensDay

.@Lagarde at the @wto for #IWD2023: "Trade can empower women, and women can empower trade."

@RajaKorman @razibkhan @vjgtweets @vpostrel Was it that tailoring and custom-made clothes were cheap or that ready-made clothes were rare and therefore expensive?

@razibkhan @vjgtweets @vpostrel It was cheap even to have clothes tailored. In Delhi in the 1970s, you had pretty much exclusively fabric stores and tailors, next to no ready to wear shops for western menswear (like school uniforms e.g.)