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Angus Armstrong

@angusarmstrong.bsky.social
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Director of Rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk and Research Professor at Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today
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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🇪🇺 “Those who control digital infrastructure control the conditions of possibility for democracy itself.” IIPP Honorary Professor @francescabria.bsky.social writes about the need for Europe to reclaim its digital sovereignty in her latest article for @noemamag.com. ✍️ Read more here: buff.ly/N3wTKnH
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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Exciting times ahead at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social this academic year. Bringing a dose of Cambridge Social Ontology into the policy world, let’s see what unfolds! ✨🙌🤓 #ontology #economics @angusarmstrong.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Adam Smith is an economics legend, but what gets left out of modern conversations about this iconic thinker? Philosopher Eric Schliesser (@nescio13.bsky.social) unpacks Smith’s overlooked views on inequality and concentrated political power. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/3YdiCkj
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Wonderful workshop @sfiscience.bsky.social on Structural Transformation in Complex Systems in energy transition.
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Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Good news in the North-east! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sunderland Lit and Phil Society relaunches after 150 years - BBC News
The founder believes Sunderland needs "to take ownership of where we're going culturally".
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness | by James K. Galbraith - Project Syndicate
James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Great work by Lagakos, Michalopoulos, and Voth on personal narratives from 1930s to ask what gives people meaning. Work and community top the list. Neither enters economists' understanding of well-being directly. A big blind spot in how we evaluate policy impacts. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2ej7c...
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
It is difficult to listen to two US Presidents claiming credit for a ceasefire which could have happened long ago had they really wanted it.
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Adam Posen @adamposen.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
My latest interview @bloomberglp.bsky.social Fed will hike in 2025H2 - unless Trump Admin overdoes tariffs and deportations to cause recession. More likely we get inflation from tax cuts, tariffs, and reduced migration. Thanks @ferrotv.bsky.social @lisaabramowicz.bsky.social x.com/bsurveillanc...
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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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_an...
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Fiscal conservatism, economic radicalism
Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out significant rises in public spending under a Labour government. He's partly right. What his supporters and many critics fail to appreciate, however, is that a tight fisc...
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality. Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Uk yields have indeed risen since the Budget, but correlation is not causality. Consequences of Trump for UK may be more via financial transmission than commonly discussed channels.
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
It’s impossible not to know what’s happening in Gaza. Article by two prominent Israeli economists Motty Perry and Ariel Rubinstein www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...
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It's impossible not to know what's going on in Gaza | Opinion
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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Daily background noise. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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Children among 58 killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, say medics
Victims reported to include six people escorting aid convoy, and eight in tent encampment in humanitarian zone
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
After some MIT students publish an opinion piece in the campus paper criticizing a professor's work with the Israeli military, the paper stops publishing op-eds entirely. A perfect example of how campus speech works in 2024. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our December Newsletter is here 👇 mailchi.mp/7c79c8a94177...
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Our December Newsletter is here 👇 mailchi.mp/7c79c8a94177...
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Very enjoyable and stimulating evening with @michael.muthukrishna.com discussing his great book ‘A Theory of Everyone’ at the inaugural IGP Book Club at The Gilded Acorn bookshop. Thank you Michael.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Very much looking forward to hosting this event!
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Anna Goeddeke @annagoeddeke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hi #EconSky, Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄 It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open! Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Michael Thrower Chowdhury @bevansadvocate.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
10 Great Books on Institutions and Economics (Nobel Special) 1) Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance - Douglass North A foundational work in institutional analysis, explaining institutions from first principles and explaining their development through time.
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Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
if you haven't already, it's well worth reading this piece by @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the politics of inflation and the need for a toolbox that contains more than just interest rate hikes: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/o...
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Opinion | The Lesson of This Election: We Must Stop Inflation Before It Starts
Our nation needs an economic disaster preparedness tool kit to avoid the scourge of inflation.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Looking forward to reading this. As Peter Garber used to say, ratio of good banks to bad banks that have runs approaches zero.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 20/11/2024
Since I've been here for a while… here are some useful features on Bluesky that you might not have discovered yet! 🧵
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've written about the failure of the Harris campaign to take seriously Biden’s Rooseveltian promise of Big, transformative Government that won him the presidency, on Jake Sullivan advice www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Harris ran from the Biden policies that were actually popular with voters | Daniela Gabor
The Harris campaign dumped Biden’s FDR-style ambitions for boring neoliberal policy planks that were an electoral dead-end
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Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com · 20/11/2024
!!! Seems like the Yi Peng 3 has been intercepted by Danish forces. defence24.com/armed-forces...
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Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables
**The Danish Navy has detained the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3, which is suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea.**
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 19/11/2024
While the number of new businesses starting is worryingly low, high-growth businesses are bouncing back—creating jobs & boosting the economy. But the Competition and Markets Authority needs the tools to ensure big players don’t dominate unfairly. www.cityam.com/uk-business-...
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UK business openings fall to lowest level since 2010
New business openings across the UK hit their lowest rate in more than a decade last year, official figures show.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
From an old edition of Samuelson (11): ‘thus, we may be in a vicious circle where the accelerator principle and the multiplier interact to produce a cumulative deflationary or inflationary spiral’.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
“Economics is thought endeavouring to understand a world of action based upon thought” - George Shackle.
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our November newsletter is here👇Please sign-up here www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/newsletter
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Blog on productivity growth through knowledge creation and the importance of inclusive institutions for www.global-solutions-initiative.org ahead of @g20org #G20Summit t.co/OWyG4rgWVS Comments welcome!
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Blog on productivity growth through knowledge creation and the importance of inclusive institutions for www.global-solutions-initiative.org ahead of @g20org #G20Summit t.co/OWyG4rgWVS Comments welcome!
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Angus Armstrong @angusarmstrong.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Our November newsletter is here👇Please sign-up here www.rebuildingmacroeconomics.ac.uk/newsletter
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