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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme

@idemamba.bsky.social
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Hard working Political Economist at Kingston University. Views are my own. "It should not have to happen to you, for it to matter to you."

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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Our New Publication on Offshore Property Ownership in England and Wales. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A Decade of OCOD: Analysing ten years of offshore-owned residential property in England and Wales - Jonathan Bourne, Andrea Ingianni, Rex McKenzie, 2026
In the UK, and particularly London, property is a magnet for the global elite, drawn by both the glamour and the consistent rate of return of the housing market...
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
I forget how long I have been working on this, I started it during lockdown and have worked on it sporadically over the summers since then. Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach osf.io/4sp8y/
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Transformative Economics Education: Decolonising Economics Through a Multidimensional Approach
This paper presents a comprehensive framework for decolonising economics education by synthesising Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy with Pan-African thought. Using Kingston University's EC4002 module ...
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The family business. www.theguardian.com/profile/zaki...
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Zakiya McKenzie | The Guardian
<p>Dr Zakiya Mackenzie is a Jamaican writer and researcher based in Bristol, UK</p>
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"The greatness of this people was once that they believed in God; now this greatness is that they believe in themselves." _Hannah Arendt "The Jew as Pariah: A Hidden Tradition,"
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Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Sounding the Egenis #jobklaxon again! 3 year #sts postdoc investigating entanglements of race, biomedicine and genomics, working in collaboration with #philsci #philbio colleagues, including the fabulous @celsoneto.bsky.social. Come and join us!
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Rwanda vying for the title of the Israel of Africa.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Delighted to be included in this NYRB review essay. Even if atm I'm longing to have the economists back.
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Too Close for Comfort | Caitlin Zaloom
Why are economists are in the US today uniquely able to exercise such sway over the state?
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Praising Billionaires who give Nazi Salutes. Nuff said!
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
PhD studentships at Kingston University are now being advertised: www.kingston.ac.uk/research/res...
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PhD studentships for 2025 - Research degrees - Kingston University London
Kingston is seeking to make substantial investment in new PhD studentships for awards beginning in 2025. The competition for these prestigious research studentships is now open to students who wish to...
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Merriam-Webster’s 2024 word of the year speaks to division in America
Merriam-Webster has announced its word of the year, which happens to be an idea that both sides of the political spectrum agree on.
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
👀 #academicsky
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Brett Olmsted, PhD 🗃️ @brettolmsted.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
These kind of oligarchs have long existed in US society. The top 1% believe it’s their destiny to rule while we serve them In the 1850s they were the southern enslavers who would secede in 1862 starting a war that would kill more than 600,000 #history #EduSky #AcademicSky #americanoligarchy 1/14
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New Preprint Alert | "Theorising the Hyper-Capitalist Urban Node: Financial Capitalism and Urban Transformation in Twenty-First Century London" With Christian Koutny - understanding how financial capitalism transforms contemporary cities. Feedback welcome! #Research osf.io/preprints/so...
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
UK Universities Funding Crisis Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay rise last year. #UKUnis #HigherEd #EduSky #AcademicSky
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How vice chancellors at UK universities took pay rises last year
Of the 66 institutions known to be making redundancies or taking cost-cutting measures, 43 gave their vice chancellor a pay bump.
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Wallerstein. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvs...
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Immanuel Wallerstein on the end of Capitalism
YouTube video by moleverde
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 17/08/2024
"Yes, the class interest of the petty bourgeoisie are the same or at least are tied in with the class interest of international monopoly capital; and therefore we have in Africa a class struggle within the African continent and a struggle against imperialism. (“Marxism and African Liberation”)
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
We’re in a strange world where the so-called liberal Conservative leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat is ready to pull the UK out of the European Court of Human Rights and his right wing rival Priti Patel is against it, as she explains in The Times today (also saying she’s not right wing).
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 09/08/2024
Nigel Farage was rehabilitated by ITV when it paid him £1.5m to appear on I’m A Celeb. He is also joint-second for most appearances on BBC Question Time. When I say the *entire* media class is complicit in the normalisation of Islamophobic & anti-migrant rhetoric, I mean it. _Zarah Sultana
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
ColdWarSteve.
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Rex McKenzie-Urban Dividend Research Programme @idemamba.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
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Progress in Political Economy (PPE) @ppesydney.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Very excited to post this. The first instalment of a three-part interview with Duncan Foley by John Clegg and David Calnitsky on the labor theory of value. Part I: The commodity law of exchange www.ppesydney.net/reconstructi...
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Reconstructing the Labor Theory of Value: An Interview with Duncan Foley (Part 1: The Commodity Law ...
Marxists tend to like the labor theory of value because it provides a vivid account of exploitation and highlights a basic antagonism at the core of capitalism: capitalists and workers are locked in a...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
Zia Yusuf, the 37-year-old multi-millionaire tech entrepreneur, is Reform’s new chairman. He describes himself as a “Muslim Patriot”. He’s blamed Labour for the “violent thuggery” of the riots.
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Zia Yusuf: the Muslim mega-donor who just became Reform's new chair
Farage believes the once-leftwing student and former finance bro, 37, is the next big thing for his right-wing populist party. Katie Strick charts his steep rise to the heart of politics
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