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Nat Dyer

@natjdyer.bsky.social
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My book RICARDO’S DREAM - a 'simply brilliant' critique of mainstream economics - came out in Nov '24. Fellow of Schumacher Institute. Formerly with Global Witness & PEP. www.natdyer.com

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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The whole 'ecological civilization' idea comes back into the West from China... and is just another example of how intellectuals of ALL stripes are looking to China for new social ideas from... authoritarians, abundance types, to the green progressive left
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Ecocivilisation in motion
Nat Dyer reviews {cite}Ecocivilization: Making a World that Works for All{/cite} by Jeremy Lent
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The text of my review of Jeremy Lent's new book 'Ecocivilization' in is now unlocked - next tweet Short version is: it's a deeply useful, visionary account of a future civilization that is extremely ambitious & could do with a more dynamic presentation of history
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I was lucky enough to see Dolly Parton years ago at the O2 in London. I arrived thinking she was a regular celebrity singer and left blown away by her multi-instrumental musical talent and incredible between song patter and storytelling. What a legend! 💔
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ordered with my excellent local bookshop! Can't wait
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
My review of Jeremy Lent's latest book 'Ecocivilization' An attempt to map out a modern, technological society founded on the dignity of all life In the most recent, beautifully crafted Resurgence & Ecologist: www.resurgence.org/magazine/cur...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yes - I'm not sure if he makes it into the book. I know there's lots of Margulis, which will be great.
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I need to buy @rowhoop.bsky.social's new book! "Economics grows out of ecology... It has never been more urgent that we understand how nature works, and that economists correct their ignorance of ecology." via @graceblakeley.substack.com substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Darwinism does not support capitalism
Darwin described the webs of connectedness that support all life, and economists need to understand that their discipline grows out of ecology
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So we disagree. Any thoughts on the role of historical economists? I see them as very influential at the time but often airbrushed out now
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
'This is the Darwinian message we need most to hear today. “The crisis of nature... has been caused by a failure to see in ecological terms, a failure set up by our philosophical and economic systems” Excellent @philipcball.bsky.social on @rowhoop.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
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Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature
This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Very interested in this. Didn't the two actually have a pretty collaborative relationship? Sure they had different views but kept talking. Wallace even coined and popularised the term 'Darwinism' etc.
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Yes! You wrote a excellent piece in the Guardian about it. Such intellectual dishonesty by the great man. The rub is some think that Dawkins hadn't read James Lovelock's book when he critiqued Gaia theory in the 1980s
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
She writes brilliantly! Many said that Midgley lost the argument then, but in 2020s Dawkins' 'science' is looking way very shaky
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Anyone who calls Susan Strange the OG will get a retweet from me... Nice thread showing how her study of the waning British economic & political power can help illuminate what's going on with US power
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Footnotes to Susan Strange... love it
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I see your point & some of this is splitting hairs. But both Marshall and Jevons were also deeply influenced by Ricardo and sought to protect the type of simple, abstract models he had created from attacks of historical economists (who are ignored in your chart). They wanted to do deduction better
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
His idea of price transparency is good and useful. But this is a weird line: "The problem isn’t rent-seeking – it’s economics." Errr... rent-seeking is part of economics. Perhaps just not the sort of economics that been popular recently. And morality has been part of econ too since at least Smith.
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Modern environmental movement makes little sense without this cosmic view...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Hope they like it! Mine have still got Harry Potter to look forward to
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The House at the Edge of Magic kids books by Amy Sparkes are just brilliant! So full of wild imagination, vivid characters, heart and adventure. I've just finished reading the 4th one to my 9 year-old and we've both loved them.
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Excellent quote! I only came across his work a few months ago - looking at his three discovery of deep time books with his then wife - but he seemed to have his finger on a v important aspect of modern thinking. I will be reading more.
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Today, Wednesday, in London. Come join me! www.lse.ac.uk/events/capit...
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Capitalism: a global history | Book launch
6:30pm Wed 25 Mar | Sven Beckert | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
and 90s so it's a complete lift from her book. And I acknowledge that throughout the book: the book [The Global Casino] is dedicated to her. She understood this stuff long before anyone else and has never really been, as we're so used to, given credit for it."
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The analogy of global finance as a casino was, @annpettifor.bsky.social says, "used first by John Maynard Keynes, and then subsequently by a wonderful woman... she founded the field of international political economy, Susan Strange. And she was writing about casino capitalism back in the 80s....
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Susan Strange saw global finance as a casino back in the 1980s and inspired Ann Pettifor's new book 'The Global Casino' as she explains here... www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8dd...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The great Sven Beckert in the UK this week!
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Pleased I have now, and it took me into a deep dive in NME in the 1970s as well as the truly impressive thinking and work of Stuart Hall. The world is always bigger and wilder than we'll ever know
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
I saw this quote while at Goldsmiths the other week and have to admit that I'd never heard of Mark Fisher before...
A quote in black on a white tiled wall: 'Emanciapatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a 'natural order', must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable' by Mark Fisher (1968-2017)
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Do you have any more events or stops in the UK?
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Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
This Saturday, March 28, I will speak on Capitalism: A Global History. If in town, come join me. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...
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American Lecture. Capitalism: A Global History | Oxford Literary Festival
Sven Beckert talks to Ian Goldin - American Lecture. Capitalism: A Global History
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Free event in London tomorrow... (although it's a bit of a stretch now to call it a launch)
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
On Strange's influence on law - this is old but might be useful: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... You can also search her work for specific terms at www.susanstrange.org - maintained by @bhaggart.bsky.social
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A Multinational Corporation or an International Organisation?
The classical definition of international law has been of the body of rules and norms that govern relations between sovereign states. That definition is today still generally agreed to be correct, so far as it goes. But it is insufficient. There are other important...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Just seen this... Strange was a great synthesier and still hugely underrated. She had many diverse influences - journalism, history (esp Braudel), int relations etc. A good place to start is her autobiographical essay 'I never meant to be an academic': www.natdyer.com/i-never-mean...
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I Never Meant to Be an Academic by Susan Strange
A posthumous ‘guest blog’ by the well-known political economist Susan Strange (1923-1998). Her only published autobiographical writing now online for the first time.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 06/03/2026
Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Westminster Meeting House raided by Metropolitan Police again. Statement: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life.

Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.

That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.” – Oliver Robertson, Head of Witness and Worship
Quakers in Britain, 5 March 2026
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This looks very interesting
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'll be talking about economics, imagination, and 'Ricardo's Dream' at Goldsmiths Uni in London on 12 March at 4pm. Come along if you're in town! Cheers @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...
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Ricardo's Dream by Nat Dyer
Book Launch
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Great to see my friend, Dave, sign a contract for his first book on philosophy & aliens. Congrats!
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Abby Innes @abbyinnes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
As Trump reduces every economic forecaster in the world to a weeping nervous wreck…
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
The lens of history allows you to write a 'true story' of what's happening in the modern economy, whereas models often lead us astray - Stiglitz
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I seriously have no idea how it does it... but The Guardian piece recently mentioned him not sleeping
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is very good on utopian economics as the 'governing science' of governments (right & left), banks, financial institutions, credit rating agencies, corporations & consultancies @abbyinnes.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb07...
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How neoliberalism broke economics | Dr Abby Innes
YouTube video by The Institute of Art and Ideas
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Not sure how they found it, but this is apparently @the-syllabus.bsky.social's video of the week 😀
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
FWIW, I've written to the editor pointing out the links between African Brazil and David Ricardo's famous trade theory... will see if they print it
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The @economist.com piece about Brazil's African heritage is good to see - but they fail to note the link to their hallowed free trade theory... www.economist.com/the-americas...
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Very heartwarming video - thanks for sharing
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation" h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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Has Britain become an economic colony?
The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that may cost it dear
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Last Friday, I got to meet Benjamin Lipscomb author of 'The Women Are Up To Something'. He's in London researching his new book on the BBC. We decided to meet up at philosopher Mary Midgley's childhood home in Greenford, Middx. - where we got a personalised tour from historian Peter Hounsell
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
A year ago today... www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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Isaac Newton’s wealth ‘intimately connected’ with slavery, author says
Scientist and banker benefited from gold mined primarily by enslaved Africans in Brazil, book claims
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Nat Dyer @natjdyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The cat one is new to me - but I like it. It's quite René Magritte
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