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Stuart Mills

@stuartmills.bsky.social

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Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Leeds. Visiting Fellow of Behavioural Science at the LSE. Interested in Digital Economy + Behaviour + Political Economy. All views are my own. Website: siu2lh.com

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Just finished teaching my last policy economics class of the year. We had a brilliant guest lecture from Professor Ben Clift on the OBR, and he even signed my copy of his book! Key takeaways: crisis is the new normal. Economics needs to keep up. An easy win: invest in renewables, keep bills down.

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Why is everything now gambling? Because alternative ways of 'getting ahead' no longer exist. Why are public holidays now such big deals? Because there are fewer opportunities to achieve (and celebrate) personal successes. And yes, why do (some) people obsess about the gym? Well...

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Something I'm working on: 1) On average, only 9% of US firms were using any form of AI to produce products in September 2) US firms are consistently overestimate the rates of AI adoption (dotted line) 3) Expectations are maybe(?) starting to outpace reality...

Average percentage of US firms using any kind of AI to produce goods and services, plotted against average percentage of US firms anticipating they will use AI to produce goods and services in the next six months. Expectations are consistently higher than reality. Data from the US Census Bureau Trends and Outlooks Survey. Calculations my own.

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

This is precisely it. We are living in an era of commoditised conflict, where local conflicts can now have global effects, conflict itself can be more ambiguous, and expensive prestige weapons are increasingly for show.

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Stuart Mills @stuartmills.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I had the privilege of giving some lectures on AI and behavioural science this year, and I was struck by how pretty much all the applications which were proposed were, for lack of a better word, fascist. I'm thinking of developing this idea (image is the abstract). Comments or suggestions welcome.

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