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Fascinting piece on renaissance and enlightenment era Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob (1599-1692) and Guinean Anto… https://t.co/lsKvZzisub

The ethic of the intense life as a characteristic ethic of modernity. Tristan Garcia beautifully translated by the… https://t.co/huJv4b8vOh

Financial executives and professionals account for an estimated 14 percent of the much-discussed top 1 percent of e… https://t.co/dO0bamOnJ4

2008-2009 as a combination of Gabaix – macro impact of individual firms and Acemoglu – network effects. Excellent f… https://t.co/mLzQ0ERHIe

What was missing after 2010 was effective demand! Unemp high, wage growth depressed. Skill mismatch was not the pro… https://t.co/vlSieU8S0x

The ethic of the intense life as a characteristic ethic of modernity. Tristan Garcia beautifully translated by the… https://t.co/4Vv0md1KWn

Xmas stats fun! Stick a pin in an ONS chart back to the 1950s to test you knowledge of mid-century Britain! h/t… https://t.co/87WkYs75mn

@DuncanWeldon Happy xmas duncan. Im going to go swimming off new smyrna beach later. Promise there will be NO photos!

Something to celebrate: Shane MacGowan’s 60th Birthday and a favorite Xmas song! The Pogues Featuring Kirsty MacCo… https://t.co/EHGoLTeXAH

If automation is a problem for future labour relations, China has the biggest problem of all. According to… https://t.co/FEhHHvsIP6

Trump National Security Strategy adopts claim that China annually engages in huge IP theft and total US losses run… https://t.co/VtIy6oKvUM

At the height of the Somali pirate crisis taking the longer and safer route around the Horn of Africa cost the glob… https://t.co/QQpya8U8RO

It isn’t just African population growth predictions that are remarkable. African urban population growth is even mo… https://t.co/53t2TyYD46

11.1 % of Americans will experience life in the top 1 % of the income distribution for one year btw ages of 25-60 b… https://t.co/kktOZLW4XK

According to 2012 poll 37%of US voters think they can become wealthy. The modest reality is that 36.4% experience a… https://t.co/cmm4dYtawV

"For our foreign competitors, I want to make it really clear, we are not going to fall behind like we have as a cou… https://t.co/ggRBfx4CFn

Were drought and harvest failure in Sicily in 1893 crucial to consolidating grip of Mafia as private police force o… https://t.co/qOztb4YTDA

Etymology of deadline traces back to POW camps in American civil war in 1860s and above all the scandal around the… https://t.co/aibXNzxeRs

On chronemics – pacers – chronos – kairos and deadlines … Am not normally into this wellness stuff, but this piec… https://t.co/JddYjpk4JU

Slamming the door behind them. The report that the UK’s Social Mobility Commission issued before they resigned en m… https://t.co/EsPVY9Tbme

Delighted to see that The Internationalists by @scottjshapiro and @oonahathaway in @TheEconomist books of 2017. Wel… https://t.co/UwQISpVypH

Harald Engman (1903-1968) Human Pyramid (1941) extraordinary image reminiscent of muralists in the @wolfsonian… https://t.co/9YUaThwmBq

Harald Engman The Good Earth 1940 another discovery at @wolfsonian Danish satirist. In some way reminiscent of Mexi… https://t.co/7ji6NGbP6I

Building the Tamiami Trail in Florida with black convict labour. Striking and disturbing picture in the fabulous… https://t.co/i5ww68Fvfh

How new is New Smyrna Florida? I thought maybe 1920s and the Smyrna massacres. But no, founded in 1768. Settled by… https://t.co/Ud2Rq6gPNp

"Fidesz leaders have spoken of the need to create a national bourgeoisie, or what Mr Lanczi calls a “patriotic coho… https://t.co/RAyhw1ixpj

Streeck/Blyth/MacKenzie/Godechot/Milanovic/Hacker/Riley/Hay/Blythe/Tooze/Schaefer/Fourcade/Woll This conference 12… https://t.co/PPQoONu5kC

Why are the BIS consolidated banking claims for the crucial moments of eurozone crisis in 2010 so spotty? No sector… https://t.co/zr6dpKi0pq

'A geopolitical competition between free and repressive visions of world order is taking place in the Indo-Pacific… https://t.co/oQWanWR722

Gross inflows and outflows of funds to the US before the crisis reflecting centrality of trans-Atlantic axis to fin… https://t.co/OR6E9fogLx

The political economy of monetary solidarity (OUP 2017) by Waltraud Schelkle (LSE). Heavy-weight euro reading recom… https://t.co/E8K9daIQyv