Renaud Foucart
@rfoucart.bsky.social
Economist at Lancaster University. IO, public policy, environment, experiments. Formerly ULB Bruxelles, Nuffield College, HU Berlin and Nottingham U. renaudfoucart.com
@rfoucart.bsky.social from Lancaster University Management School explains how high petrol prices are fuelling interest in EVs, and how this could bring down electricity bills, in @uk.theconversation.com 👇
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 3mo agoWith oil prices skyrocketing following the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, motorists around the world have been looking for ways to save money. Improvements…
Just wrote in @uk.theconversation.com about why, in a post-alliances world, every country needs its own Strait of Hormuz theconversation.com/the-strait-o...
The Strait of Hormuz shows how everything is now about leverage
Controlling supply chains puts a country in a very powerful position.
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"The UK’s high electricity prices are here to stay. But could they offer an opportunity?" Dr Renaud Foucart @rfoucart.bsky.social writes for @uk.theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/the-uks-high...
The UK’s high electricity prices are here to stay. But could they offer an opportunity?
The next big innovations will centre on energy efficiency.
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Electricity in the UK will not be cheap in the foreseeable future. It will also largely be intermittent. What if we had a bit of ambition and used this situation to do what we do best: services and innovation? Me in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-uks-high...
The UK’s high electricity prices are here to stay. But could they offer an opportunity?
The next big innovations will centre on energy efficiency.
theconversation.com
Very attractive postdoc opportunity at the University of Padua. While the position is advertised as Econ, the group has strong interests in political economy and would consider seriously quant polisci students. inomics.com/job/two-year...
Two-year Postdoctoral Research Position in Economics | INOMICS
The Department of Economics and Management at the University of Padua invites expressions of interest from outstanding young scholars for a two-year, research-oriented postdoctoral position in Economi...
inomics.com
No one knows how to end the US trade deficit, but those who failed all won something in return. Obama got energy independence. Biden a manufacturing revival. And Trump bullied his allies into submission. My latest in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-supreme-...
The Supreme Court has curbed Trump’s ability to bully his allies. But tariffs were never going to end the US trade deficit
The country remains the world’s largest consumer.
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Are you a Dink, Alice or Henry? @rfoucart.bsky.social writes about how social mobility is different for today’s young people in @uk.theconversation.com 👇 theconversation.com/are-you-a-di...
Are you a Dink, Alice or Henry? How social mobility is different for today’s young people
The Dink lifestyle is attractive: more money and time for yourselves. But on the salary of an average UK household, you won’t be able to buy an average house.
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What it means to be middle class today is confusing because the relative price of stuff is totally different from previous generations. Me in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/are-you-a-di...
"If you put an infinite number of the complete works of Shakespeare in a room, it will produce a single monkey" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
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Just went on @france24.com to discuss how the French built a majority for the budget by all pretending to be in the opposition. (And to gossip about all the drama in the election for Paris mayor) www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/...
A week in France - French Prime Minister survives two no confidence votes
On Friday - the French Prime Minister survived not one - but two no confidence motions in Parliament. Both the far-left and the far-right were unhappy that Sebastien LeCornu forced through the income…
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I wrote a piece in @uk.theconversation.com in the simplest words I know to explain to your grandma why, 3 years after chatGPT, employment remains at record low. And why what matters is how AI will affect how much of the money workers get, and how it is shared theconversation.com/why-ai-has-n...
Why AI has not led to mass unemployment
Slow revolutions give people time to adjust.
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Results of the new CfD allocation round is out. Is £91.20/MWh a burden that will impede electricity prices to go down, or an insurance that saves us when the next war bring prices up? In ten years, a lot of people will shout "I told you so." Ignore them.
Not always a fan of the Guardian often sensasionalist science coverage, but this is the kind of moment when you can tell who is still in the realm of normal debate, and who is full on propaganda. Well done to the Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
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No one will kill you in London, but if your phone is stolen the police will not look for it London is young, vibrant, people take the risk The rest of the country is increasingly old and scared, they hate it Don't think it's much more complicated than that
I was on Fr24 yesterday to discuss why French farmers are so poor when CAP is 25% of the EU budget and France #1 recipient -- and why it matters so much for the EU to sign trade deals to exist outside of the US-China bipolar world (Mercosur today, India in the coming weeks)
MTurker urgently need to pay for a premium version of Claude in order to provide credible answers to qualitative studies
John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 7mo ago“These findings provide clear evidence that data collected on MTurk simply cannot be trusted.”
new vox dev piece on our recent RCT to counter misinformation in classrooms in india:
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 7mo ago🆕 Countering misinformation in the classroom Today on VoxDev w/ @priyadarshi-amar.bsky.social (@uc3m.es @ic3jm.bsky.social), @sumitra.bsky.social (@ausis.bsky.social), @simonchauchard.bsky.social & Florian Sichart (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/educat...
At the University of Alabama at Birmingham we had students protesting the module on evolutionary game theory on religious grounds. So we renamed it "the dynamic theory of games" and the students were none the wiser. >
Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 7mo agoSo glad we got rid of cancel culture though
Too bad -- I often think most of today's incel philosophy is just re-heated Pausanias from Plato's symposium
AAUP Texas A&M-College Station Chapter@tamu-aaup.bsky.social · 7mo agoFrom an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!
My attempt to explain a country with the population density of the Netherlands and the urban choices of Arlington, Texas, who also happens to care about inclusion and ends up bringing kids to school in taxis and giving cars to 860,000 disabled people because that's the only way to give autonomy
The Conversation UK@uk.theconversation.com · 8mo agoClogged up Britain
These are the conversations the UK still refuses to have.
The three spectres hanging over Rachel Reeves’ make-or-break budget
These are the conversations the UK still refuses to have.
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My preface to the UK budget in The Conversation about three things no one is talking about: the Covid debt, the energy support scheme, and Brexit. Three political choices that we treat as shocks and refuse to discuss to avoid sounding awkward. theconversation.com/the-three-sp...
The three spectres hanging over Rachel Reeves’ make-or-break budget
These are the conversations the UK still refuses to have.
theconversation.com
- high gas prices have driven up the price of electricity - consumers pay surcharges on their bills to develop renewables - renewables lower the price of electricity - nuclear is complicated - The UK has less sun than Spain. Me in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/why-electric...
Why electricity costs so much in the UK (it’s not all about the weather)
Many countries in Europe pay much less for their energy.
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People love to be in control. They also love to take credit for success and blame others for failures. When we offer subjects a chance to delegate to a lottery that might pick their choice or someone else's, they stop being control freaks (1/6) (in econ letters) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
So, here in sunny Lancaster, we have this rockstar student on the market this year. Before him, the world thought that increasing the number of economic graduates (the best paid ones) should strongly decrease their salaries. Joseph shows it is not the case. (1/3)
Joseph Richardson@josephmrichardson.bsky.social · 10mo agoI'm happy to share my job market paper. It asks a simple but classic question: to what extent are graduate wages affected by the supply of graduate labour in the economy? 🧵
I'm happy to share my job market paper. It asks a simple but classic question: to what extent are graduate wages affected by the supply of graduate labour in the economy? 🧵
