Tony Addison
@tonysangle.bsky.social
Non-Resident Research Fellow & former Chief Economist UNU-WIDER Helsinki. 🇺🇳🇫🇮Former Professor of Economics, University of Copenhagen.🇩🇰Also Manchester & Warwick universities 🇬🇧 https://www.wider.unu.edu/expert/tony-addison-0
Open call for papers, The Economics of Firearm Markets, Crime, and Gun Violence. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on February 6, 2027. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on October 28, 2026. More information: www.nber.org/calls-papers...
Fascinating and depressing. www.ft.com/content/6b52... The new premium product: books written by people
The new premium product: books written by people
Some publishers think AI could not only help authors but replace them
ft.com
📈 #IFSSatSat: Subject choice can make a big difference to your future finances. We estimate medicine and economics grads can expect to be over £400k better off on average over their lifetimes for going to university, but performing arts grads might be £50k worse off on average.
New research by @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social, Jun Du & Xiaocan Yuan highlights how Manchester’s strong productivity growth has been fuelled by attracting high-value foreign investment & channelling it into knowledge-intensive sectors such as digital, R&D & professional services. shorturl.at/rT3SM
“The architectural style — sometimes referred to as New London Vernacular — has emerged as a particularly challenging design against the backdrop of rising temperatures”. What’s your experience been in these flats? #London www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Londoners Complain of ‘Unbearable Heat’ in City’s Modern Housing
In Britain’s capital city, an architectural trend that started about two decades ago is now being linked to unbearable levels of indoor heat.
bloomberg.com
Must be a strange feeling when your net worth goes up and down by several hundred billion. Not sure I could live with the volatility. 🙄
Typically good by @duncanweldon.bsky.social. I've long wondered whether we're all suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder where every new thing becomes something to attribute deep concern to. The last decade's political, economic, & epidemiological events have created a particular environment.
Gilt investors shouldn’t think so much about British politics
The risks of decisions in Westminster are overplayed compared with global turmoil
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“The architectural style — sometimes referred to as New London Vernacular — has emerged as a particularly challenging design against the backdrop of rising temperatures”. What’s your experience been in these flats? #London www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Londoners Complain of ‘Unbearable Heat’ in City’s Modern Housing
In Britain’s capital city, an architectural trend that started about two decades ago is now being linked to unbearable levels of indoor heat.
bloomberg.com
"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
“I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men." (Sir Isaac Newton, 1720s: after losing $3mn in today’s money in the ‘South Sea Bubble”). Next up: SpaceX 🚀
In Mexico, income transfers targeted at women are effective at improving their decision-making position within the household, translating into significant changes in household consumption and time allocation patterns.
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2mo ago🆕 How targeting cash transfers at women strengthens bargaining power within the household Today on VoxDev, Andrea María Flores (FGV EPGE) discusses research on cash transfers targeted at women in Mexico: https://ow.ly/vLhr50ZaqQ9
WTO head ‘certifies’ 67-member E-Commerce Agreement. What does that mean? Uncertainty remains about the agreement’s status in the WTO, and the roles of the WTO’s head and its Secretariat, while the pact is blocked from being added formally to WTO rules. tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/w...
WTO head ‘certifies’ 67-member e-commerce pact. What does that mean?
Participants target mid-2027 for entry into force, but the current roles of the director-general and the Secretariat remain unclear
tradebetablog.wordpress.com
BOFIT Weekly Review 19/2026 Russian economy weakened sharply in first two months of the year; rising oil prices bring relief Read more 🔗 www.bofit.fi/en/monitorin... #Russia #economy #BOFITWeeklyReview
🌍The World Bank’s Self-Inflicted Crisis @charlesjkenny.bsky.social “ This is a very bad moment for the world’s largest source of development finance to be so distracted and disabled”.👇 www.cgdev.org/blog/world-b...
The World Bank’s Self-Inflicted Crisis
The World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings arrive at a moment of increasing global disorder. Both the Bank and the IMF have an important role in helping client countries deal with the associated crises. B...
cgdev.org
In 1Q2026 China's crude oil imports from Russia have risen to all-time highs. Not surprising. Also, the discount Russia has to give to China was substantially smaller in March (2.9%) than in the previous months. The US attack on Iran has been an economic boon for Russia...
🇮🇳🥵India “… the evening hours, when solar plants idle, remain a pressure point, just as the war curbed gas supplies that help meet night-time shortfalls”. (Renewables are up but also coal unfortunately) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
India’s Power Demand Hits Record as Heat Wave Batters Nation
India’s electricity demand climbed to a record on Saturday, after blistering heat waves pushed power usage from cooling appliances, compounding the nation’s energy challenges brought by the Middle Eas...
bloomberg.com
Tube strike day is a good opportunity to relearn how walkable London is. Waterloo to Tottenham Court Road: 25 minutes. Going underground maybe saves ten minutes, a poor return on three quid
Come work with us! Our Geoeconomics & Tech dream team is looking for a student assistant to work on events, communications and coordination across several projects - the role is based in @ecfrberlin.bsky.social and if it sounds like a plan we'd love to hear from you by April 26th👇️ ecfr.eu/jobs/
