Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Gavin Jackson

@gavinjackson.bsky.social

10K followers 780 following 1.9K posts

Mumbai correspondent at the Economist

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · Nov 6

A starter pack of all the Economist journalists I could find on BlueSky. If there are any more I've missed let me know and I'll add them go.bsky.app/GNQbuoM

13 40 79

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 13h

They will only be increasing in frequency now

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 14h

Lots of market chatter trying to reconcile exuberance in stocks with pessimism reflected in gold prices… maybe it’s just that both have Trumpy vibes.

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 14h

Not sure how much the data it was based on stands up to revisions.

1 1

Reposted by Gavin Jackson

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 14h

Starmer calls for India to have permanent UN Security Council seat on.ft.com/47hO3hW

Starmer calls for India to have permanent UN Security Council seat

UK prime minister discusses Ukraine and fossil fuels in meeting with Indian counterpart Narendra Modi

on.ft.com

7 7 36

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 16h

That's not what "true believers" or pointing out Mr Day is a former head of Greenpeace suggests to me. In fact it is the direct opposite of the ordinary meaning of the paragraph.

1 1

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 17h

Yes. That is what the text says.

1 1

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 17h

Doesn’t the text say that the lawyers did not care about the rolling hills but cared about keeping the oil in the ground?

1 1

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 17h

While I agree with the sentiment, India is mostly a victim of other country’s decisions and even if it invests heavily in renewables then the costs of other countries not doing so may still be enough to stop it from reaching developed country status by 2047.

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 18h

The lobby going home with a newfound appreciation for Ulez and congestion charging.

1 6

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 18h

My first piece as Mumbai correspondent. I believe there are a lot of other British journalists here at the moment.

2 2

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 18h

India wants to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its independence from Britain. But what does that actually mean? I have a go at crunching the numbers.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

The prime minister wants a $10trn economy by 2047. He should be bolder

www.economist.com

2 1 9

Reposted by Gavin Jackson

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

www.economist.com

2 4

Reposted by Gavin Jackson

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Fun bit of trivia this morning

*LEHMAN BROTHERS EUROPE ADMINISTRATION CONCLUDES AFTER 17 YEARS
*LONDON JUDGE SAYS ADMINISTRATION IS ENDED AT HEARING

8 20 150

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Traitors is back on telly tonight. Here was my attempt to apply some game theory to the show.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

“The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

It is a finite, sequential, incomplete information game

www.economist.com

2 4

Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Apparently they give fake Nobels to disciplines that have to come up with ad hoc explanations for why their mathematical models don’t describe the real world and are unable to reconcile micro and macro. Called “physics”, I hear.

1 7

Reposted by Gavin Jackson

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.