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John Hogan Morris
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Economic geographer 🗺 💰 Central banking, risk management & climate finance. Co-author (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations

Political science 53%
Economics 17%
‘To know something about the physical world, you could use maths to model it. But more radically, you could also use the physical world to open up and model mathematical ideas.’

Claire Hall on what makes Archimedes so interesting.

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Claire Hall · Maths is second best: Archimedes on the Beach
For Archimedes, the mathematical and physical worlds were as real as each other and mutually reinforcing. To know...
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🚨Behold, the story of the Fed balance sheet in a single chart
www.ft.com/content/cbe2...
Behold, the story of the Fed balance sheet in a single chart
More Fed history (sorry), briefly put
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Our section is hosting a pre-conference for the ASA annual meeting—Science, Knowledge, and Technology Today: Meeting the Moment, Engendering Just Futures.

Join us on Friday, August 7 in NYC!

The call for papers is now open, with abstract submissions due April 1: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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NY Fed updates map of U.S. for losses from natural disaters, data covers 2024. www.newyorkfed.org/research/pol...

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Geography's 'combination of STEM, social science and arts and humanities can sit uneasily within university faculty systems, heightening the risk that we are dismantled into separate components.' 1/2
The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Well this game arrived just in time for Family Day here in BC and we’re all very excited to play it! @maxhaiven.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

Especially with Spurs season ticket renewal period starting soon...

Melinda Cooper on the household servitude economy in general, and in extreme form (Epstein).
www.equator.org/articles/eps...
Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
www.equator.org

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Celebrating its 100th anniversary this February, #BlackHistoryMonth is a fitting moment to remind ourselves that capitalism’s disreputable trajectory has been and continues to be a deeply racialised one.

https://ow.ly/xS0z50Ycf8J
From slavery to e-waste: How capitalism has always been racial - Transforming Society
Pushkala Prasad, author of 'Capitalism’s Dark Complexion', argues that capitalism has always been deeply racialised, exploiting Black and Brown bodies, from chattel slavery to modern e-waste labour, while disproportionately enriching White populations.
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Finally caught up with Alaa Alqaisi's essay on Palestine and the geography of vanishing. Never not read Alaa Alqaisi www.thenation.com/article/worl...
What Edward Said Teaches Us About Gaza
On Palestine and the geography of vanishing.
www.thenation.com

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How private equity’s big bet on software got derailed by AI ft.trib.al/kXTd83y
How private equity’s big bet on software got derailed by AI
Dealmakers and lenders are facing a ‘Darwinian moment’ as digital services risk being made obsolete by new technologies
ft.trib.al

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ICYMI her book is fabulous bsky.app/profile/kell...

Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught | Economics | The Guardian share.google/SpeKFdCpUthy...
Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught
Born of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it is reshaping economists’ education
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looks like our book will be out in spanish by the end of may!

www.penguinlibros.com/es/libro-de-...
The EPA's decision to quit regulating emissions might be symbolic, but what it symbolizes if scary: a government that puts antiquated ideology and corporate profits over the health and welfare of its people

Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com

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The Insurance Crisis Is About to Get Even Worse
The Trump administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ well-being and therefore don’t need federal regulation. Insurance co...
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Today we’re launching Open Climate Risk, a fully open option for U.S. building-level climate risk data. It’s unique because it allows you to see not only risk scores, starting with wildfire, but also the complete underlying dataset, methods, and codebase. carbonplan.org/research/cli...

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Tremendous post by @tobyn.bsky.social looking at how exposed the $450bn BDC industry is to the software freakout, and diving into the particulars of the two biggest funds — managed by Blackstone and Blue Owl. www.ft.com/content/3f88...

Farage doesn't have the computer skills needed for most entry-level office jobs....

Today!

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What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
Puerto Rico's electricity crisis
In this episode, lawyer and activist Ruth Santiago discusses Puerto Rico's latest electricity crisis, as the island struggles to restore power in the wake of Hurricane Fiona. In the wake of Hurricane ...
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