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Paul Nightingale
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Professor of Strategy at SPRU.

Associate Dean of Research, University of Sussex Business School. #1 in UK for research income.

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Acting Director HSP.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · Jan 7

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h
It’s not that complicated, people.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 8h
Ahmedabad is a stunning food city. It's Lyon and Bologna level.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h
Ahmedabad to host 2030 Centenary Commonwealth Games reut.rs/48lePFs
Ahmedabad to host 2030 Centenary Commonwealth Games
Ahmedabad has pledged to "lay the foundation" for the next 100 years of the Commonwealth Games after the Indian city was formally named as host of the 2030 Centenary Games on Wednesday.
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Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyiz.bsky.social · 11h
While I was offline I reviewed Baroness Hale of Richmond's newest book. It's actually very good! I'm going soft. Free link here @ www.thetimes.com/article/6dd6...
Return of the Spider Woman: Lady Hale tours Britain’s courts
With the Law on Our Side is a pleasingly old-fashioned look at our legal system by the former president of the Supreme Court
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 13h
That is probably picked up in the management literature. This is economics. I'll merge the data. Lots of good stuff coming out of the AHRC PEC investments.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 13h
What do UK academics working on productivity (keyword removed) also work on (keywords connected by co-citation). Published in the last give years.

Interesting that innovation and trade now cluster together - which is I'm guessing down to a small shift in policy called Brexit.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 13h
Which universities/institutions are working on the economics of productivity and how do their ideas overlap.

Interesting divergence (not sure that is the right term) between US and China. Data for last five years.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h
BROOKINGS: Our survey results lend themselves" to some conclusions:

".. professional AI use is far from ubiquitous and many respondents expressed skepticism that it would be as revolutionary as some experts expect."

@brookings.edu
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How are Americans using AI? Evidence from a nationwide survey | Brookings
Brookings scholars Alikhani, Harris, and Patnaik break down the latest evidence on how Americans use AI, both personally and at work
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Congratulations! Very well deserved.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Not sure where this came from....

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Jo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 1d
My pre-budget take for the LSE Politics blog is up:

Labour are unable to articulate any vision or sense of purpose.

Much of the left has convinced itself that government spending can be maintained without broad-based tax increases.

Not a great budget backdrop.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Wealth tax and looser fiscal rules won’t save the Budget | British Politics and Policy at LSE
The narrative on the left that a wealth tax and looser fiscal rules would solve the Chancellor's 2025 Budget headaches has got out of hand.
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
And what are they focusing on now (last five years - keywords). Much bigger focus on innovation and R&D. But still strong showing from development economists, lots on inequality and the enviroment.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
And what do economists and people in business schools work on in relationt to growth and productivity....

More focus on inequality, wages, international development, methods... and a little bit on innovation which is central

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Same same for the Nexus nexus - not as integrated with distinct foci and more focus on CO2

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
What do academic degrowthers work on - a lot of stuff.

Bit worrying that CO2 is so isolated.

Keywords co-citation from the Nexus-Nexus work.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Organisational Design: "the science of getting 36 puppies to stand in a pyramid.... on motorcycles"

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
Wonderful interview of Phil Mirowski

Nice highlight of the influence of Kuhn (1959) on his work.

JHET INTERVIEWS: PHILIP MIROWSKI | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core share.google/wIbENtHGoKnr...
JHET INTERVIEWS: PHILIP MIROWSKI | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
JHET INTERVIEWS: PHILIP MIROWSKI - Volume 47 Issue 2
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 1d
This by @ersatzben.com on the UK "Three Bucket" theory of R&D policy is one of the best things I've read on UK science policy in a long time.

www.ersatzben.com/p/the-three-...
The three-bucket problem
Ten tests for the UK’s new R&D funding framework
www.ersatzben.com

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 1d
Guardian doing Guardian things

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 1d
NEW on Wonkhe: A new dawn has broken has it not? James Coe looks at the politics of the government’s new approach to research and a change of direction for UKRI buff.ly/NUc7eqn

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
I fear there will be some voters who will like him more.

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · 2d
University students who were provided with a free gym card (in a randomized experiment) exercised more and had a significant improvement in academic performance. The treated students were also less likely to drop out of classes
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
It shouldn't need saying that real victims are victims and deserve all the more support.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
Victim signalling isn't as innocent as it appears.

Most people are nice, so victims get looked after more, and Machiavellian personalities take advantage of this to access resources and get others to attack.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
You might like this study showing a link from virtue signalling to sadism.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Virtuous victimhood as a Dark Triad resource transfer strategy
Virtuous victim signals have been described as a resource transfer strategy motivated by dark traits of narcissism and Machiavellianism Ok et al. (202…
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
Note

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
Lex good on SME policy. Now that they use the <250 employees definition. Which to most people includes a lot of large firms....

Lex in depth: Could the banks revive Britain’s economy? share.google/DYCSi6rYsjfw...
Lex in depth: Could the banks revive Britain’s economy?
If the chancellor can find a way to solve the credit drought that small businesses face, the country’s prospects would get an important boost
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d
Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
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Perrett Laver - Leading Global Executive Search Firm
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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
15. OK final thing.

We have done this before.

If you get the train from Vauxhaul to Waterloo look out the window on your right.

There is a big blue building with "B E NIGHTINGALE BUILDER" on it.

That building firm made money developing land as the railways and London underground grew.

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Paul Nightingale @paulnightingale.bsky.social · 2d
14. Degraded. But if trains bump into each other it's much more serious. We found this out v quickly after privatisation. And renationalised.

We addressed the coordination problems (in a complex way).

But didn't address the public good problem - just borrowed more off the books.