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Mark Thissen

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Professor of spatial networks and economic development

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · Jul 24

UK vehicle manufactures have fallen to the lowest level since 1953 reports BBC and Guardian. Lots of stuff on Trump tariffs and EVs. Yet, looking at the data the dramatic rupture seems to be in 2016. A total mystery what that was....

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Stefania Fiorentino @stefaniafiorentino.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢 CfP @cjres.bsky.social SI on "Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times" exploring new regional futures in an era of uncertainty and transformation.
🔍 we call for a debate on alternative #regionaldevelopment models & policy.

📅 Deadline:1/07/25
Details: academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...

Rethinking Regional Development in Polarised Times: Towards new Regional Futures?

Editors: Emil Evenhuis, Stefania Fiorentino, Huiwen Gong, Ron Martin, Johan Miörner and Christian Schulz. The world is facing a number of historic challenges,

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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · May 24

Britain’s export competitiveness has been eroding for years, but since #Brexit the decline has accelerated. The UK is losing global market share across nearly every sector. Reversing this slide must be part of any growth plan.

🆕insight by @antonspisak.bsky.social

Read here: buff.ly/eTsNvzx

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Mark Thissen @thissenm.bsky.social · Apr 30

Just in time processing and long value chains: waiting for the supply shock
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Waiting for the Supply Shock

Today on TAP: It’s coming, and we know approximately when.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 3

1. I'm reluctant to pose as an overnight expert in international trade, but I do have a couple of thoughts about the official explanation from the White House that I think would be obvious to anyone who had even a rudimentary grasp of economics.

Reciprocal Tariff Calculations

Executive Summary Reciprocal tariffs are calculated as the tariff rate necessary to balance bilateral trade deficits between the U.S. and each of our trading partners. This calculation assumes that pe...

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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · Apr 3

I just did the numbers and this assumption looks to be completely right.

Let’s pause for a minute and consider how INSANE this is. 🧵

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Spatial Economic Analysis @spatialeconomic.bsky.social · Feb 25

The dataset is a system of interregional social accounting matrices (SAMs) for the EU for the year 2017 consistent with the Eurostat regional and national data used as input. The dataset uses Eurostat’s microdata on labour income and educational attainment. 3/5

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Feb 10

More than 50% of the public now think Brexit was "Wrong", and the gap between whose who think it was "Wrong" vs. "Right" is now 25%.

=> the room for manoeuvre in their "reset" of the UK's relationship with the EU is probably larger than Starmer & co. think

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Prof David Bailey @dgbailey.bsky.social · Jan 30

UK car production falls to lowest level since 1954 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

UK car production falls to lowest level since 1954

Number made fell to 780,000, the lowest for seven decades barring the pandemic, as carmakers battle weak demand and EV transition

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · Dec 31

Hoogste tijd voor een verbod op vuurwerk door particulieren, in combinatie met professioneel vuurwerk waar iedereen veilig van kan genieten.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 4

Contrarian take: What if the global economy has room for a couple of tech hubs and financial centers, which ended up in America (and London) less because of fundamental factors than because of historical accidents? I'm not 100 percent there, but geography should be considered 5/

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Dec 4

Draghi report argues that *all* of the US excess productivity growth has been in digital tech (although mentions finance as a secondary source, which is why I include Manhattan). But is this a story about America and its risk-taking business culture, or a story about regional external economies? 4/

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