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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 21h

📊 New report by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Cliodhna Taylor for The Productivity Institute and @escoeorg.bsky.social tracks UK labour productivity across 184 industries from 2009–2023, more than double the granularity available from official datasets.
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Labour productivity estimates for detailed industries in the UK, 2009 to 2023 - The Productivity Institute

Research constructing labour productivity estimates for 184 industries spanning the entire UK economy – more than double the granularity available from official datasets.

www.productivity.ac.uk

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 6h

My paper "Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?" has been published on-line in European Transport Studies. It is available in free access. Work performed at the Federal Planning Bureau.

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Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?

I present a cost of ownership (from the perspective of the employer) analysis of leased company cars sold in Belgium in 2023, both before and after ta…

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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 19h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

The best part is that, once a term, the apparatus magically reassembled itself for Pirates

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

Rumour has it that Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, was based on his experience of the Japanese lettuce, notorious for wilting the moment the barcode is read, so I’d say Takaichi san will easily survive the Truss challenge.

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Land Economics @land-econ.bsky.social · 1d

Land Economics continues to celebrate 100 years in publication! To read an open access bibliometric review of the journal (doi.org/10.3368/le.102.1.271914) and other free preprint articles like it, visit: le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent.

Abstract: Spanning 1925–2024, we map Land Economics (LE) using Web of Science and Scopus with VOSviewer, bibliometrix, and SciVal. Analyses of documents, authors, and themes show LE as a central node linking environmental, agricultural, and urban economics. Seminal strands—property rights, contingent valuation, discrete choice, and hedonic pricing—anchor long-run influence. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic mapping confirm persistent emphases on valuation models, impact assessment, and policy applications, alongside emerging work on ecosystem services, climate change, and the water–energy nexus. Trend-topic and SciVal clusters reveal growing attention to disaster management, green innovation, and behavioral economics with uneven recent citation performance across topics and time.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 2d

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%)

Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms

assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d

No. They are monetizing (Monet izing?) hypothetical well-being gains.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 2d

Fiscal costs: -€72mn (after accounting for increased tax revenues & lower social benefits payouts)

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d

There is no such thing as society, but there is such a thing as future society.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 2d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d

Many a slip Twix cup and lip

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 5d

"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)

Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 3d

Read more in my (open access) book on climate optimism: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

The Case Against Climate Doom

This open access book provides hope against climate pessimism and outline practical ways to combat climate change.

doi.org

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大やま @solzheshimarin.bsky.social · 5d

高市の演説、日本をアメリカに置き換えるとほとんどトランプの演説になるのポイント高いですね

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Darakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 5d

lmu-osc.github.io/introduction... Just sharing, in case.

Welcome to the Zotero Tutorial! – Introduction to Zotero

lmu-osc.github.io

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d

Looks like the witches of Scotland have been using Evanesco again.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d

Public or private, an enterprise that has no money to pay its workers or suppliers must eventually close. The American federal government is currently teaching the world how this works.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 7d

A hospital that runs continuously in the red will be unable to pay its staff at some point or will have to cut services. Eventually it must close.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8d

‘Most’. Can you name one?

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 9d

Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number.

Toyota steps up high-speed EV charger installations at dealerships

The carmaker aims to have 500 fast chargers installed at dealerships in Japan by the end of March 2026.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d

Now I'll have to read it again.

Jim Rion @jimrion.com · 9d

A look back on translating Strange Houses, with a bit of a spoiler discussion of one big issue.
#Uketsu #StrangeHouses #JapaneseLit #StrangePictures #Books

Translating Strange Houses

Jim goes on a somewhat spoilery journey looking back on an issue encountered in translating Strange Houses by Uketsu, which ended up making a major difference on the book.

jimrion.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 9d

How weird that this should have disappeared from the Telegraph archive...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 10d

What’s the largest economy missing from that graphic? Answers on a postcard to Nagatachō

Molly Scott Cato @greenpartymolly.bsky.social · 10d

Something to celebrate!

The world's biggest economies are installing Renewables at a rapid rate

China is leading the pack in size and scale

This reality flies in the face of the rhetoric opposing urgent climate action

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 10d

Apparently, meant to be taken literally

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koenfucius @koenfucius.bsky.social · 11d

Earth’s oven window—one small area, spread over four neighbouring countries, contains the five cities that have passed the title of hottest city on earth between them over the past two decades:

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