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Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
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Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home Photo by Stephanie Seguino
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · Jan 30
My "Race in Marshall's Economics" is now available, and open-access!

Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Race in Marshall's Economics | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Race in Marshall's Economics
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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 1d
Today is the official publication day for CRACKED FOUNDATIONS!! 🏠🥳🎉
For the next month, Penn is offering a discount of 40% off using the code UHA25. Which brings the price down to $20.97. A screaming deal!
www.pennpress.org/978151282822...
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 18h
The people showing up to explain trolley problems...
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 18h
Tabs are an archive.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 18h
We need *more* distinctions!

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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 19h
Indeed on a per capita basis, China is still just *below* the world average, and about a quarter of the UK level.

One can quibble about the data, but China still has enormous room to grow!

data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY...
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 20h
Another thing you find at the turn of the (20th) century is these writeups in which people presume to assess Jewish culture from outside, to award marks as it were.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 20h
It's striking when you read responses to Jewish immigration to East London around the turn of the century you find the same tropes: horrified reports that there are whole *streets* with shop signs in Yiddish.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 20h
Yes. I'd put it more strongly that neighborhoods where you can get along in another language are good things, and you want people to be able to bring over parents who don't have English. Families and communities are good. Get kids educated and they'll find their own opportunities.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 20h
The "dysfunctional society" and "inferior culture" culture arguments were developed to stigmatize the Irish -- see e.g. Hume or Macaulay's histories of England.
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Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social · 1d
1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

Thread below ⬇️
Hegel and Colonialism
Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 21h
It's striking, 18th and 19th century, how closely the idea of one's own freedom is tied to ruling others. Which I suppose is rather Hegelian: how do I know I am free, because these people aren't.

There's also the household as an internal micro-colony.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 21h
Last time we stayed at Woodlands in Chennai, which was less than a decade ago, they were asking for payment every two or three days.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
She could be right.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
Comfy dog: Max, about 12 pounds of Maltese/poodle (whitish fur with brown ears) snoozes atop the back of the couch. He's small enough to occupy a cat's ecological niche, at least the parts that don't require too much jumping.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
Months pass. Yep, and all that was set up in the late 18th. Maybe a squidge of refreshing before I move forward.

More months: they're still arguing about 1688, aren't they? If I could just get a good line on that...

How do historians stick to periods?
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
Just gonna do a little project in turn-of-the-20th century Brit intellectual history; master a few late Victorian figures, how hard can that be.

Weeks pass. OK, so they're working out early 19th century problematics, maybe a little more reading there.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
This was the best choice, and the campaign uses sentiment shrewdly.

But I really like the Basquiatish one.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 1d
It might teach them how to work with others.
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 2d
My statement on the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks.
Two years on from the horrific terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, we remember all the innocent victims whose lives were cruelly stolen by Hamas. Our thoughts are also with the families whose loved ones were callously murdered, as well as with the hostages who disgracefully remain in captivity and must be released immediately. October 7 was the single deadliest day for the Jewish people since the Holocaust and a profoundly painful experience for London’s Jewish communities. We must never forget this atrocity, nor the deep distress and grief it has caused many Londoners. As the vile terrorist attack on Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester last Thursday demonstrated, we still have far more to do to tackle the poison of antisemitism and drive it out of our society. Our Jewish communities must be able to live, work and worship freely – without the fear of harassment, discrimination, intimidation or violence. The fact they are currently unable to shows we must work much harder to stamp out antisemitism wherever it rears its ugly head. We must never allow conflict overseas to divide us at home. As Mayor, I will continue my work to promote inter-faith dialogue and build bridges between our different religious communities. Whether it’s antisemitism or any other form of bigotry, London has no place for those who seek to sow the seeds of hate. On this solemn anniversary, we must also acknowledge the suffering and trauma since 7 October 2023. Like so many others, my heart aches for the tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Gaza who have been killed and the families who have been torn apart. Today, more than ever, I pray that the cycle of terror, killing and bloodshed that has engulfed the region can soon be brought to an end; that the surviving hostages can be set free; that vital humanitarian aid can flow into Gaza; and that Israelis and Palestinians can one day live side-by-side in two states and in peace.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 2d
Yes.

Bsky makes it easy for small accts like me to ignore the hideous stuff because all my follows are lovely and I've learned not to lift rocks and look under. But maybe our internal separations make it easier for anti-semitism to flourish.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 2d
There's a joke about Aufhebung in here somewhere.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 2d
Students are skipping class and professors are hunting rats.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 2d
Think of all the responsible orcas, stereotyped because of the behavior of a few hoodlums.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 2d
I'm 66 and my reaction times, night capability, and general capacity to track what's around me are not what they were a decade ago. I'd start testing drivers every five years at age 60.
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Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social · 3d
Even dignified from behind.
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