Dan Gay
@dangay.bsky.social
Political economist who advises on and writes about economics and sustainable development, international trade & the least developed countries. Former UN. Scottish. Likes running, cycling & the outdoors. www.emergenteconomics.com | dangay.substack.com
Another nail in Europe's coffin over the long run. China won't buy its exports because it'll make everything at home. on.ft.com/4p9iJbY
China is making trade impossible
Europe has nothing to offer and difficult decisions to make
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November 26, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Another nail in Europe's coffin over the long run. China won't buy its exports because it'll make everything at home. on.ft.com/4p9iJbY
Books are even better.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Books are even better.
Reposted by Dan Gay
The super-rich have thrived at our expense over the last 35 years. This much wealth in the hands of 156 people is corrosive to the public good. Today's budget must take steps towards a system where billionaires do not exist!
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The super-rich have thrived at our expense over the last 35 years. This much wealth in the hands of 156 people is corrosive to the public good. Today's budget must take steps towards a system where billionaires do not exist!
V true - trade deals aren't a magic panacea. And if it's hard for businesses in rich countries to take advantage of them, it's triply difficult in a lot of developing countries.
www.politico.eu/article/rach...
www.politico.eu/article/rach...
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
V true - trade deals aren't a magic panacea. And if it's hard for businesses in rich countries to take advantage of them, it's triply difficult in a lot of developing countries.
www.politico.eu/article/rach...
www.politico.eu/article/rach...
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As is my experience in other negotiations, China talks softly, stays out the limelight and quietly achieves its objectives.
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
As is my experience in other negotiations, China talks softly, stays out the limelight and quietly achieves its objectives.
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On the last official day of #COP30 climate talks, countries are divided on whether to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. Vanuatu's minister for climate change says big polluters like Saudi Arabia are obstructing action despite "scientific clarity" on the need to transition to clean energy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
On the last official day of #COP30 climate talks, countries are divided on whether to commit to phasing out fossil fuels. Vanuatu's minister for climate change says big polluters like Saudi Arabia are obstructing action despite "scientific clarity" on the need to transition to clean energy.
Provocative article here from Aditya. I agree: what's on the table isn't enough, and the UK left needs to get inventive, quickly. But he misses the point that billionaires drive up asset prices, putting them out of reach of the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
youtu.be/8FDRgkN3jqM?...
youtu.be/8FDRgkN3jqM?...
What does the left want? A wealth tax. What will that accomplish? Very little | Aditya Chakrabortty
Imposing a 1% levy on the super-rich isn’t a policy, it’s pantomime. Tackling inequality in Britain will require much more far-reaching changes, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Provocative article here from Aditya. I agree: what's on the table isn't enough, and the UK left needs to get inventive, quickly. But he misses the point that billionaires drive up asset prices, putting them out of reach of the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
youtu.be/8FDRgkN3jqM?...
youtu.be/8FDRgkN3jqM?...
Trump caves on Swiss tariffs because Rolex gave him a gold clock.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump accused of caving to big business after deal to cut Swiss tariffs to 15%
Rolex denies ‘any negotiation’ with US although luxury watchmaker entertained Trump and gave him gold clock
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Trump caves on Swiss tariffs because Rolex gave him a gold clock.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"For the first time in four years, the UN climate conference is being held in a democracy." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Protesters blockade Cop30 summit over plight of Indigenous peoples
Munduruku people demand to speak to Brazil’s president, saying they are never listened to
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"For the first time in four years, the UN climate conference is being held in a democracy." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I'm currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where my friend Mohammad Razzaque writes: "In this evolving and tumultuous era, development cannot be delinked from geopolitics, nor can industrial transformation be imagined without strategic economic statecraft." asia.fes.de/news/adaptin...
Adapting to new realities: Bangladesh prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country status amid geoeconomic disruptions
As Bangladesh prepares to graduate from Least Developed Country (LDC) status in 2026, it faces rising global protectionism and the loss of key trade privileges. In this article, Mohammad Abdur Razzaqu...
asia.fes.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
I'm currently in Dhaka, Bangladesh, where my friend Mohammad Razzaque writes: "In this evolving and tumultuous era, development cannot be delinked from geopolitics, nor can industrial transformation be imagined without strategic economic statecraft." asia.fes.de/news/adaptin...
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"International liberalisation was supposed to raise economic growth for all, as trade and capital flew between countries, levelling out prices and boosting efficiencies. But ..."
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Neoliberalism – lurching onwards
Part one showed how neoliberalism worsened inequality and failed to raise economic growth – here, the author shows how it succeeded in its true aim
bylines.scot
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"International liberalisation was supposed to raise economic growth for all, as trade and capital flew between countries, levelling out prices and boosting efficiencies. But ..."
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@dangay.bsky.social
Imagine being the guy tasked with telling MBS his hideous vanity mega-project is doomed.
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
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Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Imagine being the guy tasked with telling MBS his hideous vanity mega-project is doomed.
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Don't do it in a foreign embassy or be anywhere near a meat grinder.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
Here's the BBC again with its refusal to identify the perpetrator during the Israeli genocide in Gaza: "there's no hiding what this war has done."
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Inside Gaza, BBC sees total devastation after two years of war
With endless rubble and destroyed streets as far as the eye can see, any plans for Gaza's future are a far cry from where it is today, writes Lucy Williamson.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Here's the BBC again with its refusal to identify the perpetrator during the Israeli genocide in Gaza: "there's no hiding what this war has done."
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
No - what the Israeli army has done.
No wonder, when Israel vetted the story before allowing it to be released.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reposted by Dan Gay
Check the figures and find out how the economy behaved before and after neoliberalism.
bylines.scot/news/economi...
bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 - Bylines Scotland
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
bylines.scot
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Check the figures and find out how the economy behaved before and after neoliberalism.
bylines.scot/news/economi...
bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 bylines.scot/news/economi...
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 - Bylines Scotland
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on like a zombie ideology
bylines.scot
October 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The strange case of zombie neoliberalism – Part 1 bylines.scot/news/economi...
🧵1. In the hundreds of consultations with governments and companies in countries in the global South, everyone mentions the lack of inter-Ministerial coordination. Different parts of government don't speak to each other. This is also true of some richer countries.
Why?
Why?
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🧵1. In the hundreds of consultations with governments and companies in countries in the global South, everyone mentions the lack of inter-Ministerial coordination. Different parts of government don't speak to each other. This is also true of some richer countries.
Why?
Why?
Interesting paper asking whether the EU is an environmental leader in trade. Conclusion: to some extent because it's the biggest importer and exporter of environmental goods, but it's got a lot of work to do in some areas. I didn't realise the UK ranked so highly
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
October 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Interesting paper asking whether the EU is an environmental leader in trade. Conclusion: to some extent because it's the biggest importer and exporter of environmental goods, but it's got a lot of work to do in some areas. I didn't realise the UK ranked so highly
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
www.researchgate.net/profile/Sara...
1. Now we know where power really lies open.substack.com/pub/dangay/p...
Now we know where power really lies
Everyone says neoliberalism is dead, but in practice it staggers on. First of a three-part series.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
1. Now we know where power really lies open.substack.com/pub/dangay/p...
A thought-provoking piece. One of the shortcomings of AI that's less talked about is that its main perception of intelligence is goal orientated and utilitarian - an 'intelligence' that concerns end-states not process: much like those who promote it.
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
October 19, 2025 at 6:57 AM
A thought-provoking piece. One of the shortcomings of AI that's less talked about is that its main perception of intelligence is goal orientated and utilitarian - an 'intelligence' that concerns end-states not process: much like those who promote it.
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
on.ft.com/3L2oNDH
As so often, Scotland presents a slightly more humane and sensible face.
October 14, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As so often, Scotland presents a slightly more humane and sensible face.
Important stuff: MEPs voted to ban the term veggie burger. And we wonder why countries like China are overtaking the EU.
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Veggie burgers’ could be off EU menu as MEPs back renaming plant-based foods
Proponents say move would strengthen position of farmers in supply chain but critics dismiss it as ‘hotdog populism’
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Important stuff: MEPs voted to ban the term veggie burger. And we wonder why countries like China are overtaking the EU.
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
“A beef tomato doesn’t contain any beef… Ladies’ fingers are not made of ladies’ fingers. Let’s trust consumers and stop this hotdog populism” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
This post is ironic.
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Financial Times
News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics
FT.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This post is ironic.
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
Have we passed peak social media? - "Many of these apps are no longer really social apps in any meaningful sense of the word; they’re screen time maximising apps, using whatever means necessary to eke out extra seconds and minutes."
on.ft.com/4gTAqsr
October 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM