Guillem Vidal
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Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality?

New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social!

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🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Hemos suspendido nuestras actividades médicas en Ciudad de Gaza. Nuestros centros están rodeados por tanques y bajo ataques aéreos. Pedimos protección inmediata y cese de la violencia. #Gaza
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How a wealth tax would reestablish tax fairness (fiscal justice): French edition featuring @gabrielzucman.bsky.social.
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javigil.bsky.social
1. En una economía donde la propiedad inmobiliaria determina la riqueza y la posición social, el conflicto no es entre jóvenes y boomers.

El verdadero conflicto es entre quienes acumulan propiedades y quienes carecen de ellas.

Escribo sobre ello 🧵
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El problema de la desigualdad: ¿brecha generacional o de clase?
En 1987, bastaban tres años de salario para comprar una vivienda. Hoy, los jóvenes necesitarían el equivalente a 14 años de sueldo
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jeremycliffe.bsky.social
Spain's was the first major Western government to grant Palestine full diplomatic recognition: a powerful assertion of the need for a two-state solution. Others are now rightly passing through the door Spain opened.
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BREAKING NEWS: Canada, UK and Australia say they recognize a Palestinian state as part of efforts to pile pressure on Israel over Gaza. Follow live updates:
https://cnn.it/3VtaMRI
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nachoalvarez.bsky.social
Se empieza a resolver uno de los grandes misterios macroeconómicos de los últimos años.

El problema con la inversión parece que no era tanto de incertidumbre regulatoria, sino de incertidumbre estadística.

Interesante esto de @artolam.bsky.social

www.eldiario.es/economia/rev...
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Raúl Incertis, médico español en Gaza: “No soy quién para decir si en Gaza hay o no un genocidio, pero durante mi estancia allí perdí la cuenta de los niños heridos que llegaban solos al hospital porque su familia había muerto en un bombardeo”
Raúl Incertis, médico español en Gaza: “Perdí la cuenta de los niños que vi morir”
El doctor, que ha trabajado durante cuatro meses como voluntario en dos hospitales de la Franja, relata su experiencia en medio del caos y su única certeza de atender a los menores
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nxthompson.bsky.social
"Not since the Red Scare, has American science been so beholden to political ideology. At least during the McCarthy era, scientists could console themselves that despite this interference, federal spending on science was surging. Today, it’s drying up." www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.
www.theatlantic.com
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alexandreafonso.bsky.social
In a nutshell: authors write papers for free, other academics review them for free. When papers are accepted, publishers charge universities to access research mostly funded by the public, then on top of that publishers sell that very research to big tech companies for millions to train AI models.
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markuskollberg.bsky.social
Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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juangaleano.bsky.social
📢 The Global Living Arrangements Database (GLAD) is out! 🎉 Check out all the details on how we built this new data infrastructure of the CORESIDENCE project in our article just published in Scientific Data.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#demography #familystudies
The Global Living Arrangements Database, 1960–2021 - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The Global Living Arrangements Database, 1960–2021
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peterjukes.bsky.social
The financial crisis theory of everything, by @samfr.bsky.social

“Just as World War One led inexorably to the rise of extremist parties, the resurrection of trade barriers and tariffs, and geopolitical tensions, so has the financial crisis”

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The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
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