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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 3h

Mentioned by Tim Harford in the FT today, Alan Manning's forthcoming Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · 3h

Out later this month from Paul Kelly at the LSE.

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Never before has humanity done so much talking. But is anyone listening?

Cambridge visitors and locals, don't miss Gérald Garutti, author of 'Watch Your Words'

Wednesday, October 8 · 6 - 7pm GMT+1

At Heffers Bookshop @heffers.bsky.social

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Watch your Words - Gerald Garutti, at Heffers Bookshop

Join us on the evening of the 8th of October as author Gerald Garutti discusses his brand new book 'Watch your Words' at Heffers Bookshop

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Sep 8

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/watch-your...

Watch your Words - Gerald Garutti, at Heffers Bookshop

Join us on the evening of the 8th of October as author Gerald Garutti discusses his brand new book 'Watch your Words' at Heffers Bookshop

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Sep 4

I recall a sense of disorientation on visiting the Resolution Foundation. Dedicated to the British poor but oozing money and decorated principally with paintings of the Soviet military. It felt very far from Blackpool.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 22

He's wrong about Ireland. But it's odd that a person in a country powerless to stop the war thinks it’s helpful and important to donate to an organisation committing sabotage in a foreign country only marginally less powerless. There's something knee-jerk about it.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 21

Glenn Loury on The Nation podcast, talking about self-censorship:

www.thenation.com/podcast/soci...

Self-Censorship, With Glenn Loury

On this episode of American Prestige.

www.thenation.com

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Thanks again. We're just making different points.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yes, true. I'm not sure, though, it affects the point that Rooney doesn't have to support groups that commit sabotage. The group that organises mass marches doesn't.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Or Rooney could switch her support to one of the activist groups that doesn't commit sabotage.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 15

Jens Beckert's How We Sold Our Future: www.greenhousethinktank.org/how-we-sold-...

How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change

John Foster reviews an important and disturbing new book by German sociologist Jens Beckert.

www.greenhousethinktank.org

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 14

"... style alone isn't decisive. The giveaway, rather, was the reader's aside that the author ought to release beavers in the university's pond."

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 13

Philip Kitcher's *Rich and Poor* in LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

The Case for Pragmatic Progress | Los Angeles Review of Books

Michela Massimi reflects on Philip Kitcher’s vision for the future in “The Rich and the Poor.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Aug 1

I recall a non-fiction book a few years ago that a woman wrote about her domestic worker--hired, presumably, so she had time to write about her domestic worker.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 31

I think we should accept & respect that lots of people don't like wind turbines, stress instead they're necessary, & keep them as far as is reasonable away from sites of natural beauty.

Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 29

Publishing today:

“Glenn Loury is a brilliant and courageous public intellectual... In our grim and dim moment of ugly polarization, even he admits that self-censorship can operate in our hearts, minds, and souls... Courage, compassion, & self-respect require us to be and do better!”

Cornel West

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 28

Whether or not wind turbines are a blot and and flatter parts of England are boring are subjective judgments. Better to argue turbines are necessary.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 25

What's wrong with printing them in America? It serves them right if they now have to pay an 80% tariff.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just a reminder to buy this book. Some of you haven't done so yet.

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 23

We should do more. We're a minor power and what we do may be entirely ignored, but the government should try.

Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 22

Too many articles on the subject from non-FT papers that style themselves as patriotic don't question whether the rich ought to leave the UK when taxes rise.

Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 22

The Aziz Foundation: "Empowering communities through education, promoting unity, and standing against hate. Dedicated to diversity, inclusion, and fostering a peaceful society." By avoiding taxes and moving to Abu Dhabi?

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 22

Brilliant article. The scandal may reflect a wider problem with enforcement in the UK. The state is too small for the number of laws on the books, and every day the paperboy brings more.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · Jul 22

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

www.londoncentric.media

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Ian Malcolm @iannmalcolm.bsky.social · Jul 18

It would be nice if the BBC cancelled its international partnership with CBS.

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