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Robert Bigg

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History of Economics; Information Systems &c. Still looking through post-Keynesian tinted glasses: we have been seduced by the maths not convinced by the poets. Currently working on Alvin Hansen, Sidney Alexander, & Theodor Gregory. https://rbigg.github.io

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Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 1d

Virtually…. On the Zoom feed, so you wouldn’t have seen me :-( but I will need to be back in some libraries over the coming months so one never knows!

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 3d

PS please post a link to the recording for those that missed it!

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 3d

Great event, very informative from all the authors- thanks

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 13d

@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social should have some excellent suggestions …

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 16d

No worries… thought you might be interested

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 16d

@cacrisalves.bsky.social Hi, at my suggestion, Bob Cord has been trying to reach you… maybe his email ended up in spam?

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 20d

So I was a bit off there!

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · 20d

Sounds quite Taoist?

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Sep 7

I should have said “paying postwar reparations” for the sake of clarity

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Sep 7

For the US the New Deal started a recovery that was reversed by fiscal tightening until the mobilisation of WW2, for the UK there was, despite the debt, an inevitable post-war reconstruction. One could also argue that postwar reparations helped transform the Finnish economy in the long run.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Sep 7

Hahn’s Mitsui Lectures (Money & Inflation 1982) are also a great read. Maurice Peston (Robert’s Dad) posed the question in 1980 “Whatever happened to macro-economics?”

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Sep 6

Disequilibrium perhaps had its heyday In the 70s/80s, for example, Frank Hahn looked at conjectural equilibria & found “if it will prove possible to make conjectures less arbitrary it will have to be done in a Marshallian way. This is not a conclusion congenial to a general equilibrium man.”

Hahn in Toics in Disequilibrium Economics ed Strøm & Werin, Macmillan 1978

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Indeed it seems effective for local groups, from what I hear. I would agree, and would endorse a social media strategy.. but it’s neither journalism nor open debate but more of an echo chamber of whispers.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 30

I was trying to find some glimmer of a positive. I am sorely disappointed with the performance of the Labour leadership on so many fronts now. Having boxed themselves in there seems to be no initiative to escape, a triangulation that leads further away from a solution.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 30

Never joined, don’t wish to. However sadly it’s now what a lot of people use as news. Crowd ‘wisdom’ is not, especially due to the algorithms, a reliable source.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 30

On the plus side both Rowan Williams and Stephen Cottrell have made helpful and reasoned contributions.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 30

I despair - there’s no sensible debate (or media commentary) about so many issues. I had really hoped for better - thus far I have been bitterly disappointed. I can’t make up my mind about what’s more broken politics or the the media: what it lacks is a compelling story of contribution & humanity.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 13

Blush Floyd

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 10

Mmm, Senate House Lamp appeals, but as we haven’t had a Clare image and there’s just a corner of Old Court in the King’s Chapel moon it has to be that ;-)- so 1 top left gets my vote - what could be more Christmas than King’s?

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 9

A hard choice between the bottom two, Park St has a definite attraction but surely my vote must be for smoke on the water which is sublime…

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 9

If we can widen and reorient the economic debate then perhaps the major journals might even rethink their move away from book reviews, obituaries, etc after the 1990/2000s? There is value in our wider culture and history as a profession that needs to be appreciated rather than ignored.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 9

Reading the latest @resmedia.bsky.social newsletter I am encouraged that there seems to be a growing argument about narratives, in-between methods, radical uncertainty etc. that move, if not away from, then at least, wider than formal models.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 8

St John’s Boston Ivy ….

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 8

Gosh you have made this one difficult! … the top right is Hopper-inspired framing, but the out of focus woman by the punt at Trinity Hall (bottom right) narrowly gets my vote.

Robert Bigg @robertbigg.bsky.social · Aug 7

Whilst the couple in the fields at sunset is perfectly atmospheric it’s also perhaps too autumnal, for me the favourite is thus the hay bales from King’s wildflowers in front of Clare Old Court - so a vote for 4: bottom right.