Mike Haynes - a Jobbing Leftie Historian
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Eclectic radical modern economic and social historian. Author of studies of Russia including demographic history. Latest book Productivity (Agenda) 2020.
United Kingdom
Joined July 2013
This is niche economic history - my general rule is that if someone at the top has a name similar to a famous one then there may be a link because well Britain is as Britain is - but I didn’t expect this. Good to know that via Robert Owen there is a heritage of socialism 🤣.
Today, I am going to New Lanark to visit the cotton mill founded by my ancestor David Dale and Richard Arkwright.
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RT @JobbingLeftieH: A new blog on the fate of mass political parties - why they are declining, who joins, why activism is less and what par….
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com
Mass political parties developed in the second half of the nineteenth century as the right to vote was extended. Earlier political parties were loose coalitions at the top. Now they needed to deve…
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Fascinating on way data quality is compromised by cuts.
“It’s not that BLS is cooking the books; it’s that BLS is being cooked,” said David Hiles, a former senior BLS economist who left in December @FT.👉 ”proportion of data points in which the value of an item in one city is used to estimate another to increase to 35 per cent in June
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A new blog on the fate of mass political parties - why they are declining, who joins, why activism is less and what parties do PLUS why populist parties are better at channeling frustration than commitment.
leftiehistorian.wordpress.com
Mass political parties developed in the second half of the nineteenth century as the right to vote was extended. Earlier political parties were loose coalitions at the top. Now they needed to deve…
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As an economic historian I see to have been reading Peter Temin all my life.
Peter Temin, who passed away two days ago, wrote the only paper I have ever seen using a 2500 year old time series. The priests of Babylon recorded astronomical events along with the price of six goods. One can tie the clay tablets back to create a genuine price series! 1/
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RT @mgtmccartney: here's a critique of our future health by me and buddy @deb_cohen free access in the BMJ
bmj.com
The UK’s flagship health research programme promises breakthroughs, but beneath an NHS branded facade, critics are asking who really benefits from this vast database, heavily backed by industry and...
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RT @AlexBerenson: New Unreported Truths, on the price @VPrasadMDMPH paid for standing up to Big Pharma.
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Oh well 🤣.
I also recall (although less clearly) Samuelson's discussion of actions underaken to protect own property. Say, you invest into a lock. Now, that investment is a pure loss if the world were composed of honest people only. But S. explains it by saying that it increases the.
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RT @BrankoMilan: My today's Substack:.New Capitalism in America.Richest capitalists and richest workers are increasingly the same people.ht….
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RT @Botonthelandsc1: Hats off to @Feargal_Sharkey educating Ed Balls about how to clean up the UK’s water. For free. .
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Fascinating on approaches to changing taxation in the UK and reducing anomalies - but will this [or any] government have the courage to do it?.
New post: Thoughts on the unpopularity of different approaches to tax rises.When the government needs to increase taxes, is this a good or bad time to do major tax reform?.
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What I want is facts said Mr Gradgrind. No problem I can make them up all the time said Donald J Trump .
whitehouse.gov
A HISTORIC TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENT WITH JAPAN: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a landmark economic agreement with
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It’s 1908 and no one should be eating white bread when Allinson’s is ’nature’s best food’. Sadly it was and still is ultra-processed I think 😎. @ggkuhnle
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Isn’t it wonderful to hear a British person speaking fluent Japanese and publicising his book in Japanese. I guess those here who dislike Gary will have to shout louder in English YOU ARE WRONG GARY. To which he will no doubt reply 申し訳ありませんが、聞こえません.
この人の格差問題に対するアプローチめっちゃカッコよくて推してるんだけど、まさか日本語話せるとは…！. It always hits me how he passionately approaches the issue of inequality, but the fact that he can speak Japanese for whatever reason is just mind-blowing. !. @garyseconomics
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RT @TobiFrenzen: @SuellaBraverman Time to watch this film again!. What has the ECHR ever done for us?.
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Bloody hell - seems UK water privatisation just allowed a massive consumer scam - huge profits, dividend extraction, underinvestment and a more parlous system. So not the dynamism of private enterprise then?.
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RT @Livesrunning: “Fear has changed sides”. Bully, pimp, perpetator – Jenny’s coming to get you. Available for pre-order now on Kindle, ju….
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Open the box. My friend has published his first novel. "The story of Jenny Greenteeth: By one who knew her".
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A powerful piece on criminalising conscience .
lrb.co.uk
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
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