Daniel Susskind
@danielsusskind
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Economist + writer. Prof at Gresham. Also at Oxford, KCL, Stanford. Author of 'Growth' + 'A World Without Work', co-author of 'The Future of the Professions'.
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Joined March 2010
Honoured and thrilled that GROWTH is one of @BarackObama's "Favourite Books of 2024". Thank you so much.
I always look forward to sharing my annual list of favorite books, movies, and music. Today I’ll start by sharing some of the books that have stuck with me long after I finished reading them. Check them out this holiday season, preferably at an independent bookstore or library!
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Martin Whyte, former exec. member of @TheBMA, tweets about gassing Jews, the "holohoax", and "Jew banker goblins". @gmcuk concludes he was not "intentionally antisemitic" since "not the doctor's intention to be antisemitic'" -- let off with a warning.
I think British Jews have felt something like Manchester was heading our way for some time. I think many of us also feel let down by those who are meant to protect us. Just to give you a flavour of what I mean, here are some recent personal examples from my own life, as an
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Not entirely obvious to me why my taxes should be funding PR on BBC Arabic for a book written by someone who helped to murder a Holocaust survivor in 2004.
BBC Arabic promotes terrorist’s new book called The Holocaust Custodian – written by killer of a Holocaust survivor https://t.co/Zu0GSQomK8
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Grateful to @thetimes for asking me to set out what I think Reeves must do in the Budget. "If Labour does not prioritise growth, if it is unwilling to give up other things that it values in its pursuit, then it is likely to end up with little at all." https://t.co/x8WjcgRFPR
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Labour has no choice but to be bold and make sacrifices, an economics professor writes. This is what he would do
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Grateful to @thetimes for asking me to set out what I think Reeves must do in the Budget. "If Labour does not prioritise growth, if it is unwilling to give up other things that it values in its pursuit, then it is likely to end up with little at all." https://t.co/x8WjcgRFPR
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Labour has no choice but to be bold and make sacrifices, an economics professor writes. This is what he would do
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This is fascinating and explains a lot. Two of my kids crawled in the normal way. The third used one of her legs as a ski and her arms as small engines to throw herself up and forward. It always reminded me of watching those ML stick creatures learning to walk. Now I know.
Crawling isn't innate (unlike walking). Every baby must *invent* crawling, from scratch, using extremely little data, and no reference to imitate. Which is why different babies end up with different ways of crawling. Sometimes people tell me, "you say AI isn't intelligent until
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If you’re a Jewish person in the UK just now, you see: 1. Jewish worshippers being murdered 2. Jewish schools and synagogues fortified like war zones 3. Jewish events routinely disrupted 4. Endless protests in which antisemitic chants are heard, often by masked people It’s not
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I was very proud to sign the petition for Professor Ben-Gad. What a great man and response to the thuggery.
Professor Michael Ben-Gad gives a lesson on standing up to thugs.
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A thoughtful / clear letter from @s8mb in the @FT this morning, setting out his disagreements with my piece below. --
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From Sam Bowman, Editor, Works in Progress, London SE5, UK
"The government does have a growth strategy. The problem is that it is a bad one. And this week’s award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, is a reminder why." -- my piece in the @FT this morning.
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Next at #GreshamCollege: 💼 The Economics of Work and Technology – Prof @danielsusskind
https://t.co/SY1Lar3JSg 🎶 The Music of Nature – Prof @miltonline
https://t.co/Pp66lKuFyR 🌊 Ocean: The Liquid Engine That Dominates Our Planet - Prof Helen Czerski https://t.co/29WGMJlRcd
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THIS IS THE MOST UNDERVALUED COMPANY ON NASDAQ, according to Warren Buffett’s analysis of price vs. value. Buffett always said, “Price is what you pay, value is what you get.” Right now, NextNRG Inc. ($NXXT) is a textbook example of that logic. Facts: how the hell a company
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Tonight is my second lecture as the Gresham Professor of Business. This time, I will be talking about "The Economics of Work and Technology". All lectures are free and open to everyone. Do come along (it is Barnard's Inn Hall, in London) or watch online. https://t.co/PErXht3FbW
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Where did all go wrong for Labour in Wales? A thoughtful, soul-searching call to action from @Owain2026
https://t.co/nD4Wkjt5ap
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Has capitalism really changed what it means to be human—or just how we work? 🤔 The first debate of our new season is live! Hosted by Imran Garda, with @yanisvaroufakis, Nanjira Sambuli, @danielsusskind & @evgenymorozov —joined by students from Qatar Foundation’s Education City
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The fuss about Trump’s Peace Prize missed the bigger story: the Nobel for Economics. Its winners showed that growth comes from innovation, not infrastructure. Less “build, build, build.” More “think, think, think.”
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@joshglancy The vast majority of nation states in the world have their roots in some form of national/religious/ethnic/linguistic self determination. Many of them postcolonial. It’s breathtakingly blinkered to see Israel as an exception, or to say that Jews alone are not entitled to it.
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Both Hague and Susskind are right. In short: “asking, ‘how do we get more growth?’, is the same thing as asking ‘how do we generate more new ideas’?.”
William Hague in The Times building on Daniel Susskind’s position; ideas and innovation matter, not just building things https://t.co/emJlCD0yob
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William Hague in The Times building on Daniel Susskind’s position; ideas and innovation matter, not just building things https://t.co/emJlCD0yob
"The government does have a growth strategy. The problem is that it is a bad one. And this week’s award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt, is a reminder why." -- my piece in the @FT this morning.
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A year on, it is good to see @ProfEmilyOster making a similar argument about mass prescription of GLP-1s in @TheAtlantic. Just a shame we didn't take more of a lead on this in the UK, given the state of the NHS. --
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Ensuring GLP-1s are covered by Medicaid in all states would save lives—and not be as costly as some people fear.
On Sunday, @danielsusskind wrote this fascinating piece arguing that the NHS should consider mass prescription of Ozempic. Today, Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer announced they are looking at doing exactly that. Read the original argument here https://t.co/mkSRopswBf
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Are income tax rises coming? Would Rachel Reeves survive a manifesto breach? What is the debate inside the "budget board"? Is serious economic growth even achievable? For my @thetimes column, I went deep into current state of play on the budget https://t.co/JPOQrs6xDe
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The chancellor looks likely to break Labour’s manifesto pledge of not raising income tax on November 26. She will then have to stand well back
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"The Enlightenment started with essentially philosophical insights spread by a new technology. Our period is moving in the opposite direction. It has generated a potentially dominating technology in search of a guiding philosophy." -- Henry Kissinger.
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She waited two hours for a word. God told her she already had it. Listen to this lesson about hearing God. It could change your life.
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