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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RT @CieslakCe: „Susskind napisał przyjemny, łatwy w odbiorze, a jednoczesnie wnikliwy przewodnik po najważniejszej religii współczesnego sw….
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RT @GreshamCollege: Free tickets open! Automation Anxiety by Prof @danielsusskind. 👉 From the Luddites of the Indu….
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RT @jamiesusskind: Absolutely staggering that someone as capable and thoughtful as Owain isn’t being championed by Welsh Labour. What on ea….
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What a terrible decision by Welsh Labour. I am disappointed for @Owain2026 because he is a good friend. But I am even more disappointed for Wales because Owain is one of the few people in the party with the ideas and vision the country so desperately needs.
Welsh Labour have decided not to shortlist me as one of their top eight candidates for the Senedd in Caerdydd Ffynnon Taf. I think this is a bad decision. Since announcing my candidacy, I’ve made a clear argument: we need to renew the party and the country, with new thinking.
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RT @joshglancy: 🛑Some professional news🛑. After two years editing News Review at The Sunday Times, I'm moving to become the paper's Associa….
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Thanks so much, @jimmy__hall.
Finished my favourite non-fiction book of the year - “Growth” by Daniel Susskind. A really engaging retrospective of economic growth, with equally impressive insights in how we deal with it going forwards.
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Ganesh is wrong. The answer to his question is: relative to the US. If the UK had grown at the same rate as the US since 2007, people would be almost £8,000 richer on average. Until we accept the scale of our decline, we will not have the sense of urgency required to change.
Yes, Janan Ganesh is right. The rhetoric about Britain has little sense of proportion.
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I disagree. In fact, I would go further: we don't appreciate how bad things have become over the last 20 years. One statistic that stuns: average real wages in the UK, exc. London, are less than in the poorest US state, Mississippi. Until we see the crisis, no chance of reform.
Useful counter to recent catastrophism from @Samfr. A bit over-optimistic on integration, and Labour partly to blame for 'nothing works' story/sense of stagnation. No convincing reset on growth or fixing skew-whiff incentives and bond market making us pay.
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A brilliant role for any economists interested in the implications of transformative AI ….
🚀Looking for a Manager or Associate Director to help launch EconTAI at @UVA - a new initiative on the transformative economic implications of advanced AI. Looking for someone passionate about AI & shaping the future. Please apply, RT or tag someone perfect for this role!🎯.
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RT @Joanna__Hardy: Will AI take your job?. Will it take your worth?. And, if it does, what is left for us? . No one tackles these questions….
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Here is little glimpse of my first series @GreshamCollege. The lectures are all free and open to anyone, you can sign up here. Hope to see some of you there . --
gresham.ac.uk
We live at
Introducing our new Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of #Business, @danielsusskind* and his first Gresham series: The Future of Work!. Find out more : *also of @KingsCollegeLon | @EthicsInAI @UniofOxford | @DigEconLab. #ai #economics #greshamcollege
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This is perhaps the most important position for any economist in the UK. If they can help get growth to 2+%, so many of the country's problems start to melt away. --
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Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia
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Those interested in AI policy in the UK should watch this very carefully for ideas and inspiration. The team working on this in the US is brilliant.
Tomorrow should be a huge day for American AI. 🇺🇸.
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I volunteered at a cheder, or Jewish Sunday school, in North London when I was younger. (Not a “Shabbat school”, since there is no such thing.) A lovely place full of kind people. The reason we had security in stab vests on the door was because of this sort of anti-semitism.
The James O’Brien clip is one of the most upsetting things I’ve heard from a broadcaster in years. Pure, unfiltered, anti-Semitic slander.
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Absolutely. I particularly like the idea of a "high bar against funding applied projects that advocate for degrowth, steady-state economics and similar agendas". I have seen a huge amount of public money wrongly spent on so-called "scholar-activism" for these ideas.
Characteristically excellent from Stian.
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RT @chappyasel: I’ve been wrestling with a question since 2020: What's our role when AI can do everything better?. My gut always told me th….
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Excellent from @rcolvile. I would add to the list how poor Britain now is relative to others e.g. leave out London and average real wages are now less than in Mississippi, the poorest US state. I am not sure it has quite sunk in how bad things have become in the last 15 years.
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RT @five_books: “I don’t think we’re taking seriously enough the threat of a world where there’s not enough well-paid work for people to do….
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The best books on the future of work, recommended by leading labour economist, Daniel Susskind of Oxford University.
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I love this idea for UK school kids. Ditto our nuclear reactors.
I wish data centers would offer tours to the public and schools could take field trips to them. They are the defining pieces of infrastructure of our generation, but unlike railroads, the grid, or anything else, we never get to see them and experience their scale.
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RT @InstSobieskiego: 🔎📘Instytut Sobieskiego patronem medialnym książki pt. „Wzrost" Wydawnictwa WEI (@wydWEI) autorstwa @danielsusskind. 💡….
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