Great to see the final part of our Covid-19 research in print with my copy of The New Futures of Exclusion arriving today. Not sure what to get your loved ones for Christmas? Problem solved… https://t.co/BpynBrGiRL @DrAnthonyEllis1 @palgravecrim

Some economists are cottoning on to what we @URealists have been banging on about for decades - mainstream economic models are simply descriptions of the dynamics "still largely framed and interpreted within the core ‘axiomatic’ assumptions of individualism, instrumentalism and

Excellent analysis of New Year's resolutions in the latest @URealists blog, written by @emmaarmstrong96 and Paul Alker.

Latest @URealists blog from our ECR (early career researchers) network. A bit of a change this time - @emmaarmstrong96 and Paul Alker on New Year resolutions. Do the personal ones court disappointment, and should we wish for bigger improvements?

Why Aliasdair MacIntyre should be important for economists.

Guileless honesty from Walsh. In my work I call this 'special liberty', a standard operationalised ultra-realist concept. Its roots are in monotheism and it's reproduced by the psychology of narcissistic individualism and the culture of ethnic supremacy.

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@mdpackard Such legal norms are derived from collective sociohistorical conventions. Their source is not hypothetical trade-offs dependent on individual rights or cost/benefit calculations but a long history of collective assessments condensed as ethical codes. The issue is that individuals

We must understand what we're up against. I'll try my best to give you edited highlights of the post-WWII processes leading the UK to a position we might not be able to escape unless we revive serious politics over the next five years or so. After WWII, US plans to dominate

For those sick and tired of Thatcherite (neoliberal) fantasies about us all being 'better off these days', here are a few indisputable facts. I'll keep this as short and simple as possible - sorry about the 'averages', but there's a brief disaggregation below. In the 1970s,

There's a lesson here. I'll leave this pinned up for a while - I'm about to block Steve and anyone supporting him because they have nothing to teach anyone. It's a classic statistical grift. Never believe amateur internet statisticians without further investigation. Steve didn't

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Excellent (but also terrifying/depressing) from @battleforeurope on the EU's plans to tackle online child sexual exploitation at the expense of everyone's right to privacy. Once the regulation and digital architectures are in place, mission creep follows

The Western left. What a mess. How did we get here, and how do we reboot? Shameless plug - very few books tie the cultural, political and economic threads together. Ours does. There is a way forward. Available in paperback, Kindle, ebook and audio.

A little bit on our ultra-realist project. It's a research programme and theoretical framework based on over 30 years of research that we decided to 'name' as a movement in 2015. Despite being treated with extreme hostility by many academics, the quality of our work was

They would never let the Sydney Harbour Bridge go to ruin 😡  The connection between the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge and the Sydney Harbour Bridge is that both structures were built in the Boro #SaveTheTransporter

FT argue, correctly, that the budget will show Labour are prepared to upset the electorate rather than the bond market. What can we do about it? According to the FT, that's just the way it is, an inevitable "fact of life". We need a better answer than that

Great blog from MSc student @PoppyAnneTurner on TikTok, algorithmic technology, consumption and social harm. Excellent analysis that weaves together a number of important issues https://t.co/ZYtI6THvKi @URealists

Well worth giving up an hour to listen to @ProfHall1955 on @CheeseMacro. Fascinating discussion between Steve and Steve on the origins of individualism and its impact on our current politics, economics and culture

Excellent new paper by @MaxHart44, Kyla Bavin and @Lynesey89 on criminology's need to engage critically with artificial intelligence. Great to see critical consideration of the impact of AI on workplaces and workers.

It's painful to see mean and median averages of income still being used by number-crunching mainstream economists to represent relative well-being. They're reluctant even to integrate modal averages and appropriate sub-categories of times and spaces. When I was old-school