Imagine what the world might look like if the rules were designed instead to encourage competition among countries for workers. Governments would compete in providing economic security, low taxes on ordinary wage earners, ... (via @Pocket) #longreads

#myeltoc2019 Stephen Ryan talk starting soon.

Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada are two of the authors of OUP's position paper on "The role of the first language in English Medium Instruction" https://t.co/pk7pY6PEJ1 via @oupeltglobal

I enjoyed this one. A good demonstration of how to incorporate a linguistic focus into a content class. She thinks the approach is usable from beginner level up. Looking forward to Stephan Ryan and Patsy Lightbown later. #myeltoc2019

Midcentury America was also a period when political economy, institutionalism, the history of economic thought, and economic history were going into a period of eclipse, in favor of formalistic modeling. (via @Pocket) #longreads

Here's the URL for the Timing license giveaway for Ulysses users:

Just entered @ulyssesapp's giveaway of 5 @TimingApp licenses! #mac #writing #productivity

The Brexit referendum has replaced moderation with polarisation and realism with ideology. (via @Pocket)

"Keown still talks about football like a man delivering a terse, menacing funeral elegy for his recently deceased border collie." - Guardian

"At times it was like having a very angry but surprisingly effective and skilful dairy cow on the pitch"

"It feels as if the democratic process is being requisitioned not to air competing opinions but to dispense with them"

a closed flow of income cycling between households, businesses, banks, government and trade, operating in a vacuum.

"In 1967, Senator Walter Mondale actually proposed a White House Council of Social Advisers" - https://t.co/b5VyXtD4w0 (via @Pocket)

Listening to The Guardian's Audio Long Reads: PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain – podcast

"if our exit from the EU doesn’t take your job, a robot may well" - https://t.co/l3RWSzDghJ (via @Pocket)

Not sure how to do this, but sounds like a great feature.

“the optimal line length for reading (and therefore writing) is somewhere between 50 and 75…” — @david_hewson

Why Europe is ordering Apple to pay Ireland $14.5 billion in taxes Ireland doesn’t want

The new synthesis is no synthesis. . The new synthesis, in random access worlds, is multidirectional readiness. It is potential.

@johnbenjamins Could you explain the meanings of the two prices given for each of your e-books (2nd with asterisk)?