Economics & Marginalia

Economics and Marginalia is an attempt to keep ahead of the avalanche of content published every week – the writing on economics, politics, development and pop culture that keeps my brain occupied. In it, I pick between 5 and 10 of my favourite pieces of -mainly- popular economics and political commentary every week and briefly summarise what I liked about it, or what it taught me, in an accessible way.

The guiding spirit behind this blog is that the world is complicated but comprehensible, and I look to showcase writing that doesn’t dumb down the complexity, but puts a premium on clarity.

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Economics & Marginalia: April 30, 2021

April 30, 2021
A long weekend beckons invitingly, thus obliterating my ability to settle on a good intro to the links. Time was, the extra day off would be put fully to work: a night out with far too much wine and rich food, sleeping in the next day and then a lazy day in a comfortable chair and pile of books.
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Economics & Marginalia: April 23, 2021

April 23, 2021
What a week. This week’s links are a bit of a mood rollercoaster, because well [waves hands frantically at all of this going on around us]. Honestly, my son is seven months old. He’s now lived through a two strict national lockdowns in response to a rampaging global pandemic, the development an...
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Economics & Marginalia: March 19, 2021

March 19, 2021
The digital CSAE Conference kicked off this week, and will involve sessions online all the way through next Friday – and it’s free! If you haven’t already registered, you can still do so here, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly. It’s my favourite economics conference, with scholars from ar...
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Economics & Marginalia: March 5, 2021

March 05, 2021
Last week I opened the links with a review of the week’s carnage in cricket, which prompted a friend to send this in response, which… is actually quite an accurate reflection of what cricket looks like to most people. But at the risk of losing my audience in the intro again, what the fresh hell...