Urban and Regional Economics Seminar Group (URESG): international network of academics, policy makers and practitioners

Finsbury Park London, England
Joined December 2013
Tienda de Olivetti, Suiza 1957. (Las Apple Store de los años 50...). Foto: Karl Krämer.
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Over 500,000 people marched in France last weekend. The vast majority were unmasked and white. They were protesting against the cost of living and poor public services. Don't fall for the rightwing spin.
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El historial de versiones del documento. 214 revisiones. Cuatro horas y media de escritura repartidas en tres días, con sus borrados, sus frases a medias y sus pausas. El profesor lo miró y me dijo que el sistema de detección es muy fiable. Le pregunté qué margen de error tiene. No lo sabía. Le pregunté quién había validado ese 97 %. Tampoco. No denuncié a nadie. Presenté la revisión de la calificación por escrito y adjunté el historial. Se la corrigieron a la semana siguiente. Lo que me preocupa no es el cero. Es que a mi hija le dijeron delante de la clase que había hecho trampas, y la prueba de que no era así la tenía yo en una pestaña del navegador. Están usando una máquina para acusar a adolescentes sin saber cómo funciona la máquina.
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East Berlin, 1980s.
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Who Remembers.
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How to destroy your departmental rival in 3 easy steps: 1. Make serious allegations. Evidence optional 2 Let rumour do the work while your rival’s reputation burns 3 Count on HR to swallow the story if you’re an institutional favourite A major problem at many universities now
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It looks like a set for a dystopian movie or a secret laboratory, but it's actually the Opera and Ballet Theater in Cheboksary, Russia. There's something fascinating, yet at the same time completely eerie about this architecture. 🎭🥶
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They don't make movie like this anymore 😔
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Prenzlauer Berg, East Berlin, 1965.
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D'oh!
NEW Britain’s missing sovereign wealth fund… Treasury officials have modelled that had the UK done what Norway did with North Sea revenues, there would be a £1 trillion fund… As Chancellor sets up Energy Wealth Fund, a look at the long historical argument about where the oil windfall went, including from interviews with those who have run Norways $2.4 trillion fund, now the biggest in the world, filled from the proceeds of the same North Sea. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm4g…
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Golborne Rd W10, lost pub…
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A welcome reminder that the bond vigilantes in politicians' heads are often hedge fund, impatient, price speculators who do well when price up and lose their job when price down.
London's macro hedge fund pain as up to 100 people are out: "Everyone has blown up" efinancialcareers.co.uk/news…
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A 75-year-old steam locomotive that still commands attention at modern stations. [📹 alexbradleymaz]
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Back when I was a matchday programme editor. I like this one
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West Norwood Library 1969 Edward Hollamby of Lambeth Borough Image from RIBApix
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Map of Berlin following the construction of the Berlin Wall, 1960s.
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Chapel St NW1, then and now… 💀 🍺
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I’m still shocked by the Arday frenzy this summer. Right across the spectrum — from the Times, Unherd, Telegraph, Mail to the Guardian, Novara, Private Eye… based on tenuous assumptions. Left right politics does not explain it. Something deeper, more atavistic and barbaric
The final irony. Hundreds of articles ABOUT Jason Arday - fact-free, poor data analysis, often copying other people's work/ A couple of articles BY Jason Arday - a few corrections, and still supported by academic publishers and peer review. Just tragic bias by our media
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A rather famous economist (I won't mention his name) just told me in DMs that the economy always converges to equilibrium. I asked him when. He said in the long run. I asked him what fucking year.
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The entire crypto industry is a fascinating experiment in how many times humanity can reinvent the same fucking scam.
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