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RT by @jburnmurdoch: Men and women underrate how much the average guy prioritizes family over career success.
Great piece diving into men's expressed preferences in @TheArgumentMag today.
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/men-also-want-it-all
https://nitter.poast.org/JerusalemDemsas/status/2088225728718397909#m
Published: August 14, 2026 11:26
Men and women underrate how much the average guy prioritizes family over career success.
Great piece diving into men's expressed preferences in @TheArgumentMag today.
theargumentmag.com/p/men-alsā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: HOW TO GET RICH IN AMERICA
I wrote about what happens when owning things is rewarded over doing things: (1) the generational divide it creates, (2) the casino economy that emerges (the yolofolio!!), and (3) how it changes the way we think about work and politics
https://nitter.poast.org/kylascan/status/2087970767304872295#m
Published: August 13, 2026 18:33
HOW TO GET RICH IN AMERICA
I wrote about what happens when owning things is rewarded over doing things: (1) the generational divide it creates, (2) the casino economy that emerges (the yolofolio!!), and (3) how it changes the way we think about work andā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: BIG NEW piece by me.
A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I wouldāve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/future-of-medicine/
The central drama of the modern world is innovation against suffering, and we have made incredible progress so far.
But we are doing far worse than we could. Millions still suffer from untreatable diseases, because of bottlenecks that we could fix. You can help fix them.
https://nitter.poast.org/salonium/status/2087162886829346972#m
Published: August 11, 2026 13:03
BIG NEW piece by me.
A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I wouldāve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.
worksinprogress.co/issue/futā¦
The central drama of the modernā¦
R to @jburnmurdoch: I think this is illustrative of a broader blindspot in policymaking. Education policy is key to economic growth as a country moves from low to high income, but after a certain point the opposite force becomes stronger: *the economy drives educational outcomes*.
The UK outperforms most of its peers on education, whether measured in international school assessments, university attendance or measures of adult skills.
But for the past two decades it has done very badly on the economy: weak productivity growth, stagnant wages and continued loss of skilled manufacturing jobs.
So rather than strong education performance making everyone happy or better-off, it has made everyone angry that they put in the work, acquire the skills, but end up with crap outcomes, often worse than their parents.
Full piece: https://www.ft.com/content/1c4a641c-42f4-429e-94c2-7d16cac96d49
https://nitter.poast.org/jburnmurdoch/status/2085691940104786111#m
Published: August 7, 2026 11:38
I think this is illustrative of a broader blindspot in policymaking. Education policy is key to economic growth as a country moves from low to high income, but after a certain point the opposite force becomes stronger: *the economy drives educationalā¦
New from me:
Young people in Britain are some of the most well-educated in the rich world, but economic stagnation means that breeds not growth but frustration.
In fact, US workers who are functionally illiterate now earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker.
https://nitter.poast.org/jburnmurdoch/status/2085691937386877223#m
Published: August 7, 2026 11:38
New from me:
Young people in Britain are some of the most well-educated in the rich world, but economic stagnation means that breeds not growth but frustration.
In fact, US workers who are functionally illiterate now earn roughly the same per hour as theā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: " For the first time ever, more people are employed by remodeling companies than by single-family and multifamily developers combined."
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/americas-endless-home-makeover
https://nitter.poast.org/JerusalemDemsas/status/2085013019235352926#m
Published: August 5, 2026 14:40
" For the first time ever, more people are employed by remodeling companies than by single-family and multifamily developers combined."
theargumentmag.com/p/americaā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: EXC: UK govt is āstripping backā onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system
Louise Haigh tells @FT the overhaul will make job creation and skills development the only āsocial valueā requirements for businesses competing to win Whitehall contracts worth Ā£90bn annually
Net zero/environmental criteria, and demands as diverse as tackling domestic violence and improving local high streets will be scrapped from new social value model
https://www.ft.com/content/9878a2e4-3ac5-43b0-b2c9-b1fe1a4b65e7?syn-25a6b1a6=1utm_content=social-post-lucy
https://nitter.poast.org/LOS_Fisher/status/2084747951247913360#m
Published: August 4, 2026 21:06
EXC: UK govt is āstripping backā onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system
Louise Haigh tells @FT the overhaul will make job creation and skills development the only āsocial valueā requirements for businesses competing to winā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: Great column! Let me take this opportunity to shamelessly promote the review of Dani Rodrik's "Shared Prosperity" that @grattonecon and I wrote earlier this year. Here is the relevant page, which contains references to a number of excellent papers that complement John's points.
https://nitter.poast.org/edenhofer_jacob/status/2084155327428317319#m
Published: August 3, 2026 05:52
Great column! Let me take this opportunity to shamelessly promote the review of Dani Rodrik's "Shared Prosperity" that @grattonecon and I wrote earlier this year. Here is the relevant page, which contains references to a number of excellent papers thatā¦
RT by @jburnmurdoch: Whether devolution caused the economic overperformance is another, more interesting, question.
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But I've been astonished at how many and how senior are the economists and policy people in Britain who don't know that the devolved parts of Britain have overperformed economically.
https://nitter.poast.org/thomasforth/status/2084024908418310360#m
Published: August 2, 2026 21:13
Whether devolution caused the economic overperformance is another, more interesting, question.
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But I've been astonished at how many and how senior are the economists and policy people in Britain who don't know that the devolved parts of Britain haveā¦