Just going to put this here once again: How to make the case for higher taxes. (This is going to keep coming up again and again, of course) acjsissons.medium.com/how-to-make-th…

Weekend plug for my new personal piece: how one of the most powerful forces in the economy, which raises wages for everyone, got labelled as a “cost disease”. The Baumol effect: not a disease, but something we can use to make people better off acjsissons.medium.com/the-baumol-eff…

Final plug for my new personal blog. The Baumol effect is one of the most powerful forces in the economy,raising wages for everyone. And yet it is normally described as a “cost disease”, wrongly imo. I think we should embrace the Baumol effect more acjsissons.medium.com/the-baumol-eff…

A good post making a really important point: Baumol's so-called "cost disease" is not a disease at all, but the all-important mechanism by which the benefits of necessarily uneven rates of productivity growth in different sectors are spread across the whole economy.

Update: I have written up the full case for Manchester bidding for the 2036 Games for the The Mill! Go check it out! manchestermill.co.uk/p/manchester-s…

I’m over here now if anyone still wants a random mix of climate, energy and economics stuff. Will also try to post a bit more work stuff on LinkedIn… bsky.app/profile/acjsis…

New personal post - should we give every 18 year old their own plot of land? acjsissons.medium.com/a-bad-idea-giv…