A Guide to John Coltrane

The Getty trajectory: • J. Paul Getty's success in the oil business makes him the richest man in America • Getty founds the Getty Villa, a museum that recreates a Roman villa in Pacific Palisades • The Getty Villa grounds catch on fire thanks to global warming

Apropå den litterära kulturens förändring och litteraturens förändrade/försämrade ställning så har T Lund på Sydsvenskan hittat ett av de bästa exemplen: en jämförelse av programmet till Malmö operas uppsättning av Mozarts ”Così fan tutte” 1993 och 2025 sydsvenskan.se/2025-01-05/ope…

📣 new paper klaxon 📣 Diego Castañeda and I on Mexican income inequality 1895–1940 🇲🇽📈📉☺️ cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Great, thought-provoking presentation by Alice Evans at the economic history seminar in Lund today!

📯new paper klaxon 📯everything (?) you wanted (?) to know about material living standards and productive capacity of Swedish farmer and rural labourer households c. 1670-1860 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Lightning Bolt 2003 live at the Pink Rabbit, Providence, RI. Filmed by Mike Knives youtu.be/YmNOs6Nixek?si…

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Demokratie wählen! Gegen Rassismus und Ausgrenzung!

Craziest wealth effect wsj.com/economy/consum… The top 10% of earners in the U.S.—households making about $250K a year or more—now account for 49.7% of all spending. But it's dependent on the rise in fictitious capital, viz. equity values rising faster than profits. The wealth

you’re laughing. derrida got booed offstage at an ornette coleman show and you’re laughing.

Lent has just begun! Why not explore the history of Lenten marriages Which did most to encourage secularisation: politics, economy or family? Shifting seasonality of marriages in the Barcelona Area, 1715–1880 | Continuity and Change | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4i6Hhie

what are the best critical discussions/assessments of Brenner's "Economics of Global Turbulence"? I don't mean critical as in "dismissive", but you know, contextualizing, etc. maybe Nic Johnson knows?

My new paper is “The Autumn of the White Patriarch: Identity and Inequality in American Capitalism.” This is the key chart. It shows how white men’s share of national income has fallen since the 1960s. Imho, this is why we have such identity politics on the US right today. 1/10

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Fascinerande med den tillgångsspecifika politisk ekonomi-teorin om vilka som tjänar på Trump II:s ekonomiska politik

This is one example of the investment behaviour currently underway - Swedish outflows from American equity funds and into European funds have been gargantuan. This data doesn't even cover the last two weeks, during the real tariff shock. (via GS)