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The container ships are still all going around.

Don't blame the plumbing of Treasury markets, blame Congress and the White House. Not the unwinding of the basis trade in US Treasury markets, but the response to a large, macro shock. March 2020 was the first sign of cracks in the global safe asset supplier armor. April 7 and

📢 New publication alert! Paul Sharp, Christian Vedel, Xenia Ts, and eoin mclaughlin have published a new article: "Ireland in a Danish mirror: A microlevel comparison of the productivity of Danish and Irish creameries before the First World War"🇮🇪🇩🇰🐮

Did you eat butter this Easter? Was it Lurpak? 🧈 New publication in Business History. It naturally leads to a little reflection I would like to share with you. And it also leads to a small corner of economic history that needs reinterpretation🧵

10/ In Denmark, it took an average of 26.07 kg of milk to make 1 kg of butter, while in Ireland, it only took 25.26 kg. Irish co-operatives were more efficient in converting milk into butter.

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Now on Early View: 'Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine'. By Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin & Eoin McLaughlin. Chris Colvin eoinaldo Queen's University Belfast 🎓 Heriot-Watt University onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

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How changes in height show health effects of the Great Irish Famine. New research by eoinaldo Economics @ Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt Research Ireland & Chris Colvin Queen's University Belfast 🎓 shows how the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region & socioeconomic conditions rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

How changes in height show health effects of the Great Irish Famine. New research by eoinaldo Economics @ Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt Research Ireland & Chris Colvin Queen's University Belfast 🎓 shows how the long‑term health impacts of the Great Irish Famine varied by region & socioeconomic conditions rte.ie/brainstorm/202…

Delighted to visit Adam Smith's Panmure House where Adam Smith wrote ‘The Wealth of Nations,’ and other masterpieces!

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

Daniel Almazán (Daniel Almazán) has produced a highly informative figure comparing the actual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in Spain with past forecasts, which I am borrowing from him. Even if you are not from Spain, please take a moment to read this. Since the labels are in

Does environmental damage increase the risk of pandemics? economicsobservatory.com/does-environme… An early piece from Economics Observatory's launch five years ago to answer questions from policymakers & the public about #COVID19 Full eoinaldo paper now available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ri…

Can anyone measure colonial drain, the tribute the British Empire extracted from India? There is nothing wrong with the concept of drain (payment without return). But there is no credible measure. There are no numbers to show the drain was large, as some people claim.

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance." However worried you were about the impact of AI on education, you weren't worried

So I went to see Spike Milligan's gravestone recently, to see for myself the "I told you I was ill" epitaph. Bright sunny day, slightly faded inscription, couldn't see it. Walked away somewhat disgruntled, another bloody urban myth I thought. 5 minutes later had a thought, had

The US has bombed Fordow. It has very likely used enough force to significantly damage, if not destroy, the enrichment facility. We likely won't know for quite some time. It's possible we may never know, as that will be a big part of Iran's response. 1/