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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 14h

How Public Works Create Employment.

From the National Resources Board, 1934.

dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 14h

The most Keynesian graph ever graphed:

"One consumption expenditure starts many income cycles"

From the National Resources Board, 1934.

dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 14h

Manhattan from the Hudson Highlands

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 15h

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 15h

“Self-help in Kreuzberg” - poster depicting squatter self-government in Berlin, 1970s

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gentlystream.bsky.social @gentlystream.bsky.social · 16h

Would love to see this mapping for Chicago, LA, DC…

dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

An 1895 map showing the extent of municipal socialism - insofar as public ownership of streets, land, and parks is socialist - in New York City

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Nick-or-treat! @nickwidzowski.bsky.social · 20h

Ooh, so much to love about this map, including the fact that you don't see too many maps of 1873-1898 New York City when it was Manhattan plus the western half of the Bronx

dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

An 1895 map showing the extent of municipal socialism - insofar as public ownership of streets, land, and parks is socialist - in New York City

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

"I am the very model of a classical economist"

A parody of modern economic thought in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan, written by none other than Karl Polyani in 1963!

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

An 1895 map showing the extent of municipal socialism - insofar as public ownership of streets, land, and parks is socialist - in New York City

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
- Joan Robinson, 1955.

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

“[Socialism] is still the only word we have that attempts to bridge the gap between our private notions of decency and morality and the public sphere of the political economy.
- Barbara Ehrenreich

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most spectacular photographs of New York I've ever seen, from 1932.

Zooming in, you can appreciate how much interwar Manhattan retained its tidy 19th century cityscape.

Rowhouses in the center, gasworks on the periphery, occasional skyscrapers in midtown.

No more.

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dlondonwortel.bsky.social @dlondonwortel.bsky.social · 1d

In 1937, Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on City Planning produced a book for children, titled The ABC of City Planning.

And…they had a section on Municipal Markets!

Good inspiration for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social