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Lion Hirth @lionhirth.bsky.social · 1d

Ich würde sagen, die Stimmung zur wirtschaftlichen Lage und Zukunft Deutschlands ist ziemlich mies.

Das Überraschende: Wenn man sich mal das große Bild anschaut und ein bisschen zurücktritt, sieht es, zumindest was den Status Quo betrifft, eigentlich ziemlich gut aus.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 1d

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Excellent and stimulating. "The political economists were practitioners as much as scholars.."

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy? | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core

Does Economic Nationalism Have a Philosophy?

www.cambridge.org

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Markus Trapp @textundblog.bsky.social · 3d

»In „Geschichten aus der Geschichte“ erzählen sich Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner historische Anekdoten – woraus einer der beliebtesten deutschsprachigen Independent-Podcasts entstanden ist. Ein Gespräch über diesen unerwarteten Erfolg.«

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Wieso ist der Podcast "Geschichten aus der Geschichte" so erfolgreich?

Im Podcast „Geschichten aus der Geschichte“ erzählen sich Richard Hemmer und Daniel Meßner historische Anekdoten. Ein Gespräch.

www.sueddeutsche.de

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 2d

"Beijing can use its control regime to paralyse production in key industrial sectors.

With detailed applications for export licences, Beijing is forcing German companies to disclose trade secrets and wants to make it impossible for them to build up reserves."

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 2d

ESSENTIAL VIEWING

Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 2d

Happy World Wombat Day! Sound on to listen to the very soothing munching noises of this chonky wombat...

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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 2d

A comparison of Hong Kong's population pyramid from 1961 with mid-2025, where I superimpose the graph published in 1969 with current data. For mid-2025, 5-year intervals for ages 85 and up are estimates.

1961 population: 3,129,648
2025 population: 7,527,500 (provisional)

(Charts by @kjoules.org and Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department) Population pyramids of 1961 and 2025 superimposed

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 6d

Happy International Archaeology Day!

#InternationalArchaeologyDay
🏺 #Archaeology

A book cover design with the title “The Desire to Be an Archaeologist (and Other Diseases of the Brain)” by Antique Christie. The cover has a vintage style with a red and beige color scheme, the publisher name “Great Auk Books” at the top, and a small illustration of an auk bird near the bottom.

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TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 10d

What’s with the recent spate of INSM ads in Berlin Mitte? Are they a new iteration of some DOGE/chainsaw political lobby entering German politics?

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 10d

Perhaps instead of Columbus Day we can celebrate Columbian Exchange Day where we celebrate the food pairings that had never been possible before, peppers and onions, chocolate and coffee, basil and tomatoes.

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 11d

Mokyr's work could not have been done today in most economics departments, but the irony is that his work would not fit in history departments today, either. Methodologically he seems more 'history' than 'economics' to economists, but the content and reasoning are too 'economics' for most historians

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 11d

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · 11d

Food comes from Argentina and control of the sea lanes.

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 12d

Kaleb Cooper, the breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has called for farming to be taught in schools so that children understand where their food comes from ⬇️

Teach farming in schools, says Kaleb Cooper — it saved me

The star of the TV series Clarkson’s Farm tells the Cheltenham Literature Festival that ‘everyone should know how to grow potatoes and other vegetables’

www.thetimes.com

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 13d

Ehemaliger BND-Chef Bruno Kahl ist neuer Botschafter im Vatikan: Nach fast zehn Jahren als Chef des Bundesnachrichtendienstes vollführt Bruno Kahl nun einen kuriosen Karrierewechsel: Seit diesem Samstag ist er deutscher Botschafter im Vatikan.

Ehemaliger BND-Chef Bruno Kahl ist neuer Botschafter im Vatikan

Nach fast zehn Jahren als Chef des Bundesnachrichtendienstes vollführt Bruno Kahl nun einen kuriosen Karrierewechsel: Seit diesem Samstag ist er deutscher Botschafter im Vatikan.

www.spiegel.de

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TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 13d

Pure incompetence of @deutschebahn.com in light of regional train disruption between Berlin and Leipzig is forgoing adding carriages and capacity. The result: overcrowded trains and slow boarding. Dismal third world management.

TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 14d

I had no idea that Thomas Pynchon is still alive.

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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 14d

US criticises European defence production as too slow

The US is “happy to sell, but we won’t have enough to sell, ultimately”, said the US ambassador to NATO

dlvr.it

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TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 14d

Excited next week for the most important ‘Nobel Prize’.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 15d

How can we make immigration durably popular? Alex Kustov has an answer & a bunch of novel evidence in his new book

The key is not for liberal politicians to stoop to xenophobia, they must instead to make immigration policy *demonstrably* beneficial to the nation
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Joey Politano's review of In Our Interest

4/5: Immigration has extremely massive economic benefits. It is also one of the most divisive issues in modern democracies. Overcoming the politics of xenophobia is thus one of the most important and ...

www.goodreads.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 16d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 16d

And that's a draft

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TE @timothyeusc.bsky.social · 17d

One of the most painful thing about being unemployed is the inability to relate to anybody.

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Chris Giles @chrisgiles.ft.com · 17d

Food prices have risen a lot more than other stuff since Covid...

My newsletter asks whether they are now a leading indicator of inflation

www.ft.com/content/de31...

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 17d

As the brilliant Michael Kinnucan points out, it's more than a bit strange that there's a debate over whether New York can afford universal childcare. New York already has universal childcare! Every single child is cared for by somebody. Small children are never left home all day by themselves.

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