Tony Yates
Economist. Ex Prof / central banker. Macro, politics, money, central banks, finance, Brexit, covid, AI, climbing, MUFC.
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The undiscovered sages
The so far underfollowed and undiscovered. People I have bumped into over the years, mostly on the other site, who have not been found yet. Recommend your favourites and I'll include them.
Retro FinTwit
This list recreates the 2010s Finance Twitter, people in econ, markets, finance, banking, including academics, journalists, analysts, asset managers.
@armineyalnizyan.bsky.social
Economist. Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers https://atkinsonfoundation.ca/atkinson-fellows/atkinson-fellow-on-the-future-of-workers/ Contributing Columnist for the Toronto Star https://www.thestar.com/ Mostly #cdnecon #CareEconomy #Inequality
@turkeybooktalk.bsky.social
Conversations with authors on Turkey and its region. Episodes every two weeks with @williamarmstrong.bsky.social + guests Latest episodes: https://turkeybooktalk.com Subtack: https://turkeybooktalk.substack.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/user?u=2998854
@timmarchman.bsky.social
I’m an editor at WIRED and have previously written and edited for a number of places, including my tinned fish newsletter Popping Tins. Timothy_marchman@wired.com. Signal me at timmarchman.01.
@sifu.tweety.fish
at different times: haxx0r in cDc PhD in using people for ML and vice versa "theory of mind for autonomous cars" startup guy would you believe, went kablooie at present: newsletter -- buttondown.email/apperceptive &c music, politics, nonsense
@durlauf.bsky.social
Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, Director, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility, University of Chicago
@gillottjohn.bsky.social
Author of Bioscience, Governance and Politics (Palgrave). Co-Author Science and the Retreat from Reason (Merlin/Monthly Review). Climber and Runner
@socialmedialab.ca
Academic Research Lab in Toronto: SocialMediaLab.ca |Skeets by @philipmai.com re: the politics of technology, social media, democracy, mis/disinfo, conspiracies & propaganda | PoliDashboard.org, DeepfakesTracker.org, ConflictMisinfo.org & Communalytic.org.
@alroth.bsky.social
Stanford economist. I have a market design blog: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Lately I’m interested in #controversial markets
@robin-j-brooks.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at @brookings.edu. Previously Chief Economist at IIF and Chief FX Strategist at Goldman Sachs.
@mikemakowsky.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at Clemson University Crime, Political Economy, Religion #COYS Monday ramblings @ https://economistwritingeveryday.com/author/mdmakowsky/
@olafstorbeck.ft.com
Financial Times Frankfurt Bureau Chief. All Things ECB and European Macro. Previously: Reuters Breakingviews & Handelsblatt. Long distance cyclist. Car free since 2009. Views mine, not the FT's. (The FT's ones here: https://www.ft.com/ft-view)
@davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social
Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
@chrislintott.bsky.social
Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
@conorwalsh.bsky.social
Columbia Business School Assistant Professor. Growth, firms, cities.
@tmpear.bsky.social
Born 318ppm. Retired. Lefty ex-comms refugee from you know where. Connoisseur of post-punk. #NFFC fan. There’s no place for hate. #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦
@markrendell.bsky.social
Economics reporter with The Globe and Mail. Based in Toronto. mrendell@globeandmail.com
@brankomilan.bsky.social
1) Income inequality; 2) Politics; 3) History; 4) Soccer. Author of "Global inequality" and "Capitalism, Alone" (2019). Stone Center, CUNY; LSE, London
@yellsonpolitics.bsky.social
Campaigning for the union of France and GB, and the redefinition of the inch to 25.6mm
@mccrum.bsky.social
Do investigations for the FT, into dubious accounting and dodgy characters mainly. Wrote a book called Money Men about a spectacular fraud
@adamposen.bsky.social
President, PIIE. Globalist. Former central banker. Political economy with a policy purpose. Writes on macroeconomic policy, G7/China relations, globalization, and economies of US, UK, Germany, Japan, and PRC.
@boeresearch.bsky.social
Research papers, #bankunderground posts, publications and news from Bank of England researchers. Staff opinion and analysis, not necessarily official BoE views. https://linktr.ee/boeresearch
@ent3c.bsky.social
Behavior genetics, clinical psychology, Mets. Occasional politics. Substack (free): https://ericturkheimer.substack.com/ Book Is Out! Understanding the Nature-Nurture Debate https://shorturl.at/Ce2hf Electronic Version: https://shorturl.at/Fq2jv
@billoyd.bsky.social
Chess addict Political junkie Liberal Democrat 💙💙💙 I can resist anything but temptation @resist
@tradediversion.bsky.social
Economist at Columbia University. Trade Diversion is a blog about trade & globalization. www.tradediversion.net
@joelbudd.bsky.social
Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
@philipnye.bsky.social
Senior data scientist @instituteforgovernment.org.uk • Words and numbers on what the govt is up to, edu policy, doing data at a thinktank • Bilingual: 🐍/SQL • Sign up to the IfG newsletter: http://bit.ly/3xDINTz
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History. More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
@dralanwager.bsky.social
Politics, public opinion and public policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Expect musings, maps and graphs on all the above, mostly. Also, got a book out! Email: a.wager@institute.global
@davidwlkr0.bsky.social
Author (The Only Way is Up, with Polly Toynbee), non-executive, former Audit Commission director and journalist
@intheinaka.bsky.social
Japanese Political Communication PhD | Working in Linguistic Validation by day; posting about politics on the internet by night
@jojohutchinson.bsky.social
Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician.
@uclpolicylab.bsky.social
Bringing extraordinary ideas and everyday experience together to tackle the challenges facing us all.
@safety.bsky.app
Sharing updates about trust and safety on Bluesky. This account’s mentions are not actively monitored. To report a post or account, use the in-app reporting feature. Community Guidelines: https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines
@vermontgmg.bsky.social
Journalist & Historian. Director, @aspencyber. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Doomsdayscenario.co
@quinnslobodian.com
Historian of bad ideas. Out now: HAYEK'S BASTARDS: https://bookshop.org/p/books/hayek-s-bastards-race-gold-iq-and-the-capitalism-of-the-far-right-quinn-slobodian/21814849?ean=9781890951917 quinnslobodian.com
@davemacleod.bsky.social
Internet stuff for Private Eye ⚡️ Indie landfill at trainboy.co.uk ⚡️ All views my nans
@tl-beck.bsky.social
Professor of Finance and Director of Florence School of Banking and Finance
@twitterexodus.org
A grassroots nonpartisan campaign to help grow Bluesky and fight back against X. Activate, don't deactivate! Our words and news shouldn’t be owned by billionaires. We need a public square that's truly free. twittertakedown.org, @flocktobluesky on X
@ppraeg.bsky.social
I'm a sociologist working at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) I also have a website: patrickpraeg.com
@hemissroad.bsky.social
U.S. East Coast. The least bad international system would see the Global South - I know, a blurry concept - playing great powers off against each other and developing a measure of leverage and autonomy. But U.S. to remain hegemon for at least a generation.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@simonpittaway.bsky.social
Working on macro, wealth and household balance sheets at the Resolution Foundation.
@dylandifford.bsky.social
YouGov data journalist • Elections, polls, voting systems • "I like people, places and things"
@chenoweth.bsky.social
Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.