Neil Lee

A sickening society is clear in these statistics

So why is it not in the news?

Powerful wake-up call from @chakrabortty.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Doncaster fraudster who posed as a millionaire professor to swindle victims This is the crooked Doncaster businessman who swindled his victims out of hundreds of thousands of pounds, conning them into believe him he was a millionaire university professor with degrees from bot...

Surely "Millionaire professor" was what gave him away www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/courts/...

Remember we had him speak at the, er, Tory party conference once? Not sure how that happened

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Inside Ukraine’s ‘kill zone’ Drones are reshaping the frontline with Russia — and the future of warfare

One of the best, most horrifying pieces I've read in a long time ig.ft.com/ukraine-kill...

Great book

Thanks. Yes, challenging conclusion was that basically even those on low incomes are better off (in monetary terms) in more unequal places as more jobs / higher wages - but depends on impact on costs (which we are trying to do).

We get a few (excellent) West Point / Annapolis students in our summer school where I teach them such woke topics as optimal currency areas and monopsonistic labour markets

‘People laughed at TV jobs in Belfast!’ How Northern Ireland’s capital became the home of quality drama From Blue Lights gossip to How to Get to Heaven from Belfast cocktails, the city has become a small-screen hotspot – and is basking in its newfound fame

Belfast is buzzing.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Europe lags the United States because of a structural deficit in first-mover innovation. This paper diagnoses the institutional roots of that deficit and outlines a coordinated political-economy pathway to address it.

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terrible pub, great company

Great times

Going to @ucl.ac.uk changed my life & gave me the best friends a person could ask for.

It helped me think, write and argue. (Looking at you @jowolff.bsky.social @timcrane.bsky.social & others not on here)

Happy 200th UCL. Keep breaking the tradition.

Europe's innovation problem

New WP with Herbertson, Storper, Soskice, and Pardy

researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/13...

Just found about it now, so no! I'd actually done another urgent one that morning - it's a bind because you don't want to be the reason a former student doesn't get a job

Had a reference request at 9.47pm on Saturday night asking for the reference 'ideally' by midnight

Quick science policy thread 1

Changes in the governance of UK science since the mid 1980s make it extremely hard to be strategic (that was the point), in terms of both process (dropped) and capability (hollowed out).

"All around us – in our homes, in everyday life, in our hobbies and pastimes – we can see, if we care to look, the products of all kinds of technological innovation in products & the materials that make them, that collectively lead to overall economic growth"
softmachines.org?p=3249

Rock-climber Alex Honnold is in the news again, for climbing solo a Taipei skyscraper - an excuse to recycle this old post of mine about the importance of technological innovation in climbing, (contrary to the claims of a well-known economist).

Ha! I'm not sure - I will try and check later but I think your resident point is a good one...

Huge caveats on the data but GVA per head in Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire actually fell relative to the national average between 1998 - 2023

Smartphones have reduced crime but made everyone unhappy. So maybe we actually liked crime?

🧵 1/4 Yesterday I sat down with the @livingstandardsc.bsky.social, the @coopparty.party.coop, and several colleagues and experts to discuss how we can deliver growth felt by communities.

confidence intervals: 1.1 in Greater Manchester, 0.7 in London so I think any errors broader than that

Actually let me do confidence intervals and report back

There is a nice paper on sampling error in Ashe which I think may be similar to the issues in the GVA (under sampling small firms), but I think a little more reliable because easier to attribute wage data than output

I should have done confidence intervals but I think 2-5%

My contribution to the 'is Manchester growing' debate

GVA data looks fishy, but ASHE data on wages seem to show some convergence (with caveats)

(Source: ASHE, resident analysis)

We need a Southern Powerhouse to rebalance the economy

My contribution to the 'is Manchester growing' debate

GVA data looks fishy, but ASHE data on wages seem to show some convergence (with caveats)

(Source: ASHE, resident analysis)

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...