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Stian Westlake

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CEO, Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc. Co-author of Restarting the Future (out 1 March 2022) and Capitalism Without Capital.

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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake · Jul 16, 2022
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Just finished @MarkKoyama and @jaredcrubin's terrific "How The World Became Rich", a stylishly written, accessible survey of what we know about the history of economic growth. So good it made me want to pack everything in and do a PhD in Economic History!

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How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth
by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin
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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake · Jun 19, 2022
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Excellent thread by the unparalleled USS-whisperer @MikeOtsuka on why better measures of inflation are important to the matter of university pensions.

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Why @ucu & @UCEA1 should agree on "RPI-F" (RPI minus the difference between CPIH & RPI due to the "formula effect") as the best available proxy for the impact of inflation on university workers.🧵1/
by Michael Otsuka
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Stian Westlake @stianwestlake · Jan 8, 2022
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I was curious about how much difference fracking would make to the UK's energy problems, and someone pointed me to this very helpful thread.

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One of the main arguments from climate action sceptics on the energy crisis has been that we should extract more shale gas. So if we take that argument at face value – is it plausible, and would it make much difference? A thread… https://t.co/DCC
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