Jeremiah Dittmar

LSE Economics Department.

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@oikeios Genuine question: what are your preferred criteria for figuring out which changes are 'decisive'?

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@DanielTutt I *strongly* recommend music by Ren. 'Tale of Jenny & Screech'. 'Chalk Outlines.' 'Money Game' ...

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@_TimBarker @MarxinHell (Side note: comment was intended as friendly and suggestive, but not combative...)

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@_TimBarker Why u put in ellipsis? "The fact that we now not only call the plantation owners in America capitalists, but that they are capitalists, is based on their existence as anomalies within a world market based on free labour."

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@owenjdowling @AntonJaegermm If I may -- we offer quantitative evidence that would seem to be consistent with Anderson and variance with Brenner here: https://t.co/jJJNogkS9k

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@NewLeftEViews @brian11kim (1) Given some panel data...do we not think that this association varies across time and social settings? (2) would love to see what's driven by 'selection' into engineering and how views shift, if at all, during training.

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@skepoet @BW Counter: stuff takes time. Original spinning mule dates from 1779. The automated "self-acting" mule -- which one Karl Marx called "the greatest invention of modern industry" patented only in 1824. Ditto power loom, which absorbed r+d ££.

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@sensualuncle @donaldp1917 Exciting promotion: quantitative research suggests class struggle involving cities was key: https://t.co/tywKrq3qHD (Gloss as "with Marx and Perry Anderson, against Brenner"?)

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@skepoet Paper itself (taken face value) shows China develops a positive biases in engineering, computation, sciences but not in social sciences. All since circa 1995. Proposed "bias" metric may actually measure quality...

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@lastpositivist @lastpositivist -- love when soi-disant positivists fixate on a truncated distribution.

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@NicolasDVillar1 "A mode of production, they insist, doesn’t come with a predetermined politics." For interesting discussion of how they push on -- and in some places even bend -- the evidence, see Appiah's remarkable [although paywalled] review: https://t.co/T3Yjo8KYrm

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@abenanav Odd idea of mainstream economics! It's not just that Card won the Nobel and is basic for mainstream training in labor. Straw men do not help historical materialism...

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@gavinmuellerphd Interesting. Side note: Nate Rosenberg's "Marx as a Student of Technology" could be good. As could earlier science-and-technology studies like Samuel Lilley...

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@sunraysunray @SolomonMarlow Isn't Queens 7% South Asian? So ~160K. Same in North Jersey, where car rules. While there are like 1 million South Asians here in London. (Or go 'selective migration by type varies with destination economy...')

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@Surajpr74800081 @knoxens Aside: interesting to consider how this fits with contemporary politics. Not just higher AfD support in East in general. But also higher correlation across kreis between NSDAP support in 1933 and AfD support today *within* East... https://t.co/tUiI2iaI8P

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@MaxCRoser @timleunig @jseabold Hi Max. Sorry for lag in pandemic. Will email.

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@Labour4govt @LenMcCluskey "The Jewish community" -- are you actually speaking in good faith? I'm Jewish. My grandparents are buried on a kibbutz. Mother served in IDF. Great-grandmother taught Hebrew in Liverpool. And I am 100% with Corbyn on this. (Thanks Len!)

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@Keir_Starmer I can only voice my strongest objection to your handling of this. As a Labour Party member, as a Jew, indeed as the child of an Israeli -- I call on you to restore the whip to Jeremy Corbyn.

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@MattColeWorks @abenanav Peanut gallery says: good to clarify evidence for "low demand". Autor "Paradox of Abundance" -- cited in NLR1 -- does not really claim overall low demand. Nor does Robert Gordon. Larry Summers' secular stagnation seems at odds with timing & flavor of Brenner's story. Etc.