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Leader of . Head of Research at . Consequentialist, reductionist, marginalist & formalist. Care about meaning, food, music, econ & cities.

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Joined June 2012
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    Nov 7
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    Forum is happening again this year (Dec 9th) and the line-up is killer!

    , , and 5 others
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  2. 6 hours ago

    I explain why the LVT is not as special as you think

    Land is not a special case, it should be taxed on value added just like everything else.
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  3. Retweeted
    7 hours ago

    Yes, there is a housing shortage

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  4. 10 hours ago

    Lead -> crime & urban blight (also from more liberal law enforcement) -> white flight from US cities (15m people in total)

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  5. 11 hours ago

    Around half of the socioeconomic status gap in English university attendance due to different beliefs, especially about non-monetary benefits

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  6. 11 hours ago

    Massive Brazilian educational expansion mostly lead to heavy over-qualification, not mass skills upgrade

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  7. 11 hours ago

    Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign cut both alcohol & non-alcohol poisonings—no substitution effect

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  8. 12 hours ago

    Smart congestion charging experiment in Bangalore

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  9. 12 hours ago
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    Another rejection of the Weber hypothesis that protestantism -> literacy -> economic growth

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  10. 13 hours ago

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    Testing Consumer Theory: Evidence From a Natural Field Experiment: Adena, Maja; Huck, Steffen
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  11. Nov 19

    The easier this is, the more value a land value tax would destroy ?amp=1

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  12. Retweeted
    Nov 16

    I blogged on the ludicrously thin evidence in favour of minimum alcohol pricing.

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  13. Nov 16

    Just reverse seared a ~1kg piece of 60-day-aged White Park ribeye. Then added some melted cultured butter

    and
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  14. Nov 16

    My brother was the star in a short at a Brighton film festival! – at The Old Market

    3 retweets 41 likes
  15. Nov 15

    🎂🍾🚨🎈🎁

    8 replies 1 retweet 12 likes
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    Nov 13

    new working paper the demand for divisia money: theory and evidence (w/ m belongia)

    1 reply 8 retweets 17 likes
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  18. Nov 14

    "Why Ted Kaczynski was right"

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  20. Nov 14
    Replying to

    Autist master race strikes again

    If you play a metronome, a typical child's brain 'habituates': their brain generalises "this is more of the same". In the autistic brain, habituation is reduced. This doesn't mean they can't predict. Rather, they may not leap to unsystematic conclusions
    1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
  21. Nov 13
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    I did a review: the best chicken in town at sister restaurant in Bermondsey

    1 reply 1 like

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