Steven Bosworth

@sjbeconobot

Associate Professor of Economics, University of Reading He/him, autistic

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Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· 21d

English has a functionally logographic writing system

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Jul 22

Psychological game theorists, finally getting in on IO economists’ consulting bag

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Jul 21

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Jun 27

There’s a certain extent to which if a health study lands in the Guardian you know it must be rubbish.

The Guardian
Drinking champagne could reduce risk of sudden cardiac arrest, study suggests
Maintaining a positive mood and eating more fruit may also help lower risk, researchers find
• Lewis Hamilton celebrates with champagne on the podium after winning the British Grand Prix in July. Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· May 20

“we don’t spend enough on health care”

Bar chart showing health spending in US higher in relative (and much higher in absolute) terms than all other countries

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Feb 18

A leftist named Marx, praising every technology handed down from self-interested capitalists seeking only to enhance their power and profits.

The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground-what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Jan 13

Help my country is in a Condorcet cycle and can’t get out

A poll showing the British public’s weakly cyclic preferences for Starmer = Badenoch > Davey > Starmer.

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Dec 19

This but seriously

Groucho Marx: “I refuse to join any club that would have me for a member.”

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Nov 14

Wojak meme. Top sceptical wojak looks at text reading “gender: these clusters of correlated attributes are a social construct.” bottom grinning wojak looks at text reading “psychiatry: these clusters of correlated attributes are hard truths written onto your brain. trust science!”

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Sep 4

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· May 24

Saturn Devouring His Son, a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Apr 30

Degrowthbrain:

“A lot of liberal commentators and academics will say we don’t have enough of [insert profession here] to build the houses we need – the need for which is partly due to huge immigration. So immigration needs to stay high so that we can have the people over to build those houses. It’s a circular, absurd argument.”

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Apr 28

I've just written to my MP, @mattrodda.bsky.social with my concerns about the recent Supreme Court ruling and EHRC guidance. The law (Equality Act 2010) must be fixed before this state interference in the private sphere becomes normalised. Pleas contact your MP if you feel similarly.

Dear Mr Rodda,

I am a constituent of yours, and I voted for you in the general election past, 2024. I write to you with concern about the recent Supreme Court decision and the initial guidance issued by the EHRC.

The decision leaves ambiguity around whether transgender people have access to basic public facilities such as toilets. Such a situation is untenable and unnecessary – the status quo ante was perfectly workable and the exclusion which would be required is on its face repugnant to me as someone who values a free society.

The Equality Act 2010 as currently interpreted under law cannot stand. The law must be amended to clarify that sex equality and gender (including transgender) equality are one and the same. It is your prerogative as a legislator to fix this injustice and prevent vulnerable people being excluded from public life.

I trust you will do what is right.

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Apr 17

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Mar 20

From a recent paper (Doepke & Gaeta). Your impression of Germany is spot on. The story in UK is probably that top incomes have languished as well.

Labor protection and the education premium
The chart below shows the percentage change in the college premium between 1980 and 2006 among some OECD countries against their OECD labor protection index in the 1990s.

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Feb 27

Logging back into Twitter for god knows why and I am presented immediately with this weapons-grade take from Noah. People were not kidding when they say he has lost the plot. The replies are chock full of hate directed at trans and (you guessed it) autistic people.

Steven Bosworth@sjbeconobot· Feb 5

Congressional Republicans right now