Dan Gay

All of the African companies listed on African stock exchanges are worth about $600bn, which together makes them worth only about 40% of the expected IPO value of Anthropic.

The economics Nobel is almost entirely dominated by a small group of US universities. Four prize winners out of 101 have come from the global South. Mainstream economics journal articles focus overwhelmingly on the US. This isn't a proper way to do science. dangay.substack.com/p/economics-...

Just when Burnham cuddles up to the EU, it faces the possibility of disintegration. 'if the nationalist right held power in Spain, France, Poland and Italy all at once, “I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say it’s the end of the European Union as we’ve known it.”' giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

As Robin Wigglseworth says in FT Alphaville, "You don’t have to be American and affiliated with MIT to win an economics Nobel — but it helps!" Vindication of the brilliance of US universities and particularly MIT? Evidence of western hegemony in mainstream economic methods? I know what I think.

Interview about inclusive trade: lnkd.in/p/euSETyhe

Northern intlectuals like to proclaim the death of neoliberalism, but it stumbles on in the majority world. “Their extreme focus on deregulation, on lifting subsidies and so on did not take into account the downtrodden.” Syria’s free-market experiment - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

@unlearn16.bsky.social am I right or completely deluded?

Worth a listen. The social and political awareness of some contemporary economists contrasts with the physics-envious mathematicians who taught me a few decades ago. Maybe i'm out of touch with academia but it does seem as though things might be improving in some quarters. youtu.be/aNYDMfdD6pg?...

Exactly, and the list of guests dining with Xi is why the risk of a US-China conflict is exaggerated. US-China corporatism shares common cause. The 65 wars currently going on are bigger problems. www.npr.org/2026/06/09/n...

Gabriel Zucman's 'We need to tax billionaires' argues for a minimum 2% tax on the ultra-rich. dangay.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

The LSE's appointment of Rory Stewart as a Professor in the Dept. of International Relations mainstreams someone who's part of the problem, not the solution. Colonial governor in an illegal war; misunderstanding of basic economics; opposition to fair taxation... substack.com/@dangay/note...

My review of Zucman's We Need to Tax Billionaires 👇 dangay.substack.com/p/we-need-to...

A simpler public tender system sounds good but is just the sort of industrial policy that the EU criticises in the likes of China. Surely it could also face challenge via WTO Govt Procurement Agreement (even though GPA only has 49 members and doesn't include China)? www.reuters.com/world/china/...

In recent cases, it's not that AI somehow "escaped containment" or "went rogue." That's anthropomorphizing at best. It's more like if a Boston Dynamics robot dog nudged open an already open door and walked in.

"Like adolescents setting the house on fire just to see how the flames will look.” substack.com/profile/1890...

Asked if the Government considers the masked thugs swarming British ports “far right” Andy Burnham’s spokesman replies that “it's an operational matter for the police to set out their response to the protests on the ground. So I will leave them to respond to that.”

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Thank God for those financial market analysts, propping up democracy like they do. Without them how would us poor simpletons understand those trade-offs?🙄

Smart glasses: “The biggest advance in pervert technology since the trenchcoat.”😂 “We will never have more money than billionaires but we can always be funnier and more interesting,” says an EHE co-founder.

Tell me again we shouldn't use the f-word. “I think we should be doing 30 to 40 targeted assassinations per night,” Ben-Gvir said. “Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live . . . They are not even people.”

This is very good: "The hypnotic powers of Trump and Musk are often a phantasm, losing their pull if people decline to be entranced." Does Silicon Valley dream of Philip K Dick? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"For the half of humanity living on under $4,000 per year, development is a chief concern," writes Tim Hirschel-Burns in Jacobin, in a decent attempt to link opposition to the genocide in Gaza with the need dor a wider progressive US foreign policy. jacobin.com/2026/07/left...

China’s economy is growing more slowly, according to a report today. Many economists and China critics will wrongly seize on the news as proof that the Chinese model is failing and that the US and EU are doing better in comparison. It isn't, and they're not. substack.com/@dangay/note...

Turns out the US economy isn't trouncing Europe's quite as badly as everyone says it is. "the higher growth of productivity in the US tech sector (and so of US GDP per head) is questionable, not because it is wrong, but because this is a matter of judgment." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"Our global health foreign assistance programme is not just aid - it is a strategic mechanism to further our bilateral interests around the world." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Q: What's the definition of an existential threat? A: Camus with a baseball bat.