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Alasdair Smith
@alasdairmsmith.bsky.social
Trade economist at Sussex (UKTPO and CITP); ex-VC University of Sussex; member of Competition Appeal Tribunal. So I have views on trade, and higher education (also fiscal sustainability, and pensions), but no views on anything to do with competition.
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In the segregated lanes I use, hazards include aggressive overtaking, and switching between cycle lanes and motor vehicle lanes to game traffic lights. Where motor lanes have been reduced to one lane each way to provide generous cycle lanes, cycles should be banned from motor lanes. *ducks*

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The economist Avinash Dixit pointed out years ago that technology reduced the cost of producing words but had no effect on the cost of producing ideas, with an entirely predictable consequence.

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Henley might; Hanley more doubtful😉

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If it were me, I’d just continue doggedly to use the subjunctive; but I would restrict the use of exponential, inflection point, and cusp to people who can give a mathematical explanation of their meaning.

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Warmest sympathies.

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Missed the hotly contested increase to £3000 in 2004;,and the fact that the 2012 increase was intended to be to £6000.

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Paging @samfr.bsky.social who has a book to sell to you.

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Especially to repost from the real you. 🤔

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EJ Musk

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Alasdair Smith
@alasdairmsmith.bsky.social
Trade economist at Sussex (UKTPO and CITP); ex-VC University of Sussex; member of Competition Appeal Tribunal. So I have views on trade, and higher education (also fiscal sustainability, and pensions), but no views on anything to do with competition.
448 followers432 following151 posts