Our goal lies far in the distance, clearly visible. PhD in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government & Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Working on employment & social protection. 🇿🇦 🇬🇧
Jack Calland
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South Africa's murder rate is down 20% since 2024.
The end of load shedding seems to be the best explanation for the drop.
It's striking that 50% of murders take place in just 12 policing precincts (out of nearly 1200).
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up.
More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows.
Here's what we found: 🧵
Couldn't help feeling a bit sorry for these guys, who are also victims of the 'loneliness epidemic' but just happen to be insanely successful (if wealth=success). Hyperindividualism comes for us all. 'Agentic anomie'.
As another insight into the utterly weird tech scene, this has it all:
- rationalist polycules
- cum-racing
- "Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians"
harpers.org/archive/2026...
Incredible social science & data use here.
The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
Excited to post the latest version of my JMP: The female labor supply constraints of spousal jealousy bit.ly/4nn9apn
I use two field experiments to study the role of spousal jealousy in constraining married women’s employment. More below 👇:
Excellent critique of the new inflation target by @adamaboobaker.bsky.social. There is simply no historical precedent for low inflation delivering growth.
www.businessday.co.za/opinion/2025...
