How Special Economic Zones Kickstarted the Chinese Economy (Part I) Liberalization with Chinese characteristics

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Thank god I’m gay

the image

I’m sure this goes down well with his wife

Soon you're going to need stamp these with the minute of the hour

I’m a sucker for a good visual identity

As Trump focuses on his trade war, Brazil and China forge closer ties Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has signed up to Xi Jinping’s vision of a multi-polar world, as Beijing expands its influence in Latin America

Are we winning?

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so excited for my high school reunion

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The dominant strategy is to mirror their actions, lest we lose the Republic.

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what I had for breakfast is as interesting as Mamdani’s college application

aid to a baseball bat

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Plus department holiday party, can’t say no to free food

Nonstop grading all week and I have a meeting with my advisor tomorrow. Gonna be a looong night

I just moved from notion to craft but there’s not a massive difference, mostly just visual for me and some better calendar integration.

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

Every academic right now

jail

Wonderful! I’ll take a look around. Glad you found my post!

As of now, I’m not sure but micro level data would be best, I think. Employment, number of enterprises, performance, etc

is there a dataset in worker cooperatives out there? I have the inklings of an empirical project

I am simply not a morning person. Anyone have advice on getting up early?

Would Trump’s tariffs really be that bad? With Kimberly Clausing Assessing the arguments for protectionism

It was terrific talking about a depressing subject with the incomparable @soumayakeynes.bsky.social.

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In short, yes.