Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuffhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3mrm3g2usfs2oSee what you guys are missing27 Jul 2026 04:42 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrm3g2usfs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3mqsh5ap5u22hBhaskar Sunkara interview covering some ideas from our book with @benburgis.bsky.social, out in September https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/opinion/democratic-socialist-capitalism-bhaskar-sunkara.html17 Jul 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqsh5ap5u22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3mqllkofbzs2tI have a new paper out in the Australian Journal of Politics and History: “Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?” https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.7008414 Jul 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqllkofbzs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3mqllkofbzs2tI have a new paper out in the Australian Journal of Politics and History: “Monetary Targeting, Wages and Inflation in 1970s Australia: Always and Everywhere a Distributional Phenomenon?” https://doi.org/10.1111/ajph.7008414 Jul 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqllkofbzs2thttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3mom4tsjae225Dammit this impertinence is going to drive me back to a more sycophantic chatbot19 Jun 2026 00:52 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3mom4tsjae225https://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3m4hwntmvwk2fOne thing that really annoys me in uni reporting is deducting all investment income from operating revenue to calculate an ‘underlying margin’ and presenting that as the figure that matters. It mixes reasonable (the item is volatile) with the spurious (therefore we should count it at zero) [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Oct 2025 07:17 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4hwntmvwk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3m4f35ujkt22uIf only we could go to the supermarket with the same attitude as uni administrators. ‘Sorry, my budget is limited so I’ve decided you are going to give me more stuff for that budget’30 Oct 2025 03:59 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4f35ujkt22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mikejbeggs.bsky.social/post/3m2ikjhgkjk2dWhat’s wrong babe? You haven’t even started drafting your Five Year Plans for each of the Four Pillars of Academic Excellence06 Oct 2025 02:22 +0000at://did:plc:o7cvabdchfkzkjlxxajody4r/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ikjhgkjk2d