As usual, Canada Post's view of economics is when demand goes down, prices go up. https://globalnews.ca/news/12138831/stamp-prices-budget-2026/

Article: The Banking Question in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Spain: the Case of Luis María Pastor, by Andrés Oliva-Duarte
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1053837226101473

Article: Marx’s concept of ecological freedom, by Kohei Saito
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2026.2742296

Adam Smith sempozyumu başladı…
https://idtad.org.tr/2026/03/09/adam-smith/

Library coordinator summarizes book by Glennette Tilley Turner

"Journey of courage on the Underground Railroad" Author; Darwin Mcbeth Walton with Glennette Tilley Turner In the1619s many Africans were already shipped to North America as slaves to work in their farm lands....

https://favl.org/2026/11/05/library-coordinator-summarizes-book-by-glennette-tilley-turner/

Cautionary Tales – Why Milk Cartons “Scared the Bejesus out of a Generation”, with Roman Mars

https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/playlists/podcast

For this special crossover episode, Tim is joined by the one and only Roman Mars to discuss his new series, A History

https://timharford.com/2026/11/cautionary-tales-why-milk-cartons-scared-the-bejesus-out-of-roman-mars-cautionary-tales-meets-a-history-of-the-united-states-in-100-objects/

#CautionaryTales

Formation des illustrateurs à Houndé

Le 3 octobre 2026, le siège de ABVBF à Houndé a abrité une séance d'encadrement dédiée aux illustrateurs locaux....

https://favl.org/2026/11/05/formation-des-illustrateurs-a-hounde/

एक आगाज़, एक "शुरुआत" का,
जो बदल दे शोषण का रुख़,

एक आगाज़, अन्याय से न्याय का,
जो सत्य को स्थापित करे

एक आगाज़ हक़ पाने का,
जो अधिकार को सुनिश्चित करे

:अमजद इस्लाम

Rebeginning means reminding and reclaiming your demand and Rights!

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and #StartingOver
– Guy Finley

A sunrise is God’s way of saying, Let’s #StartAgain.
– Todd Stocker

The Myth of the Deficit Dial vs. The Reality of the Buffer Stock

Turn the dial all you like. It's the anchor that holds the boat.Who Gets to Define What MMT Is?Economics is a struggle over meaning.

https://darrenquinn.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-the-deficit-dial-vs-the

AI Lessons from Uncle Screwtape

A few months ago, Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, mused on stage about the impact of generative AI on society.

“I don’t know how we’ll respond,” he told Kenny Malone of NPR’s Planet Money. “A hundred years ago, CS Lewis wrote a book called The Screwtape Letters, about a demon in Hell whose job is writing letters to their boss, a senior demon, a manager demo

https://timharford.com/2026/11/ai-lessons-from-uncle-screwtape/

#UndercoverEconomist

William Nordhaus (1941-2026) and Jim Andreoni (1959-2026) #EconTwitter #altruism #climate #rip
http://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/11/william-nordhaus-1941-2026-and-jim.html

Thank-you to Scott Brooks — the brains behind Vintage Acton — for honouring my grandfather and for keeping his memory alive. https://wallsandbridges.substack.com/p/an-early-remembrance-day-tribute

A review of Giandomenica Becchio's book (Barbara Bergmann: An Intellectual Biography), by Mary Lulloff
https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2026.2736834

I remember watching this movie in my OAC (Ontario’s Grade 13) English class.

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“Key people behind 1986 music movie Crossroads are planning a sequel 40 years on, and guitar icon Steve Vai is set to take part again, they revealed.” https://ultimateclassicrock.com/crossroads-movie-sequel-is-set-to-feature-steve-vai/

Article: Between history and ideology. The Middle Ages and Medievalism in Italian economic thought on corporations, by Claudia Rotondi
https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2750531

Article: Revising Structuralism in Times of Crisis: Lance Taylor and the Neo-Structuralist Synthesis in the 1980s, by Andrew M. Fischer
https://doi.org/10.1111/meca.70021

Cool! This is my grandfather! https://www.facebook.com/VintageActon/posts/as-we-approach-remembrance-day-vintage-acton-is-sharing-profiles-of-actons-war-h/1140341572014333/

Ankara’daki 6-7 Kasım 2026 “Ulusların Zenginliği’nin 250. Yılında Adam Smith’i Yeniden Okumak” Sempozyumunun programı:
https://idtad.org.tr/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/AdamSmithProgram-v2.p

This week's post: What is wrong with Boring Budgets? https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2026/11/what-is-wrong-with-boring-budgets.html
The lack of recognition by a media obsessed by fiscal responsibility that slower growth in real personal incomes is part of the government’s strategy to bring down the deficit looks very odd.

Check out the South African ElectAI elections dashboard! https://www.electai.co.za/election-results
The vote counts on the official IEC dashboard are roughly double or triple, because they are representing all the ballot papers together.