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All pre-ordered now as I adored Material World and I had no idea of how important the economics of pre orders are.
Ed Conway✍️ The two things no one ever tells you about writing a book... My latest substack, on the weird world of "blurbs", the significance of preorders and... a rare, special limited-time offer! 👇 edconway.substack.com/p/at-least-o...
Super interesting piece.
Ed Conway👕 It might just look like yet another silly season story. But the furore over Andy Burnham's casual-wear actually tells you rather a lot about the architecture of the economy around us, and the profound challenges facing anyone wanting to change it👇 edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
Worth reading 👍🏻
Ed Conway👕 It might just look like yet another silly season story. But the furore over Andy Burnham's casual-wear actually tells you rather a lot about the architecture of the economy around us, and the profound challenges facing anyone wanting to change it👇 edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
Interesting substack on what it means to support local companies and Made in Britain - through the back story of the expensive casual wardrobe of Andy Burnham.
Ed Conway👕 It might just look like yet another silly season story. But the furore over Andy Burnham's casual-wear actually tells you rather a lot about the architecture of the economy around us, and the profound challenges facing anyone wanting to change it👇 edconway.substack.com/p/what-andy-...
A very good read. Particularly resonates with my area of chip design. I met some missile makers at a trade show recently and they saw my deterministic CPU design and said “good, we aren’t allowed to use software because of this, we have to use FPGAs”. But the UK doesn’t make FPGAs.
Ed Conway✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
The number of global economic inter-dependencies is probably close to infinite. Individual ones may provoke panic in particular countries at particular times, but self-sufficiency doesn't work either, and governments have a poor record of predicting what will be crucial.
Ed Conway✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
Interesting and relevant reading on the state of the world and our lack of resources and industry. I'll take @edconway.bsky.social up on his podcast 👍 "Somehow, [in WW1] Britain had gone to war with a country which was also the main provider of the key chemical it needed to fight that country"
Ed Conway✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
Material World is the book I have most often recommended to friends in recent years and my school assembly on the Glass Famine is the talk of my local pub.
Ed Conway✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
Very good. Worth a read
Ed Conway✍️A TNT shortage, a world at war and why an obscure factory next to a Sheffield fast fashion warehouse could help explain how to reindustrialise Britain. An essay on the new Chancellor, the old Chancellor and whether anyone can actually turn our economy around👇 edconway.substack.com/p/the-factor...
Been very much looking forward to this. New @edconway.bsky.social podcast (available wherever you get your podcasts) on, for want of a better term, ‘actual things’ and the economics behind them. news.sky.com/story/stuff-...
Stuff Matters... because boring stuff is often actually tremendously interestingSky News Insider: Podcasts are launching today and subscribers will be able to enjoy ad-free access, bonus episodes and early releases.news.sky.com
Delighted to see @edconway.bsky.social’s new podcast Stuff Matters - for anyone interested in actual things, how we get them, how they work - and what they mean for our economy and society I loved Ed’s book Material World - can’t wait to give this a listen
Stuff Matters... because boring stuff is often actually tremendously interestingSky News Insider: Podcasts are launching today and subscribers will be able to enjoy ad-free access, bonus episodes and early releases.news.sky.com
Just listened to the first episode of @edconway.bsky.social new podcast "stuff matters". Great to hear someone tackling the back-fire effect some efficiency innovations can have on our Net Zero efforts... castbox.fm/vb/957162547
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Ebury imprint WH Allen has acquired Trade World, the new book by Ed Conway 👇 #BookSky
Material World author Ed Conway returns to WH Allen with Trade Worldebx.sh
Been thinking a lot about one of the best books I've read in recent years - @edconway.bsky.social's Material World. Raw materials, the science behind their use, supply chain bottlenecks, and related challenges past and current. Just discovered it's on audiobook on Spotify, and well worth a look.
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Futureopen.spotify.com
Don't forget to sign up to our #webinar tomorrow! ⏰1-2pm #Trade, #Tariffs and the Price of #Protectionism A panel discussion with Silvana Tenreyro (LSE & @cepr.org), @lindayueh.bsky.social (Oxford Uni & LBS), and Janet Henry (HSBC), chaired by @edconway.bsky.social⬇️ niesr.ac.uk/event/trade-...
Trade, Tariffs and the Price of Protectionism - NIESRPresident Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs are ushering in a period of trade protectionism that challenged the open trading consensus that defined the last three decades and ended the post-Cold War er...niesr.ac.uk
In Material World, @edconway.bsky.social showed just how dependent we are on key raw materials with delicate supply lines. In such circumstances, only a fool would start a war.
ironeconomistLearned a fun fact about helium logistics today. It needs incredibly specialised ships to transport it by sea at near absolute zero and a large fraction of them are trapped in the gulf. So even if Taiwan and Korean chip manufacturers can get US helium may have no way to transport it at scale.
I think people need to read your book @edconway.bsky.social , Material World. The world's supply chain is a few weeks away from implosion for a few key materials. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway | Goodreads share.google/adzxnDaDTZZe...
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern…Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These funda…share.google
Van Eyck, if you buy Hockney’s thesis, leveraged technology to enable him to depict the world in a novel way. Much as C15th artists embraced new creative tools, C21st technology threatens to disrupt art and creativity. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @edconway.bsky.social
Enjoy Jan van Eyck. He was more than just a painterThe master showed me how exploiting innovation can improve great artwww.thetimes.com
If you're interested in how global supply chains work and how this year's US tariffs hit the world's economy, watch this amazing report by @edconway.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social. Ed is the frontier of journalism on the global economy, tariffs and sanctions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=woT0...
The messy reality of Trump’s trade war: Ed Conway investigatesYouTube video by Sky Newswww.youtube.com
This is excellent.
Ed Conway📽️ Been working on this film, on & off, for the best part of a year. It's about the REALITY (not just the theory) of tariffs. It's the tip of the iceberg of the biggest econ story of our day. It'll air on Sky News on Fri 9pm but you can watch the whole thing here NOW👇 youtu.be/woT0FX5Ztas?...