It was out of WWII-Cold War era that US global oil strategy anchored on MIddle East emerged with implications for development of both W Europe
Malm (slight) skepticism regarding WWII as an appropriate jumping-off point for radical climate politics is spot on. Coming from a vastly different political place than
Ive always felt that it overstates US – aka arsenal of democracy's – contribution to eventual victory and misunderstands the complex and politically ambiguous alliance
But even taken at face value: US war effort in WWII was an absolutely classic demonstration of the power of state-led, capitalist-driven, carbon-intensive economic growth.
He gave an interview to @jacobinmag a while back in which he laid out some of the arguments. jacobinmag.com/2020/06/andrea…
Wars are clearly a key moment for thinking about the possibilities of modern political economy and Malm's argument appears to pivot on the WWII (GND)
Andreas Malm's new book on Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency War Communism in the Twenty-First Century is out tomorrow with @VersoBooks and Im kinda excited to
Does an organization like Climate Action 100+ with 518 members and $47trn AUM have capacity to act as a “Gesamtkapitalist” on climate change? @AttractaMooney ft.com/content/5ad57c…
If only the vaccine race WERE the moonshot! Benchmarked to GDP the US spent $700bn on the space race. So far, $10bn has gone on
Special relationship: trans-Atlantic flights and London-NYC in particular are key to business of BA and Virgin and important for US carriers too. ft.com/content/8920da… https://t.co/5MqgC7wnoo
RT @SocialHistoryOx: In Cambridge in 1663, the vice chancellor would only licence coffeehouses if they agreed to 'suffer no scholars of thi…
“Get out now, or risk the consequences.” @gideonrachman on the long arm of Chinese and American extraterritoriality. ft.com/content/33e23a… https://t.co/HJL1qqXTIH
RT @MaxCRoser: If you are diagnosed with breast-cancer in a country where GDP per capita is over $30,000 per year, your chance to survive t…
"the beginning of the end is here” @FT editorial of 17 September on 2020 as a turning point in the “slow death of Big Oil".
International anarchy is what we make of it (to paraphrase Wendt) -> an attempt to chart the vaccine race btw science, big Pharma, state intervention,
The level of China’s pork reserves is a state secret. But after reserves fell by about 452,000 tonnes between September 2019 and August this year
Cement is the most commonly used man-made material and responsible for about 8 % of global CO2 emissions. LafargeHolcim, world’s #1 cement maker with plants
Bankendämmerung: In 2010, tech made up 4 per cent of the MSCI EMU index, which covers large and mid-cap companies in the eurozone, while banks
1/3 of low-income US households are worried about how to cover rent bills next month. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/y73b0SwteD
The Treasury market is simply too important to be left to its own devices. March 2020 should be a warning. @RobinWigg worries that current calm
ECB to review flagship bond-buying tool in fighting Covid crisis. Debate on length of €1.35tn PEPP programme and on transferring its flexibility to other asset-purchase
Consumer Sentiment in the US is highly divergent right now: Confidence is bouncing back among high-earning consumers, still weak among low-income Americans bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/FoEdNeFAlU
What We Learned-And What We Didn't- From the September 2020 Powell Press Conference Typically lucid from @NathanTankus on Fed. Acerbic on issue of long run
EU wants to arm itself with new powers to take on big tech, including ability to force them to break up or sell some of
Bottom 40% of US income distribution account for no more than 22% of total consumption. Top 20% account for almost 40%. @LizAnnSonders via @SoberLook https://t.co/X2aTdmuwK5
South Africa and the big oil producers such as Nigeria, Angola and Gabon have been hit very hard by COVID-shock. But the rest of Sub-Saharan
“It is too early to write off China’s role in global supply chains,” Its “fundamental competitiveness” & presence in key sectors -> 2020 sees surge
RT @MGSchmelzer: Capitalist competition makes it difficult to deal with global collective problems. What can we learn from current race for…
Btw 2007 and 2012 median income of US households declined. Then, a very unequal recovery began, with those with College education making large relative gains.
The US is no longer a major producer of cars. #6 behind India & S. Korea. Level-pegging with Brazil. BUT this is deceptive because trucks
The US is no longer a major producer of cars. #6 behind India & S. Korea. Level-pegging with Brazil. BUT this is deceptive because trucks
RT @DanielaGabor: Happy to inspire fellow macro-finance geeks at what really matters.
RT @HistoryNed: @ogiovetti @crusaderproject Another great m.youtube.com/watch?v=TlUsMu…
RT @ogiovetti: I don't know who needs to hear this, but here's the Red Army Choir singing 'Sex Bomb.' https://t.co/LIVoRc2fHT
RT @r_bellofiore: Rossana Rossanda died tonight. She has been a towering figure in the Marxian left, one of the founders of il manifesto, a…
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