Tim Mitchell’s thesis in Carbon Democracy about ME oil displacing labour-intensive coal should be taken with huge pinch of salt. Through to the 1980s coal
Dematerialization is NOT a helpful way to think about modern economic development. Point well argued by @jasonhickel in @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/18/mor… https://t.co/HwgMlS3QZA
As foreign investors have sold Indonesian, Thai and Malaysian domestic currency bonds, central banks, but above all local banks have stepped in to finance deficits.
"Historians and the Planet", this new essay by Christophe Bonneuil needs translating. Brilliant on the regime of “planetarity” around 1900. https://t.co/pX7T7HHCWI
Drug companies like drugs on which they can earn sustained profits w/o unleashing backlash about unfair pricing. Antibody treatment for COVID touted by Trump is
The downward pressure on Turkish lira is relentless. @TS_Lombard via @SoberLook thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/eDKT3HR5VG
Beijing on Thursday joined the $18 billion Covax initiative that aspires to give lower-income countries the same access to vaccines as wealthier nations, bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/dVlHMZ7qbO
RT @diacritik: Emmanuel Guy : "Le Jeu de la guerre peut permettre une relecture stratégique de la vie et de l’œuvre de Guy Debord" entretie…
RT @michaelbauer_hh: Several critical voices (incl. on #econtwitter) have questioned the push by the @ECB to incorporate #climatechange con…
Obituary of activist Swami Agnivesh in @TheEconomist draws attention to problem of bonded labour in India. economist.com/obituary/2020/… This Reuters report of 2018 cites official figures
Good news from Italy! Italy's industrial production grew more than in any other major European economy, nearly closing the gap with last year’s level and
Europe’s short-time working schemes might be thought of as a new form of “automatic” stabilizer. Not so much a jobs guarantee as a pay guarantee.
Don't be afraid! twitter.com/NatalieAmiri/s…
RT @WarshipPorn: [2054 x 2795] HMS Hibernia in dry dock, Malta likely between 1855-60 from /u/An_Anaithnid at #WarshipPorn ➡ https://t.co/i…
The growth in global wealth of billionaires around the world since 2009 has been staggering. But the surge in China btw 2019 and summer of
How the Trump admin’s assault on China’s Huawei is disrupting the hugely complex semi-conductor supply chain and not necessarily to the advantage of US suppliers.
By 2100 we expect the global population to reach 9 billion. The good news, according to @OECD 1/3 of those people, 3 billion men and
2020 crisis stands out, compared to last four major recessions in the US, for its devastating impact on low-income workers: number of jobs in the
2020 crisis seals the radical divergence between the EM once grouped in the BRICS club. Outlook for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are
There will be a recovery in 2021 most analysts expect, but it will be much stronger in global level, US than Euro area and Japan.
It is the catastrophic surge in temporary layoffs that made US labour market shock so much worse than in other countries in 2020. @jasonfurman at
The growth in global wealth of billionaires around the world since 2009 has been staggering. But the surge in China btw 2019 and summer of
By 2100 we expect the global population to reach 9 billion. The good news, according to @OECD 1/3 of those people, 3 billion men and
Sudden and unexpected contraction in credit card balances in the US in August points to a slowdown in demand. thedailyshot.com/2020/10/08/stu… https://t.co/a0gqGcDhvK
More confirmation that the recovery in the US labour market has stalled. @DataArbor via @SoberLook https://t.co/9CEya0lruQ
How the Trump admin’s assault on China’s Huawei is disrupting the hugely complex semi-conductor supply chain and not necessarily to the advantage of US suppliers.
2020 crisis stands out, compared to last four major recessions in the US, for its devastating impact on low-income workers: number of jobs in the
2020 crisis seals the radical divergence between the EM once grouped in the BRICS club. Outlook for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are
There will be a recovery in 2021 most analysts expect, but it will be much stronger in global level, US than Euro area and Japan.
It is the catastrophic surge in temporary layoffs that made US labour market shock so much worse than in other countries in 2020. @jasonfurman at
Cleveland was ground zero for the mortgage crisis of “2008”. African American neighborhoods were hardest hit then. In 2020 the city is once again being
8 October 1870 in besieged Paris, several thousand National Guard soldiers under command of Eugéne Varlin a member of the socialist international march into the
Hilarious paper: Later bedtimes predict President Trump’s performance. This is the fraction of his late-tweeting nights from January 24, 2017 to April 10, 2020. Almond
RT @heimbergecon: Hahaha, what a paper: when tweeting late at night, Trump's performance metrics for the following day change. In transcrip…
RT @UeberDruss: Is there a word for the strange intimacy between historians and the people whose lives and thoughts we study? By now, I rec…
The coming shock to US state and local finances (excl higher ed and hospitals) is daunting in its scale. piie.com/system/files/d… https://t.co/6q5ZLbCu7S
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