August 16, 2021
RT @TrungTPhan: There's a "Museum of Failure" in Sweden which highlights 150+ failed products. It's meant to show that innovation requires…
RT @TrungTPhan: There's a "Museum of Failure" in Sweden which highlights 150+ failed products. It's meant to show that innovation requires…
RT @COdendahl: I don't know anything about #Afghanistan, obviously. But that Merkel's "Christian" Conservatives have decided to use the "…
RT @petergardett: I'm sure someone out there is already tracking "Biology as a service" companies, but a growing portion of the deals I see…
@DanielaGabor @dmwoodruff @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil I’m thinking about Russia and I can’t find anyone who thinks gradualism was an option there. There was a pol Econ deadlock -> imbalance (however defined) and real output loss, political disintegration -> 1992. Would love to read different account.
@DanielaGabor @dmwoodruff @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil 🙂 what I was referring to is a situation of accelerating inflation in which there is a flight out of cash into anything non-cash …
RT @SanaaAlimia: Some of best English language scholars on Afghanistan & diaspora that go beyond usual tropes. Trying to amplify Afghan sch…
@DanielaGabor @dmwoodruff @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil But price liberalization according to @dmwoodruff was more than an “ideological necessity” it was simply unavoidable
@DanielaGabor @dmwoodruff @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil My instinct is to say that “overhang” situations are precisely the moments when quantity theoretic framings actually are meaningful. Money v goods in general becomes a real abstraction. Velocity surges etc
@DanielaGabor @dmwoodruff @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil Of course. The theories of inflation are fully in play in this.
@dmwoodruff @DanielaGabor @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil Sorry if that sounded silly, but it’s the juxtaposition of “unavoidable because of shortages” v “imf’s austerity narrative” that I’m trying to juggle
@dmwoodruff @DanielaGabor @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil Thank you both. What I’m trying to figure out is the relationship of “narrative” & “necessity”. Itself a narrative choice but also to a degree necessity.
I just happened to be googling the lyrics of Lou Reed’s deathless Last Great American Whale and realized that it was released in 1989! youtube.com/watch?v=xTlsSX… https://t.co/2j12VlEM1w
@SodabaH @HirokoTabuchi Can you distribute a list of key accounts to follow in English? Im particularly interested, predictably, in economic and social backdrop to this, Taliban economics etc. Happy to do exactly as you say, if I have the sources.
RT @AsvakaNews: BREAKING NEWS – Locals near Kabul airport claim that three young men who were holding themselves tightly in the tires of an…
Zumutungslosigkeit indeed. Funny. Just the other day I was asking myself whether there is really an English equivalent for Zumutung. Neither imposition nor challenge quite capture it. twitter.com/RichterHedwig/…
American Army helicopters being used to clear panicked desperate people from the runway so that a C-17 can actually take off! twitter.com/ShivAroor/stat…
Seriously this amidst the welter of Afghanistan commentary this is worth your time. @ProfPRogers and the always excellent @alexdoherty7 in conversation on @poltheoryother essential guide. Still holding up 5 days later. Tells you something! twitter.com/poltheoryother…
RT @NicolaCareem: This is, perhaps, one of the saddest images I've seen from #Afghanistan. A people who are desperate and abandoned. No a…
RT @ragipsoylu: Insane. Don’t have any other words. The Kabul Airport. https://t.co/ylraJsDyme
So this is an apparently serious invitation to call Senator Cotton on your cellphone if you are an American stranded in Kabul …. surreal. twitter.com/SenTomCotton/s…
@nadezhda04 @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Oh …. Nolan’s point really is, believe it or not, that "China did NOT (emphasis added) possess greater 'catch-up’ possibilities than the USSR”. And therefore policy choices and policy advice (i.e. Sachs) are the key difference. https://t.co/n6ynwbDLoY
@aeleeds Im assuming that it is a “lot of complicated things ensued” not “unused”
@aeleeds PHEW thank you. Ive been straining to see how on earth you can tell this as a story of evil Western neoliberals shocking a country and I just cant t cant make it work … THANK YOU for undoing that false problem.
@nadezhda04 @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Sorry. That is not the point. Writing in 1995, looking back to 1980s Nolan made case that structural differences could not explain difference in outcomes -> politics & (bad) ideas were crucial in decisive phase between 1987 and 1992. He needed to counter the Sachs/Woo 94 defense.
RT @SeoirseThomais: Lo que me lleva a otra cosa que he leído estos días (a través de @adam_tooze). Un paper de 1991 (!) en el que se propon…
@nadezhda04 @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff 1995 is when Nolan’s book China’s Rise. Russia’s Fall comes out.
RT @70sBachchan: 9/ Meat Agribusiness is a furnace that produces dangerous microbes. Coronavirus is one spark that blazed out of control. M…
@BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff @mark4harrison Is this via folks like Vladimir Mau?
@BuddyYakov @nadezhda04 @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Or rather than “bad” it is a framing that serves certain argumentative purposes.
@nadezhda04 @BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Seems absolutely right. Which is why, in another branch of this discussion I have tried to get @vshih2 and @dmwoodruff and @crmiller1 into conversation.
@BuddyYakov @nadezhda04 @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Which is main line of defense of the shock therapists! e.g. Sachs and Woo 1994. It is Nolan seeking to impale the shock therapists on the comparison who in 1995 argues that structural differences should not be exaggerated -> shift emphasis back to policy choices & ideas.
@MancheSolange Cool thank you. Very helpful. The EP Thompson clash is a horrible moment but also starkly illuminating.
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