August 15, 2021
RT @thephilippics: Ashraf Ghani's nephew making sure he gets the perfect Insta shot as he leaves Kabul. https://t.co/mbzqckeO3a
RT @thephilippics: Ashraf Ghani's nephew making sure he gets the perfect Insta shot as he leaves Kabul. https://t.co/mbzqckeO3a
RT @jacklosh: Extraordinary scenes being broadcast by Al Jazeera from inside Afghanistan’s presidential palace https://t.co/8DqObVqkql
Striking that Tony Wood in new Putin book agrees with @anders_aslund on continuity Yeltsin->Putin but from a critical POV i.e. oligarchic cap, violence (’93), presidentialism, electoral manipulation See this @Jacobin video @DanFinn95 presiding youtube.com/watch?v=bKGdJo… twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
Folks interested in China’s gradualist approach to reform in 1980s should definitely read @crmiller1 on Gorbachev. Fascinating mirror. Shows how Soviet experts studied Chinese reforms, tried to copy them and could not make them work. Really important stuff! twitter.com/crmiller1/stat…
@CJFDillow Hi Chris here is the answer to your question h/t @alexdoherty7 @poltheoryother soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…
"In Afghanistan no one feels capable of stopping the movement of history, with all its struggles & calamities. This is a country ruled by fate and for the last 20 years, fate, with all its randomness, has been manufactured in the USA.” @MacaesBruno newstatesman.com/world/asia/202… https://t.co/ZYa0RGtah8
Brilliant thread this by @DanielaGabor on the dynamics driving the Berlin housing ecosystem. FASCINATING. I just felt confused after reading the @FT report. Where does the aggregate 40bn euro figure come from? twitter.com/DanielaGabor/s…
RT @MaxCRoser: @hangingnoodles @adam_tooze The reality is worse. There will be no end to any poverty on current country-specific trends,…
RT @Kate7Barker: Excellent review of '200 Years of Muddling Through' by @duncanweldon in The Times: 'Could hardly be more timely … impres…
RT @JeremyCliffe: US withdrawal from Afghanistan, meltdown in Lebanon, heat disaster in Mediterranean, coup(s) in Mali, Belarus emerging as…
RT @ummodern: Today isn’t the 50th anniversary of the end of Breton Woods, since Nixon didn’t intend to end it when he closed the gold wind…
RT @AlixKroeger: There were no phone cameras in Saigon. French ambassador to Afghanistan films himself leaving the Kabul green zone https…
RT @ppkzd: Highly informative ep. on @poltheoryother: ‘The Taliban on the verge of victory w/ Paul Rogers’ soundcloud.com/poltheoryother…
@BuddyYakov @crmiller1 @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Do you take the same view on shock therapy? Over-determined? I take that to be the gist of @crmiller1 argument.
@crmiller1 @BuddyYakov @irl_neil @dmwoodruff Thanks for chiming in Chris, if you look at Maddison data, GDP falls 9% from peak in 1989 to 1991. @mark4harrison in his Coercion essay is also trying to explain a collapse that begins in 1989. Which has implications for how we view shock therapy, doesn’t it?
@BuddyYakov @irl_neil You say it was stable. Interesting. From @crmiller1 account one gets the sense of a system overshadowed by huge inflationary overhang and spiraling rapidly towards collapse by way of failure of food supply and other supply chains. Disintegration also theme of @dmwoodruff
@BuddyYakov @irl_neil Thanks @BuddyYakov that is precisely what I dont get about many critiques of shock therapy. They seem to assume that Sov econ in 1990/91 was if not growing then at least stable. In fact, it seems like it was spiraling the drain with escalating hoarding, supply chain breakdown etc
Looking for an English-language survey of French Regulation school? This by Bob Jessop has much to recommend it. Particularly like his link to the “convention approach”. @MancheSolange you see it as symptomatic of limited Anglo reading? Can you elaborate? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… https://t.co/t2h2NVFS7y
@dmwoodruff @ntrickett16 @vshih2 Bringing @crmiller1 in here: wouldn’t Chris argue that Gorbachev’s move v party was desperate effort to undo the political frame – the party – that was holding together the ag-industry-military threesome which in his view was driving the inflationary imbalance?
@dmwoodruff @ntrickett16 Completely fascinating. I’m really struck by the similarity in architecture of your argument and @vshih2 He wants to build a more formal and cyclical model. He has a cycle to explain. But the idea of horizontal and vertical struggling for control of a system echoes through both.
Horizontal v. vertical. Really struck by fact that @vshih2 @dmwoodruff use this same geometry to explain China pol econ and Soviet crisis in 1980s. Shih shows how China’s pol econ allowed stabilizing shifts back & forth. In SU horizontal dominates -> disinteg -> shock therapy. https://t.co/SNIFu4V7k6
@ntrickett16 Thank you. Im really enjoying @dmwoodruff excellent book on money.
RT @AZakhartchouk: 🚢 Sur commerce et inégalités toujours, un article d'@adam_tooze recommandé par @fipaddict : une analyse brillante de l'é…
@paulmasonnews Thank you Paul and thank you also for that very nice shout out as well! Happy weekend to you.
A satellite image showing the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone in Haiti in 2010.Credit…NASA nytimes.com/live/2021/08/1… https://t.co/91fzokEmuF
Daily global median income in 1981 was $2.40 in modern money! twitter.com/MaxCRoser/stat…
An interesting exchange here about 1990s Soviet Union/Russian economic transition, shock therapy etc. Which is the account of that transition – book/article- that folks on the left find most convincing? Looking for reading. twitter.com/PaulCockburn19…
“Homelessness is a Housing Problem” by Colburn and Aldern featured in @TheEconomist Cities most notorious for homelessness have absorbed an influx of people without building enough homes to house them. homelessnesshousingproblem.com economist.com/united-states/… https://t.co/UaOkXJisS2
Nick Stern: “premature austerity” in UK will undermine the fight against climate change. Comes after claims from inside and outside government that the Treasury is resisting expensive programmes to tackle climate change in the run-up to Cop26 theguardian.com/environment/20… https://t.co/MLeGAoXDRF
In 2020 Trump broke new ground in engaging OPEC directly in negotiations over production cuts. Now the Biden admin is bullying OPEC into production increases. Talk to OPEC, sure but lets talk about decarbonization! Check out Chartbook #32. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-32… https://t.co/DHVlRz9Pte
What are the implications of Biden’s “foreign policy for the American middle class” for climate policy? Can they be squared? Check out Chartbook #32. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-32… https://t.co/cjcH5aOHFw
RT @GernotWagner: Moody's paid $2 billion (!) for climate risk modelers RMS on.ft.com/2VQiwl2 https://t.co/Jg3SJof3eU
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