@jkkusiak Thank you for putting it so well. There are passages in Shutdown that run along remarkably parallel lines, but w/o the theoretical framing you offer. As someone labeled as a "situationist à l’enders” I really appreciated your elaboration of the potential of that kind of position.
@HaitiToChina @RichardBlyth7 In Europe as well, one of the drivers of motorization in France in interwar period is the low population density, large number of relatively prosperous farmers -> far more motorized than Germany per capita.
Very interesting mini-thread this from @MancheSolange on French regulation school and its reception in the Anglosphere. Would love to read more from Solange on this! twitter.com/MancheSolange/…
This is a magnificent rant on the importance of the French regulation school of the 1980s. twitter.com/bruno_amable/s…
RT @AlecMacGillis: Sixty years ago today, the East German government started building a wall through Berlin. (photo via Morgenpost.) https:…
Margaret Atwood wrote a poem called “The Loneliness of the Military Historian”. Margaret Atwood! It’s haunting. My mind is blown. poetryfoundation.org/poems/47788/th… https://t.co/ngNjUOSruh
RT @MancheSolange: Working on regulation theory for my thesis, I noted how it's a much overlooked school in econ. Personally, I think it ha…
Deep into the 20th century, the US was a far more rural/agrarian nation than we can imagine today. twitter.com/yayitsrob/stat…
RT @SarahDadouch: we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days we haven't had electricity in five days w…
RT @COdendahl: Because the question „suitable for chancellor“? (now/2wks ago) is going up for #Scholz but down for the other two. That figu…
RT @mattkahn1966: @adam_tooze @amine_ouazad In early 2021, FHFA issues this RFI seeking input on the climate change adaptation challenge. h…
In which Musk laughs mockingly at the putative successor to Angela Merkel. twitter.com/COdendahl/stat…
"We leave to some E. Ludwig the drawing of Abraham Lincoln’s portrait with rosy little wings. Lincoln’s significance lies in not hesitating before the most severe means once they were found to be necessary in achieving a great historic aim” Trotsky 1938 marxists.org/archive/trotsk… https://t.co/mn1mR9WEf3
"As a way to better understand risk of Global Catastrophic Biological Risks due to human activities, rather than natural sources, this paper reports on 71 incidents involving either accidental or purposeful exposure/infection” 1975-2016 oof! Manheim/Lewis f1000research.com/articles/10-75… https://t.co/7VOAGiSBOy
"Seven environmental groups, including the Sierra Club, have come out in opposition to Powell’s renomination so far” bloomberg.com/news/articles/… I think touted alternatives, Brainard/Raskin are great. But pushing a “Green”-branded Fed chair is v high risk. greencentralbanking.com/2021/07/26/ada… https://t.co/UrrNViCCG6
RT @COdendahl: Peter is a comedian, but this tweet may well sum up what many Germans could be thinking come Sept 26th. https://t.co/OQORP0Z…
Who is ending up with the climate risk in Americas housing finance chain? Paper by @amine_ouazad and @mattkahn1966 is really explosive stuff! GSEs look like they are carrying the can. Should be opening for a greening of entire mortgage finance system. thehill.com/opinion/financ… twitter.com/adam_tooze/sta…
"We leave to some E. Ludwig the drawing of Abraham Lincoln’s portrait with rosy little wings. Lincoln’s significance lies in not hesitating before the most severe means once they were found to be necessary in achieving a great historic aim” Trotsky 1938 marxists.org/archive/trotsk… https://t.co/Jc2Dup7OcG
Unpriced climate risk may lead to large set of arbitrage opportunities. Following major flooding, a strikingly large volume of mortgage securitization is offloaded on GSE, which do not adjust their flood risk. Very cool by @amine_ouazad @mattkahn1966 nber.org/system/files/w… https://t.co/qIPYcMs2z5
Biden’s Infrastructure spending on climate is unprecedented AND at the same time, totally inadequate. Mainstream Media Struggles to Explain this basic discrepancy. This is a really important article by @KateAronoff newrepublic.com/article/163160… https://t.co/vsZYXtZUrK
Adm Charles Richard, commander of US Strategic Command, called China’s accelerating expansion of its nuclear capabilities a “strategic breakout. Explosive growth in their nuclear forces can only be what I described as breathtaking.” Some data for context. ft.com/content/11a72c… https://t.co/SacPgDO2cJ
Warlord Survival by @afghanopoly looks truly fascinating and highly topical. Extraordinary cover! cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/978150174… https://t.co/L8dseFfTnE
How to develop a Machiavellian, tactical approach to our politico-intellectual situation? Delighted by this formulation from @jkkusiak I think @DanielaGabor might like it too, though the title may grate a little. academia.edu/37468767/Learn… https://t.co/wh7eScBT1p
"China has released a 5-yr plan to strengthen regulatory control over strategic sectors including tech and healthcare, in Beijing’s latest push to assert Communist party supremacy over world’s second-largest economy.” Most underrated story of the week? ft.com/content/bdcbbd… https://t.co/hoH6wCyDVb
Why is a British carrier group heading to the Indo-Pacific? Tbh, I’m a confirmed skeptic. But this by @alessionaval is about as cogent a justification as you could ask for. warontherocks.com/2021/08/why-is… https://t.co/rDaMT9sOcC
RT @YETICapital99: One hundred years ago, millions of people in Europe, #Russia and Asia were starving to death from the record heat and dr…
BofE breeziness about ending QE seems odd, given the market upheavals caused by Fed’s past attempts to shrink its balance sheet, both in 2013’s “taper tantrum” and then in the Fed’s own experience of “quantitative tightening” three years ago. ft.com/content/da550a… https://t.co/b5ff1hLIFW
@manuel_araujo2 @slowphotograph2 @FT @jkkusiak Yup. This is the one. Forgive my clumsiness with academia.edu academia.edu/37468767/Learn…
@jentaub @FT @jkkusiak Learning from neoliberalism: a Machiavellian plea for reverse engineering
@jentaub @FT @jkkusiak The machiavelli one. Ref wouldn’t fit in the tweet. I think point 3. On @jkkusiak personal page.
Learning from neoliberalism: a Machiavellian plea for reverse engineering. By way of @FT I stumbled across this paper by @jkkusiak Her methodological statement is fantastic. I’ve been struggling to formulate this for ages. She does it brilliantly. geog.cam.ac.uk/people/kusiak/ https://t.co/BNZ0HoxCNQ
@eleanormharris Hi Eleanor Made my day to read this. Thank you for posting.
RT @RuneRiisbjerg: @lottefolke @adam_tooze substack er glimrende. Politisk-økonomisk gennemgang af forskellige aktuelle og historiske emner…
RT @ronaldpint: @NeilAtkinson58 @adam_tooze @guardian I agree that higher #fossilfuel prices will push forward the energy transition, but i…
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