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@gabrielwinant Might be tempted to have a session on critiques of the category of the social per se (Arendt, Foucault, Latour), or "the social" v. "The political” …

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@gabrielwinant Would you fold demography into 7? Other things that come to mind are urbanization and/or peasant studies i.e. the agrarian dimension.

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@gabrielwinant Yeah … must have …. sorry. Reading on iPhone.

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@CoalFreeDave @IMFNews @EmberClimate So that does imply a significant slice for gas, but the preponderance going to solar/wind.

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RT @CoalFreeDave: @adam_tooze @IMFNews @EmberClimate Thanks Adam! Here's the change in the electricity mix by coal and wind/solar over the…

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Which energy source is replacing coal? @IMFNews WEO published “innocent looking” table claiming gas replacing coal. No mention of other renewables. This is hotly disputed by @CoalFreeDave of @EmberClimate whose data point to significance of wind/solar in many cases. https://t.co/Q0yN1sFEWB

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What is replacing coal. @IMFNews WEO published “innocent looking” table claiming gas replacing coal. No mention of other renewables. This is hotly disputed by @CoalFreeDave of @EmberClimate whose data point to significance of wind/solar in many cases. https://t.co/cveVVEqiGL

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It is not just Trump voters who are shy! 2/3 low income Americans will admit to preferring Biden in privacy of an online poll rather than 61% by telephone! bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… https://t.co/N6RKrtNESc

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Neues Podcast von mir auf Deutsch: Corona – das Virus und die Wirtschaft Alle zwei Wochen in Serie. Abwechselnd mit @MFratzscher Nächste Sendung machen wir aus der Wahlnacht in Amerika 3/4 November. @rbbinforadio ardaudiothek.de/corona-das-vir… https://t.co/7dTe66npkX

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How green is your gallery? Art and the environment. Niche but kinda fascinating. CO2 footprint of modern art business is all about flying. ft.com/content/e71bd7… https://t.co/sHZwUPiqSv

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Once the Saudi Arabia of coal, the UK is now amongst leaders in coal phaseout. Natural gas is the coal killer. imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/fH8tCvg4bH

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How the US and global media tracked the BLM protests of summer, as tracked by @IMFNews Quite the moment when this kind of data shows up in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook! imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/6mMnVJ2AIu

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"as the pandemic enters its mass-impoverishment phase, another development looks more likely: the new poor will leave big cities.” Quite the warning by @KuperSimon ft.com/content/98f5e2… https://t.co/QYvtRz5Bpn

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IMF monitors a thing called The Reported Social Unrest Index (RSUI), which counts media reports of social unrest. It has fallen dramatically along with a generalized decline in mobility imf.org/en/Publication… https://t.co/VPvTuwi90j

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America’s K-shaped recovery: spending on durables goods has bounced back. Services not so much … offsetting? LOOK AGAIN … compare the left and right axes. The shock to services is far more grievous. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… https://t.co/T3FZKKPCdT

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Prices for Covid vaccines may vary in price by a factor of 6 or more. Large price disparities in vaccine pricing are par for the course. ft.com/content/80f20d…? https://t.co/RIEGuCMSCW

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RT @KeineWunder: Im (RBB Inforadio) Podcast «Corona – Das Virus und die Wirtschaft» inforadio.de/podcast/feeds/… löst sich jetzt @MFratzscher al…

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Neue Podcast von mir auf Deutsch: Corona – das Virus und die Wirtschaft Alle zwei Wochen in Serie. Abwechselnd mit @MFratzscher Nächste Sendung machen wir aus der Wahlnacht in Amerika 3/4 November. ardaudiothek.de/corona-das-vir… https://t.co/fHbbtyuZhb

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RT @coreycrellin: A thread on religions in the US and world. For starters: US views on homosexuality over time, a chart showing how religio…

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RT @wang_seaver: This piece in @ForeignPolicy by @adam_tooze is useful perspective, placing China's recent net-zero commitment in the conte…

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Majors and international oil companies have bought into US shale—but together still account for less than 20% of total shale production. From Equinor’s remarkable postmortem on their disastrous shale investments. equinor.com/en/news/202010… https://t.co/GzonBJY0fM

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Not V-shaped, 90 % recovery. @OxfordEconomics global recovery tracker is unambiguous. Data via @SoberLook https://t.co/Kwx77F24lZ

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US ETF market: 1/3 is BlackRock Ishares 1/3 Vanguard & State Street 1/3 the rest. @wsj via @SoberLook https://t.co/7ZrhYBiPvl

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Russia’s South China Sea? Recent military exercises in the High North @FriendsofEurope friendsofeurope.org/wp/wp-content/… https://t.co/T20Jyiu3fn

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Foreign investors hold about 46% of Brazilian stocks & thanks mainly to the country’s big commodity producers such as miner Vale SA and oil major Petróleo Brasileiro, Brazilian stocks make up large share of EM funds. wsj.com/articles/pande… https://t.co/qGLJa2AErq

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How Matthew Fontaine Maury’s charts of trade winds and currents helped to cut the time of voyages around the world from 1850s. humansofdata.atlan.com/2019/08/how-ma… https://t.co/oE8dMFNcDs

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“To China, the Arctic is nothing exceptional, just another chess piece they play in the longterm game from Africa to the Arctic” Mike Sfraga cited in deflationary @FriendsofEurope Report on largely imaginary geoeconomics of the Arctic. friendsofeurope.org/wp/wp-content/… https://t.co/V1Xbqc9fNb

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RT @said_mitch: @adam_tooze @alaynatreene Some more backstory here theintercept.com/2020/09/24/cha…

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Die wirklichen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie stehen den USA noch bevor – Corona – das Virus und die Wirtschaft | ARD Audiothek New podcast … in German! ardaudiothek.de/corona-das-vir…

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In the 2018-19 season, 1.56 million children were involved in child labor working expanding cocoa harvest in Ivory Coast and Ghana. C. 45% of children from farming families in growing areas were working on plantations v. 31% 10 years ago. @NORCNews norc.org/NewsEventsPubl… https://t.co/9kJsFIQ2Yt

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America’s public is as polarized on the economy as on so many other issues. But even Republicans now seem to expect a slow recovery. ft.com/content/64ceaf… https://t.co/0V0Rz7QmwN

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The world is getting hotter, and the divide between rich and poor is getting bigger. This report in @TheAtlantic on inequalities in exposure to excessive heat by Vann R Newkirk II is remarkable. theatlantic.com/health/archive… https://t.co/HKrx1OshXs

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Fascinated to discover from this autobiography that the great Charles S. Maier did his undergrad thesis with Arno Mayer on Richard von Kühlmann and the influence of Max Weber, Friedrich Meinecke, Hans Delbrück and others. issforum.org/essays/PDF/E28… https://t.co/Ui57NT3MaS

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