1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

*new article* We bring the Frankfurt School into the Spotify age — and it was a fun one to write! 😎 'From Adorno to 50 Cent: Financialized platform capitalism, Spotify, and the culture industry in the twenty-first century' in @finandsoc.bsky.social Check it out here: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Dollar dominance structurally enables rising US consumption, which remains inherently carbon-intensive. The result? US emissions closely track with its trade deficit. For more: doi.org/10.1017/fas....

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

It's seeming likelier and likelier that AI really could eliminate a lot of jobs very soon. Just not in the way boosters have suggested. www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Distinguished economists Michael Bordo & Bob McCauley with a stern warning to the Senate regarding the potential for new appointments to the Fed's Board of Governors to undermine the central bank's international liquidity role & threaten the dollar Link: www.ft.com/content/6485...

"The real question is no longer whether the state will act, but whose interests it will serve. Will it merely prop up incumbents and invite capture? Or can public ownership and golden shares be harnessed for resilience and equity?" @toddntucker.com newrepublic.com/article/2000... @newrepublic.com

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The idea that Europeans will see the absence of robotaxis as a sign of decline assumes they noticed the absence of air conditioning, free refills, ice cubes, or large coffees over the past 50 years. Just saying.

Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

After 60 years of trying to electrify populations with fossil fuels, people finally figured out there was a much better way. One with less corruption. Electricity poverty is real and clean energy is now at scale to solve it. This will unleash human flourishing.

A nice explainer of why electricity rates are rising. TLDR: they aren't determined by market forces alone, but by government regulation and infrastructure costs. (1/) heatmap.news/energy/why-i...

It’s pretty simple: - AI is driving electricity demand up - The Trump Administration is restricting new electricity supply from being built - When demand goes up and supply goes down, you pay more for electricity.

Cheap Chinese solar panels are fueling a bottom-up energy revolution in Africa.

As Dan said, come see Carbon Dominance in action...

The Trump administration does not only want to halt decarbonization at home; it wants to derail it globally, @mkblyth.bsky.social‬ and ‪@danieldrisc.com‬ explain. bit.ly/4mr5qSL

"By ensuring that European markets would be dependent on US oil, the Marshall Plan prevented the Soviet Union from wielding its own energy influence over the continent." @markblyth.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com put Trump's anti-decarb politics in context. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...

Check out a new piece by @mkblyth.bsky.social and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/RE8I5Ix

NEW from me @financialtimes.com: Opponents of Trump’s tariffs should be wary of relying on the courts Judicial limits on the executive today will bind the hands of future presidents tomorrow Thread 🧵 on the stakes in the coming VOS Selections Inc. v. Trump decision. www.ft.com/content/0ede...

Historic heatwave unfolding in France. Bordeaux just observed its hottest day on record with a provisional 41.6°C (107°F) — data since 1920. Red level extreme heat warnings are in force for the south of the country. Sadly, this heatwave is far from over...

1/15 The Trump administration says it wants to bring manufacturing back to America and reindustrialize the US. But their trade policy does this by making foreign competition more expensive, not by helping American manufacturers compete with AI-powered production elsewhere.

Why do we listen to Odd Lots? “Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves" Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Is the climate strategy behind the IRA dead after the GOP's massive cuts to its clean energy subsidies? In my new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, I argue: No! www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Glad to have had the chance to talk with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news about the trends we are seeing in US clean energy investment since Trump office. Read his article below. For more, check out our Trump + 6 month tracker and report at www.the-big-green-machine.com

Thankful as usual that @warren.senate.gov always calls it like it is. As I laid out in more detail last week in a @rooseveltinstitute.org blog - Handouts to a few billionaires does NOT improve the economy. But you know what does? Investing in kids. shorturl.at/GgEOY

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu. An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan, Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Trade, Dollars,Energy...even MODERNITY & the FUTURE. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order A quarter of the way to the 22nd Century, everything is up for grabs TY for inspo:Mark Blyth,Helen Thompson,Bentley Allan phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

The world was getting stupider, driven by tech, even before AI began rotting the brains of students in particular. What are our chances of stopping the rot? Or will intelligence just wither like sword-fighting and blacksmithing did before? Me @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3IjJFVO - free to read

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

"From 2020 to 2024, the top five foreign automakers in China — Volkswagen, Toyota, Honda, GM & Nissan — saw their sales in that market plunge from 9.4M to 6.4M annually Today’s top 5 Chinese automakers saw sales more than double to 9.5M last year from 4.6 million vehicles in 2020" 🚨

For those interested in what comes next after the failure of 'billions to trillions' in development finance, here's an interesting and quite possible alternate view from Laura Carvalho that foregrounds development banks: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

what i originally promised i'd be doing here, until politics intervened and i got distracted. so: Sectoral distribution of profits of US firms in the 2025 Forbes global 2000 list. FG2k's categories; refers to year 2024. contrasting countries coming.

In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition? @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest. Now out in SER! 🧵

NEW from me in a Journal of International Economic Law symposium: Towards a post-Trump order for the climate crisis. I lay out why, despite setbacks, industrial policy is still the way to address climate change - and how macro and distributional policy can help. 🧵 academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...

Proud to say that @publicenterprise.bsky.social worked with @scientistsorg.bsky.social to publish this great dive into the financial mechanisms state+local govts can deploy to scale up clean energy deployment. Public financial leadership is what will drive decarbonization: fas.org/publication/...

New paper in @ripejournal.bsky.social: What if state capacity isn’t hollowed out by derisking but used to signal feasibility to investors? My research suggests states build capacity for bankable policies. The problem: where $$$ doesn’t flow, capacity won't grow. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📄 New Respect the Marble post: The Dopamine Trap: Why Typing Feels Good but Thinking Matters More 
👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/the-dopami... 
For thinkers, writers and scholars who want to write to figure it out, not just to get it done. On why word count ≠ breakthrough. 🧵

Excited to share this paper because it does something new: We're testing the implicit coordination hypothesis proposed by Weber & Wasner. Analyzing earnings calls, we find that large, economy-wide costs shocks make executives feel very good indeed. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@[email protected], Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

‪New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author, @james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A brilliant review of Abundance from Sandeep Vaheesan @openmarkets.bsky.social argues that what it really took to drive energy abundance in 20th century America: a national-building vision backed by public works. Cheap credit did not move the private sector off the sidelines.

Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/9 Martin Wolf says the world has three options in considering the future of the hegemonic role of the dollar. One is "continued domination by the dollar". Another is that some other currency, perhaps the euro or even the renminbi, replace it as hegemon. www.ft.com/content/d965...