a lot of people have heard about the rooftop solar boom in Pakistan Looks like same thing is now unfolding in the Philippines www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Organisational capital is shaped by managerial decisions. Wei Cai, @andreaprat.bsky.social, & Jiehang Yu propose a new way of measuring this capital using employee reviews on Glassdoor. CEO-related variation accounts for roughly 1/3 of organisational capital. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Some economists argue that the strain led to technological change that only amplified substitution

I can('t) believe we're still months into this.

"one of the biggest ever job-cutting programmes by a European company." www.ft.com/content/d076...

This is fascinating

Going to go out on a limb: I don't think being anti-airconditioning will be a winning political strategy for EU parties.

Poor Anthropic. Imagine having your intellectual property illicitly extracted, what kind of company would even do that?

It's kind of wild--I was taking a normal train to Oxford yesterday for a conference: a normal commute I've done for years. Yes, there have always been issues. But yesterday, the system seemed to be melting down over the heat. It seemed pretty ominous, even for the state of UK infrastructure.

Are you a graduate student, recent graduate, or anyone else interested in building decarbonization, infrastructure finance, or thermal energy networks? CPE has an opening for a temporary fellowship supporting our work on thermal energy networks. DM me for more info! publicenterprise.org/careers/

ANDY BURNHAM HAS RETURNED FROM EXILE

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

lmao

Look what they took from you.

Changing your name to the Department of War, starting a war, and then immediately losing that war. 10/10 bit.

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org

I thought about this a lot today

This is antithetical to industrial strategy and the UKs innovation ambitions.

💥New | Without guidelines academic authorship defaults to power politics ✍️ Lorenz Graf-Vlachy #AcWri #AcademicSky #ECRchat

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This is a very good and thoughtful paper. I recommend reading the papers that this workflow actually produces. They are quite strange to read: signals of competence such as rigorously explained empirics but much more underdeveloped positioning of the research. www.nathanwilmers.com/paper_factory/

US supremacy in nuclear submarines is under threat v good from The Economist www.economist.com/internationa...

France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

For a climate treaty to be maximally robust, strong, and self-enforcing, it must properly balance supply- and demand-side instruments, from Geir B. Asheim and Bård Harstad www.nber.org/papers/w35128

Take a look at these fantastic photographs of Indian life by Raghu Rai. He has died aged 83 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘When Queen Elizabeth II flicked the switch at Calder Hall, an electronic dial immediately lit up showing the number of kilowatts the station was generating. Years later, one of the engineers discovered that this was powered by a man turning a handle.’ www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-britis...

@sabineweyand.bsky.social is a superstar and history will remember her as such. And she is very obviously correct on this matter. And the issues at stake are really important. www.ft.com/content/a714...

This captured things I haven’t been able to articulate

This wild document is the basis for the State Department's decision to cancel the visas and green cards of tech researchers who study the social media platforms and of tech regulators who enforce privacy and transparency laws. Disclosed to us last night in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio.

We need more viewpoint diversity among journal referees who read my papers. More “accept” and “R&R” viewpoints. Fewer “reject” and “this is the worst paper I’ve ever read” viewpoints.

A new margin of slop

New UK steel tariffs ‘threaten’ British manufacturing, steel importers warn ministers. Letter from Confederation of British Metalforming to the U.K. trade department warns that protections meant to boost homegrown steelworks risk “severely disrupting supply chains.” www.politico.eu/article/new-...

Quite a week for us! 1/ our podcast is launched: “Electric World Order” is a short series about the geopolitics of energy transition; ep 1 is about how China’s industrial strategy kinda accidentally created Pakistan’s solar boom:

DPIR's Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions @benansell.bsky.social  has launched a new app to explore data by parliamentary constituency: https://benwansell.github.io/constituency-map/

BYD is doing it: “BYD is moving fast to establish a physical retail presence in Canada, with plans to open 20 branded dealerships within its first year in the market. The world’s largest EV maker is already scouting locations in the Greater Toronto Area.” electrek.co/2026/03/24/b...

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We're live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRXa...

The US is now net losing tech workers to Europe, especially more senior workers. www.reveliolabs.com/news/tech/fr...

Europe’s Defence Strain: Demand Signals, Procurement Hurdles, Tech Opportunities 📆26 Mar 5PM CET📍Online 🗣️Pierre Vandier @guntramwolff.bsky.social Guillaume de la Brosse @katjabego.bsky.social @nathanlane.bsky.social Esben Gadsbøll & @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social Register: ow.ly/33uq50Ywepe #EconSky

This is the largest oil supply shock in history in mb/d The enemy gets a vote. Iran is now delivering pain to Trump via multiple paths (1) Gulf Kings (2) Financial meltdown (3) AI tech oligarchs (4) Fuel, fertilizer, food disruptions Read our Polycrisis Dispatch: buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

“Felsch emphasizes Habermas’s status as part of a lucky generation of Germans: Born early enough to have witnessed the horrors of Nazism firsthand but late enough to have escaped moral culpability.” www.liberalcurrents.com/also-a-revie...

Many Washington Post readers have been notified via email that their subscription rates are set to increase. Nestled at the bottom of these emails, you’ll find an asterisk and the following: “This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data.”

39 Sudanese Chevening Scholarship finalists ejected this week from consideration for the scheme, for being Sudanese.

Using regional employment data, the map shows which parts of Europe are most exposed to the rise in Chinese import competition across manufacturing industries. The results highlight the industrial core of Germany and the manufacturing belt of CEE.