Issue is that housing, health and childcare are stand out costs aka things that require public goods. We really need to reread the affluent society.

HT @brusselermel.bsky.social

Zohran Mamdani spent last night with the late-night workers he said are often forgotten — can drivers at LGA and hospital workers on a 7-7 shift at Elmhurst Hospital, before walking to Kebab King and then having a midnight press conference in Jackson Heights

“A major focus for Common Wealth is building out a lefty response to the affordability crisis—one that isn’t just recapitulating the price-lowering strategy of neoliberalism.” Our newly-launched Green Planning Commission covered in The Prospect 👇 🖊️ @ryanlcooper.com prospect.org/2025/10/31/h...

“It is very easy to forget that society has massively changed in the past, and it can massively change again.” The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach. We must plan for our future. This is how.

@cmmonwealth.bsky.social's Green Planning Commission launches today! I'm delighted to join the project as a Commissioner

So thrilled to be a part of the Green Planning Commission with so many smart progressive thinkers! I can't wait to support @cmmonwealth.bsky.social in coordinating the future of climate policy. Excited to bring progressive public finance to bear on our energy and affordability crises 😎☀️

Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age. 🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

🎉 Join us in London to launch the Green Planning Commission — rethinking the politics & practice of planning for a democratic & decarbonised future 🎙️ Carolina Alves, @brusselermel.bsky.social, Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social 🪑 Sarah Nankivell 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

It feels crazy even saying out loud everything that they're doing but this is all really happening.

Bill McKibben (!) on our NZIPL report "what nation in its right mind would sign up to pin its energy future on the US, suddenly the ultimate unreliable nation? Instead, with a one-time buy of a bunch of Chinese tech, you control your own energy future" billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-...

Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more Tix free but going fast!

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Issue #2 has gone to print! Featuring an incredible range of essays, photojournalism, dispatches from around the world and an interview with the excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social check it out / subscribe via our shiny new website www.break-down.org

🚨 PANEL EVENT To mark the upcoming launch of the Green Planning Commission, we’re hosting a panel w/ @the-breakdown.bsky.social & @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the future of climate & progressive politics after Trump 2.0 & Bidenomics. 🗓️ 25 Sept 5.30PM 📍 NYC 🔗👇 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...

"IRA subsidies attempted to bribe generalised private green investment" Reflexión de @brusselermel.bsky.social en el FT. La política industrial verde no puede ser un mero "soborno a la formación de capital" (Samuelson). El Estado debe disciplinar y coordinar al capital para dirigir la transición.

I’m always saying this. on.ft.com/4fQLru8

Energy bills are rising nationwide, and Trump and the GOP are to blame. They rolled back clean energy incentives and greenlit an AI surge, pushing costs onto working families and deepening economic & environmental inequality. I break it down in TIME today: time.com/7312151/ener...

The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra

lfg!

following up on my "Beyond Bidenomics" piece from last week, we have @brusselermel.bsky.social in the FT this week making the case for a more serious commitment to economic planning in future progressive economic policy work: www.ft.com/content/dda5...

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy. Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

Worth reading!

This from @brusselermel.bsky.social

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

“In the future, the US must deliver even more aggressive decarbonisation. This means envisioning a new era of green economic planning: direct public investment, co-ordination and provisioning in key sectors including but not limited to energy and electricity. “ - @brusselermel.bsky.social

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closest thing to a pump up speech you're gonna get these days, required reading for progressives

T. H. I. S.

good manifesto

Haven’t had a chance to read this yet, but looks very promising.

We are excited to welcome @atwilliams.bsky.social to the Common Wealth team as our new US Principal Economist. Read Alex’s Perspectives piece in full. 🔗👇 www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

so okay! first piece out from me at Common Wealth "Beyond Bidenomics: On what is living and what is dead in economic policy" the argument is that progressives should take credit for the successful parts of the pandemic policy response and build the next Thing www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

Trump isn’t just reversing Biden’s policies. He’s dismantling the infrastructure of policy-making itself. Our new US Principal Economist Alex Williams says that progressives must build something new out of the rubble: an economic system worth fighting for. www.common-wealth.org/perspectives...

come say hi come talk econ come talk climate come talk building stuff come talk talking about stuff

To hard launch @atwilliams.bsky.social's joining Common Wealth, he and I will be in (Inshallah Zohran's) NYC the week of July 8th and looking to fill our coffee/food/drinks/dancing card. Could even meet at the beach!

Leading economists argue that Zohran Mamdani's mayoral platform is a bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most urgent challenges—above all, the cost of living.

"the same factory worker left behind by globalisation can be an investor, too" (sic)

honestly don’t understand how “[demographic category] has [normative descriptor] [physical characteristic]” makes it past an editor in 2025 ffs wtf is going on over there

Wow we had two simultaneous instances of race essentialism in the New York Times yesterday. Fun stuff.

There's a very common belief that the realm of "politics" or what's "political" is limited to like, "senators saying something" or "elections" as opposed to "everything that happens in your life and all around you"

We are so excited that @atwilliams.bsky.social is joining @cmmonwealth.bsky.social! He’s been so instrumental to our thinking and with the rest of EA in driving progressive economic policy from big fiscal to green industrial policy. Next: decommodification, green planning, industrial democracy.

In this constrained policy space, one fiscally responsible progressive agenda to pursue would be giving workers control of the means of production by dramatically expanding labor power and restructuring corporate ownership and governance by statute, policies with an upfront cost to government of $0.

okay so this is as good a moment as any to, as is traditional in econ culture, "share some JOLTS news" Tomorrow is my last day at employamerica.org! The last 5 years have been so wild. Soon I will be at common-wealth.org, where I'll be helping build their US team and laying out this new approach.

Lithium is the fuel of the future — and one of the biggest lithium deposits in all of Europe resides in Cornwall. The “white gold rush” has already begun, but the public are set to pay for its development while private firms pocket the profits. We can fix that. Here's how. 🧵

🗣️ Join us at Queen Mary on 4th June for an event on transforming central banking in the ecological crisis. The event brings together political economists, accountants, policy experts & more to explore the challenges. All welcome! Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

@claudinegrisard.bsky.social & I open, our first panel explores the international political economy of central banking & macrofinance w/ @monicadileo.bsky.social & @brusselermel.bsky.social. Then on to the issue of instituting green macrofinancial policy w/ Maria Nikolaidi & @apsmolenska.bsky.social