this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

What did i just read. Cass Sunstein on Henry Kissinger the great Star Wars admirer

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“We should be asking ourselves why no government in the West ever attempted anything so bold, or frankly had any prospect of getting so much bang (in terms of manufacturing capacity) for so few bucks ($50 bn is comparable to the US CHIPS act), asks Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

As the US withdraws from green tech industries & pressures its allies to follow suit,Chinese firms are stepping in to power the whole world’s green transition I interview Mathias Larsen, lead author of our new Hopkins report. A BRI 2.0 www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

This may been the best climate news I have ever seen. Chinese greentech manufacturing investments utside of China, that is industrial infrastructure, not sales, now equals Marshal Plan. Investments are ”straightforwardly good for climate” and focuses on Global South.

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

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...

Tooze now weighs into our Hopkins report "The capacity that China has built is not excessive. It is precisely on the scale that the planet needs." Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-... bsky.app/profile/bret...

There's been a tonne of interesting stuff to read on China's green export boom, developmental green industrial policy & even US energy transition politics in the past couple weeks; here is an annotated list from me & @70sbachchan.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...

once you start talking about actual production you inevitably have to talk about exploitation... sorry, i mean "human relations." as max frisch said: about guest workers: "we wanted labor but we got human beings." better not to look too closely at what's in the sausage.

Why don't economists and asset managers want to know anything about production? Its machines, processes and knowhow. Why are they satifsied with pinging sonar off the substance of the world? Tooze on our Hopkins report on overseas Chinese green factories... adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

"Pinging sonar off the substance of the world" - great image

So this is really, really not good. “Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The U.S. planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia.”

Don’t miss this of @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social (aka @thepolycrisis.bsky.social ) in @techwontsave.us . Electro states, China’s dominance in the new Industrial Revolution, and the winds of change in the energy political economies in devoloping countries.

"Even as President Trump bulldozes U.S. climate policy, the global clean energy transition is making remarkable strides: Investment in clean energy is now double the investment in fossil fuels" @bentleyallan.bsky.social on the way forward,& a new approach to climate www.noemamag.com/the-new-geop...

I agree with a lot here here. But I reject the claim that economists dont “want to know anything about production.” There are global fields and literatures dedicated to this. Yes, even machines, processes, etc. This isn’t to mention, industrial economists working directly for these sectors.

"pinging sonar off the substance of the world" is a fantastic turn of phrase and I intend to use it to describe this dynamic (with credit, of course!)

Why don't economists and asset managers want to know anything about production? Its machines, processes and knowhow. Why are they satifsied with pinging sonar off the substance of the world? Tooze on our Hopkins report on overseas Chinese green factories... adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Interested in global political economy of the energy transition? Brilliant conversation between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and Adam Tooze, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social in NY Our @thepolycrisis.bsky.social Dispatch buttondown.com/polycrisisdi... Youtube: youtube.com/watch?app=de...

what reading one book by Brett Christophers does to a mf ‘while it is possible to prevent businesses from doing profitable things, it is impossible to make them do things they consider insufficiently profitable’. Martin Wolf, Why do all this 'market failure' nonsense www.ft.com/content/b2b6...

Brett Chrisopher's work on Rentier Capitalism has been eyeopening. Asset Managers like Blackrock now run the roads we drive on; the pipes that supply our drinking water; the farmland that provides our food; electricity & heat. Nice profile @ddhitchens www.compactmag.com/article/how-...

My review of Dan Wang’s bestselling Breakneck foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/b...

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of flooding in the Philippines. I'd argue what we're seeing in the country now is a good example of a climate security risk -- government corruption preventing investment in adaptation (flood control) leading to massive street protests.

“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.” NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0

Muy esclarecedora esta entrevista a @katemac.bsky.social y a @70sbachchan.bsky.social en @techwontsave.us sobre esa «bestia» que es la electrificación total de la economía impulsada por China. Un corrimiento histórico que está reconstruyendo el mundo. Y solo acaba de empezar.

NEW Hopkins report webinar. Outcomes for host countries will depend on domestic industrial policy (local content, supplier development, labor and envmtl safeguards). The dataset will be publicly released & used to inform policy briefs and country-level recommendations www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2e...

Sainsburys full of parents doing a big shop with the kids they're dropping off at uni, buying them the last vegetable they're going to eat for the next three years.

Tooze now weighs into our Hopkins report "The capacity that China has built is not excessive. It is precisely on the scale that the planet needs." Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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-...

Tooze now weighs into our Hopkins report "The capacity that China has built is not excessive. It is precisely on the scale that the planet needs." Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

At least the Europeans are trying to crowd in Chinese investment in to their EV sector where Americans want both supply chain free of Chinese inputs and no Chinese FDI in to EV sector. This is probably a self-defeating policy and will leave the US automotive sector worse off 2/

Good piece from John Paul Helveston, Paul Triolo, & Jonas Nahm that suggests reports of Chinese overcapacity in EV sector are overblown. Most production is for domestic market. They rightly worry that trade barriers in the US won't help US catch or compete. 1/ www.thewirechina.com/2024/09/08/t...

From our new issue: "Strategies of Green Industrial Policy: How States Position Firms in Global Supply Chains" by Bentley Allan and Jonas Nahm. #APSRNewIssue www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

By @adamtooze.bsky.social, worth a careful reading. I pay attention to the topic, but my lack of awe [until now, I guess] suggests I haven't been paying enough attention.

this is such an immensely satisfying, morally clear read. The screenshot especially, but all of it. Kudos to Adam Tooze. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Nice thread to whet your appetite for Tooze's lecture on "Sustainable development and the crisis of US hegemony" in Berlin . TY @jmhaas.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=NHn9... x.com/KaiserKuo/st...

.@adamtooze theses on development & nationalism: most countries that have developed have done it for sovereignty (which is another word for collective freedom) They did it for 2 reasons: 1 to resist bullying by external powers 2 and then to become powers themselves www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHn9...

"We haven’t even started with decarbonization at the global level." NEW: Transcript of discussion between @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social, @katearonoff.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... bsky.app/profile/70sb...

NEW @thepolycrisis.bsky.social DISPATCH: While America retreats from green energy leadership, China has built an end to end control of green supply chains: solar, batteries, EVs, wind turbines, green hydrogen A green marshall plan & no one knows?? @katemac.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

Is Capitalism toast? “Flooded homes lose value. Overheated cities become uninhabitable. Entire asset classes are degrading in real time, which translates to loss of value, business interruption, & market devaluation on a systemic level"- Günther Thallinger phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

China's Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-... These are mind-boggling numbers, and essentially invisible here in North America, it seems! "Chinese investments include 60 projects exceeding USD 1 billion."

the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

Chinese company investments in overseas green manufacturing projects now surpasses sum invested by the US Marshall Plan in post-WW2 Europe #climategeopolitics www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

4/ New study from my @nzpolicylab.bsky.social lab: @davidfickling.bsky.social covers our report on Chinese overseas green manufacturing FDI. We spent the summer painstakingly coding every single chinese green factory across the world. The results are striking: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...