Shameless plug: For a year, I've been working on a series about the vast systems that underlie life in most of the world. Built up over generations, these systems are the cathedrals of our time--but all too few of us know anything about them, and they're all at risk of failing. Here's the latest:

Can anything halt the decline of German industry? - on.ft.com/3LCfhHJ Grim

HELP ME settle a debate with @chadpbown.com Which cover for “How to Win A Trade War” grabs you most? The blue one or the white one? And ARE YOU AMERICAN? (favourite the option that applies to you!)

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"Research released this month by economists at the Bank of England, the Bundesbank, King’s College London and the universities of Stanford and Nottingham underscored the economic hit from leaving the EU. Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6-8%" on.ft.com/4p1NoHv

Perish the thought that the US or EU would ever try to weaponise trade... and just to point out again that the Chinese have historic reasons for not fully trusting the beneficence of traders from elsewhere... www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

“It’s Difficult To Overstate How Concentrated Wealth Is In The US” by @ianwelsh.bsky.social www.ianwelsh.net/its-difficul...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has been accused by economists of channelling billions of euros of new debt intended for defence and infrastructure investments to fund a higher welfare budget and other ongoing expenditures. on.ft.com/4qUndnM

In 1846, France's most important export destinations were Algeria (43m liters), Switzerland (15m), the Hanseatic towns (15m) and the US (10m). After phylloxera, the direction of France’s wine trade with Algeria reversed: Algeria became the world’s largest wine exporter, shipping mainly to France

This is also said about Europe's approach to China and I simply don't believe this is true. I was at conferences with senior US folk in the early 2010s and none thought China would become more democratic or liberal. We thought we could compete.

now they've done it www.wsj.com/world/europe...

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Un colloque ne vous plait pas ? Ignorez le, faites en un autre, discutez le, critiquez le. Notre pays s'habitue bien trop vite, tous les jours, à des choses qui auraient paru impensables il y a seulement cinq ou dix ans.

📍 La place croissante des dépenses fiscales et socio-fiscales dans les budgets publics, par Aïmane Abdelsalam, Alexis Guillaume et Anne-Laure Delatte | Billet de blog Afse, au cœur de l'actualité parlementaire 📈⚖️💰 www.blog-afse.fr/billet/la-pl...

Am on an audiobook binge rn and am *finally* getting around to reading @edconway.bsky.social‘s wonderful book Material World! Highly recommend. Making me very jealous of all his trips to mines… amzn.eu/d/476P6ZJ

Tout chaude sortie de mon blog ! Ma contribution à un futur échange podcastique geographedumondecours.blogspot.com/2025/11/le-3... ↪️ En rebond du post de @etagereslivres.bsky.social [Poke @awassmer.bsky.social ]

Two fascinating nuggets from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com that have largely been missed: 1. Young people *less likely* to say 'don't know' in political polls - does this indicate better knowledge from social media compared to previous generations? 2. Young women are more confident in their opinions...

Miquelon, situé sur l'archipel de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, au large des côtes canadiennes, culmine à seulement deux mètres au-dessus du niveau de la mer. Il possède désormais le triste record d'être le premier village français à être déplacé en raison du changement climatique. shorturl.at/He8a3

Si vous avez accès à Cairn, notre ouvrage collectif "Les politiques publiques par la défiscalisation. " est accessible ici: doi.org/10.3917/scpo.... (et si vous n'avez pas accès, vous pouvez toujours aller feuilleter quelques pages et le sommaire).

COP30 boss: "Rich countries have lost enthusiasm for tackling climate crisis" and praises China. Chinese renewables are great, but you have to be disconnected from reality to miss the wrenching change EU in particular has signed up to & China's CO2 trajectory. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004. Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.

Was thinking recently about this piece we ran in 2019, when I'd never heard of BYD, and now I see them everywhere www.newscientist.com/article/mg24...

This (not from that piece) is one of those charts where I am completely aware of the data but my mental map of how the global economy works still almost refuses to update to the new reality. Because the pace of change has been so rapid.

Métropolisation à Johannesburg 🇿🇦 ↪️ Problématiques spatiales ↪️ Services publics en rade dans les quartiers noirs ↪️ L'alimentation en eau potable ↪️ Quelles issues dans un pays qui n'a pas sombré (contrairement aux prophéties de Bernard Lugan)

The EU, Nobel Peace Prize, must now invest in its defence.

"Et si les cyclistes avaient raison de ne pas s’arrêter aux stops ?" freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/84830

« Avec un master, t’as plus rien ! », ou la réalité du déclassement — l’opinion de Marie Duru-Bellat ➡️ https://www.altereco.media/jvt (Accès libre)

l'équipe de Dialogues Economiques (@amse-aixmarseille.fr) a écrit un super résumé de notre article sur les implications macroéconomiques du potentiel effet négatif du temps de travail sur la santé, pour celles et ceux qui voudraient s'épargner tout un tas de jolies équations!

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

À l'occasion de l'enregistrement du dernier épisode de notre podcast, j'ai découvert que le livre de Thomas Phillipon "The Great Reversal" avait été traduit en Français en 2022. Pour celles et ceux qui ont du mal avec l'Anglais. Must read.

Finalement, j'ai fait une chronique du bouquin de Galor (Le voyage de l'humanité) dont je parlais dans l'épisode 3 du podcast. Version longue bonus, donc.

[THREAD SERIEUX POUR UNE FOIS] En écoutant @goyamichel.bsky.social dans le podcast, on est content de l'entendre parler indirectement de l' "autre armée". Qu'est-ce que c'est ? C'est tous ceux qui servent alors que l'institution n'est pas adaptée à eux ou fait tout pour ne pas les garder.

Just remembering that Dick Cheney secretly intervened in a dispute over the Klamath River in 2001--and caused the biggest fish die-off in US history, with ~77,000 fully grown adult salmon piled on the banks of the river.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Les noms de listes pour le test grandeur nature du nouveau portail de vote en ligne des français de l’étranger: une analyse politico-fabulatoire… 1/17

This is another underreported story. Virtually no rain is forecast anywhere in Iran for the next two weeks, and this article is already 6 days old.

Fun fact: le premier métier journalistique de Lenglet a été « rédacteur en chef de Minitel magazine (1985-86) »

Tesla is a meme stock & Musk is key to it remaining so, just as Kim Kardashian is key to the appeal of the Kardashians. So he's got a lot of bargaining power. This has less to do with car-making than with the economics of superstars. See eg Moshe Adler: pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers...

Pensez à vérifier que les filtres dans vos paramètres de modération correspondent bien à ce que vous voulez et ne voulez pas voir.

A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?

Hmm

I noticed the burgers are $20-60 in today’s money way too long before I noticed anything else is wrong in this picture. 🫠🤦‍♂️

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

J’étais très content d’être invité à raconter ma Life à @econoclaste.bsky.social et @adelaigue.bsky.social J’y cause économie empirique, je parle de mes recherches sur les crèches et l’accompagnement des familles monoparentales au RSA, et d’autres discussions plus générales. Merci encore