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Political Economy | Economic Inequality | Post-Growth | he/him
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Ahhhhh
7 months ago
Bottom 50% in China now have more average personal wealth than the bottom 50% in the US
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Per Engzell
8 months ago
Against all evidence, societies with more income inequality make young people believe they have more chances to climb the social ladder.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Stephan Kaufmann
9 months ago
Wenn man die Skala nicht beachtet, könnte man denken, die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung wäre bald so reich wie die reichsten 10%…
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Lasse Thiele
9 months ago
Überblick und ein paar Gedanken zum Klima- und Energie-Verhandlungsstand von CDU/CSU+SPD: 🧵 1/16
#Koalitionsverhandlungen
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Benjamin Braun
9 months ago
Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
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Was hätte wohl Harry G. Frankfurt zu ChatGPT etc. gesagt?
10 months ago
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Anke Hassel
10 months ago
Massive polarization of young voters between far left and right and along gender lines.
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"The optimal top marginal income tax rate is an already high 63%. Using the median inequality externality estimate, the top optimal marginal tax rate rises to the much higher 81%. [...] It is possible that the most crucial tax design question is whether equality is more efficient than inequality."
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The power of treating inequality as an externality
Many economic models are constructed on the basis of an equity-efficiency trade-off, assuming that equality comes at the cost of efficiency. This column argues that inequality is better understood as an economic externality. It matters not only because people care about inequality itself, but because they prefer to live in societies that function smoothly, and inequality affects a wide range of social outcomes – from crime rates and mental health to political polarisation and economic growth. If inequality increases inefficiency, then even narrowly self-interested individuals are affected by its perpetuation.
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/power-treating-inequality-externality
about 1 year ago
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Jason Hickel
over 1 year ago
In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵
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Netzwerk Steuergerechtigkeit
over 1 year ago
Typische Multimillionäre zahlen in 🇩🇪 und 🇦🇹 nur bis zu 30% Steuern auf ihr Einkommen und das inkl. Unternehmensteuern. Konkrete Beispiel-Milliardäre sogar nur 26%. Das zeigt unsere vergleichende Studie in den drei Ländern mit
@momentum-institut.at
, ETH Zürich (KOF) und
@oxfam-de.bsky.social
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Ouch. "We find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices."
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The economic commitment of climate change - Nature
Analysis of projected sub-national damages from temperature and precipitation show an income reduction of 19% of the world economy within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07219-0
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European Societies
about 2 years ago
NEW ARTICLE:
@thijslin.bsky.social
@mijs.bsky.social
@willemdekoster.bsky.social
conducted a survey experiment on meritocracy beliefs and support for a universal basic income OPEN ACCESS:
doi.org/10.1080/1461...
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DIW Berlin
about 2 years ago
Neue DIW-Studie zur Vermögensungleichheit bezieht erstmals Rentenansprüche mit ein: vorher hatte die ärmere Hälfte der Bevölkerung nur 2 % am Gesamtvermögen, mit Rentenansprüchen sind es 9 %. D.h. die Rente ist für diese Gruppe extrem wichtig.
www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c....
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Elsa Koester
about 2 years ago
Die untersten 30% in Deutschland halten die Klimaziele ein. Das sind die, die Billigfleisch essen, nie bei Bio Company kaufen – aber auch nicht fliegen oder zwischen 2 Wohnungen pendeln. Steffen Mau über die kaum gesehene "Ökologie der Arbeiterklasse"!
www.freitag.de/autoren/pep/...
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Soziologe Steffen Mau: „Klimapolitik, das ist ein Klassenkampf im Werden“
Wer wenig verdient oder Bürgergeld bezieht, erfüllt die Pariser Klimaziele schon jetzt: Der Soziologe Steffen Mau spricht über die „Ökologie der Arbeiterklasse“, die medial fast nie vorkommt, ...
https://www.freitag.de/autoren/pep/soziologe-steffen-mau-klimapolitik-das-ist-ein-klassenkampf-im-werden
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Rahel Freiburghaus
about 2 years ago
A MAN'S WORLD? A fascinating polisky analysis of more than 4,000 policies in 43 countries revealing clear and robust evidence that women’s policy preferences are underrepresented compared to those of men. Gender inequality extends to policy representation
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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"The moral arguments for lower inheritance tax are much stronger than the moral arguments against it, at least in this experiment. If you want people to support high inheritance taxes you need to get material, not moral: Promising people lower taxes elsewhere or higher public spending."
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A Puzzling Inheritance
Why, in a world where wealth matters more than ever, we want to tax it less
https://benansell.substack.com/p/a-puzzling-inheritance
about 2 years ago
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"Acceptance of inequality theory appears to be the best available explanation of how the left-right dimension manifests itself in different contexts around the world. [...] Many far-right parties in Europe are far-right because of their immigration views, rather than their economic views."
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Why views on inequality define the left-right divide
Visit the post for more.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2023/04/14/why-views-on-inequality-define-the-left-right-divide/
about 2 years ago
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"Deutschland ist weniger eine Leistungs- als eine Erbengesellschaft. [...] Selbst Raucher tragen durch die Tabaksteuer mehr zur Finanzierung des Staatshaushalts bei als Erben. Die Einnahmen aus der Tabaksteuer beliefen sich 2020 auf 14,7 Mrd. €, die aus Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf 8,6 Mrd. €."
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Die eklatante Vermögensungleichheit unserer Erbengesellschaft
Deutschland: Eher Erben- denn Leistungsgesellschaft
https://www.finanzwende-recherche.de/blog/vermoegensungleichheit-unserer-erbengesellschaft/
about 2 years ago
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"The lucidity that comes with this anger is why there is no question mark in the title of his only work of nonfiction—Louis already knows the answer. In plain, direct prose, he enumerates the crimes of the smirking suits who have ruled French politics for decades: Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron."
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The Radicalization of Édouard Louis
Two new books by the French novelist mark a political turn in his writing.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/edouard-louis-class-politics/
about 2 years ago
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"Ecosocialists would perhaps do well to find alliances where they can, including with the non-socialist leftist block. This is not to say that ecosocialists should focus on political feasibility over biophysical necessity. [...] Biophysical reality is still less amenable to compromise."
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Socialism in one Sector, or on Half the Earth: Review of Half-Earth Socialism and CLimate Change As ...
The planetary ecosystem is in crisis. Humans brought it there. What are we going to do about it? These are three enormous simplifications, the latter two of which in particular have produced endless d...
https://10000signs.wordpress.com/2023/01/26/socialism-in-one-sector-or-on-half-the-earth-review-of-half-earth-socialism-and-climate-change-as-class-war/
about 2 years ago
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Ketan Joshi
about 2 years ago
The 2023 state of the climate report: it's fucked
academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...
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Rich article on the "long, slow death of global development"!
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The Long, Slow Death of Global Development - American Affairs Journal
Most emerging markets have not found an engine of durable growth comparable to manufacturing—most have indeed grown over the last few decades, but dependence on services and commodities exports has ...
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/11/the-long-slow-death-of-global-development/
about 2 years ago
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"The main SDG10 target, based on the World Bank’s Shared Prosperity goal, does not adequately measure key aspects of inequality. Evidence shows that one in five countries showing a positive trend in Shared Prosperity simultaneously saw inequality by other measures, like the Palma Ratio, increase."
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Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious ...
https://equalshope.org/index.php/2023/07/17/setting-serious-goals-to-combat-inequality/
about 2 years ago
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Oliver Weber
about 2 years ago
»Rund um die Welt betrage der effektive Steuersatz von Milliardären nicht mehr als 0,5 Prozent, heißt es in dem Bericht. Erklärbar sei das dadurch, dass die Superreichen in fast allen Ländern ihre Steuerschuld durch Beteiligungsgesellschaften, Stiftungen oder Trusts erheblich reduzieren könnten«
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Weniger Flucht in Steueroasen
Ökonom Zucman sieht eine zunehmende Steuervermeidung im Inland
https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft/2023-10-23/a4752c410ed45c6572952bc293352bd0/
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"What might the “choice architecture” of socialism look like?"
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Under Capitalism, We’re All Dominated by the Invisible Threads of the Market
At times, capitalism resorts to exceptional violence to subordinate workers. Much more commonly, however, it exercises an impersonal, economic form of power that shapes our environment and compels our...
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/mute-compulsion-soren-mau-book-review
about 2 years ago
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"We find that the effect of income inequality on economic growth can be either positive or negative, and that at a particular level of inequality—at a Gini of about 27 percent to be exact—the direction of the relationship changes—that is, where inequality begins to hurt economic development."
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A New Twist in the Link Between Inequality and Economic Development
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2017/05/11/a-new-twist-in-the-link-between-inequality-and-economic-development
about 2 years ago
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"Der Schuldendienst [der jungen BRD] sollte nicht mehr als 5 Prozent der Exporterlöse betragen. Das steht in Gegensatz dazu, wie man die Staaten des Globalen Südens behandelt. Ecuador gab 2019 36 Prozent seiner Exporterlöse für den Schuldendienst aus, Sambia 31 Prozent und der Libanon 88 Prozent."
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Der Globale Süden muss vom Schuldendienst befreit werden
Ein Schuldenschnitt für den Globalen Süden wäre im Interesse aller – außer der herrschenden Klasse. Dass das machbar ist, beweist das Londoner Schuldenabkommen, das heute vor siebzig Jahren besi...
https://jacobin.de/artikel/der-globale-sueden-muss-vom-schuldendienst-befreit-werden-debt-for-climate-londoner-schuldenabkommen-klimagerechtigkeit
about 2 years ago
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Bayesian Injustice - interesting concept!
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Bayesian Injustice
Why rational people often replicate unfairness
https://kevindorst.substack.com/p/bayesian-injustice
about 2 years ago
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Bluesky-User 🪩
about 2 years ago
In Berlin zahlst du z. B. nur 10 Euro, bekommst alles vom Post unten und hast auch noch Zugriff auf verschiedene Filmdatenbanken zu Streamen. Büchereien sind toll.
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Rico Grimm
about 2 years ago
Richtig spannendes Interview zur Hamas von
@benhindrichs.bsky.social
, das unter anderem erklärt, warum Israel unwissentlich den Aufbau der Hamas in den 1980er Jahren unterstützte (frei für 24h)
krautreporter.de/5093-die-ham...
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„Die Hamas existiert in Gaza, aber auch in Doha und Beirut“
Islamwissenschaftler Reinhard Schulze über die Herkunft, Ideologie und Geschichte der Hamas – und warum Israel ihren Aufbau unterstützte.
https://krautreporter.de/5093-die-hamas-existiert-in-gaza-aber-auch-in-doha-und-beirut?shared=5e55608a-d7b6-4063-b4e1-b5621b8c7991
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Wusste ja nicht, dass 'longtermism' so lost ist. Kostprobe? "Robin Hanson's big plan is to take people from contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures and stuff them into underground bunkers with instructions to rebuild industrial civilization if ours collapses." Lost ist wirklich gar kein Ausdruck..
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Understanding "longtermism": Why this suddenly influential philosophy is so toxic
Whatever we may "owe the future," it isn't a bizarre and dangerous ideology fueled by eugenics and capitalism
https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/understanding-longtermism-why-this-suddenly-influential-philosophy-is-so/
about 2 years ago
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In democracies, policy outcomes are biased towards the rich. While this should not be surprising, apparently we are not yet able to determine the drivers: neither inequality, campaign finance, voter turnout, nor union density are culpable. Puzzling addendum to the unequal responsiveness literature!
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The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Con...
The Rich Have a Slight Edge: Evidence from Comparative Data on Income-Based Inequality in Policy Congruence
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/rich-have-a-slight-edge-evidence-from-comparative-data-on-incomebased-inequality-in-policy-congruence/A09095FC0874B162149014212872BE86
about 2 years ago
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"Do we turn to debates in radical theory when it is challenging to be politically radical? [...] The main socialist challenge is not to bring together 'environment' and 'class'; it is to reconcile the class struggle in the environmental movement with the class struggle in the workplace."
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Neither Productivism nor Degrowth – Spectre Journal
Ståle Holgersen moves us beyond the stale impasse between degrowth and eco-modernist approaches to eco-socialist strategy.
https://spectrejournal.com/neither-productivism-nor-degrowth/
about 2 years ago
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"Is there hope? Yes. We know it is empirically possible to achieve a just and sustainable world economy. But our hope can only ever be as strong as our struggle. If we want hope—if we want to win such a world—we must build the struggle."
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Monthly Review | The Double Objective of Democratic Ecosocialism
Humanity in this moment faces two major crises: one ecological, growing more acute with every planetary boundary passed; the other social, leading to deprivation and despair across the globe.
https://monthlyreview.org/2023/09/01/the-double-objective-of-democratic-ecosocialism/
about 2 years ago
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"Selten wurde so prägnant geschildert, was Ungleichheit mit Körpern macht, wie Wirtschaftsmaßnahmen unmittelbar auf sie einwirken, sie verwerten und verelenden." - Ja!
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Einen anderen Körper einüben. Édouard Louis’ Geschichte der Gegendressur
Ungleichheit schlägt sich körperlich nieder, das macht die Literatur von Édouard Louis schmerzhaft sichtbar. In „Changer: méthode“ beschreibt er seinen Bildungsgang als gewaltvolle Gegendressu...
https://geschichtedergegenwart.ch/einen-anderen-koerper-einueben-edouard-louis-geschichte-der-gegendressur/
about 2 years ago
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Very interesting working paper on the beliefs about the effects of economic inequality and their effect on redistributive preferences! Strategically important for anyone endorsing and arguing for more equality: Should one stress instrumental or intrinsic arguments?
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How does economic inequality change society? - WID - World Inequality Database
How does economic inequality change society? The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international academic consortium.
https://wid.world/news-article/how-does-economic-inequality-change-society/
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Jacob Edenhofer
about 2 years ago
"the concept of redistribution can be empirically misleading for judging how policies reduce inequalities. Policies which reduce pretax inequality, i.e., predistribution, will reduce the magnitude of redistribution, while ... reducing effectively post-tax inequality."
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Predistribution vs. Redistribution: Evidence from France and the United States
(Forthcoming Article) - We construct series of post-tax income for France over the 1900–2018 period and compare them with U.S. series. We quantify the extent of redistribution—the reduction from p...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20220023&from=f
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Anna Goeddeke
about 2 years ago
#EconSky
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The other way around - still devastating!
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"Climate-smart agriculture is an agribusiness-led vision of surveillance and data-driven farmerless farming, which explains why its biggest promoters include Bayer, McDonnell, and Walmart. From a climate perspective, it entrenches the global inequalities of a corporate food regime."
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The New Colonialist Food Economy
How Bill Gates and agribusiness giants are throttling small farmers in Africa and the Global South.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/new-colonialist-food-economy/
about 2 years ago
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Georg Freiss
about 2 years ago
Ein sehr lesenwertes und optimistisches Interview mit Thomas Piketty im
@jacobinmag.bsky.social
Das neue Buch gibt es hier preiswert zu bestellen:
www.bpb.de/shop/buecher...
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Achim Truger
about 2 years ago
So, nach meiner Corona-Erkrankung und kurz vor der SVR-Wirtschaft-Schweigeperiode will ich doch noch etwas loswerden: Eine weitverbreitete Sichtweise zur aktuellen Wirtschaftslage und -politik in Deutschland beunruhigt mich ziemlich. Daher ein kleiner thread: /1
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"The first rule of fun is to not draw attention to it. You must never look directly at fun, lest you become instantly aware of its presence and therefore sucked out of the moment – which is, according to Buddhism and various other wise philosophies, where true joy can occur."
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Black Eyed Peas' "I Gotta Feeling" Is the Most Depressing Song in Existence
Released on the edge of summer in 2009, this WOAT party anthem fills me with a sadness like no other.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bjpqpa/black-eyed-peas-i-gotta-feeling-depressing-woat-party-anthem-2018
about 2 years ago
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Pauline Brünger
about 2 years ago
Ab 2030 möchte man mindestens 40 Jahre lange Wasser aus dem Rhein entnehmen, um aus den Tagebauen Riesen-Rest-Seen zu machen, während in 30 Jahren die Hauptquelle des Flusses versiegt. The math isn‘t mathing.
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Wissenschaft überzeugt: In 30 Jahren versiegt Hauptquelle des Rheins
Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels sind unübersehbar. Auch der Rhein ist stark betroffen. Forscher sagen: In 30 Jahren wird es Deutschlands größten Fluss, wie wir ihn kennen, nicht mehr geben.
https://www.fr.de/panorama/hauptquelle-rheins-klimawandel-duerre-hitzewelle-gletscher-wissenschaft-30-jahre-versiegt-92555714.html#:~:text=Die%20Auswirkungen%20des%20Klimawandels%20sind,ihn%20kennen%2C%20nicht%20mehr%20geben
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"Linke Parteien und Gewerkschaften waren natürlich die zentralen Kräfte hinter der von mir beschriebenen Bewegung für mehr Gleichheit im vergangenen Jahrhundert. Aber etwa seit den 1980er oder 1990er Jahren haben viele dieser Parteien ihre egalitären Ambitionen völlig aufgegeben."
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Was hat Sie radikalisiert, Herr Piketty?
In seinem jüngsten Buch gibt sich Star-Ökonom Thomas Piketty erstaunlich optimistisch: Wenn wir an die Errungenschaften der Vergangenheit anknüpfen, können wir eine Welt der Gleich...
https://jacobin.de/artikel/interview-thomas-piketty-was-hat-sie-radikalisiert-herr-piketty-sozialismus-linus-westheuser
about 2 years ago
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"The rate of decoupling is simply too slow. Green growth has not happened so far, and achieving it seems empirically out of reach even for the best-performing high-income countries. Furthermore, decoupling would also need to happen in terms of biodiversity loss and resource use."
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Scientific Consensus on Post-Growth over Green Growth
According to new research, a scientific consensus is forming for a new economic paradigm that looks beyond growth. This post presents proof…
https://medium.com/@teemu.koskimaki/scientific-consensus-on-post-growth-over-green-growth-196d3a4f74ff#
about 2 years ago
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"The hydrogen hype siphons funds and attention away from much needed meaningful climate action: increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, transitioning to agro-ecological farming, reducing traffic and boosting public transport – and the list goes on."
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The dirty truth about the EU’s hydrogen push
New infographics by CEO and WeSmellGas expose the dark side of the EU’s hydrogen craze – and the firepower of the corporate giants driving it. The EU is hyping hydrogen as the miracle that will cu...
https://corporateeurope.org/en/dirty-truth-about-EU-hydrogen-push
about 2 years ago
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Alexander Thiele
about 2 years ago
#Skyverlosung 2: Heute mit einer Spende des
@suhrkamp.de
: Das neue Buch von
@steffenmau.bsky.social
, Thomas Lux & Linus Westheuser. Vielen Dank. Teilnahme per REPOST, Verlosung am Abend! Viel Glück! 🙂
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