What are the key drivers of Spain’s economic growth in recent years? What changes have taken place in economic policy? @jorgeuxo.bsky.social and I address these questions in this new paper for Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...

I found Minn's Cold War in Welfare in a second-hand bookshop in Lund, Sweden, while doing my master's. I was not studying pension funds then, and honestly, it remained unread on the many bookshelves at different apartments I have lived in since then.

now that is an incredible quote "The U.S. has depleted much of its inventory of advanced missile-defense interceptors after expending far more high-end munitions defending Israel than Israeli forces used themselves"

Frente a la crisis actual, ¿qué podemos hacer? Para el filósofo Timothy Morton, la respuesta no pasa por intentar gestionar «un todo», sino por apostar por crear «pequeños espacios de cuidado» y verdaderos «paraísos dentro del infierno».

1/Otro episodio del "Renovables sí, pero no así" que muestra la verdadera dinámica del asunto. Un proyecto que cumple (casi) todo lo q se le piden a estos proyectos. Aún así, los problemas de siempre. Este proyecto, tiene muchas virtudes: - Es el primer parque eólico.. cadenaser.com/euskadi/2026...

For several years, it has been cheaper to build new solar and wind capacity than just to maintain a coal plant — even if the coal was free. But gas plants were twice as efficient and much cheaper to operate. Now solar and wind, complete with battery storage, are cheaper than gas.

Muy bien simplificado. La forma de creación de dinero y deuda actual aumenta desigualdades, mientras que la subida de los precios de los activos es un signo del aumento de las desigualdades. El círculo de creación de dinero neoliberal, financiarización y desigualdad youtu.be/BJcpgg6-hNA?...

🚨 #Breaking: more than 1 million 🇪🇺 citizens demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. The European Commission will have to take this European Citizen's Initiative into consideration. eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...

Buenos días. Hemos superado el millón de firmas.

Desde @ecologistasenaccion.org  recuerdan que el ecopostureo entorpece la transición ecológica al hacer creer a los consumidores que están adquiriendo productos o servicios sostenibles que no lo son.

El 49,4% de los títulos impresos disponibles en las librerías de España vende cero ejemplares a lo largo de un año. Solo el 4,5% de las obras supera los 100 ejemplares

Para el turno de tarde 👇

Iran has been upgraded to regional hegemon in ranks of the great powers by Pape! think most IR realist scholars will come to same conclusion as Iran continues to 1 absorb devastating punishment 2 still punch back & destroy US bases in middle east 3 use its Hormuz Chokehold to extract concessions

VIÑETA | Conectando con la naturaleza. ✍️ @atxe.bsky.social  https://f.mtr.cool/fcymakcmwf

Building electric power, a huge anti-Yankee imperialism thing a left group can do

The electrical revolution is happening - across several domains - faster and further than almost anyone dared predict. And any country that does not embrace it will be left in the fossil age.

New @sierraclub.org report reveals most US public pensions are failing to take full advantage of proxy voting to manage climate-related financial risks, and political hostility to ESG caused a significant decline in shareholder proposals in 2025.

"This essay ... argu[es] that the ontological structures of hetero-normativity & the notion of the general price are not only strikingly similar but that they reveal a deep-seated connection between these aspects of social life." 🔥 A brilliant & politically urgent essay by L. E. Steininger.🔥

How Cities Can Evaluate Public Investment Without Bond Markets, A Thread

As of January, one out of four RIPE submissions are slop. Which the editor in chief tries to weed out manually. 🤯🤯🤯 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This article is an increible piece. It explains first how Apple ramped up production through industrial spionage and control of supply chains. It then explains how China is gaining sustained control through a strategy of maximising capabalities instead of profit maximisation and shareholder value.

“This range of inventions attributed to the same engineer reflects an Apple playbook: fund supplier capacity, gain operational control, absorb process knowledge by embedding engineers in the factory, contractually take ownership of the IP, then commoditise the supplier by bringing up its rivals.

Huge news! Korea's President ACTS in crisis: 'It’s a situation so serious that even I can’t sleep. South Korea needs to transition to renewable energy quickly. If we rely on fossil energy, the future will be extremely risky.' @darciedraudt.bsky.social www.donga.com/news/Politic...

Time to resume signing and disseminating.

Thank you! 🙏

Had a great time chatting about the Economics discipline and how it distorts our understanding of poverty, uneven development, mining, and international finance. Thanks Clara Mattei and @freefreeforum.bsky.social for hosting!

I knew municipal utilities generally provide lower electricity prices than investor-owned monopoly utilities, but I had no idea the difference was *this stark* in California. No wonder CA electeds are pushing to make municipalization easier and cheaper. energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/t...

@acte-cat.bsky.social porta molt de temps juntant a molta gent per a arribar molt lluny en un pacte ecosocial en l’àmbit alimentari. Ara fan aquest Fòrum que marcarà un abans i un després.

☀️ Nueve propuestas para crear un escudo social energético y para acelerar la transición verde.

We're in uncharted territory- if WTI crude holds these gains tomorrow- the current rise of 29.9% or $27.16/bbl would be its largest single day price jump- in both percent and amount- ever. Ever. EVER.

European Green Deal 2 when.

El postureo verde de Repsol se va terminando. Dos guerras/golpes de EEUU sobre países petroleros y ya vuelve a ser rentable invertir en petróleo y dejar de lado las renovables. Una transición verde que dependa de las fuerzas del mercado y de estas ratas capitalistas es imposible.

High oil prices can support greater adoption of renewables, but central banks should avoid raising interest rates in response to supply‑driven inflation, as this would increase financing costs for highly capital‑intensive renewable projects.

NYT and FT are both very good at reporting and warmongering

🟡 @financialtimes.com destaca que España está siendo el país de Europa que está logrando, durante esta ya primera semana de guerra en Irán, mantener los precios de la electricidad más estables y competitivos para hogares e industria. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

1/3 El Consejo de la Productividad presenta su Informe Anual. Mi lectura, en @agendapublica.es: agendapublica.es/noticia/2076...

Hoy escribo sobre la íntima relacion entre cuidados y democracia, una de las conclusiones de la primera parada del Congreso Multisede “Los cuidados que queremos” www.publico.es/opinion/colu...

Woah, and we are finally here, the EU going full developmentalist after decades of neoliberal globalisation dogma.

No está de más recordar ante el cierre de Ormuz que la semana pasada la derecha tumbó el mecanismo que permite a Consumo topar precios en situaciones de emergencia. Se está trabajando en recuperar la herramienta, pero que no se olvide este golpe de Junts, PP y Vox a los consumidores más vulnerables.

What a day to cover this topic. Short version: Financial hegemony is when you don't need to start wars to get what you want; and also when, if you 𝘥𝘰 start a war*, your borrowing cost goes down and your currency goes up. * Which you'll be tempted to start one regularly.

Spain has become a beacon in a world marked by brutality. In Iran, people have every right to celebrate the fall of tyrants, but in Europe we cannot be complicit with the powers that placed those tyrants in power and that continue to destroy any hope for a world guided not guided by brute force.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Breathtaking statement from Carney. Basically that Iran's regime is evil and therefore Canada stands with US and Israel's war of aggression. So much for the "middle powers" leading a nonaligned post-American world order. @katemac.bsky.social

The relative autonomy of tech workers, and the need for the bosses to obtains some degree of active consent from them, seems to me a central axis of the politics of big tech. There aren't many industries where you can imagine seeing something like this.

Patrick Schulte, Almira Enders, Andreas Esser, and Felix Strobel (@bundesbank.de) show that US tariffs on China did not cause large-scale redirection of Chinese exports to the EU despite concerns. Effects appear confined to a small group of highly exposed products. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

🚨 David Palomera (Univ. of Southern Denmark) explores at ICTA-UAB whether pensions really depend on GDP growth. 📊💡Drawing on 50 years of OECD data, he reflects on how pensions can adapt in a post-growth world. @davidpalomera.bsky.social #PostGrowth #Pensions #EconomicTransition

TOMORROW, REAL-Postgrowth seminar series welcomes David Palomera @davidpalomera.bsky.social (University of Southern Denmark) for: “Are Pensions Dependent on GDP Growth? An Empirical Analysis of Public Pension Spending and Generosity in the OECD” 🗓 24/02 ⏰ 11h📍hybrid www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

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