Happy IWD2019 everybody! Diversifying Economics Network are celebrating it with a special lecture by Dr. Erin Hengel on 'Gender and Economics'. Make sure you're there!

PM Modi announces a green transformation of India's automobile industry.

If you want to get valuable insight from an experienced professional working in #economics, meet @flavamaeve of Rethinking Economics at our next #fem4econ mentoring session. Female econ students RSVP now in our bio! (if you haven't already)

🔓 Money-Power of Capital and Production of ‘New State Spaces’: A view from the Global South, by Ilias Alami, published in NPE journal, is now #OpenAccess via man.ac.uk/x9admN @UoM_SOSS @UoMPolitics Political Economy Centre, University of Manchester #statecraft #power #finance

⚠️One month until workshop on #Ireland & #EU in a Changing World Manchester Metropolitan Uni Future Economies at Manchester Metropolitan @McrJMCE ⚠️ Excellent line up of speakers inclu Brigid Laffan David Phinnemore @Bentonra @SilkeTrommer Jonathan Evershed Jamie Pow Free to attend, spaces limited, details👇 tinyurl.com/yylse9x8

NEW blog: In Part 2 of their series on the political economies of different globalisations @MatthewLBishop and Tony Payne look at ‘Deglobalisation from the right’ speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/2019/03/14/the…

Big turnout today in St Peter's Sq Manchester #FridaysForFuture #ClimateStrike

new #openaccess paper on the political economy of #uhc and health insurance in #ethiopia in @socscimed. part of #effectivestates research on #socialprotection Global Development Institute

When you no longer have any arguments left, reach into the analogy jar for the tale of a fictional flying elephant ... going by the name of 'Dumbo'.

Tune in tomorrow, 20 March – 4pm I will be on BBC Radio 4 program #ThinkingAllow with Laurie Taylor talking about the Debt economy & my lasted book Should We Abolish Household Debts? with Polity Thinking Allowed goo.gl/oDT5tV

Are you worried by the consequences of mass indebtedness? I will be on #Thinkingaloud today at 4pm talking about my book Should We Abolish Household Debts? A way out of debt-dependent growth & never ending #Austerity

A new - and very timely - article by SPERI Director Colin Hay has just been published in Political Studies: Brexistential Angst and the Paradoxes of Populism: On the Contingency, Predictability and Intelligibility of Seismic Shifts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

#SUERFpolicynote "Beyond voluntary disclosure: why a ‘market-shaping’ approach to financial regulation is needed to meet the challenge of climate change" by Josh Ryan-Collins josh ryan-collins suerf.org/policynotes/48…

Last few tickets! Industrial strategy after the Brexit shock: an endangered species?📢 Public event, Wed 27 March,17:00, Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Featuring Christian Spence, @AndyWWestwood, Sian Errington, Neil McInroy, Scott Lavery, Craig Berry. Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/industrial-s…

Many thanks to our friends at Future Economies at Manchester Metropolitan for a superb public discussion on the future of industrial policy tonight! Superb interventions made by Christian Spence, @AndyWWestwood, Sian Errington, Neil McInroy, Scott Lavery, and Craig Berry.

It's hard for academics to talk about Brexit since it's in 'real time'. But for a piece that tries to see past the daily insanity and talk about the bigger issues involved for those of us who pontificate on such things, see this from Colin hay: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Check out "Who is Manchester For? Big Capital Vs. The People" We are Moss Side 💙 GreatSoWeCAN eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-is-manch… Eventbrite UK

1/ Fantastic piece (and paper) by Servaas Storm in which he provides “an evidence-based pathology of Italy’s recession—which must be regarded as a crisis of the post-Maastricht Treaty order of Italian capitalism”: ineteconomics.org/perspectives/b….

“No one is coming to save us. Mass civil disobedience is essential to force a political response. The time for excuses is over. The struggle to overthrow our life-denying system has begun.” - George Monbiot #ExtinctionRebellion #schoolstrike4climate theguardian.com/commentisfree/…