A truly stellar podcast episode on what budgets do, why they’re political, and what social choices are at stake when governements craft spending.

In the front half of Althia Raj's latest podcast: a masterclass of journalism and economic/political literacy about why budgets matter;
In the back half: a spirited discussion about what #Budget2024 means, for today and tomorrow.
Well worth a listen! #cdnecon

France…

Why did America destroy its own cities?

A thread... 🧵

Cooperative
Diego Rivera
1928

Late to the party, but absolutely delighted to read that this long, long, long awaited Canadian leftist dream is coming true: canada.ca/en/health-cana…
#pharmacare

democracyjournal.org/arguments/hous…

😍😍arrived home from a run to find a box full of books on my doorstep 😍😍

The official release in the US and Australia is March 19! And early April in the UK. If you haven’t already, you can preorder here: hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Or here: amazon.co.uk/Made-China-Int…

Look: A book! I will do some annoying self promotion threads later. For now, just look at that awesome cover!

yalebooks.co.uk/book/978030024…

This forthcoming Princeton UP book looks great: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

This is a wild world map
Some Americans projecting utopian dreams of world peace & unity (through the power of technology) right after D-Day, ca. October 1944. Before the Cold War hit.
I wonder what secret world maps AI futurist utopian tech bros are drawing up right now

TOC for the American “fascism debate” book I edited. Available here for purchase wwnorton.com/books/97813240…

Mourning the loss of a great Canadian + champion of social democracy
“To be humane, societies must be democratic – and, to be democratic, every person must be afforded the economic and social rights necessary for their individual flourishing.' - Ed B.
broadbentinstitute.ca/statement-pass…

Canada’s take on Florida buying our cheaper drugs. Maybe the US should instead implement Canadian style price controls on drugs rather than keeping its free market and trying to profit from our regulations, inevitably causing shortages in Canada. cbc.ca/amp/1.7075392

A People’s Obituary: “Henry Kissinger, who was born in Weimar Germany in 1923, is dead. He made it to 100, and in the last years of his life, politicians, writers, and celebrities feted him as if he were the American Century incarnate. In a way, he was.” thenation.com/article/world/…

A good day to contemplate the war crimes we could stop right now

Grateful to zeithistoriker for the shout out in the The New Statesman Books of the Year 2023

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Princeton History

Theologians don't always make for good political economists, but Walter Bruggemann's 'The Protocols of Scarcity' is 🔥: scarcity is not always a natural problem that markets solve, but one that markets, rigged by inequalities of wealth and power, engineer! churchanew.org/brueggemann/wa…

Progressive income taxes in France, UK and US are still progressive in nature but not nearly as high as they used to be. Helps to explains the general social discontent in these nations? I predict attempts to address this in Australia. Source: buff.ly/2MvpVNZ

Ouch, poor Weber