I am blown away by this blurb for my forthcoming book from Monica Prasad. Extremely grateful. 🙏🏼

NEW #OA article out now! - 'Not All Emissions Are Created Equal: Multidimensionality in Nations’ Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Affluence/Emissions Nexus' by Xiaorui Huang

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23…

#openscience

.Rana Foroohar: 'Rich countries espouse active industrial policy at home while continuing to impose outdated policies abroad'

The White House knows that the global south has a point ft.com/content/6482a6… via @ft

China is electrifying far faster than any other major economy.

via Gavekal

Brilliant piece. Encapsulates so much of what has gone wrong and it just at Boeing. Well worth a read. Boeing and the Dark Age of American Manufacturing - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

We're thrilled to have Camila Gramkow presenting on public investment for climate policy in Brazil and Lat Am tomorrow.

She's one of Brazil's most important political economists of climate. I can't wait for her talk at Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative (BESI). Join us via zoom.

besi.berkeley.edu/events/new-dir…

This is how sociologists are treated in Israel.

Lula and Haddad propose a global billionaire tax funding poverty alleviation, to be drafted by Gabriel Zucman.

🇧🇷🇫🇷🇪🇸 support.
🇩🇪 (FDP...) opposes.
What about the other countries?

climatechangenews.com/2024/04/19/glo…

A South African rare earth minerals mine is counting on US government financing . But the volatility of rare earths mineral prices is putting it all at risk. Without vertical integration for green industry, hard to see how to square this circle.

on.ft.com/4d9qTeD

This week!

Indonesia’s sovereign wealth fund eyes green energy transition in $1bn investment plan via Financial Times
on.ft.com/3U5n5m1

I’m a Jewish constituent of Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman and I couldn’t be prouder to see her on this list!

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'America’s marquee effort to finance private sector activity in the devping world is tilting against African industrialization—financing industrialization elsewhere while focusing on mining in Africa.'

Mostly about reforming AGOA, but lots to unpack...
cgdev.org/blog/renewing-…

South Africa’s new EV policy envisions local production of battery-powered cars by 2026. But VW says it won’t make EVs in Africa for at least another decade.

businesslive.co.za/bt/business-an… # via BusinessLIVE

A local history of a global currency
Check it out!
unmpress.com/9780826365392/…

I'll be giving two talks NU Sociology next week:

'Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg'
Sociology Colloquium, April 25 (Thurs) 12:30p

'The Problem of Climate Change and the Analogy of Development'
Comparative-Historical Workshop, April 26 (Fri) 3p