Benjamin H. Bradlow
@bhbradlow
Assistant Professor of Sociology & International Affairs @Princeton. Global Scholar @CIFAR_News. Climate, urban, technology, democracy, in the Global South.
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#TheEquitablyResilientCity - written with the incredible Larry Vale - is coming in print and open access in October from @MITPress… More to come soon! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549868/… UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design MIT Urban Planning
"Connector" countries - Singapore, Hungary, Ireland, Mexico and Vietnam - arbitrage between two increasingly hostile blocs - the US-led west and China. Chinese investment is pouring in, as per Rhodium data. Jude Webber Christine Murray ft.com/content/5583db…
Looking forward to discussing Alejandro Portes ’s new book next week Princeton Program in Latin American Studies!
Have to admire how succinctly Dani Rodrik has encapsulated this fundamental tension at the heart of contemporary political economy.
New paper: "Fintech ‘frontiers’ and the platformed motorcycle: Emergent infrastructures of value creation in African cities" I am honoured to be part of this amazing team journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… andrea pollio Jack Odeo Rike Sitas Alicia Fortuin Alexis African Centre for Cities
Global jobs market shaken by green transition via Financial Times on.ft.com/4dZKFcJ
A legendary life in activism and public service. South Africa’s Pravin Gordhan dies aged 75 via Financial Times on.ft.com/3XwBOs2
The rise and rise of Chinese cars in SA businesslive.co.za/bd/life/motori… # via BusinessLIVE
This explains a lot of the myopia in Biden policy circles re green industrial policy (as Adam Tooze recently put it, “high on their own supply”). Key US firms who benefit from IRA have been ignorant of dynamics of global economic and technological change.
You may have heard something about Chinese EVs in Latin America but do you know the full story? Join Ryan Berg, PhD and me for a discussion with Christine Murray Henry Sanderson Gregor Sebastian on Chinese investments in Latin America's EV value chain this Friday! csis.org/events/driving…
South Africa’s move to green energy was slowed down by government to protect coal mining theconversation.com/south-africas-… @Thokozani_cb Waseem Holland Find the full report at pari.org.za