Interesting piece by Sean Sweeney.

The Fad Is Dead: Why “Just Energy Transition Partnerships” Are Failing - New Labor Forum newlaborforum.cuny.edu/2024/04/16/the…

Very important new paper highlighting the rationale for low carbon tech transfer alongside the green industrial policy push!

Xiaolan Fu Adriana Erthal Abdenur Carlota Perez Rasmus Lema Roberta Rabellotti

Well here is a date worth commemorating! May 4th 1919 in Beijing.

There's a mistaken belief that South Korea's industrial policy succeeded because it took an export-oriented approach rather than import substitution.

An FT piece cites Hyundai as an example. But South Korea basically banned the import of foreign cars until 1987. 1/ 🧵

My new book Miami in the Anthropocene: Rising Seas and Urban Resilience, has a cover and a catalog page! It’ll be out this winter with U of MN Press 🌴🌴

upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

From the National Capitol of Cuba, it has been refreshing to hear new ideas on how to move a progressive agenda on trade & sustainability.

My plea is to:
- reorganise green tech supply chains towards developing nations, enabling smaller countries to also seize green…

I am really worried that the way protests on our campuses are being repressed is increasing the possibility of a Kent State moment. There is meaningful variation in administrative responses. Key lesson: meaningful negotiation is always possible.

BHP goes in for a bit of crisis comms on why it wants Brazil’s iron ore but not South Africa’s. Meanwhile SA’s deputy finance minister, who chairs the PIC, tells the FT that he sees the proposed treatment of Anglo’s SA assets as a key issue. on.ft.com/3WpHSU1

It looks like we're about to finalize the cover for my book!...

The Kohli Foundation for Sociology is delighted to announce this year's laureate of the Kohli Prize for Sociology. This year's prize goes to Michèle Lamont (Michele Lamont) for her path-breaking comparative research on culture, social inequality and inclusion. kohlifoundation.eu/news/kohli-pri…

New article on ADAPTATION and MIGRATION in the Bengal Delta with Tanaya Dutta Gupta in thirdworldq!

Migrants fall through the cracks in existing, Western-led adaptation projects. We propose a migrant-sensitive approach that embraces mobility

50 copies free here: tandfonline.com/eprint/VMTQT2Q…

We are looking for candidates to be based in Africa and Asia with expertise and experience in economic policy, including industrial policy and fiscal policy.
Program Manager in Asia: lnkd.in/e8mrcT88
Program Manager in Africa: lnkd.in/eu2GggDY

Preview of essay at World Politics

An answer to my own puzzle of why political economy exhausts so much effort on artificial debates & theories… and dreads big, intriguing questions

It boils down to a mechanical ⚙️ view 🥽 of social worlds

We are seeing meaningful variation in institutional responses to campus encampments. Some open up serious negotiations and the encampments come down; others choose repression and the encampments stay up. Logical conclusion is that, for the latter, encampments are not the problem.

ASA Former Presidents' Letter on Resolution for Justice in Palestine:
'Acknowledging the mounting death toll of the brutal war between Palestinians and the Israeli state and the blatant violation of academic freedom on many university campuses, we—former presidents of the…

A new portal reporting on South African social housing delivery. Well worth exploring at socialhousingportal.org.za. An eg of what you can find - SA metro completed social housing projects 2010-2023. Well done Andreas Scheba & colleagues HSRC.ac.za

Very excited to return to ⁦Swarthmore College⁩ this afternoon to talk about my book!

Global climate financing can support a green transition in the Global South.

Is it enough? Benjamin H. Bradlow & I point to its limits if not joined by technology transfers from the Global North.

There is both legal precedent & a moral imperative for this.

Free: rdcu.be/dF8xI

The “post-neoliberal” order coming into focus? Industrial policies for rich countries but not for the rest.

Wow! In this 2008 article from ⁦WIRED⁩, a homegrown South African battery electric vehicle made headlines at that year’s Paris Auto Show. (ht ⁦Johan Fourie⁩) wired.com/2008/10/south-…