Dani Rodrik has a new 'trilemma' for the world economy. According to him, we can only achieve two of the following three at the same time: 1) combat climate change 2) boost the middle class in advanced economies 3) reduce global poverty

As ever, b-boy bouiebaisse is insightful: Springfield dogs & cats is not a meme; it is blood libel: incitement to racist violence. I've been thinking about his recent column: their insane rhetoric is meaningless on the surface, but deadly meaningful underneath. Media are missing this.

📢 SOAS Global Development Seminar Series! Join us for the first seminar of the 2024-25 series! Ilias Alami will discuss his recent book, co-authored with Adam Dixon, "The Spectre of State Capitalism." The book argues that we are seeing a historic shift in state

EU-Commissioner for Animal Welfare

All gaps in the literature were already filled in by nineteenth-century German dissertations.

📢 Book presentation Taming the cycles of finance? How central bank economists in the UK, the USA and the Eurozone strived to mitigate risk in the financial system by Matthias Thiemann 🗓️2nd Oct. 2024, 19.15 - 21.15 📍Sciences Po Info & Registration👉sciencespo.fr/centre-etudes-…

🇪🇺 LUHNIP's EU Industrial Policy Report is out! 📖 Read the flipbook: bit.ly/4daXgZb 👉🏻 Download the PDF version: bit.ly/47BkK8B

New Max Planck Institute Discussion Paper out co-authored with the great friends and colleagues Erez Maggor and Timur Ergen. In it we overview, and critically engage with, the literature on the concept of industrial policy conditionality. We do 4 things: pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/V…

JFK Airport PSA: “Make sure there are no firearms in your carry-on luggage before entering the security checkpoint.” Only in America, folks. #TravelTips #OnlyInAmerica"

For the past six months, I’ve been trying to figure out why the tech industry – and in particular crypto – have been pouring so much money into political races. The answer is bigger, and much more wide-ranging, than we think, and it appears in the New Yorker today.

The program is up for the Columbia University New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference, Nov. 1-2, 2024: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/… Featuring talks by Alondra Nelson, Dani Rodrik & Mariana Mazzucato, and many fascinating papers. Registration link here: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/news/new-think…

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to ChatGPT for democratizing the creative process and freeing the written word from humanity’s limitations.

Very good point

Here's my take on this year's Nobel prize in economics. I highlight that it exposes how the economics discipline fails to ask critical questions about colonialism, imperialism and the universality of western institutions. theconversation.com/this-years-nob…

Thanks so much for the spot-on summary of our article, HfPMuenchen! It was a pleasure working on the article during our time at HfP and getting feedback on our research from so many of our excellent HfP colleagues. Chase Foster Kigwiru Vellah Kedogo #DMA

Trump 2.0 reverses Marx’s quip. The first time was farce—outrageous pronouncements, endless scandals, and general incompetence. The second time is tragedy: millions lose critical support, the liberal international order crumbles, and the American state is destroyed from within.