Who stands to loose from a green transition? The biggest beneficiaries of fossil fuel profits, the richest of the rich. 50% of profits go to top 1% of wealth owners. My co-author GregorSemieniuk.bsky.social will present our paper and more at the LSE European Institute on March 3, 6.30 PM. Go if you can!

Wendy Brown: "A worldwide revolution commenced in the final decades of the last millennium. Call it what you will—globalization, neoliberalism, the unleashing and exponential growth of the new leviathan on earth we call finance—we are still reckoning its proportions, impact, and

This guy is a US Senator. He's sitting in the same chamber that Daniel Webster and Robert Taft sat in.

When we started @equatormag, we talked of “a crisis that is as much spiritual and intellectual as it is political”. The war on Iran is a reminder that the root of this crisis is what Simone Weil called “the adoration of force”. Our leader on this calamity: equator.org/articles/epic-…

Have been researching inflation in times of overlapping emergencies the past years. This feels like 2022 on steroids. Am visiting the LSE this week to share some work in progress on anti-fascist economics, trying to make sense of this moment as it is unfolding.

In an astonishing transformation in British politics, the Greens, not Labour, are now the most popular party not just with young, but also with the 20 percent who are struggling most in economic terms. More on this in the Chartbook Top Links today.

I do not see how European democracies can survive being complicit in the war on Iran plus the escalation of the cost of living crisis this war causes. This is the perfect storm to bring the far right into power.

More than twenty interviews with some of the leading figures in economic history in the last century are now available to watch on our website & YouTube channel. Interview with Professor Alice Teichova: ehs.org.uk/multimedia/int… youtube.com/@EconomicHisto…

25 years later, one of the chief neoconservative intellectual architects of American global military hegemony admits Susan Sontag was right about 9/11.

Death is always lurking. We see it in violence, in the wounds of the world, in the cry of pain that rises from every corner because of the abuses that crush the weakest among us, because of the idolatry of profit that plunders the earth’s resources, because of the violence of war

They’re calling it Gaddafimaxxing

Great job, everyone!

In 2024, the Dig launched Thawra, a 19-part series on 20th century Arab radicalism. We are now releasing the Thawra digital study guide, replete with readings, films, archival materials, & discussion Qs for collective or individual study. Check it out➡️ thawraproject.com

Mid April, 6 points clear at the top of the Premier League, into the Champions League semi final and I’m miserable. What a club.

The daycare that is also much more expensive than when my kid started! x.com/ckayerawlings/…

New QJE paper measures spending flows between 1000s of small groups of consumers and producers, government, rest of the world. Most consumer spending stays domestic, esp in rural, older, less-educated areas->higher fiscal multipliers; targeting "left-behind" groups boosts economy

Hobsbawm’s “short twentieth century”, the “Fukuyama moment”, Carl Schmitt’s toxic brilliance, Mao’s concept of ‘people’s war’, Lu Xun as a theorist of failure who refused despair — it’s all here in a fascinating conversation btwn Adam Tooze and Wang Hui equator.org/articles/the-t…

The word of the day is HABIBI! Happy #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth from Ramy Youssef, Elmo, and all of your friends on Sesame Street!

CfP for our 3rd Annual HPE Conference USC USC Price School sponsored by CIS and PIPE. Submit by May 30. If you work on MENA, I am running a smaller pre-conference for HPE papers focused on the region. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Tomorrow night, I'll be in Toronto delivering the 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture. Among other things, I'll discuss the dead ends of both social democracy and administrative planning, and the economics of a feasible socialism. broadbentinstitute.ca/events/2026-el…