An underappreciated benefit of the dollar's global status is that the US basically gets the Mundell-Fleming perks of a floating currency (mon policy autonomy + cap acct openness) but w/o the downsides b/c everything is priced in USD, eliminating FX risk, as if USD was fixed 1/

I have drafted a new syllabus for my Spring undergrad/grad IPE course: dropbox.com/scl/fi/kaup7jc…

Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Join us this Friday for our mini-conference!

Do you do political economy research related to any international issues? Then consider submitting a paper for the IPES 2024 conference – my favorite conference is being held in Florence (at the EUI) this year – for the first time in Europe. …ernationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org

Updated paper with Helen Milner! How does climate change affect political attitudes? We find diverging responses based on vulnerability: only people in locations most exposed to future damage respond to climate shocks with greater concern and policy support osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Economic cost of climate damage from a new study is $38 (19-59) tril/y in 2049 nature.com/articles/s4158… Compares with $31.8 tril/y in 2050 based on social cost of carbon from this study web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… Bill McKibben's analysis of new article: billmckibben.substack.com/p/is-38-trilli…

Shortlisting this Milner and Erik Voeten paper. More generally: More of this type of writing, thinking, debating, please.

🎉The program for the 10th annual #REPAL2024 Conference is out!🎉Explore panels on environmental politics, econ inequality, political polarization, and more. Don't miss our keynote roundtable on "The US Elections’ Implications for Latin America" #PoliticalEconomy #LatinAmerica 📚

I'm pleased to share that Comparative Political Studies has conditionally accepted my paper with Helen Milner on how leaders respond to climate change. We find a new political cleavage is emerging based on geographic vulnerability. Check out the preprint here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Great news: the Climate Solutions Lab team, including new colleagues @JenniferHadden & Chris Rea Watson Institute Brown University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to continue its work on Clean Energy & Society. Stay tuned! cc IBES: Institute at Brown for Environment & Society

I’m beyond thrilled to share that our work on using deep learning to compute excited states of molecules is out today in Science Magazine! This is the first time that deep learning has accurately solved some of the hardest problems in quantum physics. science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

My column in TheHillOpinion, this week on why an ambitious trade agenda is the key to building resilient supply chains. thehill.com/opinion/intern…

America is fighting the wrong trade war. By an all-star crew of Georgetown University political economy scholars: Nic Bonifai, Nita Rudra, Rod Ludeman, and Brad Jensen foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Excited to share a new review paper with Matto Mildenberger Dustin Tingley! We use the IRA to explain the origin and effects of political attitudes about the energy transition 🌎🔌 We also chart research needs with the global green industrial policy turn osf.io/preprints/osf/…

With the election around the corner, what does political science tell us about how the green transition affects voting? Here’s a thread jam-packed with climate politics and elections research ⬇️

I am with Saleha Mohsin on this. To the extent that *anything* seriously threatens dollar dominance, it's not Russia, China, or the BRICS. It's the breakdown of political order in the United States. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

More signs of EV transition backlash in swing states. insideclimatenews.org/news/19112024/… We're still crunching the numbers on 2024, but this lines up with what we've found so far: alexgaz.scholar.princeton.edu/sites/g/files/…

From our new issue: "In the Eye of the Storm: Hurricanes, Climate Migration, and Climate Attitudes" by Sabrina Arias (Sabrina Arias) and Christopher Blair (@Chris_W_Blair). #ASPRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/services/…

It's so cool to see this paper in print! Relevant if you're interested in: -The domestic politics of stopping global warming -How voters understand their changing economic circumstances -The erosion of working-class support for Democrats journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/HBDCSJS…