Big question for me right now (which should be answered relatively soon):

Has #Iran carried out a well telegraphed and largely symbol retaliation against #Israel , with 10s of missiles and drones by the #IRGC Aerospace Force, as asserted in this Iranian media clip below?

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We have a fascinating session today with Nicholas Mulder and Eric Helleiner on sovereignty, neomercantilism, and expropriation. In other words: what alternatives to free trade have lurked within liberalism?

Starts at 12:10 ET. Register on zoom at tinyurl.com/privatelaw2024

Just as in the EA “deindustrialization” debate, the ECB overlooks the outsized impact of its own domestic demand suppression on productivity measures amid the post-Covid job market adjustment.

This further undermines a productivity revival. 2/

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Thinking back to this Nicholas Mulder op-ed from 2021 that proposes a Lend-Lease approach to fighting climate change… The rapid expansion in Chinese manufacturing capacity during COVID doesn’t seem totally unlike the industrial expansion in the US during WW2.
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Talking neo-mercantilism, sovereignty and expropriation with Eric Helleiner at the Yale Law School seminar on Globalization and Deglobalization this Tuesday!

Great to see that this is coming from Penguin Penguin Books UK Penguin Books Penguin Classics.

There’s long been a need for a good new edition of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation.

If you like experiencing emergency events not historically common to your geographic area then I have great news for you about the rest of the 21st century

Amazing quote about Tesla from a Xiaomi supplier.

I talk a lot about the benefits of bringing in top foreign firms to boost your domestic supply chain. But the biggest benefit by far is the cultivation of local talent who can launch a wave of domestic competitors.

1. Excited to share that I am starting a podcast about how sanctions are changing the world.

The Sanctions Age invites the people who understand sanctions best—scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and journalists—to explain their use and significance.

Here's a preview...

A League of Nations publication comparing how poorly the Italians fared with their annexations compared to the Polish.

My paper on Mexico's bank Nationalisation and the Debt Crisis of 1982 is finally out! | Revista de Historia Economica - - bit.ly/3TLVXZ3 1/

Congrats to Michael De Groot on the publication of his new book “Disruption,”a fascinating work of international economic history full of rich insights.

Have been haunted recently by a line from Norman Stone’s masterful The Eastern Front, describing the doubling down on maximal war aims by all belligerents in 1916:

“The appeal to force was becoming irresistible, just when force was at its least decisive.”

A superb essay on Zola - I may even embark on the Rougon-Macquart cycle; completing all 20 novels is of course another matter.

Great comments here by Cas Mudde 👀 on how, although Giorgia Meloni 'has lived her whole life in a truly fascist subculture', people deny she is on the far right because she supports Ukraine, which has now become the proxy for being liberal democratic.' youtu.be/GnDgRj-_ERU?si…

Just my $0.02 although I am still more in the deflationist camp than not (sorry John)

New on advance access: 'Property and the End of Empire in International Zones, 1919–1947'

by Anna Ross (@WarwickHistory, Warwick Global History and Culture Centre)

#OpenAccess

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