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Prof. Damon Silvers reiterates the urgent need for entrepreneurial states that provides adequate finance, leadership, and meaningful engagement between different stakeholders to help avoid climate catastrophe. He presents sample cases from the US, Brazil, South Africa & the UK.

Prof. @DamonSilvers reiterates the urgent need for entrepreneurial states that provides adequate finance, leadership, and meaningful engagement between different stakeholders to help avoid climate catastrophe. He presents sample cases from the US, Brazil, South Africa & the UK.
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I stood on that spot in November 1985 in the midst of a student shantytown to protest Dartmouth's investment in apartheid South Africa. No police, no senior faculty being arrested. The Dartmouth students in 1985 were being much more disruptive than Annelise Orleck. Explanation?

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7️⃣ days to go!

IIPP Prof Damon Silvers begins his lecture series on the 2008 Financial Crisis focusing on its current economic and political effects and its impact on governments’ ability to tackle urgent global problems.

Resister for part one here ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

7️⃣ days to go!

IIPP Prof @DamonSilvers begins his lecture series on the 2008 Financial Crisis focusing on its current economic and political effects and its impact on governments’ ability to tackle urgent global problems.

Resister for part one here ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…
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.Damon Silvers sets the context by turning the abstract idea what climate change means for society & the economy into tangible effects already underway.

Citing the IPCC Synthesis Report, he highlights the urgency of state action that shapes markets to avoid complete catastrophe

.@DamonSilvers sets the context by turning the abstract idea what climate change means for society & the economy into tangible effects already underway. 

Citing the IPCC Synthesis Report, he highlights the urgency of state action that shapes markets to avoid complete catastrophe
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IIPP PhD Student Josh Entsminger welcomes everyone to the second part of our Labour and Climate Change Lecture Series.

We kicks off the lecture by Prof. Damon Silvers on the 'Lessons from Bidenomics and the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South'.

IIPP PhD Student Josh Entsminger welcomes everyone to the second part of our Labour and Climate Change Lecture Series.

We kicks off the lecture by Prof. @DamonSilvers on the 'Lessons from Bidenomics and the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South'.
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We kick off our Labour & Climate Change Lecture Series by Visiting Professor of Practice Damon Silvers!

Tune in to learn about “The Labour Movement, the State and Climate Change - What Must be Done to Prevent Catastrophe” here ➡️ ucl.zoom.us/j/96824932757

We kick off our Labour & Climate Change Lecture Series by Visiting Professor of Practice @DamonSilvers! 

Tune in to learn about “The Labour Movement, the State and Climate Change - What Must be Done to Prevent Catastrophe” here ➡️ ucl.zoom.us/j/96824932757
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Not only is it not anti-Semitic to oppose @Netanyahu's mass murder--it is what Judaism and the God of our people DEMANDS.

Not only is it not anti-Semitic to oppose @Netanyahu's mass murder--it is what Judaism and the God of our people DEMANDS.
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Happening today @ 17:30 BST!

Prof Damon Silvers will deliver the 2nd lecture of our Labour & Climate Change series on 'Lessons from Bidenomics and the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South'

Register to attend in-person/online➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

Happening today @ 17:30 BST!

Prof @DamonSilvers will deliver the 2nd lecture of our Labour & Climate Change series on 'Lessons from Bidenomics and the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South'

Register to attend in-person/online➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…
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Damon Silvers Hazel *wanted 🌹got🥀* Warren B. Mosler C’mon, Damon. Do you actually believe that MMT says “it’s ok to print money ad infinitum and fund the government”? What a rubbish claim. If you’re going to opine, it’s worth doing the reading. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

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We reach the final part of the event where Damon Silvers answers the questions for everyone attending in-person and online.

Tune in on Tuesday the 30th of April @ 17:30 BST for the second lecture by registering here ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

We reach the final part of the event where @DamonSilvers answers the questions for everyone attending in-person and online.

Tune in on Tuesday the 30th of April @ 17:30 BST for the second lecture by registering here ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…
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'Today, this false idol justifies the bombing of every university in Gaza; the destruction of countless schools, of archives, of printing presses; the killing of hundreds of academics, of journalists, of poets' Naomi Klein

'Today, this false idol justifies the bombing of every university in Gaza; the destruction of countless schools, of archives, of printing presses; the killing of hundreds of academics, of journalists, of poets' @NaomiAKlein
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Happening @ 17:30 BST 📢

Come for the lecture on “The Labour Movement, the State & Climate Change: What Must be Done to Prevent Catastrophe”, the first of IIPP’s Labour and Climate Change lecture series by Prof. Damon Silvers.

Attend in-person/online ➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

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IIPP's Mariana Mazzucato & Damon Silvers distill the learnings from the UAW strikes and show why the economy-wide transformation required to address climate change must happen by empowering workers.

Read Foreign Affairs op-ed here ➡️ foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

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3️⃣ days to go!

Prof Damon Silvers will deliver a lecture distilling the “Lessons from Bidenomics & the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South” as part of IIPP’s Labour and Climate Change Lecture Series.

Attend in-person/online➡️ ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/publi…

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