The NPU Book is very much about this. Frischman's book on infrastructure is, too (though it's very ratchoice social theory with various attendant issues). Grewal's book on Network Power has related concepts... (FWIW given your project I thought you might like escholarship.org/content/qt3k...)

I told you

I knew pensions helped people live longer, but...!

You know he died by Segway? But also Segway didn't become the central focus of investment in the previously most dynamic sector of the economy while ruining any possibility of green transition in the short term, so...I'll take it

Haven't actually read the Kessler yet, but I guarantee you Talha drags him

Makes one wonder if running as a moderate, conventional Democrat is bad politics

Not for much longer, since I won't be caffeinated

I'd also say the entire analysis of Trump as uniquely threatening as an individual isn't my politics and represents a certain shortcoming of political imagination, but anyway

Seems to me that "how to bring disaffected folks like my student and his group closer to the middle of the American political spectrum" is exactly the wrong question for people who think the whole thing is failing, let alone for people of the left

The draft is now here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....