Tim & I wrote about the “green Marshall Plan” ideas put about in both US and China. We found that - surprise! - the concepts are credible but, despite some enthusiasm from elites in both countries, it’s not really looking like happening www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
New green industrial diplomacy?
“Negotiations over technology transfer, market access, and finance deals are a permanent feature of the new cold war: call it strategic green industrial diplomacy.” NEW Polycrisis dispatch from @katemac.bsky.social@70sbachchan.bsky.socialwww.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar...
New green industrial diplomacy?
"Under a democratic system, we cannot know what policy will be in 3 months, 3 years, or 3 decades…but we can have confidence in how it will be decided. Recognizing the…uncertainty of the future, this view of stability is one that bakes in change." ~Leah Downey www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The democratic politics of central banking
“The promise of Build Back Better’s service-sector gambit to reshape the American political economy briefly became a resource for the 2024 campaigns. But what was the promise? And what transformed it into the national-security synthesis that followed?” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wha...
From Build Back Better to the national security synthesis
“The promise of Build Back Better’s service-sector gambit to reshape the American political economy briefly became a resource for the 2024 campaigns. But what was the promise? And what transformed it into the national-security synthesis that followed?” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wha...
From Build Back Better to the national security synthesis
“Actors on all sides may see each decision as a gamble, so that if you start a big war, it was simply a mistake. But I think we should say the truth: the combatants are willing to risk escalation. These are military actors who are in control.” www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/n...
An interview with Nicholas Noe, examining deterrence and escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.
“What transformed Build Back Better into the national-security synthesis that followed?” Andrew Yamakawa Elrod on budget politics, the “dual economy,” lobbyists, the fiscal role of national security officials, service-sector reform, and much else. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wha...
From Build Back Better to the national security synthesis
“In early 2021, the push for public-sector solutions to the problems of inequality, wage stagnation, and political legitimacy began its encounter with the nexus of business and government that controls fiscal policy in America.” NEW by Andrew Yamakawa Elrod www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/wha...
From Build Back Better to the national security synthesis
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We are hiring an intern to work on editorial projects for our political economy publication, Phenomenal World. This opportunity is open to all CUNY undergraduates. Phenomenal World is a project of the...
"Neste Lula 3, assistimos a uma reprise da dinâmica pré-2013 entre governo e industriais. Mas a aliança é bem muito mais delicada e a margem de ação do petista é ainda mais reduzida" Nicole Herscovici fala de passado e presente da relação PT- industriais www.phenomenalworld.org/pt-br/analis...
Uma janela de oportunidade para a oposição ao Partido dos Trabalhadores