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Assistant Professor & Political Economist of Climate Change || danieldrisc.com

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Why do we listen to Odd Lots?
“Capitalists will lie to you,but they don’t lie to themselves"
Its Charismatic Megafauna in “Cambrian explosion” that blew open “neoliberal hegemony” of economic discourse over the past decade
Congrats Joe & Tracy! @tracyalloway.bsky.social
nytimes.com/2025/08/03/b...

03.08.2025 16:01 — 👍 56    🔁 17    💬 3    📌 2
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Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

31.07.2025 16:06 — 👍 1952    🔁 1503    💬 105    📌 183
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Climate Policy Is Still Good for Business The green transition will survive cuts to U.S. subsidies.

Is the climate strategy behind the IRA dead after the GOP's massive cuts to its clean energy subsidies?

In my new piece for @foreignaffairs.com, I argue: No!

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

31.07.2025 15:18 — 👍 31    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0

Glad to have had the chance to talk with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news about the trends we are seeing in US clean energy investment since Trump office.

Read his article below. For more, check out our Trump + 6 month tracker and report at www.the-big-green-machine.com

29.07.2025 16:34 — 👍 62    🔁 20    💬 5    📌 4

Thankful as usual that @warren.senate.gov always calls it like it is.

As I laid out in more detail last week in a @rooseveltinstitute.org blog - Handouts to a few billionaires does NOT improve the economy. But you know what does? Investing in kids.

shorturl.at/GgEOY

25.07.2025 14:13 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4).
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

18.07.2025 10:01 — 👍 29    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 1
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Workers tend to herbs grown beneath solar panels in a photovoltaic plantation in Lihua, Lianyungang, Jiangsu.

An aerial view shows residential buildings with roof-mounted photovoltaic-solar panels in Yinchuan,

Great photos of China's record smashing solar boom
www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

14.07.2025 01:34 — 👍 1149    🔁 232    💬 17    📌 88
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Trade, Dollars,Energy...even MODERNITY & the FUTURE. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order

A quarter of the way to the 22nd Century, everything is up for grabs

TY for inspo:Mark Blyth,Helen Thompson,Bentley Allan
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

11.07.2025 18:34 — 👍 26    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1
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The evolution of stupid [FREE TO READ] AI is the latest in a sequence of inventions that have made humanity dumber

The world was getting stupider, driven by tech, even before AI began rotting the brains of students in particular. What are our chances of stopping the rot? Or will intelligence just wither like sword-fighting and blacksmithing did before? Me @financialtimes.com on.ft.com/3IjJFVO - free to read

10.07.2025 14:25 — 👍 25    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 7
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Donald Trump’s Politics of Plunder The greed of the new Administration has galvanized America’s aspiring oligarchs—and their opponents.

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but gov-affairs execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

26.05.2025 13:03 — 👍 3599    🔁 1473    💬 138    📌 129
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"From 2020 to 2024, the top five foreign automakers in China — Volkswagen, Toyota, Honda, GM & Nissan — saw their sales in that market plunge from 9.4M to 6.4M annually

Today’s top 5 Chinese automakers saw sales more than double to 9.5M last year from 4.6 million vehicles in 2020"
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05.07.2025 17:51 — 👍 54    🔁 13    💬 5    📌 2
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The Key to Unlocking Development Finance Laura Carvalho explains how national development banks can be empowered to mobilize vastly more investment.

For those interested in what comes next after the failure of 'billions to trillions' in development finance, here's an interesting and quite possible alternate view from Laura Carvalho that foregrounds development banks: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

30.06.2025 20:03 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Sectoral distribution of profits of US firms in the 2025 Forbes global 2000 list. FG2k's categories; refers to year 2024.

Sectoral distribution of profits of US firms in the 2025 Forbes global 2000 list. FG2k's categories; refers to year 2024.

what i originally promised i'd be doing here, until politics intervened and i got distracted.
so: Sectoral distribution of profits of US firms in the 2025 Forbes global 2000 list. FG2k's categories; refers to year 2024.
contrasting countries coming.

28.06.2025 22:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?

@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.

Now out in SER!

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26.06.2025 09:51 — 👍 67    🔁 33    💬 1    📌 3
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Towards a post-Trump order for the climate crisis Abstract. The Trump administration has injected a level of chaos into international economic relations. It is worthwhile for policymakers and scholars to t

NEW from me in a Journal of International Economic Law symposium:

Towards a post-Trump order for the climate crisis.

I lay out why, despite setbacks, industrial policy is still the way to address climate change - and how macro and distributional policy can help.
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academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...

25.06.2025 15:24 — 👍 37    🔁 15    💬 3    📌 3
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De-Risking the Clean Energy Transition As federal uncertainty grows and climate goals face political headwinds, a new coalition of subnational actors is rising to stabilize markets, accelerate permitting, and finance a more inclusive green...

Proud to say that @publicenterprise.bsky.social worked with @scientistsorg.bsky.social to publish this great dive into the financial mechanisms state+local govts can deploy to scale up clean energy deployment.

Public financial leadership is what will drive decarbonization:
fas.org/publication/...

20.06.2025 17:01 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...

New paper in @ripejournal.bsky.social: What if state capacity isn’t hollowed out by derisking but used to signal feasibility to investors?

My research suggests states build capacity for bankable policies. The problem: where $$$ doesn’t flow, capacity won't grow.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.06.2025 12:35 — 👍 45    🔁 19    💬 3    📌 0
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The Dopamine Trap: Why Typing Feels Productive But Really Isn’t The Cognitive Cost of Chasing Output

📄 New Respect the Marble post:

The Dopamine Trap: Why Typing Feels Good but Thinking Matters More

👉 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/the-dopami...

For thinkers, writers and scholars who want to write to figure it out, not just to get it done.

On why word count ≠ breakthrough.

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18.06.2025 05:57 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 3

Excited to share this paper because it does something new: We're testing the implicit coordination hypothesis proposed by Weber & Wasner. Analyzing earnings calls, we find that large, economy-wide costs shocks make executives feel very good indeed. Open access:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

17.06.2025 14:32 — 👍 79    🔁 20    💬 4    📌 1
A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

A line chart with a blue line showing a large growth of protest events from Jan 20 - May 31, 2025, and a green line showing the relatively modest growth of protest events during the same period in 2017.

My team and I at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman@bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) have a new piece out: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/06/amer.... In it, we show that through May 2025, the size and scale of anti-Trump protests have dwarfed those in 2017. 🧵

13.06.2025 02:25 — 👍 2489    🔁 1038    💬 41    📌 133
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The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?

I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓

Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

04.06.2025 13:51 — 👍 73    🔁 26    💬 3    📌 3
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America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

30.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 122    🔁 52    💬 6    📌 15
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Green financial planning: a state-capital relationship meta-governed through the Paris agreement The political economy literature has witnessed a proliferation of ‘green’ interpretations of long-standing analytical subjects in recent years. This includes green industrial policy, green macrofin...

‪New article out in New Political Economy! My co-author,
@james7jackson.bsky.social, and I propose the concept of 'green financial planning' to capture how the Paris Agreement presents a state-capital relationship around planning.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

01.06.2025 00:01 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

A brilliant review of Abundance from Sandeep Vaheesan @openmarkets.bsky.social argues that what it really took to drive energy abundance in 20th century America: a national-building vision backed by public works. Cheap credit did not move the private sector off the sidelines.

28.05.2025 00:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you Christian!!

26.05.2025 16:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints

Really nice discussion of how US monetary policy affects decarbonization in emerging economies, from @danieldrisc.com

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

26.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Not sure yet!

26.05.2025 16:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m hearing a no

21.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s assault on the global dollar The difficulty is that, however unsatisfactory the hegemon might be, the alternatives look worse

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Martin Wolf says the world has three options in considering the future of the hegemonic role of the dollar. One is "continued domination by the dollar". Another is that some other currency, perhaps the euro or even the renminbi, replace it as hegemon.

www.ft.com/content/d965...

21.05.2025 10:04 — 👍 29    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 3
The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core The US dollar and decarbonization: Exploring constraints

🚨 More bad PR for the dollar. My latest (open access!) paper explores how USD centrality and strength constrains global decarbonization — from emissions to climate financial flows to green tech manufacturing.
doi.org/10.1017/fas....

13.05.2025 12:01 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0

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