Patrick Wagner

How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil Commodity booms are often seen as development opportunities, but new evidence from Brazil shows they can deepen inequality and reshape consumption in unexpected ways.

🆕 How China’s demand boom reshaped inequality and consumption in Brazil

Today on VoxDev, Vinicius Cicero (Denison University) & Laura Heras-Recuero (American University) discuss how commodity booms deepened inequality in Brazil: https://ow.ly/1Gln50XLkzV

Making high-quality data accessible and usable The data ecosystem is flawed. Fixing it requires hard work to overcome many barriers. Data Basis has done exactly that to build a public good that puts data in people’s hands.

Data Basis is a Brazilian non profit with the mission to universalise access to high-quality data voxdev.org/topic/method...

10 Years After the Paris Climate Agreement, Here's Where We Are (Gift Article) Has anything really changed in the decade since the Paris Agreement was reached? Actually, quite a lot.

Although we're not where we should be, we're on a significantly better trajectory than we were 10 years ago.

Dead eyed sociopath is spot on. There are parts of that video where she looks like the Bride of Chucky.

What did the “authors” even contribute? That AI disclosure covers most of the work! 😂 I guess without the authors there wouldn’t be any conflict of interest, so there’s that…

Motherfucking wind farms…

How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections Tariff cuts in India reduced firms’ reliance on political connections, lowering politically driven misallocation and addressing a common source of inefficiency.

🆕 How trade liberalisation erodes the advantage of political connections

Today on VoxDev, @sjavervall.bsky.social‬ (@kiel.institute) & @rkhoban.bsky.social‬ (@econ.uzh.ch) discuss how tariff cuts in India reduced firms' reliance on political connections: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

Beautiful tree shots. Can I ask what you shoot on?

I don’t post, really, but I am very excited to announce the publication of my new paper “The Hole Dug Deeper” in Ecological Economics! In it, I investigate labor market characteristics (e.g., informality) as a channel through which climate hazards worsen income disparities.

doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

political scientists democratising their institutions in the age of backsliding, talk about leading by example

Heroic. Hilarious.

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 2 exciting PreDoc positions in my team at the University of Bern, starting late summer/early fall! Collaborate on cutting-edge research in Political Economy, Development &Behavioral Economics, using experimental and quasi-experimental methods.

this is the president of the united states repeating unhinged racist propaganda ginned up by the worst white supremacist ideologues on earth

Die #Exzellenzcluster stehen fest: Heute hat die Exzellenzkommission 70 Projekte zur Förderung ausgewählt. 45 Cluster werden fortgesetzt, 25 neu eingerichtet. Die Förderung beginnt ab 1. Jan. 2026 für 7 Jahre, die Fördersumme beträgt insg. 539 Mio. €/Jahr. Die Liste: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3

Surprise.

FSU shooting suspect used mom's service weapon and had white supremacist views, police and classmates say The 20-year-old is the son of a sheriff’s deputy who had access to one of her weapons, officials said.

NEW: Classmates of the FSU shooting suspect say he harbored white supremacist views: “He espoused so much white supremacist rhetoric and far-right rhetoric," one classmate says.

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Life imitating art

The Abduction of Mahmoud Khalil “..the first arrest of many to come.”

If organs of state security and demagogues and mob leaders are acting in concert to crack down on dissent it is unequivocally fascist. I don’t mean this to be a polemic: it's the only appropriate term from political science and theory for this practice.
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breaking via inbox: “On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent grad student at Columbia, at his place of residence, an apartment building owned by the university. The DHS agents said that the State Dept revoked Khalil’s green card.”

Always safest bet to hide under the table

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

As an also 39.9, I wonder the same…

Jordan Peterson says he’s left Canada and moved to the U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca Peterson cited his ongoing feud with the College of Psychologists of Ontario as a reason to leave his home country.

Jordan Peterson moves to Florida, raising the average IQ of both Canada and Florida.

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Climate change is projected to cause an increase in numerous forms of violent human behaviour. Policies like a robust social safety net and political inclusion can help ensure a more peaceful future.

🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?

Today on VoxDev, @marshallburke.bsky.social , @joelferguson.bsky.social, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel.bsky.social UC Berkeley explore the conflict-climate change relationship
voxdev.org/topic/instit...

this is what mass deportation is. people will necessarily be rounded up and processed. there’s no version of that that doesn’t involve camps.

This is kind of ridiculous. This is an event that has occurred each year, mostly unchanged. How can there be this many bugs? I don’t particularly care about the event, per se, but the sheer number of bugs and problems lately is just kind of unbelievable.

It’s excellent. Reading it right now!