Granta was saddened to hear of Jürgen Habermas’s death. He joined Granta for an interview in 2023 and, in honour of his life and work, this interview is now free to read.
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This is what it looks like to be an "electrostate"; politics flow from what energy infrastructures will allow.
If the energy crisis of the 1970s produced the first tentative wave of efforts to move away from reliance on hydrocarbons, what will come of this energy crisis?
Out Now: Volume 16, Issue 1 of Journal of Globalization and Development, edited by @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social and Jeronim Capaldo.
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(Graphic titled 'Fixed Price' in Jairo Alvarez and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky’s article “Beyond Debt – Curatorial Note”)
"Chinese technology will play a major role in Africa’s energy systems. That is not inherently a problem. The problem is technology without transfer, investment without employment and transition without justice."
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5 postdocs just advertised: Come work with us at the LSE Global School of Sustainability @gsos-lse.bsky.social. With 150 people working full-time on the political economy of decarbonisation, you'd be joining the largest research community on the topic.
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Just accepted for publication at Socio-Economic Review, my new paper co-authored with brilliant Princeton undergraduate Aishwarya Swamidurai!
The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate
finance
Can innovative conditionality design help better navigate fiscal space constraints and disciplining constraints that are endemic to industrial policy in developing countries?
I will be presenting some of our ongoing research on this at the PDC December seminar.
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The explosion of outward foreign direct investment commitments into green manufacturing supply chains is not evidence of an expansionist Chinese state but the consequence of domestic firms seeking to escape cut-throat competition at home, writes Mausam Kumar.
Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says rather than what it does or is likely to do is a problem, I argue in @science.org. In how we understand NDCs we run the risk of a climate 'ambition trap'
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Industrial policy is back — and it's changing fast. What started as "green" strategy is now a global race for clean tech competitiveness and economic security. But do we actually know what works? That's what we're asking at the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center. /1
In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.
Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Please come if you are in DC for annuals: On Thursday, October 16, join JHU SAIS + the GDP Center for the launch 📚 of 'China and the Global Economic Order,' my new book w/Gregory T. Chin, published by Cambridge University Press in its Global China series.
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"Out of a total factory employment of 18.5 million, Tamil Nadu accounts for one out of every seven manufacturing jobs in the country."
NEW Mausam Kumar, Benjamin Bradlow, and Vishnu Venugopalan on the southern state of Tamil Nadu’s manufacturing prowess
Delighted to have this out in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social where @bhbradlow.bsky.social, Vishnu Venugopalan, and I bring out the drivers of institutional coordination in Tamil Nadu’s industrial transformation and argue for coherent subnational imaginations of IP in federal democratic settings.
