Taking a break from Bluesky, which just doesn't seem to be worth frequent check-ins. I'm on Substack and LinkedIn, fwiw.
17.11.2025 19:45 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Classic ISI trap. It's no wonder the US and Argentina are becoming so friendly. Good piece!
14.11.2025 16:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Portrait of Alison Isenberg
Princeton remembers history professor Alison Isenberg, a distinguished urban historian and co-founder of Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities: https://bit.ly/3JBLmPw
13.11.2025 20:48 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Proud to have the @nzpolicylab.bsky.social cited in the IEA World Energy Outlook. The new scenario is grabbing attention, but this is a key figure: China is remaking the global energy industrial base. The very countries that were supposed to sustain oil and gas growth through 2050 are on a new path.
13.11.2025 15:45 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Recent novels I've been reading that I liked: Olga Tokarczuk (Empusium), Jenny Erpenbeck (Visitation), Lea Ypi (Indignity --somewhere between novel and memoir), Geetanjali Shree (Tomb of Sand).
13.11.2025 14:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
What critics of Toyota did (do?) not understand is that the hybrid assembly process is complicated. Toyota is obsessed with assembly process β never seen anything like a Toyota assembly line, in my visits to various OEM factories.
12.11.2025 16:14 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Read Benjamin H. Bradlow's review of "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Wonβt Save the Planet" by Brett Christophers.
#EarlyView in #BJS β‘οΈ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
10.11.2025 11:02 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Why Latin America canβt quit oil
As COP30 approaches, Brazil and Colombia offer competing visions of a βjust energy transitionβ for developing countries
βCountries that have already industrialised, with per capita incomes well above the average of the global south and Brazil, should be a little more aware that we live in a single ecosystem... for it to be fair, there has to be money on the table.β
www.ft.com/content/f85a...
06.11.2025 20:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A Chinese E.V. Delivers the Host, and a Message, at the Global Climate Summit
"That Brazil chose Chinese electric vehicles as the official means of transporting Mr. Lula and other world leaders sent a clear signal to many: In its quest to transform its roads and its economy, Latin Americaβs largest nation would be turning to China."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...
06.11.2025 19:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The fact is that there are plenty of auto firms around the world making profitable EVs.
If the US wants to pursue bringing back manufacturing with this kind of profound uncompetitiveness, the country is heading towards an even more wasteful and plutocratic future than the present.
06.11.2025 19:40 β π 18 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0
My understanding is that they were eliminated in order to give all of the sections more sessions.
06.11.2025 15:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Chinaβs $143 billion push to dominate the global EV industry
After years of investing in Europe, Chinese EV and battery firms are turning to Asia, Africa, and Latin America
"Overall, Europe β an early adopter of EVs β had received the bulk of the Chinese investments for component and full vehicle manufacturing. That dynamic shifted w/ Latin America receiving most of the investment in vehicle assembly in the second quarter of this year."
restofworld.org/2025/china-e...
04.11.2025 17:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
"Our clean-energy future is no longer being decided in the boardrooms of the old energy powers, but in the bustling cities and industrial corridors of the global south... The era when American politics could make or break global climate co-operation is over."
04.11.2025 14:12 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Itβs hard to think of an industry in which the global technological frontier has become so remade in the past century than the auto sector.
Reading this en route to what was once technological ground zero for car manufacturing: Detroit, βMotor Cityβ.
@tomsugrue.bsky.social @rkeil.bsky.social
26.10.2025 14:21 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Coal generation is not going to stop in South Africa.
Other sources are going to grow.
As electricity and energy minister Ramakgopa put it:
βWe are going to get cleaner, but we are not abandoning coal. We donβt have a coal problem. We have an emissions problem.β
www.opis.com/resources/en...
23.10.2025 20:56 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
The metalworkers' union in Bahia has brought a case against BYD's factory in northeast Brazil, accusing the firm of campaigning to get factory workers to oppose the union.
23.10.2025 20:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Very excited to have received support from CIFAR for new interdisciplinary research with Haotian Wang (Rice University, chemical engineering) on βBiofuels or Batteries: Dual Pathways for Decarbonizing Brazil's Auto Sectorβ!
More to comeβ¦
21.10.2025 13:12 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The philosophical commitment in Silicon Valley to AGI as something that could happen is making this difficult (to put it mildly).
17.10.2025 01:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
BYD to blanket South Africa with megawatt-scale EV charging network
Construction of the 1MW supercharger network will commence in the second quarter of 2026, BYD has announced.
While announcing a major investment in EV charging in South Africa, BYD says it has no plans to manufacture in the country. Seems this is a buildout to support expanding imports, posing a challenge to OEMs.
techcentral.co.za/byd-south-af...
16.10.2025 12:46 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Enjoy! I think the one key song that is not on that album is Cold, Cold World. So you should definitely seek out that one too.
16.10.2025 00:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Live at the Austin Outhouse is the classic. His studio output is weird and spotty, and for a while that was basically the only thing available.
16.10.2025 00:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Why green growth needs creative destruction
Big business lobbying holds back growth, Nobel-winning economists suggest
There's a good case that this year's economics Nobel has more relevance to meaningful climate action than the prize given to Nordhaus in 2018.
on.ft.com/4nY0RAe
15.10.2025 13:34 β π 11 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Aghion (et al) have a paper on China, they recognised long ago & before many that the Chinese model departs from the East Asia model in having a Darwinian struggle-to-the-death competition of firms behind a wall of protection. It pairs Schumpeterian growth theory w the economics of industrial policy
13.10.2025 13:42 β π 44 π 12 π¬ 1 π 1
Looking forward to this!
14.10.2025 14:46 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Associate Professor at the University of Oxford - Director of @Tidecentre.bsky.social
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UCD Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. New books: 'Nationalism as a Way of Life', 'Why Humans Fight', 'Contemporary Sociological Theory', 'Grounded Nationalisms' and 'The Rise of Organised Brutality'.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Bard. Under contract with UChicago Press for "The Menace of Prosperity." Economic history. http://Publicspaced.com https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo247855479.html - www.publicspaced.com
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Junior Professor of Global Sustainability Governance @College for Social Sciences and Humanities (UA Ruhr) & UDE (IFSO) | IR/IPE scholar | Interested in global governance, IOs, sustainability, (post-)growth & more (he/him)
Assistant Prof/Lecturer l University of Bristol Tech, markets, orgs + work.
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Sociologist.
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All things industrial policy.
From the Industrial Policy Group lab. Co-founded by Dr. RΓ©ka JuhΓ‘sz and Dr. Nathan Lane. π https://industrialpolicygroup.com
Political scientist at Fridtjof Nansen Institute and University of Oslo. Environmental & climate politics, global governance, legitimacy.
www.vegardtorstad.com
International climate politics: negotiations, diplomacy, and finance.
Senior Fellow at the Hertie School.
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Immigrant. Poli sci prof at U of Toronto. Politics of climate change, carbon markets, oceans, NGOs, enviro politics. Author of Existential Politics, out now: tinyurl.com/ybephkfb. Occasional ranter. greenprofgreen.com
Professor, UC Berkeley | Climate Fellow, Harvard Business School
climate and clean energy policy | www.jonasmeckling.com
Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New book: Scarcity with Carl Wennerlind (Harvard 2023). Next: Britain's fossil transition 1760-1870 and, with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford
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