Gabriel Kahan

Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social

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Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me.
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

is there a technology that "the left" is excited about?
www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

just messaged!

prepping for week 3 of my seminar - an intro to green industrial policy. really impressed by the quality of discussion so far, w students sharing perspectives on singapore, turkey, hungary, china, and more. big thanks to @bhbradlow.bsky.social for the inspiration. dm for the full syllabus!

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

Workshop - Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration This workshop is organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms…

On 19th March 2026 from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 at SciencesPo Salle 900, 9 rue de la Chaise, Paris, we are organising a workshop about ecological planning with @gkahan.bsky.social and LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group. Register here: www.indep.network/event/worksh...

📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣

Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊

That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

Cover art for building postcarbon futures, a new book on climate justice and design due out in spring 2026

cover art is juuuuust about final

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thinking back to this excellent concluding paragraph from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's Substack post after Zohran Mamdani's initial primary victory:

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

Image featuring a classical architecture building with columns, overlaid with a text quote from Elizabeth Wilkins of the Roosevelt Institute, "In Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration, former Biden-Harris senior officials Hannah Garden-Monheit and Tresa Joseph draw from the insights, recommendations, and candor of more than 45 former public servants and tell a broader story we can’t forget: The problems with these institutions did not start with Donald Trump or Elon Musk, worse as they now are. These problems are, in part, what results from decades of bipartisan neglect, disinvestment, and deference to markets."

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.

Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid

Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?

New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

CFP: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference A forthcoming conference will launch The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE): a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open…

Ten days left to submit proposals for the inaugural ALPE conference in Richmond. Come join us for this exciting launch! lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-ina...

For Europe, the lesson is sobering: we talk “sovereignty funds,” but GGFs already operate as a parallel financial infrastructure on a scale we haven’t matched. This is how China turns finance into an industrial weapon.

the next question must be democratization. what does it mean to politicize these funds and their sectoral targets? which countries will iterate on this model by further incorporating collective deliberation and decision-making?

it’s articles like these that give new meaning to Arrighi’s argument that organizational innovations help reconsolidate hegemonic orders. if the American century was powered by vertical integration, the Chinese century will be powered by competitive high-tech sectoral planning

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:

hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441

registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy.
Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12

Fabulous lede from @jemima.bsky.social

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“This moment need not be seen as a crisis. Rather, it presents a pivotal opportunity for Brazil to assert itself as a sovereign economic power – less reliant on Washington and more engaged with an emerging multipolar global order.” -Pedro Rossi
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Changing China in Sociological Eyes The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. $120.00 (cloth); $...

Glad to share my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside.

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.

"And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

New policy brief that I co-authored with @akentikelenis.bsky.social for @plataformacipo.bsky.social, entitled "BRICS and the Green Industrialization of the Future."

plataformacipo.org/en/publicati...

Meet the new NYT city editor, Joseph McCarthy