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Andor pol econ chat: how is a planet (Ghorman) that is built exclusively on the export of textiles one of the richest and most politically important in the Empire? No matter how nice the fabric is producing a single input good doesn't seem like a winner in interplanetary capitalism(?)

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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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And there’s a term for “unidentified, masked law enforcement”: secret police. The US right now has a secret police arbitrarily arresting people, including opposition politicians and students.

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The two stages of tech regulation: 1) It is too early, we shouldn’t stifle innovation by regulating this new technology. 2) It is too late, the cat is out of the bag, we shouldn’t waste our time regulating this technology, we just have to learn to live with it. There are no other stages.

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Very cool labor/climate job alert!

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as far as i can tell the new pope is the first american citizen to be a regnant monarch, which is fun!

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I've yet to see evidence that AI doomsday fearmongering is anything more than investors talking their books. None of these guys care about the real dangers to human flourishing from LLMs (deskilling, AI slop, hallucination/disinformation, carbon emissions etc).

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Will literally anyone who spent a month smearing Tlaib over this say sorry lol

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L8YER CAKE

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i think Perrin on Andor is a really interesting character because he would be read completely differently if he were a woman, despite being a character who would be a woman in almost any other media.

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I have a new article out on wage-earner funds, a famous attempt at economic democracy in Sweden in the 70s & 80s. It explores the funds' defeat, emphasising the issue's stronger resonance with businesses compared to workers & the Social Democratic Party journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

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I am going to become the Joker.

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Seem to recall that this administration thinks it is appropriate to use military force (even without congressional authorization) to restore freedom of navigation.

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Happy May Day

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It's the real Labor Day - May Day!

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Has any party ever deserved their pasokification as much as Starmer's Labour?

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I'm pretty sure I know what study Zuck is referring to here and it's worth noting that there's a compelling argument that the "3 friends" figure is partially due to interviewer effect, no need to accept his conclusion OR his premise journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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I wonder if more folks will come around on Isabella Weber's sellers inflation this time? It's easy to imagine firms that used an emergency to cover large price rises once recently would do it again. If you have temporarily enhanced pricing power why wouldn't you use it?

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Not satisfied with causing a giant supply shock, the Trump admin is now planning on killing the (largely Southern) foreign auto assembly complexes. SC, AL, MS, GA, TN, KY, and TX all have at least one foreign auto plant. Great work guys, really sticking it to the sunbelt here!

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#MichelAglietta passed away. He was a crucial figure in the 1970s and early 1980s for those working at the intersection of #Marx, #money, #unequaldevelopment, #stagesofcapitalism (and later international currency). The early #regulationschool was in dialogue with #SuzannedeBrunhoff. /1

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the risks of vulgar freudianism are as dangerous as the risks of vulgar marxism, however, you can get a decent first approximation of a lot of odd political behavior just thinking thru projective identification and/or transference

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Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders. Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.

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Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.

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Does anyone have access to "The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory"? I'm trying to find one chapter for a lit review, if anyone has it please DM me

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Sounds bad in general, but on the other hand, I can't wait to apply for the Wyatt Koch Chair in Marxist Economics at the University of Chicago

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some wonderful moments this weekend at WSES 2025, with folks tuning in from many time zones. our central problematic: does economic sociology have a future? two tentative yet recurring points of discussion👇

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This comment regarding @nathantankus.bsky.social’s recent run of incredible work on the threats facing the plumbing of the global financial system is spot on.

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This is today! If you're in Madison, come on by, if you're elsewhere, zoom is available!

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Today’s Chartbook features North American interdependence. According to Joesph Politano’s substack, Apricitas Economics, Mexico’s Northern states of Chihuahua and Coahuila are hugely dependent on exports to the US. And hundreds of thousands of jobs have been generated by Mexico’s export boom.

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I haven't been following the agency lately, but one would hope that NY DFS would prosecute some of this blatant criminality if the feds won't touch it. It seems like there's been a large amount of fairly unsophisticated insider trading lately.

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I often tell my students this Joan Robinson quote, and not as a joke “The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.”

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