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robertpauls.bsky.social
Political economy of China's socioeconomic transformation, monetary policy, industrial policy. Suzhou, China. www.robertpauls.net
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A as old now as B was then:

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Backup data for the China Labour Bulletin（中国劳工通讯）. Go to “Files” and you will find downloadable datasets and the data description. osf.io/ajw37/?view_... China Labour Bulletin just dissolved on 12th June 2025. It’s an NGO based in Hong Kong. #CLB #中国劳工通讯

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Very good Martin Wolf article on the problem of excess global savings. Wolf is one of the few economists who thinks in global terms and understands the balance of payments. www.ft.com/content/c715...

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Admiral, we have found the location of the hidden Rebel bass

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Babe wake up new Carsick Cars single just dropped www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNkj...

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USTR explains the "reciprocal tariff" calculation and, well, you probably won't find it any more convincing than I do. ustr.gov/issue-areas/...

submitted 79 days ago • 5 comments

Some disgusting propaganda from 央视新闻。 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/PLUYka8R_1...

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Really wish I could make it to this

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Becoming Ayi: Chinese female domestic workers’ transformation from docile bodies to wilful subjects: Journal of Gender Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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We are organising a workshop! 🙂 While striving for autonomy amid growing geopolitical pressures, China’s also creates new dependencies in global trade, finance, & technology: Beyond Hegemony: China’s Quest for Domestic Autonomy, Creation of Global Dependencies? check the CfP: tinyurl.com/5a4c949r

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

Life intimating art. But it's not a comedy / satire. That's "don't look up," for folks that missed it.

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„Die Politik muss jetzt endlich liefern.“ „Es gibt keinen Automatismus hin zu einer großen Koalition.“

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I hope he won't be successful with this maneuver. Lifting the "debt break" only for defense is a mistake. The whole thing needs to go. The real interest rate on Bunds is still around 0%. We should borrow whatever we can to invest in anything that promises even the smallest productivity gains.

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Warum haben wir im BT nicht schlicht 299 Direktwahlsitze plus 299 Verhältniswahlsitze (oder davon mehr, wenn das verfassungsrechtlich geboten ist)? Warum die Verschränkung, die dazu führt, dass Wahlkreise nicht direkt vertreten werden?

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The AfD is the new workers' party. Its vote share is especially high amongst workers, voters with lower educational attainment, and financially precarious voters. Germany and Europe need fundamental changes to their economic models to turn the right-wing tide.

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Germany’s China shock summed up in one graph rhg.com/research/win...

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The problem to me with "settler colonialism" as a theory and the way it's used in the literature is its total disengagement from nationalism studies, eg, the word "nationalism" is entirely absent from this recent WMQ forum on settler colonialism in early America muse.jhu.edu/pub/275/arti...

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to understand the 'green capitalism' part of how the US got here, read our @benbraun.bsky.social account: colliding macrofinancial regimes - when China's Big Green State meets Biden's Robust Derisking, there is one winner. New @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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