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james7jackson.bsky.social
Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
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Well, I am shocked…

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So let me get this straight. Musk's main business, Tesla, seems to be crashing due to his political meddling. Twitter is currently worth less than half of what he paid for it. And SpaceX is dependent upon government contracts. This is our genius businessman? electrek.co/2025/02/06/t...

submitted 21 days ago • 22 comments

Today, I reached the point in academia where a peer reviewer stated that there was a gap in my knowledge before going on to say that to rectify it I would need to read….. one of my articles. A milestone.

submitted 25 days ago • 68 comments

If it’s not happening already, someone needs to research this trend of people only using their phones on loudspeaker in public as if headphones had never been invented.

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www.ft.com/content/07ea...

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"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares" Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems. Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

submitted 34 days ago • 46 comments

Read this last year, definitely worth it

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

New Publication 🚨 - How might the Labour government use climate policy as a strategic political project? In this article, @matpaterson.bsky.social and I outline a possible option in this @renewaljournal.bsky.social special issue - journals.lwbooks.co.uk/renewal/vol-...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

There is much reading to be done!

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

The EV transition continues despite Europe and the USA now www.ft.com/content/0ebd...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

As in life, dogs are the hero

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Windfall profits from climate destruction go to wealthy elites, contrary to narratives of benefiting pensioners. Interesting research!

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

"..in no province do we find that carbon pricing is a material driver of the affordability challenge" 👇👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2024/12/11/n... Sadly, the political conversation around carbon pricing and affordability has left the facts behind a long time ago... (1/2)

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 first since I moved on here with with @danbaileypoleco.bsky.social and @matpaterson.bsky.social on how climate governance is politicising the Bank of England in New Political Economy - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

NEW BLOG: Green promises, violent realities: how large-scale renewables perpetuate violence in vulnerable regions in Yucatan Mexico Part 3 of our series 'The production of organised violence', by Sandra Barragan-Contreras & @james7jackson.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5dn78ckv

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

😂👌

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds

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www.ft.com/content/f881...

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Great article on how the underlying causes of inflation are linked to climate breakdown - amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg... touching on many of the themes I outlined here - direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

hat happens if you place central banks at the center of the study of varieties of capitalism? This is what we try in our new article on the Nordic Model beyond the fiscal centric approach. (open acess here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

the DOGE agency will not have the authority to reallocate funds (nor would that be constitutional), it is a PR tool to create the impression that government spending is inherently wasteful and build political momentum for spending cuts

submitted 105 days ago • 112 comments

SCI members are part of an innovative centre funded by the ESRC & UKRI 'The Centre for Joined up Sustainability Transformations (JUST)'🤝 Professor Sherilyn MacGregor of the SCI is principal investigator. The centre aims to coordinate research into action Read more here 👉 t.co/HctbFRv0wc

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Facts.

submitted 107 days ago • 361 comments