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Phenomenal World
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Publication of Jain Family Institute. Political economy and critical social sciences. Disponível em PT / disponible en ES. phenomenalworld.org phenomenalworld.org/pt-br phenomenalworld.org/es
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10d
“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”

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The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 7d
Over the last decade a big tent coalition created a hegemonic "common sense" in US : public investment to fight climate change would undo the economic and political damage of deindustrialization, AND contain China.

Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 7d
NEW! In our latest @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter, Shreyas Shende asks whether or not India will accept Trump’s offer of being locked into a US-led carbon coalition or break free with its own green developmentalist growth model. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
India in the New Global Order
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 7d
“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—and the world.”

- @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 7d
1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations.
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Check it out --India in the new global order
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 10d
“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
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Miguel Gómez Garrido @miguelgomezgarrido.bsky.social · 11d
No dejéis de leer esto de @jorgetamames.bsky.social. A veces necesitamos poner ojos de corresponsal, y muy pocos lo consiguen con esta precisión.

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Growing Pains | Jorge Tamames
Spain’s search for a new growth model
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 15d
“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.

The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”

NEW by Ted Fertik

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The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 15d
17/ 200 billion plus in overseas green factory investment! Chinese companies are expanding their supply chains abroad to capture new markets, avoid tariffs & get closer to sources of raw materials
BRI 2 is private sector led and very different from the first
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The Belt and Road 2.0 | Tim Sahay
An interview with Mathias Larsen on China’s overseas clean-tech manufacturing investments
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 15d
“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.

The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”

NEW by Ted Fertik

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19d
I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 20d
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The Belt and Road 2.0 | Tim Sahay
An interview with Mathias Larsen
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 20d
“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.”

NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 21d
“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.”

Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
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Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein
An interview with Daniel Wortel-London
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 21d
A wonderful interview of @dlondonwortel.bsky.social on his fantastic new book, "The Menace of Prosperity" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), by Kim Phillips-Fein for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social; of interest to all #skystorians! www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein
An interview with Daniel Wortel-London
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Kevin Hartmann @kevinhartmannc.bsky.social · 21d
Muy feliz porque
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publicó mi artículo sobre la reforma pensional colombiana.

Allí explico una aparente paradoja: ¿por qué un gobierno progresista impulsó una reforma con una estructura neoliberal?

Comenetarios bienvenidos

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Paradojas reformistas | Kevin Hartmann
La nueva arquitectura del sistema pensional colombiano
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · Sep 10
And more w/ @akentikelenis.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on green technology transfers in the Global South.

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Transfer and Transition | Benjamin Bradlow & Alexandros Kentikelenis
Technology transfer is a necessity for a just global green transformation
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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 29d
Anatomy of a Defense Budget - Zaynab Quadri

“Throughout the past century, these evolutions in US military spending have reflected the changing nature of American warfare, governance, and power.”

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Photo of a stacked area chart. Title: Defense spending surged since the “Global War on Terror”, driven by operations and maintenance. Subtitle: U.S. Department of Defense budget breakdown (constant 2025 dollars). Stacked area chart showing defense spending from 1948 to 2024 Y-axis: dollars in billions - from $0bn to $1000bn. X-axis: years 1948–2024, with a vertical line marking September 2001. Spending categories in legend: • Operation & Maintenance (red) • Military Personnel (blue) • Procurement (orange) • RDT&E (green) • Military Construction (purple) • Retired Pay, Defense (gray) • Revolving & Mgmt. Funds (light blue) • Family Housing (black) Key pattern: Spending spikes during Korean and Vietnam wars, renewed Cold War tensions in 70s/80s, and especially after 2001. The post-2001 surge is dominated by Operations & Maintenance. Caption under chart: Budget Authority by Public Law Title. All figures in constant 2025 dollars (inflation-adjusted). Excluding “Trust, Receipts, and Other.” Source: Department of Defense, National Defense Budget Estimates FY 2025, Table 6-8, p.138. Graphic: Yusuf Imaad Khan.
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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 28d
Over at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay explore the future of an uninsurable earth.
Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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Brent Cebul @brentcebul.bsky.social · 28d
Mike Glass and I argue for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social that we’ve tried the #abundance incentive-based approach to housing crises before. But lack of oversight + incentives produced fraud, profiteering, and inflated rents -- and the Trump family fortune.
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Adding Value | Phenomenal World
Mortgage insurance has traditionally been the method the federal government has used to induce investment in owner-occupied housing. But for multifamily rentals, the history of mortgage-insurance prog...
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Laura Routh @laurarouth.bsky.social · 29d
“ … it’s not entirely clear that it will ever play out as a system-wide financial catastrophe—more likely is that we see more of the same, with intensifying and unevenly distributed social consequences.” Great overview from @katemac.bsky.social and Tim Sahay www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...
Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 29d
Absolutely fantastic piece on the interfaces between climate risk and insurance in the Polycrisis newsletter today, by @70sbachchan.bsky.social and @katemac.bsky.social

Not a doom loop, but “communities of fate” and the moral economy of the welfare state.
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Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29d
We finally FINALLY finished the big insurance piece. There's a LOT that is not in there. But I think we've got a few of the important bits.
TL;DR insurance is extremely interesting, but it's neither the climate problem nor the solution.
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Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29d
NEW: @kmac & I: The future is triage on an uninsurable earth
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Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 29d
“Insurance companies are not in the business of going out of business. How might the insurance industry respond to the problem of shrinking insurability?”

NEW: @katemac.bsky.social and @70sbachchan.bsky.social tackle the future of an uninsurable earth

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Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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