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If anyone is in Providence tomorrow and has a bit of spare time, I am doing a lunchtime book talk at Brown. Please come along.
November 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If anyone is in Providence tomorrow and has a bit of spare time, I am doing a lunchtime book talk at Brown. Please come along.
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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.
wid.world/news-article...
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database
In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.
wid.world
June 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
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#ThisWeekendsCocktail #Round2 The Sherry Baby
You'll need:
30ml cognac
15ml Cointreau
10ml Pedro Ximénez sherry
A dash of orange bitters
Stir all in a rocks glass with lots of ice, and garnish with a slice of orange.
Oh, and #COYBIG!
You'll need:
30ml cognac
15ml Cointreau
10ml Pedro Ximénez sherry
A dash of orange bitters
Stir all in a rocks glass with lots of ice, and garnish with a slice of orange.
Oh, and #COYBIG!
March 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#ThisWeekendsCocktail #Round2 The Sherry Baby
You'll need:
30ml cognac
15ml Cointreau
10ml Pedro Ximénez sherry
A dash of orange bitters
Stir all in a rocks glass with lots of ice, and garnish with a slice of orange.
Oh, and #COYBIG!
You'll need:
30ml cognac
15ml Cointreau
10ml Pedro Ximénez sherry
A dash of orange bitters
Stir all in a rocks glass with lots of ice, and garnish with a slice of orange.
Oh, and #COYBIG!
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Steve Levitsky does a great job explaining the authoritarian turn in the US here. Do give it a listen! 👂
Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump
Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Steve Levitsky does a great job explaining the authoritarian turn in the US here. Do give it a listen! 👂
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"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
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NEW
How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying
And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un...
Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying
And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un...
Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying
And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations
emptycity.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
NEW
How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying
And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un...
Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
How the United States constitutional crisis is intensifying
And what the US government should realise about a cavalier approach to obligations
By me
Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/how-the-un...
Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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These mega corps are the reason America is struggling.
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years
Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US average
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 6:55 AM
These mega corps are the reason America is struggling.
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
$278,000,000,000 in avoided tax.
Not the poor.
Not immigrants.
Not workers.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US Envoys arrived today and are pleading with our leaders to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs. We initially denied their pleas until their ambassador returned wearing a suit and thanked us for existing.
April 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
US Envoys arrived today and are pleading with our leaders to refrain from imposing retaliatory tariffs. We initially denied their pleas until their ambassador returned wearing a suit and thanked us for existing.
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Setting tariffs is not some presidential power set out in US constitution.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
April 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Setting tariffs is not some presidential power set out in US constitution.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
Congress has delegated this power to Trump, and Congress can take it back.
This ultimately is about Congressional weakness as about Presidential madness.
This problem has a constitutional solution, if Congress wants it.
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Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.
April 7, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Analysis | Trump is finally giving us the recession that Biden could never deliver.
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Remember: I had a plan, all along, to avoid ALL of this.
April 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Remember: I had a plan, all along, to avoid ALL of this.
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Let the record show I'd have prevented all this if you'd just let me use the time machine.
April 5, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Let the record show I'd have prevented all this if you'd just let me use the time machine.
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The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is:
"You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."
"You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."
a 'your possessions and money don't actually matter' approach is sure to work with Americans, a public notoriously amenable to sacrificing for the greater good, as Jimmy Carter's second term attests.
April 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The clearest formulation of the Trump administration pitch to the average American I can articulate is:
"You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."
"You should accept an indeterminate but significant amount of economic pain short term, and higher prices and less choice long term, in order to live in a country that has more factories in it."
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“We never see the crises that the government averts, only the ones it fails to prevent. Preparing for them may seem wasteful—until suddenly, tragically, it doesn’t.” My latest, on how Musk is courting catastrophic risk: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
DOGE Picked a Bad Time
The potential for catastrophic risk has never been greater. Musk is making it worse.
www.theatlantic.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“We never see the crises that the government averts, only the ones it fails to prevent. Preparing for them may seem wasteful—until suddenly, tragically, it doesn’t.” My latest, on how Musk is courting catastrophic risk: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
February 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
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RIP Gene Hackman... he was incredible in "Mississippi Burning" and this quote is still applicable...
February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
RIP Gene Hackman... he was incredible in "Mississippi Burning" and this quote is still applicable...
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Hi David,
If the Letby case turns out to be a MOJ, what are the similarities, and differences, with the PO postmasters' cases?
I'm struck by the fact that there were 900+ postmaster cases, and not even one jury managed to reach the correct decision - acquittal.
Hi David,
If the Letby case turns out to be a MOJ, what are the similarities, and differences, with the PO postmasters' cases?
I'm struck by the fact that there were 900+ postmaster cases, and not even one jury managed to reach the correct decision - acquittal.
February 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
@davidallengreen.bsky.social
Hi David,
If the Letby case turns out to be a MOJ, what are the similarities, and differences, with the PO postmasters' cases?
I'm struck by the fact that there were 900+ postmaster cases, and not even one jury managed to reach the correct decision - acquittal.
Hi David,
If the Letby case turns out to be a MOJ, what are the similarities, and differences, with the PO postmasters' cases?
I'm struck by the fact that there were 900+ postmaster cases, and not even one jury managed to reach the correct decision - acquittal.
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In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day
February 7, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In 2004, it took the world a year to add a gigawatt of solar power — now it takes a day