@worldlyphilosopher.bsky.social
Haha. The deadpan tone of your original post was lost on me.
October 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Haha. The deadpan tone of your original post was lost on me.
Could you elaborate?
October 18, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Could you elaborate?
Merci pour ce partage. Pourriez-vous résumer pour les béotiens l'enjeu de cette réfutation?
October 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Merci pour ce partage. Pourriez-vous résumer pour les béotiens l'enjeu de cette réfutation?
The post is pure drivel. Despite (b/c of?) his fancy credentials, he is an ignoramus.
E.g.: "I happen to agree that a huge cost of climate catastrophism has been lack of attention to pressing environmental problems [...]. They 'affect the planet.' But they don’t have anything to do with climate."
E.g.: "I happen to agree that a huge cost of climate catastrophism has been lack of attention to pressing environmental problems [...]. They 'affect the planet.' But they don’t have anything to do with climate."
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The post is pure drivel. Despite (b/c of?) his fancy credentials, he is an ignoramus.
E.g.: "I happen to agree that a huge cost of climate catastrophism has been lack of attention to pressing environmental problems [...]. They 'affect the planet.' But they don’t have anything to do with climate."
E.g.: "I happen to agree that a huge cost of climate catastrophism has been lack of attention to pressing environmental problems [...]. They 'affect the planet.' But they don’t have anything to do with climate."
if you want to see just how utterly insane the positions of some very well-known, widely-read and well-respected economists are, check out this blog post by John Cochrane about @dwallacewells.bsky.social’s piece: www.grumpy-economist.com/p/climate-tu...
Climate turning point
Three excellent essays last month point to a turning point in climate with, I think, a broad political ramification.
www.grumpy-economist.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
if you want to see just how utterly insane the positions of some very well-known, widely-read and well-respected economists are, check out this blog post by John Cochrane about @dwallacewells.bsky.social’s piece: www.grumpy-economist.com/p/climate-tu...
Merci beaucoup pour tous ces éléments ! Je suis d'accord avec vous.
September 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Merci beaucoup pour tous ces éléments ! Je suis d'accord avec vous.
Bonjour, avez-vous des recommandations d'articles sérieux sur la question de l'origine du SARS-Cov-2 ?
September 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Bonjour, avez-vous des recommandations d'articles sérieux sur la question de l'origine du SARS-Cov-2 ?
Reposted
Dans quelques minutes, une pétition ouverte sur la plateforme de l'Assemblée nationale atteindra le seuil des 500 000 signatures. Les conséquences seront surtout symboliques, mais les symboles comptent en politique.
July 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Dans quelques minutes, une pétition ouverte sur la plateforme de l'Assemblée nationale atteindra le seuil des 500 000 signatures. Les conséquences seront surtout symboliques, mais les symboles comptent en politique.
Fully agree with that. I would argue however that it’s important not to spread simplistic and misleading (and in any case loose) narratives on the relationship between globalization and development. That was my only point. Your critical
point re: the book is valid and important.
point re: the book is valid and important.
June 14, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Fully agree with that. I would argue however that it’s important not to spread simplistic and misleading (and in any case loose) narratives on the relationship between globalization and development. That was my only point. Your critical
point re: the book is valid and important.
point re: the book is valid and important.
Re: Africa, your argument is arguably simplistic — in particular c it omits the structural inequalities embedded in international trade, documented among others by @jasonhickel.bsky.social et al. in this 2024 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
www.nature.com
June 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Re: Africa, your argument is arguably simplistic — in particular c it omits the structural inequalities embedded in international trade, documented among others by @jasonhickel.bsky.social et al. in this 2024 paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Development outcomes of India have been mediocre at best, as documented in Ashoka Mody’s 2023 book. State capacity, industrial
policy and forms of protectionism played a key role in all countries that successfully developed. Narrative on globalization => development is simplistic at best.
policy and forms of protectionism played a key role in all countries that successfully developed. Narrative on globalization => development is simplistic at best.
June 14, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Development outcomes of India have been mediocre at best, as documented in Ashoka Mody’s 2023 book. State capacity, industrial
policy and forms of protectionism played a key role in all countries that successfully developed. Narrative on globalization => development is simplistic at best.
policy and forms of protectionism played a key role in all countries that successfully developed. Narrative on globalization => development is simplistic at best.