Heading to Ireland for the first time June 12-20 for the most conveniently timed conferences in Dublin (#CES2026) and Belfast (#EPSS2026).
Who's coming for either or both? Give me your best recs for things to do and see beyond the usual suspects.
No. I understand why this is tempting, but let's not play this game.
We should dismiss Piketty et al. for the abhorrent substance of their degrowth slop, not for whether it was written with AI assistance.
Yes! I'm dumbfounded why so many smart people here who should know better don't see it.
And if you want to see what the proposed alternative actually looks like, it is worth reading the piece's own words: 'public control of strategic assets,' 'credit guidance,' and 'universal public provisioning.'
I'll just say that, having been born in the Soviet Union, I have my doubts.
Finally made it to the emigration museum in Dublin to learn more about my heritage. It is pretty epic!
There is a lot of love I see here for this new piece, so I should say that it is also getting an extraordinary amount of pushback on other platforms from mainstream folks.
As for me, I don't think I've ever been more disgusted by anything than this new wave of globalist degrowth communism.
There is a lot of love I see here for this new piece, so I should say that it is also getting an extraordinary amount of pushback on other platforms from mainstream folks.
As for me, I don't think I've ever been more disgusted by anything than this new wave of globalist degrowth communism.
The criticisms folks should be aware of are about basic facts: extreme poverty has fallen faster recently than at any other point in human history, which is hard to square with calling growth "a doomed strategy," and the piece itself concedes that many low-income countries still need growth.
It seems this news hasn't reached this platform yet, but Phil Magness has some striking notes on how @quinnslobodian.com quotes sources, which I'll simply reproduce here
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A year ago I bet a lot of my book's argument on Canada. Then Canadians turned against migration.
This backlash didn't break my argument. But it forced me to refine it re: thermostatic politics, credibility & salience. Here's what changed & what still holds:
www.popularbydesign.org/p/how-canada...
A year after "In Our Interest," the book’s favorite case became its hardest test.
