Roosevelt's Good Life Agenda is out today. We argue that the only way to renew faith in democratic governance is to build a government that is committed to making people's lives better and equipped with the tools to do so by controlling costs, raising incomes, and creating more time in our days.
Grateful to the editors at SER and reviewers for taking a chance on us. Big thanks to @mkblyth.bsky.social @mbabic.bsky.social Kathryn Chelminski @jhasselbalch.bsky.social for the feedback.
Daniel Driscoll
Suzanne Kahn
Europe vs America: Supplemental
Once more with feeling: here’s a small test that strengthens the case that the productivity wedge since 1995 in the constant PPP series is a deflator asymmetry mirage and that the chained PPP series adjusts for along with Balassa-Samuelson:
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Publication alert! 🔔
My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ...
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New article out in @socioeconreview.bsky.social with @danieldrisc.com: "The states–markets–decarbonization nexus: reviewing an emerging political economy agenda"
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
New State of the Art article in @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. States, markets, and decarbonization are colliding in ways that political economy is only just beginning to map. This article is our map. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
Three core topics at this nexus: how global finance constrains green transitions in the Global South, how states are stepping up where markets failed, and what different types of capitalism can and can't achieve for decarbonization.
excellent blog post by Polyak on the fallacy of composition around Chinese export surpluses. i would add: this problem is endogenous to the model. if you reward local elites based on a tournament where higher GDP / output is the metric, they will overproduce w/o regard to the systemic consequences
How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...
