Lecturer at Queen Mary Uni of London | History of welfare, unemployment; history of economics; finance & climate change 🚲🌳
Nick Taylor
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Breaking: El Niño is officially here, and it could break records. NOAA is giving it a 63% chance of becoming one of the “largest El Niño events in the historical record going back to 1950.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/11/w...
A eulogy from Will here on what we were able to do at PERC, with a handful of staff, a small budget, a willingness to carry furniture when organising events, a brilliant wider network & some amazing students. It was a very special time and place.
Plus you stop e.g oil & gas companies from reaping super profits...
Nick Taylor
If you have a policy toolkit built to address coordinated price hikes during supply shocks then you can deal with inflation before it spreads rather than harming the economy AND necessary green investment. See:
www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etud...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online!
Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.
Nick Taylor
Nick Taylor
That remains to be seen--so far, their application for accelerated inclusion into S&P500 has been declined, see here: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
"Muskism" is a 21st-century political economy in which private firms sell sovereignty through infrastructure. This piece traces its roots to apartheid South Africa's self-sufficient "fortress futurism."
With @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com on @publicseminar.bsky.social
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Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, in their conversation with L. Zhang, discuss the political-economic model they call "Muskism."
