Professor of Political Economy at UcLouvain
Central banking & infrastructural finance geek. Also EU & French politics, political economy & social sciences at large.
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Clem Fon
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In a week (Friday 19th), the Belgium Political Economy Working group organises its 6th bi-annual conference in Brussels. On the menu: a doctoral session, two sessions on green and european political economies and a fantastic keynote speaker: Andrea Binder. Info: politicaleconomy.be/news/2026-06...
As expected, @thunen.bsky.social is absolutely on 🔥 in this interview. There’s no one out there with more receipts on the international political economy of US empire. Every sentence full of insight.
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e...
In the 1870s, a Bombay civil servant built a working solar steam engine. This piece shows how colonial officials and mill owners rejected the idea less on technical grounds than because it conflicted with imperial trade interests.
By @egholmlund.bsky.social in @theconversation.com
This is a really striking paper. It shows that vehicles "Made in Germany" are mostly not made in Germany at all.
Genuine fuel security should not look like a Chinese tanker full of EV cars but rather as:
When NOT refereed by Tony Brothers, Spurs are up 3-1 against Hartenstein's armlocks, Dort's headbanging and three faults per possession's OKC team.
Central bankers shooting down drones as long as they got own ressources to do so. Under Putin, Russia central bank looks now like Monty Python's Crimson permanent assurance
The distance between "smart money" hiring preferences and our universities' AI policies (blabla, it's like Internet, you cannot escape it, better teach them something they will use anyway, blablayou are a luddite if you want to ban IA from your teaching blabla) is much wider than Hormus straits.
Think using a chatbot makes your work better?
Think again.
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Morocco has also played the Friedman fantasy wildcard: designing a offsgore free trade/no business taxes zone on Europe's borders to attract foreign capital (zone was designed by rapist and ex imf head/socialiste ministre des finances Strauss Kahn. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
William Adams was convinced that solar energy could change the world. The problem was, he needed more sun to demonstrate it.
A humanities comeback is an interesting and in many ways welcome proposition.
Clem Fon
Après avoir bénéficié pendant cinq ans d’une exonération d’impôts sur les sociétés au Maroc, Dominique Strauss-Kahn a fait créer en 2018 une société offshore aux Émirats arabes unis, dans une zone où ...
This single shipload of electric vehicles from BYD will cut Australia's annual fuel demand by at least 6 million litres
This is what genuine fuel security looks like - not tanks of diesel and rushed trade deals, but cutting our exposure permanently to overseas fossil fuel supply.
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
1/ Industrialization shifting on the African continent.
Industries anchored in South Africa once. Now?
Morocco “sustained modernisation of its productive system, diversification of its exports and the effective implementation of its industrial policy”.
www.theafricareport.com/420195/how-m...
In a major flex of Chinese industrial muscle, a company has used its own purpose-built ship to respond to rampant demand from Australian consumers.
now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett
www.ft.com/content/c0ae...
Tom Quinn
From aerospace to car manufacturing, 20 years of targeted industrial policy have made Morocco the African Development Bank’s top-ranked economy on the continent – as Eskom and Transnet hollow out Sout...
