eine der Pathologien des pol. Zentrismus ist, dass man bis zum bitteren Ende glaubt, man könnte mit den Feinden der offenen Gesellschaft diskutieren und evtl. etwas 'lernen'. Glaubt ihnen, wenn sie sagen, wer sie sind und wo sie stehen.
Chart showing the rise and fall of US clean energy manufacturing investment since 2018.
The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down.
Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students.
www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...
What Tarik says.
Hinzu kommt: soziale Medien sind nicht das Problem, sondern die Milliärdäre und Oligarchen, denen diese Firmen gehören. Warum sollte ein kommerzfreier öffentlicher digitaler Raum mit Spielregeln und unter demokratischer Kontrolle schlecht für Jugendliche sein?
Deutschlands hastiger LNG-Schwenk droht in eine neue Abhängigkeit zu führen – diesmal von den USA. In einer geoökonomischen Welt ist Dekarbonisierung kein Ballast, sondern unabdingbar für strategische Autonomie, zeigen @mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social:
Geoökonomische Schocks sind mehr als Preisschocks.
@mbabic.bsky.social & @danmertens.bsky.social zeigen, warum #Dekarbonisierung geopolitisch kein Ballast ist, sondern Autonomie + Resilienz stärken kann.
👉 makronom.de/die-geooekon...
@makronom.bsky.social #econ4future #Geoökonomie #Energiewende #LNG
🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
New paper in CNS:
'Cold War Ecology. Socialist Environmental Reflexivities from the “Club of Moscow” to Harich's “Degrowth Communism” in the GDR'
This link gives full access ⤵️
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/VNGYF...
An illustrated thread Part 1 ⬇️
RIPE is delighted to welcome @mbabic.bsky.social (University of Amsterdam) as a new editor at RIPE from January 2026. His work explores the shift from neoliberal to post-neoliberal order—especially changing state/corporate power and how to decarbonise large state-owned firms. milanbabic.com
A new politics, rising out of the void. This is breathtakingly beautiful.
Thanks Dan, hope all is well!
while the richest person on the planet cannot shut up about satellites, we mere mortals (w. @joschabels.bsky.social) are left to study the pesky cables here down on earth in the mud (or rather on the seabed).
Check what we found out in our new open access paper in Globalizations: lnkd.in/ep4q94XK
Danke!
@abenewman.bsky.social is right. There is an alternative. as.ft.com/r/7b8f914c-f...
Mit David Vogel sprach ich letztes Jahr über das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung. David hat daraus einen richtig guten Podcast gemacht, inklusive soundbites von Reagan, Thatcher und Gerhard Schröder (what's not to like?).
Das Ergebnis könnt ihr hier nachhören: www.nzz.ch/podcast/gren...
Zölle, Handelskriege, Industriepolitik: Ist die neoliberale Globalisierung vorbei? Und falls ja, was kommt danach? @mbabic.bsky.social bringt die großen Verschiebungen auf den Begriff der Geoökonomisierung. @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social (@mpifg.bsky.social) hat das Buch für uns rezensiert @suhrkamp.de
RIPE enters 2026 with an editorial transition. Huge thanks to outgoing team @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social, @skostem.bsky.social, Kevin Young & Hongying Wang! In the next few days, we’ll introduce new editors: @johannespetry.bsky.social, @alibhagat.bsky.social, Ida Bastiaens & @mbabic.bsky.social.
@pollypw.bsky.social check this
The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/
Russ Vought (piss man) tweet about doing piss man shit: The National Science Foundation will be breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. This facility is one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country. A comprehensive review is underway & any vital activities such as weather research will be moved to another entity or location.
NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
Every billionaire is a policy failure, example 3290853
www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
one week left to submit your abstracts for next year's SASE conference in Bordeaux 👇👇👇
Back when Dems governed like they meant business.
Cutting Through The Noise
How can we not only cultivate our pessimism of the intellect, but also foster an optimism of the political will against all odds? In this #ISRFbulletin contribution, @mbabic.bsky.social suggests three avenues that might help with this task.
isrf.org/blog/cutting...
Interesting thing about the debate around ‘populism’ is that the concern about populism on the right is that it can destroy democracy and human rights, and the worry about the left is that … well they have nice ideas but maybe some of them might be hard to put into practice
Hope is here.
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Screenshot Lebensmittelzeitung: Rossmann kündigt Mitgliedschaft bei Familienunternehmerverband.
Screenshot Handelsblatt: Deutsche Bank storniert Mietvertrag des Verbands
Unerwartet, trotzdem da:
Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.
Book cover of "The AI Matrix" by Daniel Mügge, Regine Paul and Vali Stan, showing a world map, hands grabbing Dollar bills, a robot arm and interconnected cables
Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates.
Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal.
Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.
Another gentle reminder.
The only way for Germany to stop the meltdown in its auto sector is by working with Europe.
Germany is too small to go it alone. Anyone with half an econ brain can see that.
