Political Economy
15 Threads
Core PCE came in moderate for the month of June. Annual rates: 1 month: 2.2% 3 months: 2.3% 6 months: 3.4% 12 months: 2.6% https://t.co/ohpui6Z9VF
Israeli import data reveals that a number of Arab countries play a significant role in buoying the occupation state’s trade volume, despite attempts by other regional nations to we...
The neoliberals taught us three things: governments are incompetent, markets are inefficient, and the commons are tragic. And yet... Our @polycrisis panel video & transcript will...
It's not a fundamental change, it's simply a change of the rules to reflect the new balance of power. The free market ideology served its purpose of advancing western interests wit...
@catcontentonly Hi there, guy who wrote his PhD on Ukrainian political economy here. Aside from your ludicrous implication that Ukraine would somehow be better off if it remained...
1/4 I just finished reading "House of Debt" by @AtifRMian and @profsufi. It's an important book and helps reinforce the framework that @M_C_Klein and I used six years later for "T...
Visually, what do you see? the high saving rate corresponding to falling poverty and government spending on the poor https://t.co/zA8IQmszAm
Part 2 The changing seasons, the changing economy 🧵 1/24 Coup political economy A coup government is certainly different from other forms of governance. It follows too, so is...
It is almost completely forgotten today, but there was a time when a giant wall made of thorny bushes and dead vegetation snaked its way for some 4000 km throughout India - from Ko...
1/4 Many people have responded to this thread with the rather bizarre argument that Germany cannot balance its trade by raising the household share of GDP because German exporters...
GDP fell at a 0.9% annual rate in Q2. Consumption rose a tepid 1.0%. Business fixed investment better than expected (-0.1%) but residential investment cratered (-14.0%). Volatile...
Fascinating book on the intellectual history of political economy in 19th century Ireland. It argues that English economics was taught at all levels to ideologically justify coloni...
1/ Seems like the political economy of standpoint epistemology is really important. High quality quantitative or empiric knowledge is really expensive to create.
People often assume that capitalism is defined by "markets and trade". But markets and trade existed for thousands of years before capitalism. Capitalism is only 500 years old. So...
A political economy thread on why the Netherlands has become the main entry point for South American cocaine into Europe. https://t.co/HtEpeNwqaI
