I am extremely excited that in the 2026-2027 academic year, I will be a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where I will be writing my next book, "The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transitions in the Global South"!

The urban future depends on who the city includes Benjamin Bradlow argues that the fate of democratic cities is shaped not only by elections or resources, but by whether local governments have the power and political ties needed to extend housing, sa

I really enjoyed speaking about URBAN POWER with @danbanik.bsky.social for his fantastic podcast In Pursuit of Development. Along with links to the podcast, he has done a great write-up of our conversation in this post.

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🚨 Just published in Socio-Economic Review! 🚨
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The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate finance

By Benjamin H. Bradlow and Aishwarya Swamidurai

The article is available open access at the following link.

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This is what it looks like to be an "electrostate"; politics flow from what energy infrastructures will allow.

Out Now: Volume 16, Issue 1 of Journal of Globalization and Development, edited by @kevinpgallagher.bsky.social and Jeronim Capaldo.

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(Graphic titled 'Fixed Price' in Jairo Alvarez and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky’s article “Beyond Debt – Curatorial Note”)

KARABO MOKGONYANA | Africa’s green boom risks a new labour trap An energy shift may entrench foreign labour model without real technology transfer

"Chinese technology will play a major role in Africa’s energy systems. That is not inherently a problem. The problem is technology without transfer, investment without employment and transition without justice."

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5 postdocs just advertised: Come work with us at the LSE Global School of Sustainability @gsos-lse.bsky.social. With 150 people working full-time on the political economy of decarbonisation, you'd be joining the largest research community on the topic.

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PDC December Seminar PDC's December Seminar series, with talks by Mausam Kumar and Rebecca Ann Jones. Lunch provided (bring your own beverage).

Can innovative conditionality design help better navigate fiscal space constraints and disciplining constraints that are endemic to industrial policy in developing countries?

I will be presenting some of our ongoing research on this at the PDC December seminar.

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China’s FDI, not the BRI, drives a global green transition The explosion of outward foreign direct investment commitments into green manufacturing supply chains is not evidence of an expansionist Chinese state but the consequence of domestic firms seeking to escape cut-throat competition at home, writes Mausam Kumar.

The explosion of outward foreign direct investment commitments into green manufacturing supply chains is not evidence of an expansionist Chinese state but the consequence of domestic firms seeking to escape cut-throat competition at home, writes Mausam Kumar.

Avoiding the climate “ambition trap” At the United Nations General Assembly in September, President Xi of China delivered a noteworthy update in what has been a dismal year for climate news: China would reduce its greenhouse gas emission...

Assessing climate ambition based on what a country says rather than what it does or is likely to do is a problem, I argue in @science.org. In how we understand NDCs we run the risk of a climate 'ambition trap'
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Industrial policy is back — and it's changing fast. What started as "green" strategy is now a global race for clean tech competitiveness and economic security. But do we actually know what works? That's what we're asking at the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center. /1

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

In his forthcoming book Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World, @drodrik.bsky.social offers new, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issues.

Out November 4. Preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Please come if you are in DC for annuals: On Thursday, October 16, join JHU SAIS + the GDP Center for the launch 📚 of 'China and the Global Economic Order,' my new book w/Gregory T. Chin, published by Cambridge University Press in its Global China series.
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Coordinating Tamil Nadu | Mausam Kumar, Benjamin H. Bradlow, & Vishnu Venugopalan How India’s southernmost state transformed into a global manufacturing hub

"Out of a total factory employment of 18.5 million, Tamil Nadu accounts for one out of every seven manufacturing jobs in the country."

NEW Mausam Kumar, Benjamin Bradlow, and Vishnu Venugopalan on the southern state of Tamil Nadu’s manufacturing prowess

Delighted to have this out in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social where @bhbradlow.bsky.social, Vishnu Venugopalan, and I bring out the drivers of institutional coordination in Tamil Nadu’s industrial transformation and argue for coherent subnational imaginations of IP in federal democratic settings.