A pattern that surprised me when I first heard about it (from @ruben.the100.ci): in high fertility contexts, a large share of kids is born to older mothers -- it takes time to have lots of kids!
Not sure how I feel about "very late fertility (ages 35+)" 😭
www.niussp.org/fertility-an...
Epic article on Palestine by @rafeefz.bsky.social just published by @devandchg.bsky.social based on her keynote at the recent AHE conference.
"Development as Erasure: Palestine, Genocide and ‘Reconstruction’"
A must read!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Great piece. I think this speaks more generally to the problems of doing casual inference in historical time. Joan Robinson wrote about that re economics: doi.org/10.1111/j.14...
Well, he is admitting that the 2024 election was rigged…
Registration is now open for Daniela Gabor's lecture:
www.iss.nl/en/events/seville-process-developmentalism-after-american-hegemony-2026-01-22
@danielagabor.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @andrewmfischer.bsky.social @marsel.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social
I think they are using the term with the connotation of financial deepening. Probably lost in LLM translation.
Also see our reflection, legacy & assessment articles by @amirleb.bsky.social, Hazel Gray, Prabhat Patnaik, Pritish Behuria, @andypsumner.bsky.social, Baptiste Albertone, & Tin Hinane El Kadi.
In sum, a must read for knowing where the exciting debates of critical development studies are heading...
And ending with a big bang, Adam Hanieh on greening the Gulf states & the east-east axis of world energy
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
and @matthuber.bsky.social on the Demise of Electricity as a ‘Public Utility’ in the United States
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ying Chen on China & contradictions of green industrialisation
Ewa Karwowski on financialization in & by the UN GFC
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Rohit Azad & Shouvik Chakraborty on socially necessary green development in India
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lindsay Whitfield & @tobiaswuttke.bsky.social on Opps for Latecomer Techno Catch-up with renewables
@professorsud.bsky.social on Asian Coal Economies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Dic Lo, Niangjijia Nyangchak & Fanqi Lin on China Green Transition
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Neil Brenner & @swarnabh.bsky.social on Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
Bengi Akbulut on feminist degrowth
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Anirban Dasgupta & Arindam Banerjee on the challenges of decarbonising agriculture
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The debate section features an impressive list of illustrious thinkers weighing in on this issue, starting with the indomitable @jayatighosh.bsky.social arguing that "green transition" is not possible within a capitalist market-oriented framework:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Then a debate section on "Renewables Capitalism", debating whether climate change will end capitalism, or whether capitalism can have a future beyond fossil fuels, edited by @marsel.bsky.social & @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social
Their opening article for the debate is a tour de force:
Stellar line up in our latest forum issue of @devandchg.bsky.social just released (although some articles were already on early view).
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1st, lead focus article by @rafeefz.bsky.social on development as erasure in #Palestine & #genocide in #Gaza
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
For those asking what Palestine reveals about the world - and what it demands of us - this book is one small intervention in a much larger fight.
We hope you’ll read it, share it, and organise with it. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
“It is better to be approximately right than exactly wrong.” Often attributed to Keynes but seems to have come from the 18th century scholar Carveth Read.
Rather, state started strong family planning in 1970. Population was responsive because of low death rates, but also the whole society was collectivised, so it was much easier for planning to be implemented swiftly and with effect. That’s why fertility fell to almost replacement before the OCP.
I don’t think you can make the argument about standard of living in the 1970s, except re improved health & education. There wasn’t much urbanisation in the 1970s (started in 1980s), incomes were still very low, etc.
China is case that started pushing demographic theory away from sof explanations.
That’s also a problem in the recent wave of unequal exchange articles. I do not know how they get through peer review, except by being reviewed by people without technical expertise in the area.
Like, tucked deep into the article is a btw moment that was screaming for more attention: “A preliminary ruling at the High Court in London in December 2024 found that report had been ‘defamatory’.”
I think there is a lot of innuendo in this story that is not being said.
MDPI alone probably publishes a good share of these…
Policy based evidence making.
This trope has been the right wing go-to explanation for the unequal & dysfunctional US health care system for decades now. Fox was blowing this dog whistle during Obama’s attempts to reform, as far as I recall.
You are doing fantastic work on this Saloni. I really appreciate your correctives to the population collapse panic.
Given that the late Thandika Mkandawire was a massive inspiration for me, I am incredibly honoured to have been invited to give this memorial lecture and, now as the day approaches, also increasingly nervous about it.
tinyurl.com/Thandika-2025
This looks smashing