How can we put green planning into practice?
Last Tuesday,
@brusselermel.bsky.social, @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, Justus Henze (@communiade.bsky.social) and I had a really interesting discussion on this question.
Recording is now online!
Enjoyed the conversations in Hannover at the political economy of European industrial policy event organized this week by Hellen Callaghan, @trgn.bsky.social & Bob Hancké.
The presence, clear-eyedness and energy of the EC speaker, Maive Rute (DG Grow) were a highlight.
🎟️ ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION
@cmmonwealth.bsky.social’s Green Planning Commission is joining forces with @indep.bsky.social for a joint event on how we can translate green democratic planning from framework to policy.
🗓️ 14 April
⏰ 3PM UTC
Register here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indepxgree...
ready for redcaju.org Derisking and Alternatives workshop in Senegal!
packed program with 23 (!) papers, interactive format (no ppt, all read/comment, two discussants per paper) and great mix of young/ish from the Global South and North. A special issue in the pipeline too.
PDF of book proofs: SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN The Hidden Life of Logistics MIRIAM POSNER Yale University Press New Haven and London
*breathing into a paper bag*
By Maxine Joselow Reporting by Washington Post Article linked below
This is insane.
Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social
observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...
Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE
Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me.
www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...
just messaged!
prepping for week 3 of my seminar - an intro to green industrial policy. really impressed by the quality of discussion so far, w students sharing perspectives on singapore, turkey, hungary, china, and more. big thanks to @bhbradlow.bsky.social for the inspiration. dm for the full syllabus!
what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.
On 19th March 2026 from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 at SciencesPo Salle 900, 9 rue de la Chaise, Paris, we are organising a workshop about ecological planning with @gkahan.bsky.social and LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group. Register here: www.indep.network/event/worksh...
📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣
Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊
That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped
Cover art for building postcarbon futures, a new book on climate justice and design due out in spring 2026
cover art is juuuuust about final
Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Thinking back to this excellent concluding paragraph from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's Substack post after Zohran Mamdani's initial primary victory:
according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"
www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
Image featuring a classical architecture building with columns, overlaid with a text quote from Elizabeth Wilkins of the Roosevelt Institute, "In Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration, former Biden-Harris senior officials Hannah Garden-Monheit and Tresa Joseph draw from the insights, recommendations, and candor of more than 45 former public servants and tell a broader story we can’t forget: The problems with these institutions did not start with Donald Trump or Elon Musk, worse as they now are. These problems are, in part, what results from decades of bipartisan neglect, disinvestment, and deference to markets."
NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection.
Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance.
https://bit.ly/4312Zid
Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.
🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
Ten days left to submit proposals for the inaugural ALPE conference in Richmond. Come join us for this exciting launch! lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-ina...
For Europe, the lesson is sobering: we talk “sovereignty funds,” but GGFs already operate as a parallel financial infrastructure on a scale we haven’t matched. This is how China turns finance into an industrial weapon.
the next question must be democratization. what does it mean to politicize these funds and their sectoral targets? which countries will iterate on this model by further incorporating collective deliberation and decision-making?
it’s articles like these that give new meaning to Arrighi’s argument that organizational innovations help reconsolidate hegemonic orders. if the American century was powered by vertical integration, the Chinese century will be powered by competitive high-tech sectoral planning
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy.
Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)
📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12
