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An alliance for practical political education so that people can learn how to use power for good
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New book on learning for democracy full of practical insight & information Get free chapter here https://t.co/ASnV3vPb8w
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Only two weeks to go! If you are interested in polarization, disinformation, and democratic backsliding, please join our workshop taking place at Keio U Mita campus in Tokyo on January 31. You can check the program details here: https://t.co/ZVslbDiKkS
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International Workshop on Polarization, Disinformation, and Democratic Backsliding in Asia and Beyond When: January 31 (Saturday), 2026 9:30 - 17:40 Where: G-Lab, East Building 6th floor, Mita...
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📝 New research by Kristin Surak and Johnathan Inkley offers an interstitial analysis of how wealthy individuals hide property ownership in the UK. They reveal three primary formations of offshore structuring and discuss implications for policy making. https://t.co/KnYQhvAOp4
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How do wealthy individuals use offshore financial structures like shell companies to protect personal assets? And how is such offshore wealth structuring itself variably organized? Moving beyond...
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That's an incredible number: only 16% of EU citizens now consider the US an ally. Even in the UK it's down to a meagre 25%. In fact perceptions of the U.S. as an ally are in complete collapse globally (only India is a very odd exception). Src: https://t.co/P7cq2x9jZK
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Shocking stat of the day: The top 10% of US earners now reflect a record 49% of all consumer spending. This percentage has risen +13 points over the last 30 years, marking a dramatic shift in spending power. At the same time, the bottom 80% of earners represent just ~37% of
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About half of all jobs in capitalist economies are considered pointless and unproductive, i.e., they are socially useless, according to the people who hold them. David Graeber argues that this is by design. In his book, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory, Graeber posited that the ruling
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Research on Democracy These are some of the books I will be discussing in my graduate seminar on democracy this semester. Many great minds have done much to help us understand what democracy is, why it is valuable, and why countries move toward and away from democracy.
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1. Schumpeter: Capitalism is not a system that settles into equilibrium The assertion that capitalism is not defined by the idea of equilibrium is one of Schumpeter’s most important insights. Capitalism, he argued, is defined by its ‘production line’ of new products,
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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” ― Daniel Kahneman
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A week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @ASSAMeeting ! Video: https://t.co/wPfB71uhys Slides: https://t.co/iWrlEvX1Fw Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.
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Understanding money essential for doing democracy - read @ProfSteveKeen
1/ The US economy isn't weakening. It's collapsing from the inside out. And the proof is everywhere. The average American is buried under $15,000 in personal debt while the nation races toward $38 trillion. But nobody wants to talk about the real problem: our economists have no
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My latest, with @scottjshapiro: "A world in which the powerful no longer feel the need to justify themselves is not merely unjust. It is barbaric . . . . That world does not have a legal order at all. It has only force, guided by one man’s whims." https://t.co/fN2iOhaPg7
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The super-rich pay often pay *lower* total tax rates than the rest of the population. How do people respond when they are told about this? New empirical research from David Hope Julian Limberg & Lukas Haffer in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
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What is the instrumental value of democracy? These three studies offer a good summary of the current empirical evidence in this crucial question about democracy. Gerring et al: https://t.co/pv5aMH9hvi Doucette: https://t.co/nK9QJ51LWA
@MayaJTudor: https://t.co/Lo3vuwKWfn
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Check out the China Briefing newsletter SPECIAL | Why Is #China's #Hainan Free Trade Port Launch Your Next Big Opportunity? Link: https://t.co/UdpLqHP02O On December 18, China launched island-wide special customs operations (海南自由贸易港全岛封关) in the Hainan Free Trade Port
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More on China's geopolitics
This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the
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Important insights into China's geopolitics and the strategic state @IIPP_UCL @GoodLobbyProfs
“As most analysts focus on the symptoms of competition—tariffs, semiconductor supply chain cutoffs, and short-term technological races—Beijing is building capabilities and influence in the underlying systems that will define the decades ahead,” writes @LizEconomy.
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This is largely being ignored but it's easily one of the biggest China news of the year. What China is doing with Hainan - a huge island (50 times the size of Singapore!) - is pretty extraordinary: they're basically making it into a completely different jurisdiction from the
China on Thursday launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), the world's largest FTP by area, allowing freer entry of overseas goods, expanded zero-tariff coverage and more business-friendly measures. https://t.co/yZhXX0533v
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Important debate fof democracy. Voters ultimately decide on economic performance
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🧵
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America threatens
BY JEFFREY D. SACHS THE 2025 NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY (NSS) recently released by President Donald Trump presents itself as a blueprint for renewed American strength. It is dangerously misconceived in four ways. - First, the NSS is anchored in grandiosity: the belief that the
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In the last decades, the world has made fantastic progress against extreme poverty. In 1990, 2.3 billion people lived in extreme poverty. Since then, the number of extremely poor people has declined by 1.5 *billion* people. This means on any average day in the last 35 years,
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