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Shahram Azhar

@ShahramAzhar

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Political Economist. Musician. Associate Prof of Econ @bucknellu. Research: Digital Capitalism. World-Systems Theory. Host of @dialecticatwork @democracyatwrk

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@ShahramAzhar
Shahram Azhar
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My dearest friends, I am extremely excited to share Koi Mushkil Nahi, an anthem, with you. Koi Mushkil Nahi- indeed, this is a land of plenty. It is the land of love, mysticism, spirituality, and peace. It is the land of millions and millions of honest and hardworking people.
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@Razarumi
Raza Ahmad Rumi
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Forbes: “In just eight months, a waste crisis in Pakistan’s most populous province was turned into the world’s largest integrated waste management system. The initiative’s massive scale and impressive results, offer important lessons in impact leadership.”
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The world’s largest, fully digitized waste management system was designed and rolled out in Pakistan in just 8 months and is solving a massive problem in record time.
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@SurbhiKesar
Surbhi Kesar
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In this @epw_in piece “The Politics of Data”, I identify 3 levels at which the politics operates- a) deliberate misrepresentation, b) adoption of certain categories, measurement, c) privileging methods for analysis at cost of obscuring complex realities. https://t.co/bhUFt6oVna
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The politics of data can be understood at three distinct levels within contemporary academic and policy discourse.The politics of data can be understood at three distinct levels within contemporary...
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Evan
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China 🇨🇳 has taken over the car making market over just the last 5 years
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Gulab Singh
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Ha-Joon Chang on India’s future of industrialization - 10 key takeaways: 1) Protection only works when you use it to develop your own infant industries, so that they can export to the global market - India failed to do it with Auto manufacturing in 60s/70s. 2) India has never
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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼
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Ha-Joon Chang is the most important, thoughtful, novel anti-racist thinker alive in the world today. https://t.co/acprcW0a5Z
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Democracy At Work
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Democracy At Work
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All-new episode of #EconomicUpdate today with @profwolff "The Key Concept of #Surplus in #Economics" @democracyatwrk #democracyatwork Watch it at 4:30 PM EST Here: https://t.co/LI8vC9Kbvj
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MintPress News
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Billions Are Dying So That a Handful of Billionaires Keep Their Profits - Richard Wolff Economist Richard Wolff succinctly explains how the hoarded wealth from a few dozen people in the world could save the lives of billions of people. Yet the enormous greed inherent in the
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Democracy At Work
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All-new episode of #EconomicUpdate today with @profwolff "The Key Concept of #Surplus in #Economics" @democracyatwrk #democracyatwork Watch it at 4:30 PM EST Here: https://t.co/LI8vC9Kbvj
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@NC_Renic
Neil Renic
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Just finished - brilliant! A fantastic book, highlighting the powerful, and often dark, work done by terms such as “pre-history”, “civilisation”, and “barbarism” throughout history.
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@BrettPetter
Petter Brett
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Today is Dr. Abdus Salam’s 29th death anniversary — a science genius who lifted #Pakistan on the world stage. A scientist who gave humanity so much, yet bore the burden of being ignored by his own state. He too fell victim to #AhmadiApartheid @Fareeha786 @KashifMD @Advjalila 1/
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@DukePress
Duke University Press
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Michael Goldman's "Hidden Empire of Finance" investigates the dark arts of global finance that muscle into everyday life and city government, profiting from racialized dispossession and undermining the right to the city. Read the intro for free now: https://t.co/5YjLenWKOQ
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Dialectic at Work
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Check out an all-new @dialecticatwork out now "Professor Wolff meets Louis #Althusser" w/ @ShahramAzhar & @profwolff @democracyatwrk #dialecticatwork #democracyatwork Watch here: https://t.co/WgH7LXiWHF
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@profwolff
Richard D. Wolff
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@dialecticatwork
Dialectic at Work
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Check out an all-new @dialecticatwork out now "Professor Wolff meets Louis #Althusser" w/ @ShahramAzhar & @profwolff @democracyatwrk #dialecticatwork #democracyatwork Watch here: https://t.co/WgH7LXiWHF
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Democracy At Work
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Don't miss this upcoming event with @profwolff & C. G. Beck on #Labor, #Capitalism, #Architecture & the #Economy at @PeoplesForumNYC based on Beck's new book from @monthly_review RSVP here: https://t.co/TWvXGF0seq
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Congrats to Emile Chabal re his forthcoming biography on Eric Hobsbawm: "The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian" https://t.co/eCbIbOEoiY
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James Young
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New Keynesian theory tried to escape Kalecki’s identity through expectations and fixed markups. Both routes have failed empirically, forcing macroeconomics back to the distributional cost-pricing core: inflation is the nominal reflection of income shares. "Yes, this is a strong
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Jacobin
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Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what their eventual demise tells us about what might lie ahead. https://t.co/QdEjTZBdiy
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Class societies didn’t begin with capitalism: the ancient and medieval worlds had their own systems of exploitation. Marxist historians have set out to explain how those systems worked — and what...
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Rana Dasgupta
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US edition by @VikingBooks out May 2026.
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T. Sabri Öncü
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Tavsiye ederim. Richard Wolff kendisi de Belediye Başkanı adayı olmuş birisi ayrıca. ⁦@ShahramAzhar
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Dialectic at Work
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Check out our all-new episode of @dialecticatwork with @ShahramAzhar & @profwolff "A #Socialist Win in #NYC: How, Why, & What it Means" here: https://t.co/53xATUxNCu
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