🚨 More bad PR for the dollar. My latest (open access!) paper explores how USD centrality and strength constrains global decarbonization — from emissions to climate financial flows to green tech manufacturing.

As Dan said, more on carbon dominance as strategy...

Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll conclude that the US is intentionally undercutting the global demand for green technologies. https://t.co/PVlGJYtozK

Check out a new piece by @MkBlyth and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @ProSyn

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

The Senate will now decide the fate of US clean energy tax credits. We've put together fact sheets on how key US states, like Georgia, benefit economically from clean energy. @CarnegieEndow

Big thanks to @MkBlyth Ben Braun @70sBachchan Mark Schwartz for feedback. @FinandSoc @CambUP_Econ reviewers and editors were incredible. All errors are my own.

"While many agree that the ‘Big Green State’ is the most effective actor to decarbonise, and might be right, what if a state, despite being big in terms of size and green in terms of ambition, is not very good at decarbonising?" -- @MkBlyth @danieldrisc https://t.co/6dNb4scioT

For those of an academic persuasion, or those who still give a shit about decarbonization, or both, here's two papers just published with Leah Downey and Dan Driscoll. These links should take you to the actual papers. Bangers. https://t.co/O1zKcAhWWl and

I read an early version and loved it. Getting my copy now while the dollar still has value ;)

An excellent post. Globalization is being abandoned by the West because it is working too well for most of Asia, and especially China. At least, J D Vance's points are clearly made.

Coming out on May 6, 2025! @MkBlyth @wwnorton #inflation

For those of you who care about such things, this just came out: https://t.co/neb8pTjQ0X Had fun writing it with someone you can no longer tag here as they left for where the skies are apparently more blue :-)

My postmortem on the Ampel🚦goverment — toppled by the debt brake, the German economy’s suicide pact Have a read👇 https://t.co/UHmMkXx9p4 @RevDem2020

A thoughtful short essay from Paul Tucker on Technology, Authoritarianism and the American Aristocracy. Worth a read:

A Trumpist repeal of the climate portions of IRA, BIL, CHIPS would harm the US. Think of it as the opposite of global reaction after IRA passed. It creates tens of billions of dollars in opportunities for other countries. NEW: @NZpolicylab @bentleyballan https://t.co/D045zqtynA

Brilliant work on the inconvenient political & environmental truths around Hungary’s battery policy “success” by @palmapolyak presented at @Columbia New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference.

So I did this (I think) handy flow chart to help navigate the all-important question that stems from fiscal-monetary-exchange rate interactions. How Screwed Are You.

The annual meetings of the World Bank and IMF are on. The @nzpolicylab was up early and on the train to DC. Our core message: the north must support green industrial policy and invest in manufacturing and processing value-added with technology transfer in the global south. Why?

This is really worth a read if you want to get past the "China is so unfair" BS that permeates the air around why they keep kicking ass in sector after sector: