I am always mentally in this quote by David Graeber: “the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” I am obsessed with it. I teach it. I live by it. So, I wrote this:

The Sidewalk Is Political: On ranked mourning, looking away, and what keeps us going

The piece you are about to read is by an economist who works inside, and often against, the inherited colonial systems of knowledge that the discipline carries.

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Je ne publie pas assez souvent en français ici, alors, allons-y. Je dédie ce texte aux incroyables collègues québécois·es du Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES) à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), dont les remarques lors de nos tables rondes m'ont profondément marquée:

Solving is not the point  - Alliance magazine

Some of the best hours of this conference happened around tables rather than behind lecterns. Two roundtables in particular, one on civil society and social innovation with Chantale Mailhot, Danilo Me...

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We cannot instruct a country, a sector, or a community to be resilient any more than we can instruct it to be wealthy. On why resilience is an outcome, not a strategy, and what that means in a post-aid world. New in Alliance Magazine, by me:

Resilience Is an Outcome, Not a Strategy  - Alliance magazine

The planes come in very low and loud over Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Lisbon’s flight path runs almost directly above the business school, and every few minutes a wide body drops close e...

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My new piece for Alliance Magazine is out: The Holy Grail Has a Framework Behind It. We call public, social, and cooperative housing "non-market," as though it sat outside the thing. It doesn't. It changes what tenants can bargain for and what landlords can charge. There is no non-market. 🔗

The Holy Grail has a framework behind it  - Alliance magazine

An economist goes to the ISTR 17th International Conference, Iscte, Lisbon. A reflection from the Social Innovation and Impact Affinity Group and the wider conference. There is a particular kind of ve...

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As I remind my students, the defining characteristic of our species is not self-interest and competition. It is our astonishing capacity for altruism and for cooperation. We built civilisations on it. We built languages on it. More here by me:

The Sidewalk Is Political: On ranked mourning, looking away, and what keeps us going

The piece you are about to read is by an economist who works inside, and often against, the inherited colonial systems of knowledge that the discipline carries.

montrealserai.com

"There is one kind of innovation. It is social. Everything else is the portion that found an owner." My new piece for Alliance Magazine on why the third sector isn't asking to enter the economy. We are the economy.

The Holy Grail has a framework behind it  - Alliance magazine

An economist goes to the ISTR 17th International Conference, Iscte, Lisbon. A reflection from the Social Innovation and Impact Affinity Group and the wider conference. There is a particular kind of ve...

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"If we cannot name what relational, human-centred work does, we will be very easily persuaded that a chatbot can do it instead." On silos, social AI, and the wrong scorecards. New in Alliance Magazine, by me. (Je dédie cet article à mes collègues québécoises).

Solving is not the point  - Alliance magazine

Some of the best hours of this conference happened around tables rather than behind lecterns. Two roundtables in particular, one on civil society and social innovation with Chantale Mailhot, Danilo Me...

alliancemagazine.org

My piece for Alliance Magazine is out: Resilience Is an Outcome, Not a Strategy. I started writing for Alliance because backing serious work on civil society, coops, & social investment is the job. We are the market. There is no non-market elsewhere, only us - the actors - shaping it.

Resilience Is an Outcome, Not a Strategy  - Alliance magazine

The planes come in very low and loud over Iscte, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Lisbon’s flight path runs almost directly above the business school, and every few minutes a wide body drops close e...

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A reminder: People will paint you with the colors they have.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Stephen Miller: "There has never in history been a more total asymmetric one-sided annihilation of the enemy than what is unfolding right now in Iran"

Oopsie daisy. Once again some social "media" personalities could use a Geography 101 refresher and a History 101 while they're at it.

Elaine Benes Waves Hello in Seinfeld

ALT: Elaine Benes Waves Hello in Seinfeld

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MY PIECE IS OUT AND I AM SO FUCKIN DELIGHTED! I hope you enjoy reading this special essay as much as I enjoyed writing it, dear readers.

The Sidewalk Is Political: On ranked mourning, looking away, and what keeps us going

The piece you are about to read is by an economist who works inside, and often against, the inherited colonial systems of knowledge that the discipline carries.

montrealserai.com

Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions driving blazes in central Spain 20 times more likely, scientists have said

'Fire-prone' conditions more likely due to climate change

Human-caused climate change made the extreme weather fuelling wildfires in southwestern France twice as likely, and made the conditions driving blazes in central Spain 20 times more likely, scientists...

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Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus

Ebola outbreak in DRC the fastest growing in the history of the virus

As the death toll rises to almost 1,500, and with a vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain potentially still months away, health workers face a battle to slow the outbreak

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Loooooooove this!

Selim Koru@selimkoru.bsky.social · 6d ago

This was a wonderful episode to record! @nicholasdanfort.bsky.social and I sat down with @achristiemiller.bsky.social and Suzy Hansen to talk about their books on Istanbul, and Turkish politics more broadly. kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/can-you-ex...

"My hand is a technology with functional uses. Technology is the organization of the world functionally." - Donna J. Harraway

Do yourself a favor (a kindness to yourself from yourself) and read this on this Friday - un joli cadeau à t'offrir ce vendredi - and then thank me later:

Donna Haraway, philosopher: ‘We live in a pro-natalist, anti-child world. Babies should be rare and precious’

One of the most influential thinkers on technology and feminism, she combines vision with irony, and her writing carries a distinctly punk edge. Faced with rising authoritarianism, she urges people to...

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There are incentives to do science. And then there are incentives to develop things with public money and sell them back to the government at markup. So, America’s new "science golden age" is giving grift.

Lorem? Ma'am, I suffer to ipsum.

Trickle-down economics require the trickle to come down, mostly slowly, almost the only rare time efficiency is not a top priority in economics where elsewhere it always is - with participatory and deliberative systems, the down is where we start.

Daily reminder from your econ gal: Eberhard & Tarpenning founded Tesla. Omidyar built eBay. Dorsey et al. built Twitter. The self-proclaimed "entrepreneur" invented none. Free-rider on public infrastructure, rent-seeker on subsidies. Slot in any name, as we have a large pool.

The Extreme Wealth Line project is a transdisciplinary initiative aiming at the introduction of an extreme wealth line (EWL), just like we have an extreme poverty line. The project has now published its two foundational papers, as LSE-III working papers #171 and #172: www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

Working Papers

LSE Inequalities Institute Working Papers

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“These aren’t incentives to do science. These are incentives to develop things with tax dollars that you can then sell to the government for more tax dollars.” (and line a lot of his crony’s pockets along the way)

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

New in PN: The new "science golden age" looks suspiciously like a grift "It’s impossible not to wonder whether part of Trump’s loathing for universities is that there's no way for him to corrupt the process and make money off it in the same way he can by giving billions to Silicon Valley types."

The more you read books and consume slow long-form media, the more intolerable short form videos will become to you, and the more you consume short-form videos, the more incapable you become of reading books and watching long-form media.

Mainstream economists aren't good at predicting financial crashes, facilitating general prosperity, or coming up with models for preventing climate change, but when it comes to establishing themselves in positions of intellectual authority, unaffected by such failings, their success is unparalleled.

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.

Repeat after me: we are the market - we create and we shape. Not vice versa.

Isabella M. Weber@isabellamweber.bsky.social · last wk.

Zohran Mamdani is launching a public price war on private providers: Guaranteeing that public providers undercut private stores means leveraging the laws of the market in the interest of affordability for all.

Zohran Mamdani is launching a public price war on private providers: Guaranteeing that public providers undercut private stores means leveraging the laws of the market in the interest of affordability for all.