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From one piece Chartbook 479 Africa’s unprecedented urbanization - against historic normalization (#2) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Mapping a new development onto historical precedents may be reassuring, but it can also be deeply misleadingTheir words
Such mental mappings may be reassuring, but they can also be deeply misleading
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If it is true that dense agglomerations of people are incubators of innovation and change, the mistake is to focus on the degree of conformity with, or convergence to some predefined vision of modernity, rather than to focus on the "reinvention of society" that the Economist so aptly highlights.
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even at relatively low per capita incomes the emergent cities of the 21st century are not centers of diseases and mass death, as they would have been in Europe in the 19th century. Modern facilities of medicine and rudimentary public health do a remarkable job in enabling huge agglomerations of people, even at low incomes to continue growing.
11 September
From one piece Chartbook 474: The state is the problem - the AfD’s anti-systemic diagnosis of contemporary Germany. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Germany's crisis is too deep to be solved by conventional tax, spending, or regulatory adjustments.Their words
Germany is in trouble. But the trouble goes deep and cannot be addressed by "more of the same" socio-economic measures in the domain of taxes or social spending or regulation.
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Rather than thinking of this set of preferences as incoherent, or merely the expression of a sectional petty bourgeois interest, it makes more sense, surely, to view it as a coherent set of anti-systemic views.
7 September
From one piece Chartbook 473 Germany’s democratic earthquake: the AfD breakthrough in Sachsen-Anhalt and the question of an “alternative to the Alternative”. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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immigrationgovernmentdemocracy
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Voting for the AfD in the current landscape, whatever your economic issues, in short, is not a vote to have your economic issues addressed by social democracy, or welfare or government intervention.
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
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To my mind, if progressive policy hopes to engage with such voters at all - and it is open question whether it should - it must address not just the material realities of relative economic disadvantage, but above all the "outsider" credentials of the AfD.
29 July
From one piece Chartbook 462: China shocked - beyond 1.0 and 2.0 to the "Big One". 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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China's industrial lead was manufactured by deliberate state industrial policy rather than by market forces alone.Their words
What China is delivering in the 2020s is an industrial policy shock of global scale.
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It wasn’t just the West that drew conclusions from China shock 1.0. Beijing learned from China Shock 1.0 too.
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The original point of the China Shock 1.0 discourse was not to foreground the unfairness of Chiense competition, so much as the malfunctioning of US policy and societal institutions in the face of concentrated globalization shocks.
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China shock 2.0 threatens high status manufactured goods: European cars and engineering.
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The second China shock is landing on Europe, where the first one landed on the United States.Their words
In China shock 1.0 the key target was the US. In China shock 2.0 it is Europe.
22 July
From one piece Chartbook 460 Greedflation meets China shock: Can Europe's car industry be saved without making the cost of living crisis worse? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The two seemingly contradictory trends connect, because the relatively low rate of productive investment leaves European industry vulnerable to its most vigorous competitors whose firms are contending with an even more deflationary macroeconomic situation at home in China.
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Protection for European industry should be granted only alongside demands for systematic reform of that industry.Their words
And this in turn means that if we really want to find a way out of the impasse, advocacy for protection and support should be tied to demands for systematic reform.
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To put this same story another way, the European car industry in the early 2020s was a prime example of greedflation i.e. companies taking advantage of the COVID shock and other disruptions and to hike profits at the expense of consumers.
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It reveals things that are deeply wrong at the heart of the European economy.
21 June
From one piece Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather they are the sign of disorientation, disillusionment and despair.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
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They are none of these things. All three were predictable and overdetermined.
Chartbook 452 Europe's Machiavellian moment?adamtooze.substack.com
30 January
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
The Southern TourTheir words
My second suggestion is uh is uh sorry is Jonathan Chhatwin's uh book the southern tour which is uh an extraordinary account of Deniaing's uh tour of southern China in 1992 in the moment when after the repression of gentleman square in ' 89 he revives the reform and opening up project. So this legendary moment in the economic reform process that has made modern China. And the third suggestion is is poetry. I love poetry.
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Context CollapseTheir words
Um it's called Context Collapse. And it is literally a poem containing a history of poetry. So it is an extraordinary long- form poem in which he in a I was asking about it over drinks the other night. Why did he do it? It's this delirious effort to write in poetry a history of the form and the collapse of its context in modern culture. It's truly a tour of the force.
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