Experts are by definition the servants of those in power: they don't really THINK, they just apply their knowledge to problems defined by the powerful.
- Slavoj Zizek
Changes in Capitalism Since 1900
In his new book, Brazilian economist & advocate of New Developmentalism @BresserPereira provides a broad ranging discussion of the political economy of 20th- and 21st-century capitalism.
For information on the book: https://t.co/7wEi3kbytt
Join us for a public talk: "The Age of Plastic" with Prof. Karl Fleischmann.
🗓️ Aug 6, 2025 | 🕑 14:00–16:00
📍 Rm 201A, NM-AIST | 💻 Google Meet
Explore plastics' global impact & the path to sustainability. Don’t miss it.
#NMAIST#Sustainability#PlasticAge#PublicTalk
New in @JDevStudies:
Women in 🇮🇳 are more likely to wake up first & eat last, facing morning burdens that impact health & well-being. Economic progress alone isn’t enough. Policy change is needed.
Read by more➡️: https://t.co/IuwRBplnI4
@UdayanRathore
The reason I am positive about China's rise is simple.
China has lifted more people out of poverty than the rest of the world put together in the last 50 years, they're leading clean energy investment, and they're changing the international economic order for the better.
In this @Routledge_MandC book chapter, I present tools for doing fieldwork in the Global South ethically, collaboratively, and respectfully.
You can download my chapter here: https://t.co/9PDawf3fpp
Here is the full volume: https://t.co/aOiKf7pNvY
Publication #5 for 2025✔️
Vietnam's manufacturing sector employs 15M people (30% of the workforce).
China's manufacturing sector employs 215M people (28% of the workforce).
These are two of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Labor-intensive industrialization is clearly *not* a thing of the past.
I'm pleased to share that you can now access all individual chapters of my book, "The Future of the Factory", online.
You can find the link in the replies below.
Kwa sababu ni wabinafsi.
Kwa sababu tunawaza tu kiti tulichokalia leo badala ya kesho ya watu wetu.
Mzee angekuwepo, kuna mtu angekula makofi siku moja!
Punishment has always been a crucial aspect of cultural evolution - from the Church, totalitarian USSR, Indian castes & Western feminists.
Each group seeks to police & punish “bad behaviour”.
All this is heavily mediated by technological advances…
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Leo nilienda UDSM. Majengo mapya mengi lakini nyumba za walimu za zamani duh! Fleti niliyokaa miaka 30 iliyopita ilikuwa imechakaa tayari na inaonekana, angalau kwa nje kwamba haijaguswa tangu wakati ule. Chuo kinapata ada kibao, na vitegauchumi pia, kwa nini hawajali walimu?