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[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

@dimitristrobbe Zien jullie onderhoudswerken ook als een kans om met kleine ingrepen te ontharden of te vergroenen? Wat zijn eventuele drempels: budget, regelgeving of de onderhoudskost achteraf?

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Government efficiency should be a left priority, because socialist governments are asking the public to trust them to do more rather than less. https://t.co/dGxVRZBUNF

[Pippa Norris @PippaN15]

A new comparative analysis of populist governments and human rights useful for your classes. It confirms what we already strongly suspect and my own analysis also demonstrates...

[Denktank Minerva @DenktankMinerva]

🚨 Belangrijke bijsluiter bij het begrotingsdebat:

📉 Belgie geeft *MINDER* uit aan sociale bescherming en gezondheidszorg dan buurlanden

📈 Belgie geeft pak *MEER* uit aan loonkost- en bedrijfsubisdies allerhande...

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Dear followers,
I’m delighted to share this article which is finally forthcoming. We show that business school education is associated with managers paying lower wages, holding the labor share down and not sharing, revenues and profits with workers.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Axelrod: There are a lot of people who would like you to run for president in 2028. And there are others who would like you to run for the senate.

AOC: In this op-ed that Bezos paid for in The Washington Post, there was a veiled threat—it was the elite saying if you want this job, you just stepped out of line. What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

@TheStalwart @ethangach @MattBruenig @DKThomp @BigMeanInternet @jdcmedlock There's a very good book on this topic: "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" by Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law) . Could also be very interesting themed odd lots episode... 🙏

[Kevin Spiritus @KevinSpiritus]

Wil je écht lagere uitgaven, dan moet de overheid taken afstoten. Richting een Nederlandser systeem voor pensioenen en gezondheidszorg. Dat vergt tijd, die we budgettair niet hebben. En voor de burger wordt het niet noodzakelijk goedkoper, integendeel. 2/

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

If only there had been an energy and commodities shock a few years ago from
which the right lessons could have been drawn and which could have served as the political basis to prepare for future shocks.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

No one created the land they live on. And yet they've been granted the ability to exclude others from it, backed by state force. All we ask is they pay the rest of society for the privilege to use this scarce resource, which itself derives much of its value from society around it

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Los alto al fuego siempre son una buena noticia. Sobre todo si conducen a una paz justa y duradera. Pero el alivio momentáneo no puede hacernos olvidar el caos, la destrucción y las vidas perdidas.

El Gobierno de España no aplaudirá a quienes incendian el mundo porque se presenten con un cubo.

Lo que toca ahora: diplomacia, legalidad internacional y PAZ.

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Tesla received billions in government loans, tax credits and subsidies, making Elon Musk the world's richest person. The public? No equity stake, no profit-sharing, no guarantee of affordable access.

My working paper with @rodrikdani has now been published in Industrial and Corporate Change. It explores the conditionalities—profit-sharing, reinvestment requirements, knowledge transfer—that can ensure industrial policy delivers public value, not just private wealth. [LINK IN NEXT POST]

[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

"Bart de Wever, resurrected the notion that Europe needs to normalize relations with Russia to regain access to cheap gas — regardless of the fact that this is legally impossible and economically unviable (at this point it would likely be the most expensive option available)."

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Some thoughts on the age of mass disruption and how and to what extent we can prepare for future energy and commodity shocks. In short: I’m not terribly optimistic about the prospects of all but a few countries or about the source of the disruptions ebbing.https://t.co/JHeZ4TPF6j

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Fossil fuel price shocks are redistribution shocks.

Last time, we warned windfall profits would benefit the ultra-rich at the expense of everyone else.

This time, there is no excuse. The numbers are in. We need windfall profit taxes & multilateral price caps now.

[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

@deafspraaktv @axel_ronse De belangrijke hefbomen om die taart te vergroten: investeren in onderwijs, productiviteit en innovatie verhoogt de reële productie waarop gepensioneerden een claim hebben. Dat geldt voor elk pensioensysteem. (4)

[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

In @deafspraaktv beweerde @axel_ronse dat twijde pijler het demografisch onevenwicht neutraliseert. Dat klopt niet. Elk pensioensysteem - ongeacht - is claim op toekomstige productie. LSE-econoom Nicolas Barr heeft dat grondig aangetoond. (1/3) https://t.co/NEc5z0rsHs

[Wim Smet @Wim_Smet]

@deafspraaktv @axel_ronse Heleen Debruyne haalde terecht aan dat vooral het boven segment profiteert van de tweede pijler. Maar de taart wordt daarmee niet groter, alleen anders verdeeld binnen de gepensioneerden, en met de werkenden. Een zero sum binnen de zero sum. (3)

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

Imagine if WWIII starts with the IDF assassinating Franz Ferdinand.