Edward Yang in a Sonics jacket. History of modern China, south and east Asia, comparative history. @ttsgpod alumnus. Book: https://nitter.gq/t.co/2l5jMVEKle.
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I’ve started reading this book, it’s v good so far!
Until the Last Ton: Fossil Fuels in India from Empire to the Climate Crisis is out today. In another summer of record heat, my hope is this book can help us understand differently where the fossil economy came from and what it might take to go beyond it press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Assistant professor job: Thomas and Evelyn Rawski Endowed Chair in East Asian Studies.
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersect…
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So many other things to remember and celebrate Sir Patrick Stewart for... but this has to be one of the best line readings in the history of The Simpsons
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Where China’s top 100 richest people got their wealth has shifted dramatically away from real estate to tech.
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As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio .
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
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It is so easy to falsify this Apple-centered story. The Chinese manufacturing capabilities are across the board—TV sets, laundry machines, steamers, cars, automobile components,
shipbuilding, solar panels, etc. As early as 1997, Whirlpool concluded that it had troubles competing with Chinese home appliance makers and Japanese TV makers reached the same conclusion in the early 2000s. This is not taking anything away from Apple as a remarkable company but there is this Chinese baseline and general capability on which Apple and Foxconn built on and expertly reconfigured and we should calibrate their contributions appropriately.
It also gets the Apple story wrong. The right version of that history is that Apple—and Foxconn—tapped into existing manufacturing capabilities in China. Before Apple, China already had a massive network of component producers and an incredibly skilled labor force. Apple repurposed and added some of these capabilities to iPhone production on top of that baseline. Apple should get the credit for jump starting handset production in China, but the spillover story is in the other direction as well. Apple went to China because of China’s existing general manufacturing capabilities in the first place and it was able to retool and upgrade these existing capabilities for its own production. That is not Arizona story at all.
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It also gets the Apple story wrong. The right version of that history is that Apple—and Foxconn—tapped into existing manufacturing capabilities in China. Before Apple, China already had a massive network of component producers and an incredibly skilled labor force. Apple repurposed and added some of these capabilities to iPhone production on top of that baseline. Apple should get the credit for jump starting handset production in China, but the spillover story is in the other direction as well. Apple went to China because of China’s existing general manufacturing capabilities in the first place and it was able to retool and upgrade these existing capabilities for its own production. That is not Arizona story at all.
1/ Dan Wang’s NYT essay on TSMC's Arizona plant argues that TSMC is doing for America what Apple did for China. But the analogy rests on two assumptions and it's not clear that either one of them is holding.
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opini…
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All groups bidding for a Las Vegas NBA expansion franchise reportedly have hesitations about shifting to Seattle if they aren't chosen by the league. seattletimes.com/sports/soni…
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The thing is. And this was a major 🔑 for me several years ago, in thinking about the podcast, is that communists are obsessed with capitalism. Some of them are so obsessed that they might even secretly love it. Whereas capitalists rarely spend any time thinking about it.
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So if you want to understand capitalism, you need to be talking to small business owners, portfolio managers, and Marxists. Nobody else can really talk about it with any substance.
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me going through the group chat reacting to things i missed: hehe, yay. heart heart heart. hearty heart heart. i love my friends
me when someone is going through the group chat late and reacting to things: oh great, here comes The Reactor
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New online
Jairus Banaji: Capitalism, Peasants, Family Farms: A Bibliographical Essay
historicalmaterialism.org/99…
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Tomorrow is publication day for ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS! 🌹🌾
I wrote this book so that everyone can read it. I’m delighted that Booklist describes it as "a vision of economics centred on affordability" that’s accessible to all.
🔗 Order your copy now via the links below.
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New: The federal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar aims to build a case to strip her of her U.S. citizenship and ultimately deport her, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the probe wsj.com/politics/policy/ilha… via @McCormickJohn @MHackman @sgurman
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“The tech dollars now are a new version of petrodollars.”
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People being horrified by the fact that an execution will be shown publicly, rather than by it happening at all, is a good example of why we can't have death penalty abolition in this country. Executing this man in private doesn't really address the underlying moral issue here.
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Remember when neoliberal econs told us in the post-Covid period that companies were NOT taking advantage of inflation to raise their own prices in excess of any cost increase? They also told us that industry concentration didn't explain post-Covid price hikes. Well, economists at Northeastern University tested that proposition and found good evidence for this practice--what non-econs might call "gouging" or "profiteering"--in the airline industry. Go give it a read! (link in next tweet)
