💥Ministers of Germany, Brazil, South Africa and Spain: 'why we need a global tax on billionaires'

Momentum for a coordinated minimum tax on the super-rich is accelerating – history in the making!

theguardian.com/inequality/202…

Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.

Starting the Sovereign Debt and Climate Finance conference, organised by PERI-UMass and IDEAs. First panel with Dani Rodrik, Jan Kregel and Gerald Epstein, chaired by Patrick Mason. Jayati Ghosh.

Excited to share our new open access paper on hegemonic transitions, accumulation, and systemic chaos with Giorgos Galanis Isabella M. Weber in Socio-Economic Review Oxford Economics SASE ---> academic.oup.com/ser/advance-ar…

An anecdote passed down to me: once when the New School was occupied by students, members of the grad faculty met in a hotel room to decide what to do. When the police were mentioned, Hannah Arendt said, *in German*—'you never call the police.'

NYPD spokesmen suggesting student protests across NYC will be investigated by 'anti-terrorism unit'. This is an ominous threat against our students and communities.

My wonderful colleagues at the Schools for Public engagement sent this letter to New School President, Donna Shalala and Provost Renée White.

One day after faculty and staff bodies across the university joined calls for the New School to divest from 13 companies in overwhelming numbers, this is how the administration responded. At least 30 arrests so far. Of our students.

Deeply disturbed by police arrests of @thenewschool student protesters after implicit assurances to faculty by Pres.
Donna E. Shalala that police wouldn't be called. Invocation of 'imminent threat' in her letter to
NYPD NEWS unjustified. Duplicitous, false: action rushed & damaging

“We have the receipts. We have overwhelming evidence that [the fossil fuel] industry has known since twice my lifetime about the dangers of their products.” Geoffrey Supran to Bernie Sanders

I’m not surprised that the FTC has found evidence of collusion with the cartel and price-gouging. Congress should pass my windfall profits bill to return Big Oil’s excess gains to the American people’s pockets.

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“The F.T.C.’s report finds that dominant firms used this moment to come out ahead at the expense of their competitors and the communities they serve,” Lina Khan said in a statement.”

Means (size)
Motive (profit)
Opportunity (pandemic supply crunch) nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/…

Incredible, brutal self-indictment by Draghi (although Trichet takes the biggest hit). Speech in Brussels yesterday. I’ve never seen anything like it from anywhere near the top of the ECB. And we just spent five years digging around. Extraordinary.

geopolitique.eu/en/2024/04/16/…

The polycrisis is prefigured in Arrighi’s theory of hegemonic transition. Systemic cycles of accumulation culminate in chaos as conflict escalates & new & old rules compete.

Our new open access paper links the accumulation process & chaos using a logistic map. 🧶
Giorgos Galanis

Whole of Asia is reeling under a heat wave, threatening lives & livelihoods. Both #climate adaptation & mitigation are urgently needed, especially to protect the most vulnerable in each country. Ministry of Health MoEF&CC NITI Aayog UN Climate Change World Health Organization South-East Asia World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific

Today, days after recent violent arrests of protesters on Emory’s campus, Gov. Kemp signed a bill that disallows charitable bail funds from bailing out more than 3 people per YEAR in Georgia. The bill also adds more protest-related non-bailable offenses. atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/05/01/gov…

Fascinating article by Giorgos Galanis, Christian Koutny & Isabella M. Weber developing formally the Arrighi-Silver theory of systemic cycles of accumulation and in particular modelling each cycle's descent into chaos. The contemporary relevance is glaring. academic.oup.com/ser/article/do…