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Phil Ashton
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UIC Prof | Banking, infrastructure, climate finance, law | Chicago by way of Winnipeg, Montréal, New York and points in between | You will receive no bill.
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I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance
In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...
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February 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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if you want to know where we are in Western climate politics, the Bank of England, one of the few central banks with an environmental mandate, has just published its 2025-2028 research agenda and there isnt a single word on climate

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Bank of England Agenda for Research, 2025-2028
Research is crucial to what any central bank does. It forms a critical part of the analytical apparatus that guides policymakers’ decisions. This document sets out the key new directions for research ...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Under-appreciated aspects of the RealPage "algorithmic" price-fixing scandal: (1) the landlords engaged in a lot of blatant, old-school coordination; (2) the DOJ didn’t sue the landlords. 🙃
Text that reads: "Through weekly phone calls, emails, and in-person meetings, the landlords shared a variety of sensitive information with their direct competitors, including “nonpublic information about inquiries by prospective renters, occupancy, and rents.” Some competing landlords even set up shared Google Docs so they could more easily share such information with each other. In other words, they weren’t meeting in smoke-filled back rooms, whispering their plans in the dead of night. They did it openly in the light of day."
November 18, 2024 at 5:39 PM