Phenomenal World
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Publication of Jain Family Institute. Political economy and critical social sciences.
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How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
November 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance.
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...
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Fascinating background & insight into the real estate politics of the NYC mayoral race: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
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October 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fascinating background & insight into the real estate politics of the NYC mayoral race: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
“Far from an obstacle to climate objectives, it is through SOEs that Sheinbaum is pursuing the green transition. Her admin has reinforced AMLO’s program to revive Mexico’s SOEs—Pemex and CFE—with new decarbonization and industrial policy ambitions.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
Mexico’s Big Green State | Jose Maria Valenzuela
Claudia Sheinbaum plans to repurpose the country's state-owned enterprises towards decarbonization
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November 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Far from an obstacle to climate objectives, it is through SOEs that Sheinbaum is pursuing the green transition. Her admin has reinforced AMLO’s program to revive Mexico’s SOEs—Pemex and CFE—with new decarbonization and industrial policy ambitions.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mex...
“It’s no surprise that the NYC mayoral race has brought this antagonism—between a robust tenant movement with the strongest rent stabilization laws in the US and a powerful real estate lobby accustomed to shaping the city in its image—to the fore.”
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www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
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November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“It’s no surprise that the NYC mayoral race has brought this antagonism—between a robust tenant movement with the strongest rent stabilization laws in the US and a powerful real estate lobby accustomed to shaping the city in its image—to the fore.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
“What impact will the rent freeze have, then, on the current impasse? Already, the centrality of the demand to the mayoral race has opened up a new chapter in the struggle for a sane housing policy.”
NEW: Cea Weaver on housing politics in New York City
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NEW: Cea Weaver on housing politics in New York City
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Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
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October 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“What impact will the rent freeze have, then, on the current impasse? Already, the centrality of the demand to the mayoral race has opened up a new chapter in the struggle for a sane housing policy.”
NEW: Cea Weaver on housing politics in New York City
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
NEW: Cea Weaver on housing politics in New York City
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
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The Syrian civil war, the longest of the Arab Spring uprisings from 2011. It ended last year and it seems like we are ignoring what it meant and how it’s shaped the future of Syria. This piece was a bracing reminder and haunting forecast. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/syr...
Syrian Continuity | Phenomenal World
A general finding in the study of rebel politics is that groups that come to power without a clear hegemonic position within the rebel movement are vulnerable to spoilers or coups d’etat that push the...
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October 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Syrian civil war, the longest of the Arab Spring uprisings from 2011. It ended last year and it seems like we are ignoring what it meant and how it’s shaped the future of Syria. This piece was a bracing reminder and haunting forecast. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/syr...
“NYC’s housing politics are defined by competition between two forces: a tenant movement that has won strong rent stabilization and public development tools; and the country’s most powerful real estate lobby, accustomed to shaping the city in its image.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
www.phenomenalworld.org
October 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“NYC’s housing politics are defined by competition between two forces: a tenant movement that has won strong rent stabilization and public development tools; and the country’s most powerful real estate lobby, accustomed to shaping the city in its image.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sta...
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“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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Over the last decade a big tent coalition created a hegemonic "common sense" in US : public investment to fight climate change would undo the economic and political damage of deindustrialization, AND contain China.
Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Over the last decade a big tent coalition created a hegemonic "common sense" in US : public investment to fight climate change would undo the economic and political damage of deindustrialization, AND contain China.
Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Superb piece by my collaborator Ted Fertik. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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NEW! In our latest @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter, Shreyas Shende asks whether or not India will accept Trump’s offer of being locked into a US-led carbon coalition or break free with its own green developmentalist growth model. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
India in the New Global Order
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth
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October 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
NEW! In our latest @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter, Shreyas Shende asks whether or not India will accept Trump’s offer of being locked into a US-led carbon coalition or break free with its own green developmentalist growth model. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
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“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—and the world.”
- @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
- @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“What provides India greater freedom of choice and sovereignty? Locking into hydrocarbon coalitions or doubling down on…a green electro-state track? How India chooses to address this question will shape the destiny of its 1.4 billion citizens—and the world.”
- @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
- @shreyas-shende.bsky.social
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1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations.
indialog.substack.com
Check it out --India in the new global order
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
indialog.substack.com
Check it out --India in the new global order
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
October 2, 2025 at 9:49 PM
1/ For this edition of the Polycrisis, we asked Shreyas Shende, who runs the fantastic Indialog newsletter, to analyse the momentous breakdown in India-US relations.
indialog.substack.com
Check it out --India in the new global order
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
indialog.substack.com
Check it out --India in the new global order
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind...
“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
“Even business sectors most amenable to a post-carbon economy demonstrate in their investment decisions that they don't believe decarbonization will happen quickly. The US government now states confidently and proudly that the US will not decarbonize.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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No dejéis de leer esto de @jorgetamames.bsky.social. A veces necesitamos poner ojos de corresponsal, y muy pocos lo consiguen con esta precisión.
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www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
Growing Pains | Jorge Tamames
Spain’s search for a new growth model
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September 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
No dejéis de leer esto de @jorgetamames.bsky.social. A veces necesitamos poner ojos de corresponsal, y muy pocos lo consiguen con esta precisión.
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
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“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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17/ 200 billion plus in overseas green factory investment! Chinese companies are expanding their supply chains abroad to capture new markets, avoid tariffs & get closer to sources of raw materials
BRI 2 is private sector led and very different from the first
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
BRI 2 is private sector led and very different from the first
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
The Belt and Road 2.0 | Tim Sahay
An interview with Mathias Larsen on China’s overseas clean-tech manufacturing investments
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September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
17/ 200 billion plus in overseas green factory investment! Chinese companies are expanding their supply chains abroad to capture new markets, avoid tariffs & get closer to sources of raw materials
BRI 2 is private sector led and very different from the first
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
BRI 2 is private sector led and very different from the first
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Anti-Climate Common Sense | Ted Fertik
How a new climate common sense was built and how Trump’s assault threatens its unraveling
www.phenomenalworld.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“Across the 2010s, a new common sense had been built around a single premise: that the future is carbon constrained.
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
The Trump assault on climate aims to blow up the painstakingly assembled coalition that made US climate action possible.”
NEW by Ted Fertik
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I interviewed Mathias Larsen on key takeaways of our Hopkins report @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
Why is this BRI 2.0 private-sector led? Does Beijing know the scale? What are motivations of firms going out? What are host countries agency & developmentalist plans
phenomenalworld.org/interviews/t...
“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.”
NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
September 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Chinese overseas FDI is nearing $100 billion per year. The Marshall Plan was $200b—and locked Europe into US tech and standards. When we see sums of this size, we can ask whether it will have a similar effect on the globe.”
NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
NEW: @70sbachchan.bsky.social & @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social on the BRI 2.0
“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.”
Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
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Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
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Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein
An interview with Daniel Wortel-London
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September 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.”
Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC
www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
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A wonderful interview of @dlondonwortel.bsky.social on his fantastic new book, "The Menace of Prosperity" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), by Kim Phillips-Fein for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social; of interest to all #skystorians! www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
Land Value Politics | Kim Phillips-Fein
An interview with Daniel Wortel-London
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September 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A wonderful interview of @dlondonwortel.bsky.social on his fantastic new book, "The Menace of Prosperity" (@uchicagopress.bsky.social, 2025), by Kim Phillips-Fein for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social; of interest to all #skystorians! www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...
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Muy feliz porque
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
publicó mi artículo sobre la reforma pensional colombiana.
Allí explico una aparente paradoja: ¿por qué un gobierno progresista impulsó una reforma con una estructura neoliberal?
Comenetarios bienvenidos
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
publicó mi artículo sobre la reforma pensional colombiana.
Allí explico una aparente paradoja: ¿por qué un gobierno progresista impulsó una reforma con una estructura neoliberal?
Comenetarios bienvenidos
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
Paradojas reformistas | Kevin Hartmann
La nueva arquitectura del sistema pensional colombiano
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September 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Muy feliz porque
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
publicó mi artículo sobre la reforma pensional colombiana.
Allí explico una aparente paradoja: ¿por qué un gobierno progresista impulsó una reforma con una estructura neoliberal?
Comenetarios bienvenidos
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
@phenomenalworld.bsky.social
publicó mi artículo sobre la reforma pensional colombiana.
Allí explico una aparente paradoja: ¿por qué un gobierno progresista impulsó una reforma con una estructura neoliberal?
Comenetarios bienvenidos
www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...
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And more w/ @akentikelenis.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on green technology transfers in the Global South.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...
Transfer and Transition | Benjamin Bradlow & Alexandros Kentikelenis
Technology transfer is a necessity for a just global green transformation
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September 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
And more w/ @akentikelenis.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on green technology transfers in the Global South.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tec...
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Anatomy of a Defense Budget - Zaynab Quadri
“Throughout the past century, these evolutions in US military spending have reflected the changing nature of American warfare, governance, and power.”
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“Throughout the past century, these evolutions in US military spending have reflected the changing nature of American warfare, governance, and power.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ana...
September 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Anatomy of a Defense Budget - Zaynab Quadri
“Throughout the past century, these evolutions in US military spending have reflected the changing nature of American warfare, governance, and power.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ana...
“Throughout the past century, these evolutions in US military spending have reflected the changing nature of American warfare, governance, and power.”
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ana...
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Over at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay explore the future of an uninsurable earth.
Insurance in the Polycrisis | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay
The future is triage on an uninsurable earth.
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September 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Over at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, Kate Mackenzie and Tim Sahay explore the future of an uninsurable earth.