Claes Belfrage
@cabelfrage.bsky.social
Reader in Global Political Economy, University of Liverpool. Interested in financialisation, Green Finance, Post-Growth and Circular Economy. Working with Liverpool City Council to engineer the Green Transition. Enjoys family, fun and tennis.
🇸🇪Living in🇬🇧
🇸🇪Living in🇬🇧
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
And here we go again...Meanwhile AI companies warn against the AI bubble bursting...
And here we go again...Meanwhile AI companies warn against the AI bubble bursting...
The Fed Is Cutting Bank Oversight. Critics See Risks.
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:28 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/b...
And here we go again...Meanwhile AI companies warn against the AI bubble bursting...
And here we go again...Meanwhile AI companies warn against the AI bubble bursting...
Very interesting. Steel in the new world order: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
The World Has Too Much Steel, but No One Wants to Stop Making It
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Very interesting. Steel in the new world order: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/b...
Liverpool City assigned the first accelerator city by the UN. The hard work continues to speed up the Green Transition!
December 2, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Liverpool City assigned the first accelerator city by the UN. The hard work continues to speed up the Green Transition!
August 14, 2024 at 6:55 PM
May 14, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Britain Is Cutting Taxes Again. Why Now? www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/b...
March 7, 2024 at 7:50 AM
Britain Is Cutting Taxes Again. Why Now? www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/b...
February 26, 2024 at 7:51 AM
Neoliberal financialisation has reduced margins to the extent that household debt is increasing rapidly in Sweden. I and Markus Kallifatides have been writing about this process and its emergent consequences for some time. Take a look, if you are curious.
www.dn.se/ekonomi/skul...
www.dn.se/ekonomi/skul...
January 31, 2024 at 9:29 AM
Neoliberal financialisation has reduced margins to the extent that household debt is increasing rapidly in Sweden. I and Markus Kallifatides have been writing about this process and its emergent consequences for some time. Take a look, if you are curious.
www.dn.se/ekonomi/skul...
www.dn.se/ekonomi/skul...
Interesting legal developments in relation to the emission considerations for granting permission to drill for oil and gas.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
January 31, 2024 at 8:28 AM
Interesting legal developments in relation to the emission considerations for granting permission to drill for oil and gas.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is wild and disturbing, but when you think about it not surprising.
#wasteful capitalism
#circular economy
#wasteful capitalism
#circular economy
"As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold"
The capitalist system of production represents a wildly irrational waste of labour, energy and resources. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024...
The capitalist system of production represents a wildly irrational waste of labour, energy and resources. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2024...
‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental d...
As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Trump winning Iowa caucus this straightforwardly seems to be further evidence if US hegemonic decline (in case we needed further such...).
#UShegemonicdecline
#polycrisis
#UShegemonicdecline
#polycrisis
January 16, 2024 at 9:30 AM
Trump winning Iowa caucus this straightforwardly seems to be further evidence if US hegemonic decline (in case we needed further such...).
#UShegemonicdecline
#polycrisis
#UShegemonicdecline
#polycrisis
The "human behavioural crisis", caused by "deliberate exploitation of human behaviour" by corporations vying for consumers' attention, has resulted in "ecological overshoot". We require resources equivalent to 1.7 earths causing Earth to become uninhabitable and threatens peaceful human relations.
January 15, 2024 at 9:16 AM
The "human behavioural crisis", caused by "deliberate exploitation of human behaviour" by corporations vying for consumers' attention, has resulted in "ecological overshoot". We require resources equivalent to 1.7 earths causing Earth to become uninhabitable and threatens peaceful human relations.
January 15, 2024 at 7:55 AM
I like this little navigation by Federico Savini of the concepts circulating in discussions on how to tackle climate change in cities.
"If combined with degrowth, ... the circular economy concept can offer a powerful trajectory for material reduction"
ontgroei.degrowth.net/post-growth-...
"If combined with degrowth, ... the circular economy concept can offer a powerful trajectory for material reduction"
ontgroei.degrowth.net/post-growth-...
December 28, 2023 at 9:26 AM
I like this little navigation by Federico Savini of the concepts circulating in discussions on how to tackle climate change in cities.
"If combined with degrowth, ... the circular economy concept can offer a powerful trajectory for material reduction"
ontgroei.degrowth.net/post-growth-...
"If combined with degrowth, ... the circular economy concept can offer a powerful trajectory for material reduction"
ontgroei.degrowth.net/post-growth-...