Jerome Roos
@jeromeroos.bsky.social
Political economist at UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies. Author of 'Why Not Default?'. Writing a history of global crises for Knopf and Vintage.
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Kaiser Kuo on China’s astonishing transformation, and how it has profoundly upended liberal Western notions of modernization:
“Even those of us who have followed China closely, who pride ourselves on seeing past Western prejudices, have found it difficult to fully absorb what we are witnessing.”
“Even those of us who have followed China closely, who pride ourselves on seeing past Western prejudices, have found it difficult to fully absorb what we are witnessing.”
The Great Reckoning - The Ideas Letter
The world feels unsettled, as if history itself were changing tempo. The familiar landmarks of the modern age are blurring, slipping away, and the stories we once told ourselves about…
www.theideasletter.org
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Kaiser Kuo on China’s astonishing transformation, and how it has profoundly upended liberal Western notions of modernization:
“Even those of us who have followed China closely, who pride ourselves on seeing past Western prejudices, have found it difficult to fully absorb what we are witnessing.”
“Even those of us who have followed China closely, who pride ourselves on seeing past Western prejudices, have found it difficult to fully absorb what we are witnessing.”
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New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books,
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
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with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books,
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
Link below👇:
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social
@campolis.bsky.social
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A new magazine of politics, culture, art. Coming soon.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A new magazine of politics, culture, art. Coming soon.
Sign up to our mailing list: www.equator.org/
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Incredibly excited about this new magazine and global community, launching soon!
"Equator is founded on our conviction that the storied titles of the Anglophone West cannot be internally reformed, nor redeemed by their periodic U-turns and belated mea culpas. The time has come to create something new."
Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.
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Today we publish Equator's editorial declaration.
Join us: www.equator.org
October 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Incredibly excited about this new magazine and global community, launching soon!
I’m thrilled to be joining the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies as a Visiting Fellow next academic year!
We are delighted to announce the incoming cohort of Visiting Fellows at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies for 2025/26. A very warm welcome to: @jeromeroos.bsky.social, @sarahkunz.bsky.social, Maya Adereth, Simidele Dosekun, and Rachel O'Neill!
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Visiting Research Fellows 2025-26
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I’m thrilled to be joining the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies as a Visiting Fellow next academic year!
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📣 #BeyondNeoliberalism — updated site now live 📣
Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more.
Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social.
beyond-neoliberalism.org
Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more.
Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social.
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May 2, 2025 at 9:47 AM
📣 #BeyondNeoliberalism — updated site now live 📣
Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more.
Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social.
beyond-neoliberalism.org
Check out the full schedule, speaker bios, and more.
Join our mailing list for updates — and get on the waitlist for the plenary with Rana Foroohar @jayatighosh.bsky.social @hboushey.bsky.social and @drodrik.bsky.social.
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On End Times Fascism:
"We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
On End Times Fascism:
"We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
"We simply have not faced such a powerful apocalyptic strain in government before. The 'end of history' swagger of the post-cold war era is rapidly being supplanted by a conviction we are in the actual end of times."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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In honor of Trump putting 25% tariffs on auto imports & various opinions about that, sharing my feature from this month’s TNR on what the Trump administration could mean for legacy US automakers as electrification transforms the sector globally
It's long so 🧵 1/
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
It's long so 🧵 1/
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
In honor of Trump putting 25% tariffs on auto imports & various opinions about that, sharing my feature from this month’s TNR on what the Trump administration could mean for legacy US automakers as electrification transforms the sector globally
It's long so 🧵 1/
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
It's long so 🧵 1/
newrepublic.com/article/1921...
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Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
March 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed?
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism
👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social
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Is the #InternationalOrder on the cusp of change, or has it changed already, in what promises to be the #Asian century?
📆 Wed, 12 Feb 25, ONLINE
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📆 Wed, 12 Feb 25, ONLINE
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February 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Is the #InternationalOrder on the cusp of change, or has it changed already, in what promises to be the #Asian century?
📆 Wed, 12 Feb 25, ONLINE
🕒 3pm🇬🇧 4pm🇪🇺 6pm🇹🇷 8.30pm🇮🇳 11pm🇨🇳
🆓 Reg/Speaker details: www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c...
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📆 Wed, 12 Feb 25, ONLINE
🕒 3pm🇬🇧 4pm🇪🇺 6pm🇹🇷 8.30pm🇮🇳 11pm🇨🇳
🆓 Reg/Speaker details: www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c...
@jeromeroos.bsky.social @lseideas.bsky.social @lseir.bsky.social
Excellent piece by @samuelmoyn.bsky.social:
Trump “is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure … He and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it.”
Trump “is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure … He and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it.”
Trump wants to reverse America’s decline. Good luck | Samuel Moyn
Trump and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excellent piece by @samuelmoyn.bsky.social:
Trump “is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure … He and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it.”
Trump “is the symptom of imperial decline who purports to be the cure … He and his supporters would like to buck the tide of history, but they could end up pulled further into it, and have no way to stop it.”
Look who suddenly cares about intellectual property now:
“OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.”
“OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.”
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
on.ft.com
January 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Look who suddenly cares about intellectual property now:
“OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.”
“OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property.”
Great piece by Greg Grandin on the Trump 2.0 turn from isolationism to expansionism:
“He is sending a clear signal that dominance, not mutualism, is the world’s new organizing principle and that the doctrine of conquest, thought to have expired, is still valid.”
“He is sending a clear signal that dominance, not mutualism, is the world’s new organizing principle and that the doctrine of conquest, thought to have expired, is still valid.”
Opinion | The Dark Roots of Donald Trump’s Obsession With Panama and Greenland (Gift Article)
He is tapping into a vision of a United States that is forever growing, forever moving outward.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Great piece by Greg Grandin on the Trump 2.0 turn from isolationism to expansionism:
“He is sending a clear signal that dominance, not mutualism, is the world’s new organizing principle and that the doctrine of conquest, thought to have expired, is still valid.”
“He is sending a clear signal that dominance, not mutualism, is the world’s new organizing principle and that the doctrine of conquest, thought to have expired, is still valid.”
Beautifully written and moving essay by @danhancox.bsky.social on the great Walter Benjamin:
The last days of Walter Benjamin
Hounded by the Nazis, the great philosopher took his life in 1940, leaving several mysteries unanswered
www.ft.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Beautifully written and moving essay by @danhancox.bsky.social on the great Walter Benjamin:
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When ppl try to tell Brett Christophers “markets” really are delivering the clean energy transition. www.economist.com/china/2024/1...
November 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM
When ppl try to tell Brett Christophers “markets” really are delivering the clean energy transition. www.economist.com/china/2024/1...
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Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends:
• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots
• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus
• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory
• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots
• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus
• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory
November 13, 2024 at 11:57 AM
Here are UK & US BlueSky numbers separately, to show what’s driving the trends:
• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots
• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus
• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory
• Aug 3rd: Musk says ‘civil war is inevitable’ in UK during far right riots
• Oct 17th: Musk changes the block function on X, prompting a massive exodus
• Nov 7th: thousands more migrate in aftermath of Trump victory
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With the protests against massive spending cuts in the background, I wrote something on the state of Dutch higher education: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/the-state-...
The State of Dutch Higher Education: From Boom to Bust
The Dutch university sector is facing a massive program of politically motivated cuts and backlash against its "anglicisation"
alexandreafonso.substack.com
November 15, 2024 at 3:42 PM
With the protests against massive spending cuts in the background, I wrote something on the state of Dutch higher education: alexandreafonso.substack.com/p/the-state-...
“Trump won the US presidential election on a platform that promised tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese-made goods. Further south, though, a new China-backed megaport has the potential to create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.”
h/t @fdove.bsky.social
h/t @fdove.bsky.social
China megaport paves way into Latin America as wary US looks on
A new China-backed megaport in Peru may create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2024 at 7:00 PM
“Trump won the US presidential election on a platform that promised tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese-made goods. Further south, though, a new China-backed megaport has the potential to create whole new trade routes that will bypass North America entirely.”
h/t @fdove.bsky.social
h/t @fdove.bsky.social
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That China's carbon emissions are on course to fall this year is one of the most important and under covered stories of 2024 carbonmonitor.org/variation
November 14, 2024 at 10:29 AM
That China's carbon emissions are on course to fall this year is one of the most important and under covered stories of 2024 carbonmonitor.org/variation
Thank you China 🙏
November 16, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Thank you China 🙏