katharina-kaeppel.bsky.social
@katharina-kaeppel.bsky.social
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New WP w/@thomaspiketty.bsky.social !

We build a database of World Historical BoP (wbop.world) and study +200 years of economic transactions

Key takeaway: power plays a key role in global imbalances.
Collective rules are needed to correct them.

Check this thread 👇
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

wid.world/news-article...
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM