Rohith Jyothish
@thirdworldecon.bsky.social
Political economist exploring how fiscal systems shape welfare states, expanding into political ecology, and analysing how technology reshapes the labour process.
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Pinned
In Part 2 of my long explainer on Sabyasachi Das’s unpublished paper based on the 2019 Lok Sabha results, I argue that the results in the paper has attained renewed significance given #ElectionCommission of India’s voter roll revisions. #SIR
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Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy www.theariofrancos.com/extraction then listen: thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
In Part 2 of my long explainer on Sabyasachi Das’s unpublished paper based on the 2019 Lok Sabha results, I argue that the results in the paper has attained renewed significance given #ElectionCommission of India’s voter roll revisions. #SIR
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November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In Part 2 of my long explainer on Sabyasachi Das’s unpublished paper based on the 2019 Lok Sabha results, I argue that the results in the paper has attained renewed significance given #ElectionCommission of India’s voter roll revisions. #SIR
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
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7. My new essay argues that if the city is the scale at which most of us now live our politics, it also has to become the scale at which democracy is rebuilt.
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Cities without Sovereignty
What Zohran Mamdani’s win reveals about India’s unfinished federalism
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November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
7. My new essay argues that if the city is the scale at which most of us now live our politics, it also has to become the scale at which democracy is rebuilt.
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1. #NYC 's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, ran on rent freezes, free buses, and public childcare, politics that treats affordability and care as civic rights, not consumer choices.
For anyone watching from India, that sounded radical and impossible. 🧵
For anyone watching from India, that sounded radical and impossible. 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 AM
1. #NYC 's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, ran on rent freezes, free buses, and public childcare, politics that treats affordability and care as civic rights, not consumer choices.
For anyone watching from India, that sounded radical and impossible. 🧵
For anyone watching from India, that sounded radical and impossible. 🧵
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
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My long essay on the 2025 Economics Nobel. A social history of the idea of innovation. #Nobel2025
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Innovation as Destiny: The Global Life of a Nobel Winning Theory
The 2025 Economics Nobel for explaining how innovation fuels growth was half-a-century in the making, in the process reimagining the mechanics of progress within economics itself.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My long essay on the 2025 Economics Nobel. A social history of the idea of innovation. #Nobel2025
www.theindiaforum.in/public-polic...
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My long essay on the 2025 Economics Nobel. A social history of the idea of innovation. #Nobel2025
www.theindiaforum.in/public-polic...
www.theindiaforum.in/public-polic...
Innovation as Destiny: The Global Life of a Nobel Winning Theory
The 2025 Economics Nobel for explaining how innovation fuels growth was half-a-century in the making, in the process reimagining the mechanics of progress within economics itself.
www.theindiaforum.in
October 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
My long essay on the 2025 Economics Nobel. A social history of the idea of innovation. #Nobel2025
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We no longer argue about evidence.
We argue about who is entitled to make an argument.
That’s the deeper fracture in Indian public life, not Left vs Right, but a fight over who gets to describe reality.
A thread (1/6)👇
We argue about who is entitled to make an argument.
That’s the deeper fracture in Indian public life, not Left vs Right, but a fight over who gets to describe reality.
A thread (1/6)👇
October 26, 2025 at 3:22 AM
We no longer argue about evidence.
We argue about who is entitled to make an argument.
That’s the deeper fracture in Indian public life, not Left vs Right, but a fight over who gets to describe reality.
A thread (1/6)👇
We argue about who is entitled to make an argument.
That’s the deeper fracture in Indian public life, not Left vs Right, but a fight over who gets to describe reality.
A thread (1/6)👇
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"Within this structure, the “shortcut” is not a moral lapse. It is an adaptive response. The scholar facing multiple rejections and limited recognition must decide between two losses. Credibility or visibility."
#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Within this structure, the “shortcut” is not a moral lapse. It is an adaptive response. The scholar facing multiple rejections and limited recognition must decide between two losses. Credibility or visibility."
#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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"Within this structure, the “shortcut” is not a moral lapse. It is an adaptive response. The scholar facing multiple rejections and limited recognition must decide between two losses. Credibility or visibility."
#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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October 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Within this structure, the “shortcut” is not a moral lapse. It is an adaptive response. The scholar facing multiple rejections and limited recognition must decide between two losses. Credibility or visibility."
#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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#HigherEducation #AcademicTwitter
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"Conflating opposition to genocidal football hooligans with anti-semitism is not fighting hatred. It is enabling it. Football is meant to unite. Israeli football culture has become a vehicle for racism, militarism, and propaganda celebrating mass killing."
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When safety becomes sedition: the Maccabi Tel Aviv ban debacle
THE decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv hooligans from Birmingham wasn’t anti-semitism. It was anti-fascism.On October 16, 2025, Birmingham’s Safety Advisory Group and West Midlands Police, following sta...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
"Conflating opposition to genocidal football hooligans with anti-semitism is not fighting hatred. It is enabling it. Football is meant to unite. Israeli football culture has become a vehicle for racism, militarism, and propaganda celebrating mass killing."
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/when...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/when...
World Cup Qualifiers Become a Venue for European Protests of Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
World Cup Qualifiers Become a Venue for European Protests of Israel
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October 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
World Cup Qualifiers Become a Venue for European Protests of Israel www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...
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This piece critiques liberal commentators—especially Ezra Klein—for admiring the organizational effectiveness of figures like Kirk while overlooking the moral and social harms embedded in their rhetoric.
By @naconanix.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
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By @naconanix.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
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Charlie Kirk, Ezra Klein, and the Cost of Civility-Theater Liberalism
“Talking across divides” is laudable—until it becomes a license to launder antidemocratic and dehumanizing ideas.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This piece critiques liberal commentators—especially Ezra Klein—for admiring the organizational effectiveness of figures like Kirk while overlooking the moral and social harms embedded in their rhetoric.
By @naconanix.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
buff.ly/sFpaPcT
By @naconanix.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com
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The IMF too long assumed imbalances would recede.
The Fund is now - thankfully - marching back into the global imbalance part of its mandate.
IMF staff just released an interesting new paper.
“Do trade imbalances boost incomes in surplus economies at the expense of deficit economies?
1/
The Fund is now - thankfully - marching back into the global imbalance part of its mandate.
IMF staff just released an interesting new paper.
“Do trade imbalances boost incomes in surplus economies at the expense of deficit economies?
1/
September 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The IMF too long assumed imbalances would recede.
The Fund is now - thankfully - marching back into the global imbalance part of its mandate.
IMF staff just released an interesting new paper.
“Do trade imbalances boost incomes in surplus economies at the expense of deficit economies?
1/
The Fund is now - thankfully - marching back into the global imbalance part of its mandate.
IMF staff just released an interesting new paper.
“Do trade imbalances boost incomes in surplus economies at the expense of deficit economies?
1/
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The official launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social is in just one week! Join CCI & @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The official launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social is in just one week! Join CCI & @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
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Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
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October 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
September 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Chinese government's new regulation look to electrify more of the country's steel production, which will increasingly powered by clean power.
The result is China's new plan will mean lower emissions and greener steel. www.bnef.com/analyst-reac...
The result is China's new plan will mean lower emissions and greener steel. www.bnef.com/analyst-reac...
September 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Chinese government's new regulation look to electrify more of the country's steel production, which will increasingly powered by clean power.
The result is China's new plan will mean lower emissions and greener steel. www.bnef.com/analyst-reac...
The result is China's new plan will mean lower emissions and greener steel. www.bnef.com/analyst-reac...
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"Most of us are “immigrants” here, without extended family networks. The costs of care are borne privately. Instead of recognising this, the university piles on new systems that strip away even more time."
#Academics #IndianAcademia
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#Academics #IndianAcademia
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Why is Everything an Emergency?
On time, control, and the corrosion of academic life in a "world-class" university
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September 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"Most of us are “immigrants” here, without extended family networks. The costs of care are borne privately. Instead of recognising this, the university piles on new systems that strip away even more time."
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
"Most of us are “immigrants” here, without extended family networks. The costs of care are borne privately. Instead of recognising this, the university piles on new systems that strip away even more time."
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
Why is Everything an Emergency?
On time, control, and the corrosion of academic life in a "world-class" university
thirdworldecon.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
"Most of us are “immigrants” here, without extended family networks. The costs of care are borne privately. Instead of recognising this, the university piles on new systems that strip away even more time."
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...
#Academics #IndianAcademia
thirdworldecon.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...