Yaku
@yaku-pe.bsky.social
Political Economist | Interested in how capitalism works & how to create an economy in favor of people instead of profits
Efficiency in public finance is a misnomer. It is often used to justify budget cuts in essential public services. There should be another way to conduct analysis of how authorities spend money. A way that integrates the multiple purposes and functions that a public administration fulfils.
August 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Efficiency in public finance is a misnomer. It is often used to justify budget cuts in essential public services. There should be another way to conduct analysis of how authorities spend money. A way that integrates the multiple purposes and functions that a public administration fulfils.
A lot of the stress in the modern life would disappear with universal public services and a guaranteed job for everyone. The liberal order where each person is valued according to their "merits" leads to perpetual distress, insane competition, apathy and ultimately to the extension of human contact
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A lot of the stress in the modern life would disappear with universal public services and a guaranteed job for everyone. The liberal order where each person is valued according to their "merits" leads to perpetual distress, insane competition, apathy and ultimately to the extension of human contact
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What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Aaron Benanav, Beyond Capitalism—1, NLR 153, May–June 2025
In the first instalment of a major contribution to the reconceptualization of a post-capitalist social order, Aaron Benanav marshals insights from a long century of socialist thought and practice—Cabe...
newleftreview.org
July 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
@NewLeftReview
is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...
Interesting paper. The question is ℹ️ How to improve the relevancy and the impact of knowledge produced in the southern hemisphere ❓
📄 Whose expert knowledge informs policymaking around the world?
@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
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@rsenninger.bsky.social and I analyze data from 1.2 million government policy documents from 185 countries—and find a prominent pattern:
🌍 Policy evidence is overwhelmingly sourced from the Global North.
Preprint: osf.io/w8q3y
🧪🧵👇
June 12, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Interesting paper. The question is ℹ️ How to improve the relevancy and the impact of knowledge produced in the southern hemisphere ❓
Austerity kills. But now it's proven with econometrics methods
Welfare benefit cuts and other UK austerity measures after 2010 lowered life expectancy — and the effect was nearly twice as great on women, according to the new WP by Stone Center associated researcher @yonatanberman.com and Tora Hovland.
bit.ly/4jkSc7K
bit.ly/4jkSc7K
May 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Austerity kills. But now it's proven with econometrics methods
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Companies from high-income countries are responsible for 700% more environmental conflicts in low- and middle-income countries than companies from China are.
New study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
May 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Companies from high-income countries are responsible for 700% more environmental conflicts in low- and middle-income countries than companies from China are.
New study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New study: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Interesting article that tries to disentangle the reasons of the trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. This gap is bigger in parts of LATAM and Africa. I kind of feel that there is an elephant in the room that this article does not see...
Climate scientists are trusted globally, just not as much as other scientists – here’s why
New research shows climate scientists are less trusted than other types of scientists. But there are big differences between countries and specific groups of people.
theconversation.com
May 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Interesting article that tries to disentangle the reasons of the trust gap between climate scientists and scientists in general. This gap is bigger in parts of LATAM and Africa. I kind of feel that there is an elephant in the room that this article does not see...
Excellent resource. We need to think more about what is planning in a world of multiple crises. Alternative views to market fundamentalism are needed and certainly possible. In all this, people should be the priority and they must be protagonists from the design to the implementation of any plan.
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It's here! The Competition & Change special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg.bsky.social and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full!
Find it here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Please share and spread the word! Thx!
Find it here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Please share and spread the word! Thx!
December 29, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Excellent resource. We need to think more about what is planning in a world of multiple crises. Alternative views to market fundamentalism are needed and certainly possible. In all this, people should be the priority and they must be protagonists from the design to the implementation of any plan.
Excellent text by Evgeny Morozov. A lot to digest.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
The AI We Deserve - Boston Review
Critiques of artificial intelligence abound. Where’s the utopian vision for what it could be?
www.bostonreview.net
December 5, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Excellent text by Evgeny Morozov. A lot to digest.
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
Interesting points. There is a lot of unsustainable investment race in the AI space. The point in which all these investments fail to amass profits is the very critical moment. It will demonstrate that the economy is the ultimate test to defines whether or not a technology survives.
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model.
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title.
What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
wheresyoured.at
December 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Interesting points. There is a lot of unsustainable investment race in the AI space. The point in which all these investments fail to amass profits is the very critical moment. It will demonstrate that the economy is the ultimate test to defines whether or not a technology survives.
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This platform has grown explosively since the election, but growth has slowed down the past few days. Should we be concerned?
No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/
No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/
November 26, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This platform has grown explosively since the election, but growth has slowed down the past few days. Should we be concerned?
No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/
No. A temporary plateau was inevitable given the heterogeneity of social media users. From my point of view Bluesky is already over the hump 1/
One month ago I wrote this article about the recent laureates by the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. I still ask myself why there are theories that are rewarded despite having a multitude of shortcomings...
#economics #nobel
#economics #nobel
The nobel of influence in Economics or Why theories fail
The only Nobel Prize that has nothing to do with the will of its creator, Alfred Nobel, was announced on Monday, October 14th. As usual, the announcement sparked a range of reactions, and as econom…
developingeconomics.org
November 22, 2024 at 2:00 PM
One month ago I wrote this article about the recent laureates by the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. I still ask myself why there are theories that are rewarded despite having a multitude of shortcomings...
#economics #nobel
#economics #nobel