I have a new piece at Foreign Affairs with Felicia Wong entitled “A Tale of Two Industrial Policies: How America and Europe Can Turn Trade Tensions Into Climate Progress.” To unpack it, I wrote a thread on Twitter (unrolled version here.)
In December, we got news that the Monkey Cage blog and Washington Post would be parting ways. As someone who has benefitted enormously from the editors at that outlet, I find that a real shame. To commemorate about seven years of joyous collaboration, here’s a Twitter thread (and unrolled version).
Last week, I posted some reflections on the Roosevelt Institute forum entitled “Progressive Industrial Policy: 2022 and Beyond.” You can watch the videos here, read my blog here, Twitter thread here, and unrolled thread here. We had nearly 300 RSVPs, 17 speakers, 40 members of the press, and have gotten some thoughtful coverage of the ideas we discussed, including by Rana Foroohar at the Financial Times (here and here), Paul Krugman in the New York Times, and Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect. We have also gotten coverage as a news item in the Financial Times, New York Times, and elsewhere.
Over the weekend, I took a look at some of the recent press cycle debate over Biden’s student debt cancellation, and the role that economists and economic reasoning are playing in it. It was also a great chance to re-read Stephanie Mudge, Beth Popp Berman, and Daniel Hirschman. See the thread here and the unrolled version here.
Jamelle Bouie had another great NYT column on what Democrats should do by way of legislative agenda if they retain Congress. I riffed on his notion that the new agenda should be social policy rather than industrial policy, and whether these were not more related than distinct, on Twitter here and in unrolled form here.
The Biden administration made a huge announcement this week with its decision to cancel up to $20,000 in student debt per eligible borrower. My colleagues at the Roosevelt Institute Suzanne Kahn and Joe Stiglitz had important pieces putting this in context, and pushing back against the narrative that this would spur inflation. I pulled together there and other readings here on Twitter and here in unrolled form.
Jesse Jenkins and some other folks posted earlier this week about whether we need a radically simpler build out process for clean energy, and whether communities blocking projects had too much power. I had a thread with some of my reflections on what we can learn from trade shocks and the globalization and labor movements on that question. See the original thread here, or the Unrolled blog version here. (Am experimenting with a new way to both keep track of these threads and have them not look terrible when posted badly on Medium.)
