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This report makes a great, if scary point: pension funds are vastly underestimating risk and overblowing returns. Basically, to ensure returns they invest in stuff like fossil fuels, which then go on to make the world inhabitable. If you need to climatize your entire life and buy your own air, normal pensions are not enough to live on.

#degrowth
#pensions
#economics

https://www.arketa-institute.org/resources/a-path-to-post-growth-pensions

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"Even though the majority of beneficiaries want their pensions to be invested sustainably, so far we as an industry have had little to offer them. This is because solutions that deliver market rate returns and genuine sustainability don’t exist."

https://www.arketa-institute.org/resources/a-path-to-post-growth-pensions

#pensions
#postgrowth
#pensions
#economics

THREAD 1/n

This report makes a great, if scary point: pension funds are vastly underestimating risk and overblowing returns. Basically, to ensure returns they invest in stuff like fossil fuels, which then go on to make the world inhabitable. If you need to climatize your entire life and buy your own air, normal pensions are not enough to live on.

#degrowth
#pensions
#economics

https://www.arketa-institute.org/resources/a-path-to-post-growth-pensions

Swiss Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (SCMMS) 2026
7–8 July 2026 | University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Submission deadline: 15 March 2026 @migration @sociology #immigration #c4p #phd #call #conference #anthropology #politicalscience #economics #geography

Swiss Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (SCMMS): interdisciplinary contributions that rethink migration and mobility. Open to researchers at all career stages!

Full call: https://nccr-onthemove.ch/events/swiss-conference-of-migration-and-mobility-studies-scmms-2026-call-for-contributions/

In an interesting post exploring the contemporary relevance of John Rawls' political theory, Mark Braund sums up well a key political problem of our times:

'people’s attitudes & behaviours are shaped by their experience of life, and the institutions through which they engage with others. If those institutions reward competitive behaviour, people will behave more competitively. Imagine what would happen if they rewarded cooperation instead'...

#politics #economics

https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/rawls-reversed

New in our electronic collection:

➡️ The Routledge Handbook of Economic Expectations in Historical Perspective

🔗 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003379010

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #economics #history #finance #business #industry #books #bookstodon

Demonstrating that actions have consequences... in 2025 while world-wide international travel grew by around 4%, international visitors to the USA dropped by 4%.

And we can be sure that this trend will have continued into 2026 (although it might be ameliorated by the FIFA World Cup?).

If we think of tourism as a form of export (service) industry, then its another sign of the growing pivot away from the economy of the USA.

#USPol #economics #tourism
h/t FT

Demonstrating that actions have consequences... in 2025 while world-wide international travel grew by around 4%, international visitors to the USA dropped by 4%.

And we can be sure that this trend will have continued into 2026 (although it might be ameliorated by the FIFA World Cup?).

If we think of tourism as a form of export (service) industry, then its another sign of the growing pivot away from the economy of the USA.

#USPol #economics #tourism
h/t FT

Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025!

“Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment.”

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-drove-more-than-a-third-of-chinas-gdp-growth-in-2025/

#Economics #Climate #Energy #Renewables #EV #BEV #Industry #China #Green

Clean energy drove more than a third of China’s GDP growth in 2025!

“Solar power, electric vehicles (EVs) and other clean-energy technologies drove more than a third of the growth in China’s economy in 2025 – and more than 90% of the rise in investment.”

https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-drove-more-than-a-third-of-chinas-gdp-growth-in-2025/

#Economics #Climate #Energy #Renewables #EV #BEV #Industry #China #Green

Swiss Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (SCMMS) 2026
7–8 July 2026 | University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Submission deadline: 15 March 2026 @migration @sociology #immigration #c4p #phd #call #conference #anthropology #politicalscience #economics #geography

Swiss Conference of Migration and Mobility Studies (SCMMS): interdisciplinary contributions that rethink migration and mobility. Open to researchers at all career stages!

Full call: https://nccr-onthemove.ch/events/swiss-conference-of-migration-and-mobility-studies-scmms-2026-call-for-contributions/

If you are a Keynesian, or proto-Keynesian then this chart is the key to understanding the continuing flat-lining of the UK economy; the continuing crisis in 'effective demand'.

Static effective demand driven by the costs of living crisis, compounded by the draining upwards of wealth is on of the UK's key problems... and reflecting stagnant productivity.

(Household consumption is a reasonable proxy for effective demand, as it reduces the effect of top 1% consumption).

#economics #politics

If you are a Keynesian, or proto-Keynesian then this chart is the key to understanding the continuing flat-lining of the UK economy; the continuing crisis in 'effective demand'.

Static effective demand driven by the costs of living crisis, compounded by the draining upwards of wealth is on of the UK's key problems... and reflecting stagnant productivity.

(Household consumption is a reasonable proxy for effective demand, as it reduces the effect of top 1% consumption).

#economics #politics

Interestingly, there's a trickle of stories in the FT about investment trusts planning to reduce exposure to US (dollar denominated) shares & stocks.

The pivot away from the US in the global political economy is happening, slowly but surely reducing (further) the importance of the US market & economy to the global system.

And once this move, made in response to the Tangerine Tyrant, has been made, it won't be reversed any time soon.

The tectonic plates of economics are moving.

#economics

Interestingly, there's a trickle of stories in the FT about investment trusts planning to reduce exposure to US (dollar denominated) shares & stocks.

The pivot away from the US in the global political economy is happening, slowly but surely reducing (further) the importance of the US market & economy to the global system.

And once this move, made in response to the Tangerine Tyrant, has been made, it won't be reversed any time soon.

The tectonic plates of economics are moving.

#economics

Software as Fast Fashion, by @tante:

https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

#programming #ai #sustainability #economics

Software as Fast Fashion, by @tante:

https://tante.cc/2026/01/15/software-as-fast-fashion/

#programming #ai #sustainability #economics

@greenpeace Dyed hair is not necessary and it is a bad example. However, #greenwashing is still better than nothing at all. Of course, "polluters pay" would be better, but how to achieve it in a way that is just for firms belonging to different countries? By the way, I also had the idea that all #Olympics should be "smaller", because they are risky for #economics and not #ecofriendly e.g. there is a lot of #travel involved.

Most of the commentary on national economies focusses on debt in the public sector as a risk to (fiscal) stability... but for many countries levels of private (household) debt are of similar magnitudes, yet this seems (to financial commentators) less of a risk?

Since the last global financial crisis was caused by widespread problems in institutional treatment of the risk of household default(s) on housing debt this seems, shall we say, myopic at the least.

#debt #economics #politics

The United Nations-led Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth launches on April 22 in a super-interesting conference: Turk, De Schutter, Stiglitz, Ha-Joon Chang, Hickel, Kallis....
If you are interested in #postgrowth, #degrowth, and growth-agnostic economics and are in a position to travel to Switzerland, you might want to consider it. I will definitely be attending.
https://www.srpoverty.org/2026/04/22/register-now/

#economics
#unitedNations