@Isabel_Schnabel did another brillant speech on #greenflation, that is, how rising prices in commodities and rare earth metals are complicating the green transition. She touches on many points tackled by @cedric_durand & others but maybe neglects 2 crucial issues 🧶👇 What is Greenflation? It relates to the fast rising prices of the materials needed for the green transition. Take lithium, which is mainly used to build batteries (74% end use), the key component for switching to electric cars AND solar panels: its price rose by 1000% (no typo)

Do you remember Lawrence "tax me" Summers complaining about the "Woke" Fed last week? Well, here is a new research paper where my co-authors and I complain that the Fed is still not woke enough. Doesn't make sense? Bear with me 👇osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/n We do a critical analysis of the @federalreserve and the @bankofcanada justifications about the distributive consequences of their unconventional monetary policy. Why? Because more crises = balance sheet expansion=more distributive csq=more need for justifications.

I'll try to make good on my promise and sum up the main takes of New pandemics, Old Politics @politybooks in this thread. 1 important caveat: I'm no expert on anything but central banks & didn't read others extensive monographs on the topic, so read me as an enthusiastic newbie

https://twitter.com/clemfon/status/1392794992557580290

The book opens on the"gargantuan & harmful error" in the way we deal with pandemics. We follow "war scripts" where we focus on 'a singular germ as our enemy, forgetting about other things (devastated ecologies/inequitable society) that are no less pathogenic'

"A page-turner" "Agatha Christie in Frankfurt" "The essential beach holiday reader" says the press on @jvtklooster' PhD. I would simply point out that Jens (second!) PhD might be the most crucial research on central banking these last years. A thread explaining why👇 Jens analyses a seemingly obscure, über technical topic: the politics of risk management at the @ecb. But beyond the technocracy gloss lies crucial political decisions that shape €bn financial flows.

#wikieducation. Each year, one of my @UCLouvain_be class create/revise a @Wikipedia page related to a European Political Economy topic. I could write much on why it's the best exercise ever, but, for now, we just need a bit of help & ur time to engage in the editing process👇 Wikipedia is great and offers many helpful tools but the engagement of Wiki moderators vary much and some of my students did not have strong feedback to improve their work yet. Here is a thread presenting some topics they worked on. Feel free to connect & provide comments!