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Daniel Driscoll

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Assistant Professor at UVA Political Economist of Decarbonization Book: Why Carbon Taxes Failed (OUP) Nonresident Fellow @rooseveltinstitute.org‬ danieldrisc.com

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 5h
Yes! Roosevelt to be sure and a couple more that will be added. Appreciate the interest.
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting. "Policymakers are .. ignoring the politics of their nation’s macroeconomic structure.... decarbonization is not a market puzzle to be solved but a new political economy yet to be built." New book by @danieldrisc.com Why Carbon Taxes Failed academic.oup.com/book/62984
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 29/09/2026
That was supposed to be a secret!! 😰😜
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 29/09/2026
Why Carbon Taxes Failed is on the road! See book talk dates below (more to come). Next week is Central European University and Copenhagen Business School! Can't wait to see some dear friends at both places <3
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finally out, with @shahinvallee.bsky.social our ambitious story for European Macro Policy Network (EMPN) on the future of the global euro empn.eu/publication/...
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I have a forthcoming chapter on the South Africa / Morocco comparison in a volume edited by @mkblyth.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com and Lucio Baccaro on "greening growth models." These notable gains are happening at the same time as many risk everything to leave. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why Morocco’s ‘forgotten’ young are fleeing to Europe
Failure to translate growth into better living standards has driven migration attempts into Spain’s Ceuta enclave
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 30/07/2026
It's part of this brilliant collection organized by @toddntucker.com - check it out. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
16. CEA alum @jonasnahm.com and @danieldrisc.com turn to the question of America's growth model - and how different clean production strategies can lean into it, or may need to tilt against it. They call for an honest reckoning with the trade-offs of either. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Decarbonize America’s Growth Model
How the U.S. growth model shapes climate and industrial policy, and why balancing domestic manufacturing with consumer demand is key to decarbonization.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 30/07/2026
@jonasnahm.com and I wrote an essay for the @rooseveltinstitute.org on decarbonizing the United States with its growth model in mind. A country's growth model can shape what is easy to decarbonize and what is hard to decarbonize. Hope people find it useful! rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Decarbonize America’s Growth Model
How the U.S. growth model shapes climate and industrial policy, and why balancing domestic manufacturing with consumer demand is key to decarbonization.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 30/07/2026
NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
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Building Up in 2029: How to Make Green Statecraft Durable
Explore 17 essays on durable US climate and industrial policy after Inflation Reduction Act rollbacks, covering governance, planning, finance, and production.
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Todd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 28/07/2026
NEW from @joepeck.co.uk & me @rooseveltinstitute.org: One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we're off track on emissions commitments & tax credits have been pared back. But all is not lost: more clean energy/manufacturing investments are going up than even the original IRA estimates.
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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇
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Shifting paths? The evolution of Southern European growth trajectories in the post-Eurozone crisis decade (2010–9)
Abstract. This article traces the growth trajectories of Southern European economies (Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain) over the decade 2010–9. Drawing o
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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 20/07/2026
As renewables get cheaper and electricity demand rises, suppressing clean energy is becoming an economic liability, not just a climate one. Our fellow @danieldrisc.com explains why the US growth model depends on cheap energy, not any one fuel source, in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social:
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The US Economy Cannot Grow Without Renewables
Daniel Driscoll warns that the Trump administration’s grim determination to ignore clean energy will undercut consumption.
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
So important from @kjephd.bsky.social. Political scientists ignore the critical importance of how meaning is constructed & so our work on climate suffers. Economic sociologists are much better on this, see @pgolka.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com @vapunkt.bsky.social & others (chime in, folks!). 1/2
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 15/07/2026
My new piece for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the data center canary in the coal mine. I'm at UVA, an hour or so from "Data Center Alley" and this one's literally close to home.
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Wow… What on Earth is BYD’s rationale in signing Orban’s former foreign minister—a literal Russian asset—as an executive? His credibility in Europe is sub-zero. He may still face charges at home. Is BYD planning to conquer the Russian market now that they’re fighting each other at the gas pumps? ⛽️
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 15/07/2026
My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. The general argument is that starving an energy-hungry growth model of cheap renewables in an era of energy supply-chain shocks and booming AI data centers is bad economic policy. Common sense, really. prosyn.org/EjCZBmq
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The US Economy Cannot Grow Without Renewables
Daniel Driscoll warns that the Trump administration’s grim determination to ignore clean energy will undercut consumption.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 08/07/2026
Well said, Simon!
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/07/2026
Looks brilliant, Jens! Can’t wait to read.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/07/2026
For paperback you can preorder with 30% off (just $21) on OUP using code: AUFLY30. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/07/2026
Friends!!! My book, Why Carbon Taxes Failed, is online. Chapters are free to download if you have access to @academic.oup.com: academic.oup.com/book/62984
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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Here's @yappelbaum.bsky.social on my forthcoming book, BUILD OR DIE: "In prose as vital and engaging as the cities he celebrates, Resnikoff offers a compelling guide to fixing our urban spaces—and our democracy." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Build or Die
From a leading voice of the pro-housing movement comes a blueprint for revitalizing America’s major cities
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 25/06/2026
Thanks so much for sharing it, David! Been a reader of yours forever.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026
New brief from @danieldrisc.com at the @rooseveltinstitute.org argues that "markets alone cannot deliver decarbonization" -- robust state capacity is required.
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The Four Pillars of Green State Capacity
Markets alone cannot deliver decarbonization. Daniel Driscoll explains why the green transition requires capable states that can govern, finance, innovate, and protect people at the same time.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 25/06/2026
Huge thanks to @toddntucker.com @suzmkahn.bsky.social and others for the excellent feedback and comments that pushed the piece forward ❤️
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 25/06/2026
New brief out with @rooseveltinstitute.org on green state capacity! I identify its four pillars as: (1) Bureaucratic-institutional, (2) Macrofinancial, (3) Productive-innovative, & (4) Social-protective. Check it out!
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Start of the summer means parents (like me) are scrambling to figure out care arrangements in even more complex ways than during the school year. @jessicacalarco.com's new piece vividly shows how this isn't an individual problem but a collective and structrual one.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Today is the day! My book, Owning The Green Grid, is officially out in the world! *For orders placed today, June 23, only* use the discount code "MITP30" at checkout to receive 30% off. 20% off with the code "READMIT20" anytime after. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814358...
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NYTimes picks up the empire suicide watch interview - free link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o... the better, longer version here: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e... @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
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Opinion | There Are Two Trump Administrations Right Now. And an Empire?
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/06/2026
Caturday becomes part-time?
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 06/06/2026
Hero!
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 06/06/2026
Write it. Please.
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Publication alert! 🔔 My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ... 1/n 🧵
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Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings
How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
Your comments truly gave us the push that we needed. Many thanks again, Jacob!
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Suzanne Kahn @suzmkahn.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Roosevelt's Good Life Agenda is out today. We argue that the only way to renew faith in democratic governance is to build a government that is committed to making people's lives better and equipped with the tools to do so by controlling costs, raising incomes, and creating more time in our days.
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New article out in @socioeconreview.bsky.social with @danieldrisc.com: "The states–markets–decarbonization nexus: reviewing an emerging political economy agenda" doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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The states–markets–decarbonization nexus: reviewing an emerging political economy agenda
Abstract. The problem of climate change further confounds the already complex relationship between states and markets in modern capitalism. In this state o
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New Left EViews @newlefteviews.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Europe vs America: Supplemental Once more with feeling: here’s a small test that strengthens the case that the productivity wedge since 1995 in the constant PPP series is a deflator asymmetry mirage and that the chained PPP series adjusts for along with Balassa-Samuelson: 1/
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
Grateful to the editors at SER and reviewers for taking a chance on us. Big thanks to @mkblyth.bsky.social @mbabic.bsky.social Kathryn Chelminski @jhasselbalch.bsky.social for the feedback.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
Three core topics at this nexus: how global finance constrains green transitions in the Global South, how states are stepping up where markets failed, and what different types of capitalism can and can't achieve for decarbonization.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
New State of the Art article in @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. States, markets, and decarbonization are colliding in ways that political economy is only just beginning to map. This article is our map. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
excellent blog post by Polyak on the fallacy of composition around Chinese export surpluses. i would add: this problem is endogenous to the model. if you reward local elites based on a tournament where higher GDP / output is the metric, they will overproduce w/o regard to the systemic consequences
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...
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China's Growth Model Has No Endgame
The European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And I had a nice we slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...
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Economist Mark Blyth analyses the economy and path ahead for new Federal Reserve chair
NPR's Elissa Nadworny speaks with Brown University economist Mark Blyth about the challenges facing Kevin Warsh, the new chair of the Federal Reserve.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is the first oil crisis in which alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, EVs, batteries, induction stoves heatpumps — are cheap and easy to get. These flying off the shelves already... This has reporting from 10 countries www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels
EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.
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Gregory Brew @gbrew24.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Carter Doctrine is gone, Hormuz is shut, OPEC is falling apart. The global oil economy is entering a new period of instability. And it's because of US action (or inaction). The consequences will be profound. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...
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Opinion | America Will Pay Dearly for Its Energy Arrogance
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
1500km charge in 6 minutes!! “The boundaries of electrochemistry are still far from being reached, and the possibilities of materials science are still far from being exhausted" - Robin Zeng, CATL founder Still think its all subsidies & copycat & no science or innovation? www.ft.com/content/1773...
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CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries
Chinese group also slashes charging time in race against BYD for electric vehicle battery supremacy
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 21/04/2026
An instant classic.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
WEEKEND READ: What is the price of oil — the real one? "My attempt to shed light into the PHYSICAL and FINANCIAL oil markets, and why you can pick up a barrel of crude for $78 in Kansas or $286 in Sri Lanka." Terrific piece, TY @javierblas.bsky.social Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭
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