Reposted by Keno HaverkampTobias Wuttke @tobiaswuttke.bsky.social · 08/01/2026The role of Chinese industrial policy (especially subsidies) is always emphasized in this story. We acknowledge its importance, but our findings highlight an equally crucial element: firm-level technological effort; and how these efforts interacted positively with policies. 101
Reposted by Keno HaverkampFausto Gernone @faustogernone.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Great lecture by @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social on industrial policy & supply chain strategy at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social 011
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Great opportunity for a rare fully-funded PhD at UCL IIPP! 000
Reposted by Keno HaverkampMatthew Cole @mattcole.bsky.social · 13/10/2025My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026! This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system. UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/... 46922
Reposted by Keno HaverkampJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 08/08/20253/15 China focuses on "physical and industrial AI" rather than large language models. Xiaomi's fully automated dark factories can produce one smartphone per second. BYD surpassed Tesla in EV production using AI-driven manufacturing. 2218
Reposted by Keno HaverkampHannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 13/08/2025Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT preparedhannahshelley.neocities.orgGoogle Scholar Is DoomedAcademia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong? 54966410
Reposted by Keno HaverkampSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 05/08/2025We're close to a huge moment in the UK car market: Chinese EV firm BYD is about to overtake Tesla 1118254
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 19/06/2025R̶u̶l̶e̶s̶-b̶a̶s̶e̶d̶ Vibes-based international order 031
Reposted by Keno HaverkampNils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Sander is right. If the Commission doesn’t think it can use state aid rules to steer member states toward common priorities, then the financial leg of the Clean Industrial Deal boils down to praying for a miracle in the next EU budget. Not exactly a strategy. 092
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 29/05/2025@dieworkwear.bsky.social x @thedigradio.bsky.social is a collaboration I didn't know we needed! 050
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Seems like a great day to broadcast this chart in the UK... 000
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Batteries were the dominant driver of IRA investment, accounting for 69% of all clean technology manufacturing investment. Now these seem to lead the charge on cancellations of announced investments. 162
Reposted by Keno HaverkampStephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Got the Spanish grid operator data on generation by source type working now too. Confirms the ENTSOE data that it remains solar/wind/hydro that is still operating. Nuclear/gas/coal remain basically offline for now - presumably tripped off when demand fell (or vice versa depending on the root cause). 812643
Reposted by Keno HaverkampDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025scrapping it would add GBP 2.5bn yearly to government spending. That is 25bn over ten years. Only last year, the Treasury paid the Bank of England around 40bn for its 'losses' on the QE gilt portfolio. It didnt have to. No other central bank expects to be compensated. 25522
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 16/04/2025cityofsound.medium.com/growth-as-th... Really enjoyed reading this review of Saito's Slow Down by @cityofsound.bsky.social with beautiful pictures from Kagoshima where he offers an alternative to Degrowth and (implicitly) Abundance through organic growth of commonscityofsound.medium.comGrowth as the fermentation of culture and cultures: Kohei Saito’s ‘Slow Down’ and Kagoshima’s…Degrowth or slow growth? Bioregionalism or global systems? How Kagoshima reveals possible ‘double movements’ as Japan flickers between… 110
Reposted by Keno HaverkampDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/04/2025Apparently the "realist" position is to ... ignore this?science.orgExceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping pointsGlobal warming greater than 1.5°C could trigger multiple climate tipping points. 41864320
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Varieties of Economic Elites: "Pale, stale, and male" This is such a timely project with fascinating insights on the global distribution on the distribution of organisational, market, and regulatory power across countries 000
Reposted by Keno HaverkampTim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Very pleased (and surprised) to see this. Given current geopolitics, understanding of #manufacturing has never been more important. amzn.eu/d/90Q7Fbh #books #booksky 💙📚 031
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Suddenly found yourself having all sorts of questions about tariffs? Are they bad? (not always) Can they bring back US jobs? (not automatically, and certainly not any time soon) Look no further and let Ha-Joon Chang explain it to you @garyseconomics.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Shz3...youtube.comSpecial: Can tariffs make you rich? with Ha-Joon ChangYouTube video by Garys Economics 021
Reposted by Keno HaverkampBrett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 31/03/2025What sort of owner might KKR be? The following (from Our Lives in their Portfolios) is what happened when KKR took over the municipal water network of Bayonne New Jersey.....ft.comThames Water selects KKR as preferred bidderPrivate equity interest comes as UK’s largest water utility is fighting to avoid renationalisation 33626
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This is such a great list of resources by the ever great @benbraun.bsky.social! 000
Reposted by Keno HaverkampJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 27/03/2025What DOES work? Targeted investments via tax credits, subsidies and grants - like those in the IRA, CHIPS Act and Infrastructure Law. Factory construction has already doubled from 2019-2024. Strategic investment beats broad tariffs for boosting domestic production. 5/ 162
Reposted by Keno HaverkampTodd Tucker @toddntucker.com · 25/03/2025BYD now attempting to move beyond price war stage of China's EV market, and move to profits based on product differentiation. BYD’s annual sales top $100bn for first time www.ft.com/content/dc59...ft.comBYD’s annual sales top $100bn for first timeChinese electric vehicle company has benefited from rising demand for plug-in hybrids in its domestic market 021
Reposted by Keno HaverkampCecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 18/03/2025For those speaking German, Aline and I wrote this piece on digital sovereignty based on the Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty white paper that I co-authored with @cedricdurand.bsky.social @parismarx.com @paologerbaudo.bsky.social & Edemilson Paraná Read the report here: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub... 12211
Reposted by Keno Haverkampkatharinapistor.bsky.social @katharinapistor.bsky.social · 13/03/2025My latest on Project Syndicate - what more do we want Merz asked today? Scrap the debt break entirely is the answer . 0145
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Great threat by @jonasalgers.bsky.social on Northvolt's collapse! "The problem was not competition, but production" 120
Reposted by Keno HaverkampNils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025That Europe’s biggest battery project is going bust is bad. That it’s happening just as the EU scrambles to ramp up defense production—where batteries are key—makes it even worse. The EU should think hard about how to pick up the pieces. on.ft.com/43IbmQHon.ft.comNorthvolt files for bankruptcy in SwedenCollapse of vehicle battery maker deals major blow to Europe’s bid to rival China 78732
Reposted by Keno HaverkampPhilipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & societympifg.deJob Openings 1101109
Reposted by Keno HaverkampNils Redeker @nilsredeker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025To help Germany finally snap out its macroeconomic hibernation, the planned changers to the debt brake must help plug the country’s huge investments needs. Early results in the coalition talks now show that there’s a real risk that the incoming government could still squander this. 1/X 410137
Reposted by Keno HaverkampIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Europe seems to be preparing to run a war economy. It will have a choice of going down the path of WWI when free market principles were applied to wartime challenges, or WWII when planning delivered a broad-based economic success in the US. See: How China Escaped Shock Therapy. 311636
Reposted by Keno HaverkampIngrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline. 13318
Reposted by Keno HaverkampHanna Pfeifer @hannapfeifer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Die Forderungen, die Veranstaltung mit Dr. @franceskalbs.bsky.social und Dr. Eyal Weizmann @forensicarchi.bsky.social abzusagen, werden lauter und schriller. Sie werden von Personen artikuliert, die über die letzten Monate immer wieder mit Impulsen aufgefallen sind, ihnen unliebsame Veranstaltungen 18539
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Equinor, renamed from Statoil in 2018, said on Wednesday that it was planning to increase production of fossil fuels and halve its spending on renewables, with chief executive Anders Opedal saying it was aiming to “create shareholder value for decades to come” www.ft.com/content/be71... 010
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 30/01/2025This looks great! Can't wait to read it later this year 021
Reposted by Keno HaverkampUCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025📣Today's discussion focuses on the unequal distribution of benefits in energy transitions. Today's guest speaker @silviaweko.bsky.social draws on her research on attitudes toward the energy transition in Jordan, a lower-middle-income country rapidly transitioning to renewables. 121
Reposted by Keno HaverkampUCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 08/01/2025💭Sustainable Energy for Some? Join us on 21st Jan for the first #IIPPInConversation Event of 2025. IIPP's @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes @silviaweko.bsky.social & @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social for a roundtable discussion. 🔗Register here: buff.ly/4fNBADT 042
Reposted by Keno HaverkampRosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk 81346116
Reposted by Keno HaverkampKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Made a Starter Pack of people who've contributed / participated in @thepolycrisis.bsky.social (Still missing a few folks, though, I'm working on it.) go.bsky.app/QTt2mKR 84720
Reposted by Keno HaverkampJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 10/11/2024I’m working on an industrial policy starter pack — here’s a first stab. Send suggestions! go.bsky.app/Ej9XsNu 178535
Reposted by Keno HaverkampBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 02/11/2023The Ørsted pull-out from New Jersey indicates that the costs of this hiking cycle for the energy transition are going to be massive. Exactly what @jvtk.bsky.social has been warning of for two years. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi... 22015
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 01/11/2023ft.com/content/a793... Ørsted shares tumble after company ditches two US wind projects. The decision [was] blamed on supply chain delays, higher interest rates and changes to its assumptions around tax credits and construction permits, underlines the mounting challenges facing the wind industry. 010
Keno Haverkamp @kenohaverkamp.bsky.social · 31/10/2023The struggles of the offshore wind industry www.ft.com/content/00e8... Governments around the world have set ambitious targets to tackle climate change, but developers say power prices will have to rise to pay for it 050
Reposted by Keno HaverkampJenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 28/10/202331. The US Inflation Reduction Act includes a licence to print money for solar manufacturers and hydrogen firms. It’s good for clean energy, but it's also like hitting the accelerator on a car with the handbrake on. The handbrake is trade barriers, grid and permitting issues. 2204
Reposted by Keno HaverkampJenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 28/10/202315. We oughtta be building more wind. Seriously, solar will get built anyway, but wind needs some help, and wind blows in the dark and in the winter. It doesn’t help that solar pushes down power prices and generates renewable energy credits, which hurts wind farm economics. 2418