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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For your listening pleasure - The Rhodes Center Podcast is back with Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on Central Bankers, Trust and what actually holds things together in moments of crisis: player.captivate.fm/episode/ad93...
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The ties that bind, and the ties that blind: Central bankers in moments of crisis
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The Watson School's @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social Trending Globally pod had me on talking about the 10th anniversary of Brexit, why the UK has PM's like Love Island contestants have partners, and where it's all going. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/eec8...
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Ten years after the Brexit vote, the UK’s future is up for grabs
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Did an interesting interview with Jen Lind on her Blue Blaze foreign policy substack wondering if IR theory is better than useless and maybe there's more to Trump than randomness. Enjoy, if that's your bag: blueblaze.substack.com/p/burning-do...
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Burning Down the House
The US domestic politics and geopolitics of the green transition: an interview with Mark Blyth
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Did the Indicator pod with @planetmoney.bsky.social on inflation. Short and fun chat: www.npr.org/2026/06/18/n...
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Are we in a new era of permanently higher prices? : The Indicator from Planet Money
Inflation is at a three-year high. That’s a problem for the Fed. Yet, under the leadership of new chair Kevin Warsh, it opted yesterday not to hike interest rates. So today on the show, who are the wi...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
For your midweek commute or sojourn? The Next Rhodes Center Podcast is up. Brendan Greeley and I discuss his brilliant book, The Almighty Dollar, and what we get wrong about money in general: player.captivate.fm/episode/03c0... Really worth your time...
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Does the US really make the dollar? Has it ever?
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I'm at an academic conference in Dublin soon. @alanjdunne who runs the @TopTradersLive podcast asked me to do a launch event with him in the evening of Weds June 17th: www.eventbrite.com/e/investing-... Given how much fun the podcast was how could I say no? See there there...
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Investing in the New Economic Regime
Alan Dunne in conversation with Mark Blyth on why the economic regime is fundamentally shifting & launch of Regime Adaptive Fund
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
For your weekend listening pleasure, its the Rhodes Center Podcast with @Cornelia_Woll and I discussing why corporations never ever go to jail: player.captivate.fm/episode/cb33...
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How come corporate justice means never having to admit you're guilty?
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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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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
And I had a nice slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Reposting this until everyone buys it.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Ok everyone. @bhgreeley has written the best book on the USD ever. The US fell into it, used it, and is now in danger or losing. And now you can get it at a discount. Seriously. Read the book. Its a bullshit filter for USD discussions, and so much more: bookpal.com/the-almighty...
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The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money (Signed Edition) [SC9780593138885]
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Last Rhodes center talk of the Spring and my last hosting as Director. With @bhgreeley and his new amazing and so-readable new book on the Almighty Dollar. We may even have some to give away (if they turn up in time): Tomorrow - here: events.brown.edu/rhodes-cente...
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Brendan Greeley — The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money
(Registration Required to Attend In-Person) America’s money is global money—nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Ten years ago @bhgreeley and I kinda kidnapped the FT Alphaville podcast while no one was looking. Got away with it for almost a year. Since then, not many joint podcasts. Today. We're back. Thanks @willapaskin slate.com/transcripts/...
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Transcript - How to Make Dollars Make Sense
Transcript of How to Make Dollars Make Sense
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New Rhodes Podcast up with Erik Peinert on his new book Monopoly Politics. Or, how the world shifts from Competition to Monopoly and back again without anyone really noticing. Great Conversation: player.captivate.fm/episode/c79b...
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From competition to monopoly and back again: a political economist's tale
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Reposting this. If you are around Providence tomorrow at noon come by. Why do corporates always get off? Why do foreign firms get fined 6X US firm by US authorities? Come find out.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Had a good chat with the Polycrisis folks. Helped frame my recent LSE talk, which is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=09AY... Podcast is shorter. Your choice: pod.link/1884213852
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Does decarbonization still have a future?
YouTube video by LSE European Institute
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
If anyone is around Providence Friday April the 10th this is going to be a great talk. Cornelia Woll will give the 5th annual Ethics of Capitalism lecture Friday April 10th at noon in the Jukowsky Forum, Watson Institute. I hope to see you there.
Flyer for this event picture of speaker against scales of justice
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
A few updates. Project Syndicate have a magazine now - like a real one - and they asked me to do a piece for it back in January. It just came out. Held up surprisingly well (with a wee insert about Iran): prosyn.org/uj9MafY?h=AE...
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Lonely Empire
Mark Blyth suggests that the United States has very little to gain by reverting to overt imperialism.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Just in case anyone is around London tomorrow and has nothing to do on the second nice day of 2026 weather-wise you can always come see me do this: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... Spoiler alert. Despite everything, it does.
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Does decarbonization still have a future?
6.30pm Thurs 19 March | Mark Blyth, Dr Benjamin Braun | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
For your weekend reading pleasure. A brilliant piece of satire that isn't actually at all satirical, sadly. But oh, the atriums... www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...
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The Misuses of the University - Public Books
Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New Rhodes Center Pod just up. Great conversation with Alex Cooley and Alex Dukalskis about their new book Dictating the Agenda. AKA - How authoritarians go from playing defense other than offense. Great book. Read it. But listen here first: player.captivate.fm/episode/5e16...
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How authoritarianism went from defense to offense on the world stage
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Actually, not final for today. New Rhodes center Podcast is out. Seth Rockman interviews Sven Beckett about his new book, Capitalism: A Global History. Enjoy: player.captivate.fm/episode/76bb...
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A global history of capitalism
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
And finally for today a Pod I did with two British friends who used to work police intel and have seen the collapse of state capacity up close and personal: thecollators.com/s2e1
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The Collators Podcast
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Also, my Berkeley talk on Citizenship and the Politics of Grievance from December is up. Its long. Lots of slides. Trying to think through how to talk about the nation without becoming an ethnic nationalist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLWh...
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Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance? - Jefferson Memorial Lecture - Mark Blyth
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Did the Dip (not the Dig) podcast with Deutsche Welle (in English). If you want to know my thinking about the current moment this is a good place to get it in less than 15 mins: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTL1...
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Will Trump's Greenland obsession result in a tariff meltdown? | The Dip Podcast
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
While Trump thinks that the non-existence of windmills in China shows the obviousness of the big green scam, the UK intel community still thinks climate change is real and a massive security risk: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e... Who would you believe? Really...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Two views of the present. If you can get past the FT paywall, Howard Lutnick on the American present: www.ft.com/content/a675... And now Cornel Ban on America's actual present and likely future: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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Howard Lutnick: Why the Trump administration is going to Davos
Capitalism has a new sheriff in town
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Something a bit more fun (kinda). What's behind the attack on the Fed, and central banks/technocratic governance, in general? Regime Shift, Power Play, or the Politics of Distraction? Probably all of the above. Me of @onthemedia.bsky.social this weekend: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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Trump's War on the Fed, Explained. Plus, How One School Teacher Stood Up to Putin. | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation against the Federal Reserve and its chairman. On this week’s On the Media, hear how the Trump administration’s pressure ca...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Mike Green is at it again. His ability to recast what I think I know into something else entirely is incredible. Here he does it again. This time on what full Ai automation (or even partial) would actually mean. It's not what you think: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/the-thermo...
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The Thermodynamic Margin Call
Why Wall Street is Long the Wrong Singularity
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For your weekend listening pleasure. I did the Top Traders podcast. These folks ask the best questions. Got into loads of interesting stuff. Enjoy: www.toptradersunplugged.com/podcast/when...
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When Capitalism Reboots and Crashes Again ft. Mark Blyth
Mark Blyth dissects the end of neoliberalism, rising power blocs, deficits, migration, and why the global order is sliding into a harsher phase.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
For your last minute Christmas gift list. A list of damn good books, including one recommended by me: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c... See you all in the new year!
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PS Commentators’ Best Reads in 2025
PS editors ask Project Syndicate contributors to select the books that most influenced their thinking over the past year.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
For your weekend listening pleasure, it's me and @johncassidysays.bsky.social talking about his belter of a book Capitalism and its Critics: player.captivate.fm/episode/b858... Do it. And then get the book.
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The story of capitalism, as told by its critics
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Did this great pod with the public policy crowd at the University of Glasgow. I was interviewed by Nicola McEwan, who went to Graeme Street tech in Dundee with me back in the 80s, and then we both went on to Strathclyde for undergrad. Great fun to reconnect: open.spotify.com/episode/29nh...
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Trump's Second Act: Leadership, Tariffs, and Tensions
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Two substacks that have become indispensable reading for me are @cornelban on Geoeconomics: substack.com/@GeoEconomic and @NikKalyanpur on thepriceofpower.substack.com Subscribe to both and cut through the BS
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Geoeconomic | Substack
Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
The best thing about winning this award is that you can only accept it wearing a Kilt. Many thanks to the Scots in New England for this lovely, and very meaningful, award: scotsnewengland.org/and-the-winn...
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And the Winner of the New England Scot of The Year Awards 2025 is...
On December 4th, we celebrated the incredible contributions of individuals who have made a lasting impact on Scottish communities across New England. The New En
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Interview in a Korean Financial Daily, for those of you who can finally get me an invite to South Korea (never been): n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...
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전세계 물가상승, '금리'만으론 못잡아
'인플레이션의 습격' 저자 마크 블라이스 브라운대 교수 경기침체에 통화정책 안먹혀 고령화·기후변화 식량위기에 포퓰리즘 신국가주의 고착화 인플레 영구화할 우려 커져 韓, 수출 막히는 뉴노멀 대비 해외 생산·내수 활성화
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
A very nice and long review of Inflation is up in the Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Making Sense of Inflation
The economic force is often seen as a barometer for a nation's mood and health. But have we misunderstood it all along?
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Had a good chat with the CBC folks about the cost of living and the politics of inflation: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc... In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
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The extraction industry powering the green transition
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
If you want a long form philosophical exploration of the current moment, Sam Moyn provides a good one here, despite my interventions: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKHE...
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Political Concepts Debate • Is the Present Historical Moment Unprecedented?
YouTube video by Cogut Institute for the Humanities
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Next Weds evening (11/26) Nic and I are doing a talk on Inflation at Kings in London. Details are here. Hope to see some of you there: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inflation-...
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Inflation: A Guide for Users and Losers
Inflation came and went, and yet prices are higher than ever and everyone expect the very top are feeling the pinch.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Tremendous piece by Mike Green that manages to combine the cost of living crisis, why the Dems donor class are awful, technofeudalism, and Orwell all in one piece. Quite Brilliant: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/are-you-an...
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Are You An American?
"They" Are Preparing You for "Hard Times"
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A reminder that this is up today. If you are around providence swing by. M
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you are around Providence on Friday come listen to @johncassidysays.bsky.social talk his wonderful book Capitalism and Its Critics. Its the one stop shop for anything worth saying about capitalism that anyone useful ever said...well worth the read
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Dan Driscoll and I had some thoughts: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...
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The Three Technologies Disrupting the Global Order
Mark Blyth & Daniel Driscoll examine the geopolitical implications of inexpensive drones, phones, and solar panels.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
If you care about geopolitics, decarbonization, and why Europe seems lost, you can do a lot worse than subscribing to this blog. It's brilliant: substack.com/inbox/post/1...
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The Smelter and the Sovereign
The critical minerals story is another way in which Europe’s green transition is a loser in the geoeconomic turn
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A reminder this is on tomorrow at Brown. Come along if you can.
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
And if you are around Providence this Friday, come hear the wonderful @triofrancos.bsky.social talk her new book at Watson:
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