“Larry Summers says the second worst thing that can happen to a city after dropping a bomb is rent control, and that is an actual quote from an economics textbook.” I spoke to Wajahat Ali about Mamdani, affordability, and Anti-Fascist Economics. 🔗 Watch More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz_b...

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Wichtiger Teil unseres Arguments: Die Arbeiterklasse mag *im Schnitt* etwas konservativer sein als der Rest der Bevölkerung, aber der (beträchtliche) Teil der Klasse, den linke Parteien realistisch mobilisieren können, ist es nicht. Um die geht es aber, nicht den imaginären Durchschnittsarbeiter.

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𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀? 𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁-𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 New paper out in European Societies @mitpress.bsky.social 🔓 doi.org/10.1162/EUSO... This paper has been a long time in the making & benefited a lot from feedback at @wzb.bsky.social&@europeatharvard.bsky.social.

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And for the German speakers, here is a breakdown of our findings in @zeit.de: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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“You can tell everything about a person by who their friends are.” - Sex and the City (S2E3) A quote about dating, but it also applies to politics. Who a party chooses to accommodate sends a signal about its values and priorities - and that signal can extend beyond the party itself.

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