#Consumption

Lillian Li

lillianmli

1) Let's talk about something incredible unsexy but very important to understand any Chinese economic policies for the next few years: Dual Circulation. If you've heard this term thrown around

Timothée Parrique

timparrique

Want to understand what "degrowth" is? Here are 10 definitions from the literature. 1/ “a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use in rich nations to bring the economy

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9With Covid-19 having hammered consumption and forced up household savings, the FT advises that "for longer-term recovery, a shift from consumer spending to business investment will be needed. Governments can

William Perrin

willperrin

Some fascinating data in this OFCOM work on COVID effects on online media consumption. Go Zoom! Also what is Google Duo? Mercifully still only 0.5m on Slack, Bluejeans shrank in

Diana Ivanova

diana_nbd

The carbon #inequality in the EU is staggering. This reflects inequality of consumption and access to basic services, but also inequality in the capacity to avoid/improve consumption carbon footprints. New

Tara Ann Thieke

TaraAnnThieke

What the hell is the point of the world being your oyster if you have no pearl, no home? Why do we teach children that the goal is status and

Uriah

crimkadid

Before I started writing yesterday I thought all this stuff about Nordic schizophrenia might be old hat to Finns and Swedes, but the impression I'm getting from the replies is

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

I shouldn't be on here, got way to much work to do. But I'm just going to say this: we need to start talking about reducing *average* consumption as absolutely

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Lots of pub based excitement today. Evidently what's been announced will make a big difference to immediate economic output. But we need to be really careful about how we think

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

So I've gotten into BIPOC doing foraging and survival tiktok and I'm learning that you can actually store many meats, including beef, for MONTHS. And it just makes me angry

Jorge Camacho

j_camachor

If you think of degrowth as a kind of “social technology” — i.e. a “technology” that aims to reduce energy and material throughput by radically changing cultures of consumption —

Mwiya

mwiyas

Building a new city involves a healthy amount of GDP engineering. GDP= C+I+G+(X-M)C= consumption I= investmentG= government X= exports M= imports In a new city you’ll have property owners and

Ananth Narayan

ananthng

1/n Long thread: Analysts at times use macro terms like consumption, savings and investments in an everyday sense. But these terms imply very different things when seen through a macro

Yassine Elmandjra

yassineARK

1/ Bitcoin critics continue to assert that mining is wasteful and disproportionately damaging to the environment. Contrary to consensus thinking, we believe the impact of bitcoin mining is a net

Saifedean.com

saifedean

People seem confused by this banal observation. If it doesn't generate cashflow, it's not an investment. If you have a use for it, it's a consumption good. If you have

Geoff Shullenberger

daily_barbarian

Veblen goods are objects of conspicuous consumption, which contrary to normal goods,appeal to buyers because of their expense and inconvenience. “Ideological Veblen goods,” I propose, are views similarly adopted because

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