Edward Yang in a Sonics jacket. History of modern China, south and east Asia, comparative history. @ttsgpod alumnus. Book: https://teapawt.org/t.co/2l5jMVEKle.
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hey cool review 😎
thanks, yueran!
Though it's often said that the history of capitalism is Eurocentric, few have attempted to rewrite it from a non-Eurocentric perspective. Historian Andrew B. Liu rises to the challenge with "Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India." jacobinmag.com/2021/01/tea-w…
advice I got in grad school and sometimes tell others: if you don’t want to scare people with the M-word just cite Adam Smith and make the same argument anyway, liberals love reading about Smith
Q: Are you a socialist?
Abdul El-Sayed: I'm not. I'm a capitalist who understands capitalism.
The term capitalism was coined by Adam Smith. He said, "There is no market without rules."
He also said the biggest danger to capitalism was monopoly, not government regulation.
We've got monopolies and oligopolies throughout our economy. That's anti-capitalist.
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I’ve started reading this book, it’s v good so far!
Until the Last Ton: Fossil Fuels in India from Empire to the Climate Crisis is out today. In another summer of record heat, my hope is this book can help us understand differently where the fossil economy came from and what it might take to go beyond it press.princeton.edu/books/ha…
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Assistant professor job: Thomas and Evelyn Rawski Endowed Chair in East Asian Studies.
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So many other things to remember and celebrate Sir Patrick Stewart for... but this has to be one of the best line readings in the history of The Simpsons
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Where China’s top 100 richest people got their wealth has shifted dramatically away from real estate to tech.
I think Maxey could take fettermans seat in two years if he wanted to
Tyrese Maxey on whether he changes his baby's diaper:
"I'm a big diaper changing guy. I take pride in the speed that I'm able to change a diaper and keep her from crying. So I'm a big diaper change guy, big feed guy, big nap guy. I'm all of it, wake up in the middle of the night, go get it. I do it all man. I try to cherish these moments, cause it feel like already now she trying to crawl and do different things. So she's already moving too fast for me"
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As I reported hours ago, Flávio Bolsonaro has arrived safely in United States.
The mastermind behind this operation is U.S. Secretary of State @SecRubio .
From the United States, free and safe, Flávio will lead the opposition against Lula.
seems like AES doesn't speak arabic super well? not holding it against him ofc, but waiting for the day we get someone who speaks one of the mount-rushmore impossible-for-english-speaker languages (chinese, arabic, japanese, korean, etc.) to truly scare swing voters
not even being mean, i would love to read an article on just how georges niang has had such a long nba career
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It is so easy to falsify this Apple-centered story. The Chinese manufacturing capabilities are across the board—TV sets, laundry machines, steamers, cars, automobile components,
shipbuilding, solar panels, etc. As early as 1997, Whirlpool concluded that it had troubles competing with Chinese home appliance makers and Japanese TV makers reached the same conclusion in the early 2000s. This is not taking anything away from Apple as a remarkable company but there is this Chinese baseline and general capability on which Apple and Foxconn built on and expertly reconfigured and we should calibrate their contributions appropriately.
It also gets the Apple story wrong. The right version of that history is that Apple—and Foxconn—tapped into existing manufacturing capabilities in China. Before Apple, China already had a massive network of component producers and an incredibly skilled labor force. Apple repurposed and added some of these capabilities to iPhone production on top of that baseline. Apple should get the credit for jump starting handset production in China, but the spillover story is in the other direction as well. Apple went to China because of China’s existing general manufacturing capabilities in the first place and it was able to retool and upgrade these existing capabilities for its own production. That is not Arizona story at all.
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It also gets the Apple story wrong. The right version of that history is that Apple—and Foxconn—tapped into existing manufacturing capabilities in China. Before Apple, China already had a massive network of component producers and an incredibly skilled labor force. Apple repurposed and added some of these capabilities to iPhone production on top of that baseline. Apple should get the credit for jump starting handset production in China, but the spillover story is in the other direction as well. Apple went to China because of China’s existing general manufacturing capabilities in the first place and it was able to retool and upgrade these existing capabilities for its own production. That is not Arizona story at all.
1/ Dan Wang’s NYT essay on TSMC's Arizona plant argues that TSMC is doing for America what Apple did for China. But the analogy rests on two assumptions and it's not clear that either one of them is holding.
nytimes.com/2026/10/23/opini…
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All groups bidding for a Las Vegas NBA expansion franchise reportedly have hesitations about shifting to Seattle if they aren't chosen by the league. seattletimes.com/sports/soni…
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The thing is. And this was a major 🔑 for me several years ago, in thinking about the podcast, is that communists are obsessed with capitalism. Some of them are so obsessed that they might even secretly love it. Whereas capitalists rarely spend any time thinking about it.
