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Phil Ashton

@goodmanandthorough

UIC Prof | Banking, infrastructure, climate finance, law | Chicago by way of Winnipeg, Montréal, New York and points in between | You will receive no bill.

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That, and you'll need to pay $$$ for seats with lower mortality rates. Or maybe just duel your fellow passengers...

18.02.2025 15:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Centering work: toward more ‘social’ accounts of urban climate finance In recent years, high-profile financial actors have developed a dizzying array of services and devices that promise to help cities devise ‘solutions’ to climate change. But what must happen for pri...

I've got a new paper out with the brilliant @savannahcox.bsky.social & Emma Colven! We took a social studies of finance lens to explore the practices of 'framing, standardization & classification' that 'center' private finance at the core of urban climate action. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

10.02.2025 12:12 👍 32 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3
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Bank of England Agenda for Research, 2025-2028 Research is crucial to what any central bank does. It forms a critical part of the analytical apparatus that guides policymakers’ decisions. This document sets out the key new directions for research ...

if you want to know where we are in Western climate politics, the Bank of England, one of the few central banks with an environmental mandate, has just published its 2025-2028 research agenda and there isnt a single word on climate

www.bankofengland.co.uk/research/ban...

13.01.2025 13:33 👍 77 🔁 26 💬 5 📌 3

As the kids say, FACTS

09.01.2025 23:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@kateontransport.bsky.social

19.12.2024 03:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Under-appreciated aspects of the RealPage "algorithmic" price-fixing scandal: (1) the landlords engaged in a lot of blatant, old-school coordination; (2) the DOJ didn’t sue the landlords. 🙃

18.11.2024 17:39 👍 28 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0