Daniel Driscoll

Friends!!! My book, Why Carbon Taxes Failed, is online. Chapters are free to download if you have access to @academic.oup.com: academic.oup.com/book/62984

I had a brilliant time at Harvard this week! Massive thanks to Jason Beckfield for bringing me out to present at The Climate Sociology Lab and The Salata Institute! Pure fun. It was exciting to learn about the interdisciplinary place-based work many are doing here.

Central European University was lovely! Huge thanks to @bjoernbremer.bsky.social for having me to the Political Economy Research Group and love to @annahehenberger.bsky.social @vapunkt.bsky.social and more!

A new essay in Phenomenal World on the US-Europe competitiveness debate, in which I try to locate the obsession with relative economic performance in a broader discourse of American triumphalism and declinism, "the unwitting last refuge of great power delusions." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

Thank you CBS for a wonderful time!! Much gratitude and love to organizers/friends @rosiecollington.bsky.social @phdskat.org @lenseabrooke.bsky.social @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, Saila Stausholm, @cornelban.bsky.social, Oddný Helgadóttir, Annika Stenström, and many more.

1/6 This article indirectly describes one of the more important consequences of our current, distorted form of globalization, even if it isn't commented upon enough. Automation helps Japanese and Korean shipbuilders compete with Chinese shipbuilders only if wages... www.ft.com/content/ea32...

"There is no reason to give these people any thought. They aren't getting any of my attention. I have little time for stupidity in real life, and none on social media either." 💕 www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig...

Interesting. "Policymakers are .. ignoring the politics of their nation’s macroeconomic structure.... decarbonization is not a market puzzle to be solved but a new political economy yet to be built." New book by @danieldrisc.com Why Carbon Taxes Failed academic.oup.com/book/62984

Why Carbon Taxes Failed is on the road! See book talk dates below (more to come). Next week is Central European University and Copenhagen Business School! Can't wait to see some dear friends at both places <3

Finally out, with @shahinvallee.bsky.social our ambitious story for European Macro Policy Network (EMPN) on the future of the global euro empn.eu/publication/...

I have a forthcoming chapter on the South Africa / Morocco comparison in a volume edited by @mkblyth.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com and Lucio Baccaro on "greening growth models." These notable gains are happening at the same time as many risk everything to leave. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

16. CEA alum @jonasnahm.com and @danieldrisc.com turn to the question of America's growth model - and how different clean production strategies can lean into it, or may need to tilt against it. They call for an honest reckoning with the trade-offs of either. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

NEW @rooseveltinstitute.org: as wildfires & heatwaves rage, we are not powerless. As 19 authors argue in our 157-page "Building Up in 2029" report, we can adapt & expand Biden & Trump experiments to create lasting state capacity to tackle climate change. 🧵🧵 rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

NEW from @joepeck.co.uk & me @rooseveltinstitute.org: One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, we're off track on emissions commitments & tax credits have been pared back. But all is not lost: more clean energy/manufacturing investments are going up than even the original IRA estimates.

New in @socioeconreview.bsky.social: w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & @m-stratenwerth.bsky.social we trace Southern Europe’s post-crisis growth paths, from the Eurozone crisis up to Covid19, to reconcile the competing claims of a decade of CPE literature on growth in the region: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... 👇

As renewables get cheaper and electricity demand rises, suppressing clean energy is becoming an economic liability, not just a climate one. Our fellow @danieldrisc.com explains why the US growth model depends on cheap energy, not any one fuel source, in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social:

So important from @kjephd.bsky.social. Political scientists ignore the critical importance of how meaning is constructed & so our work on climate suffers. Economic sociologists are much better on this, see @pgolka.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com @vapunkt.bsky.social & others (chime in, folks!). 1/2

My new piece for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the data center canary in the coal mine. I'm at UVA, an hour or so from "Data Center Alley" and this one's literally close to home.

Wow… What on Earth is BYD’s rationale in signing Orban’s former foreign minister—a literal Russian asset—as an executive? His credibility in Europe is sub-zero. He may still face charges at home. Is BYD planning to conquer the Russian market now that they’re fighting each other at the gas pumps? ⛽️

My latest for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. The general argument is that starving an energy-hungry growth model of cheap renewables in an era of energy supply-chain shocks and booming AI data centers is bad economic policy. Common sense, really. prosyn.org/EjCZBmq

Here's @yappelbaum.bsky.social on my forthcoming book, BUILD OR DIE: "In prose as vital and engaging as the cities he celebrates, Resnikoff offers a compelling guide to fixing our urban spaces—and our democracy." press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New brief from @danieldrisc.com at the @rooseveltinstitute.org argues that "markets alone cannot deliver decarbonization" -- robust state capacity is required.

Start of the summer means parents (like me) are scrambling to figure out care arrangements in even more complex ways than during the school year. @jessicacalarco.com's new piece vividly shows how this isn't an individual problem but a collective and structrual one.

Today is the day! My book, Owning The Green Grid, is officially out in the world! *For orders placed today, June 23, only* use the discount code "MITP30" at checkout to receive 30% off. 20% off with the code "READMIT20" anytime after. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814358...

NYTimes picks up the empire suicide watch interview - free link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/o... the better, longer version here: phenomenalworld.org/interviews/e... @70sbachchan.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social

Publication alert! 🔔 My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ... 1/n 🧵

Roosevelt's Good Life Agenda is out today. We argue that the only way to renew faith in democratic governance is to build a government that is committed to making people's lives better and equipped with the tools to do so by controlling costs, raising incomes, and creating more time in our days.

New article out in @socioeconreview.bsky.social with @danieldrisc.com: "The states–markets–decarbonization nexus: reviewing an emerging political economy agenda" doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Europe vs America: Supplemental Once more with feeling: here’s a small test that strengthens the case that the productivity wedge since 1995 in the constant PPP series is a deflator asymmetry mirage and that the chained PPP series adjusts for along with Balassa-Samuelson: 1/

excellent blog post by Polyak on the fallacy of composition around Chinese export surpluses. i would add: this problem is endogenous to the model. if you reward local elites based on a tournament where higher GDP / output is the metric, they will overproduce w/o regard to the systemic consequences

Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...

And I had a nice we slot on NPR this weekend: www.npr.org/2026/05/16/n...

This is the first oil crisis in which alternatives to oil and gas — solar panels, EVs, batteries, induction stoves heatpumps — are cheap and easy to get. These flying off the shelves already... This has reporting from 10 countries www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Carter Doctrine is gone, Hormuz is shut, OPEC is falling apart. The global oil economy is entering a new period of instability. And it's because of US action (or inaction). The consequences will be profound. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

1500km charge in 6 minutes!! “The boundaries of electrochemistry are still far from being reached, and the possibilities of materials science are still far from being exhausted" - Robin Zeng, CATL founder Still think its all subsidies & copycat & no science or innovation? www.ft.com/content/1773...

An instant classic.

WEEKEND READ: What is the price of oil — the real one? "My attempt to shed light into the PHYSICAL and FINANCIAL oil markets, and why you can pick up a barrel of crude for $78 in Kansas or $286 in Sri Lanka." Terrific piece, TY @javierblas.bsky.social Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap. I can’t believe it 😭

Orbán took power in April 2010. We organized our first protests against him that December. I was 22, in undergrad, lucky to be in a community of students ready to resist. Looking back, no wonder this moment feels so heavy. 🧵

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

Some thoughts on the age of mass disruption and how and to what extent we can prepare for future energy and commodity shocks. In short: I’m not terribly optimistic about the prospects of all but a few countries or about the source of the disruptions ebbing. jacobin.com/2026/03/pric...