Neighbor Science

We are joined by everyone's favorite tweet thread boi, @yungneocon, to talk about whether Soviet-style central planning is any more or less capable of addressing ecological crises than capitalism. We also discuss our favorite leftist policy guy, Matty B. Thread on forced settlement: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1120483025593282561 Thread on energy & ecology: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1094707171361767424 Big buncha free books: https://twitter.com/yungneocon/status/1118335036246364161 Sources mentioned by yungneocon: Against the Grain - James C. Scott (Ryan also highly recommends this one) Farm to Factory - Robert C. Allen A New Welfare Theory - Albert & Hahnel The Mirage of an Economics of Knowledge - Philip Mirowski What every environmentalist needs to know about capitalism - Magdoff & Foster The Origins of Fossil Capital - Malm Protocol - Alexander Galloway Soviet Faiths & Lost Alternatives From Newspeak to Cyberspeak The Entrepreneurial State Seeing Like a