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Green Debt Bondage: How Indonesia’s Electric Transition Deepens Platform Driver Exploitation developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre… via @CriticalDev

NEW POST: Anindya Dessi Wulansari analyses how worker control operates today in Indonesia, through a seemingly technical process. The piece traces the historical roots of worker depoliticisation & unpacks wage calculation as a form of political control. developingeconomics.org/2026/05/15/sta…

NEW POST: @arifnovianto_id explores how Indonesia’s electric transition deepens platform driver exploitation through the concept of Green Debt Bondage. developingeconomics.org/2026/05/05/gre…

"Green debt bondage: a configuration in which ecological transition, platform governance, and financialised credit converge to bind workers to perpetual labour without delivering the promised climate dividend." 👇🏾

While criticisms of #RCTs have been abundant- responses always focus on justifying methods- this one on @JPAL and the @QJEHarvard explain why methods which need constant defense still flourish @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2026/03/11/the…

NEW POST: @farwasial and @cpc01 offer sharp reflections on the relationship between militarised AI, private credit, and the Iran war. developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/mil…

NEW POST: @farwasial reflects on the possibilities of a people-centered anti-imperialist green and just transition in the context of the US exit from the UNFCCC, the new global arms race, and the so-called Board of Peace. developingeconomics.org/2026/03/02/an-…

Iran's defensive Ramadan war has threatened the US tech sector for the first time, exposing the sector's financial vulnerability. With @cpc01 we explore the nexus between finance capital, the US state and the AI boom propped up by military spending developingeconomics.org/2026/04/16/mil…

“Decades of environmental destruction combined with rising inequality have proved the incompatibility of free markets, democracy, & the common good.” The Economist Who Solved the Free-Rider Problem - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/06/24/the…

“A ‘bastardised’ theory of unequal exchange & imperialism.” COOPT, EMPTY, EVISCERATE: Nievas & Piketty on Unequal Exchange - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/06/16/coo…

Digital Lords or Capitalist Titans? Critiquing the Techno-Feudalism Narrative - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2025/05/05/dig…

NEW POST: @farwasial and Fadiah Nadwa Fikri analyse the ASEAN Summit 2025: Imperialism, Monetary Subservience, and Racial/Class Divisions developingeconomics.org/2026/01/23/ase…

“At this historical juncture, the celebration of the Nobel Prize in economics, which legitimises the apologists of capitalism & silences its critics, puts even Nero to shame.” The Nobel Illusion - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2024/10/22/the…

USAID is being dismantled, what comes next? An Interview with Liz Grossman Kitoyi developingeconomics.org/2025/12/01/usa… via @CriticalDev

“The competitive drive for AI supremacy is not just about technological innovation but about control over ideologies, global narratives, economic power, & geopolitical influence.” The white saviour industrial complex & global AI governance - @CriticalDev developingeconomics.org/2024/10/16/the…