From Creative Destruction to Winner Takes All – A Commentary on the Nobel Prize and the Role of the State in Innovation tinyurl.com/4v8hftjr

Why taxing corporate profits isn’t just about revenue — it’s about counter-power. Think of it as antitrust by other means: clipping the wings of monopolies before their rents harden into dynastic wealth and political dominance. democracychallenged.com/2025/09/22/t...

New working paper out: Exploring non-linearity in the relationship between economic complexity and financial development

The G7’s Corporate Tax Escape Hatch: Fuelling Inequality and Killing Trust in Democracy democracychallenged.com/2025/07/03/t...

Very excited to kick of my passion project. Together with Sofia Quaglia and Moritz Marpe, I have founded the complexity working group CHAOS, based at Aletheia Research. More information: sites.google.com/view/linusze...

We’ve written a lot about intangible assets in our case studies. Time to step back and ask: what makes intangibles special - and how are they reshaping modern capitalism? A Primer on Intangible Capital - What’s There to Know? @linusze.bsky.social democracychallenged.com/2025/05/26/a...

Germany is facing its deepest economic and democratic crisis in decades. Real wages are down, the far right is rising—and the new government has no plan that speaks to the scale of the challenge. A thread 🧵

From Brave New World to #Apple vs. #Brussels: How Media Fragmentation Shapes Our Reality New blog post by Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez, Lakshmi Menon and @aidanregan.bsky.social. They unpack the reactions sparked by last year’s landmark #tax ruling. democracychallenged.com/2025/05/13/f...

Recommended read by my colleague Oscar Barrera-Rodríguez, alumni of @pse.bsky.social. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this in-depth investigation @aidanregan.bsky.social, Lakshmi Menon and I did with the @businesspost.bsky.social. We identify the crucial role of intangible capital in Ireland's tax games and the opaque structured of especially pharma and tech firms. www.businesspost.ie/news/ireland...

Rewatch the panel discussion event we organised with the @taxobservatory.bsky.social on #profitshifting and #taxavoidance in Ireland and the EU. youtu.be/rRHFo0j4DsQ?...

We’re happy to welcome Linus Zechlin as a new IPE Associate Member! A PhD student at UCD and part of the ERC project Democracy Challenged, he researches tax avoidance, corporate power, and inequality. More: www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute...

Great event we did last week together with the EUTO.

The Double-Edged Sword of American Multinationals and the EU’s trade war dilemma democracychallenged.com/2025/03/24/t...

#Tesla's profits yield minimal US taxes via loopholes and offshore tactics. This funds ideological projects and far-right alliances in Europe. New blog post: #Musk’s War Chest: Tesla’s Tax Strategy and the Weaponisation of #Wealth democracychallenged.com/2025/02/28/m...

Thank you @openuniversity.bsky.social for inviting me to present a publication that came out of my Master's last year.

The Democratic Cost of Pfizer’s Financial Secrecy in Ireland - and Trump's Tariff's War. democracychallenged.com/2025/02/14/t... #tradewar #ireland #usa #democracy

Democracy Challenged, the project under which I do my PhD, is now online. democracychallenged.com