Dutch exit poll: This is about three standard deviations away from insane

🚨 Introducing CommonsCorpus: a comprehensive, annotated and machine-readable database of UK House of Commons' speeches, containing speakers' party-political ID and socio-demographic information. Joint work w/ ➡️ @irenegermani.bsky.social Available here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The emerging cross-shareholding and concentration in the U.S. chipmaking/AI stack is a big open question in polecon. Today's announcement comes on top of Nvidia's $5bn investment in Intel. www.ft.com/content/d3ca...

In H1 2025, AI CapEx added more to US GDP growth than consumer spending (the job market meanwhile is slowing down). At what point should we label this as overaccumulation? sherwood.news/markets/the-...

I'm not normally one for doomposting, but today's politics feel like the 1890s (robber barons), 1930s (rising fascism, appeasing autocrats), and 1970s (stagflation, new general purpose technologies) are merging into one ugly timelime.

Very thrilled and more than a little humbled with this! Thank you to the jury and the editors, and to my co-author☺️

The really important fine print in today's tariff announcement: if companies can prove that the material origin of their goods is within the value chain definitions of the USMCA, their trade is exempt from tariffs. Make Mexico and Canada great again?

Happy to introduce ItaParlCorpus: a large, annotated, machine-readable dataset of Italian parliamentary speeches 🇮🇹📊. Covering 1948-2022, it includes 2.4M speeches, 470M words from 5830 speakers across 77 parties. Ideal for studying political discourse, party rhetoric and parliamentary behavior! 🔍📖

Planning the green transition is not only about creating new industries, but also about phasing-out old ones. If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇

Terrific & much needed deep empirical analysis of new EU industrial policy state aid tool by @timoseidl.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social. The key goldilocks punch line? Critical policy goals best achieved with ‘just the right’ amount of EU conditionality rules.

If you want to understand how EU industrial policy works on the ground, have a look at this thread and the new paper it links to.

Do you want to explore what’s happening? I am recruitung doctoral researchers for my Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty @mpifg.bsky.social Find more information in the link below Apply by February 28, 2025 Starting date is October 1, 2025 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e...

What a week ahead! ✨ The one & only @katemcnamara.bsky.social visits us in Cologne to talk about EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics Then @luukschmitz.bsky.social & I are hosting this stellar lineup of scholars for our Geoeconomic Turn in IPE workshop 🌍 @mpifg.bsky.social

The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

Are you curious about using Large Language Model as a research tool for text annotation but don't know where to start? @joshcova.bsky.social and I have you covered with this primer that guides readers with a hands-on example written in accessible language. 📃 Here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Do you work on European integration and want to live in one of the most livable cities in 🇪🇺? We have an opening for 3-year postdoc position at our research group, which is part of the #polsci department @univie.ac.at. Application Deadline: Jan 9, 2025. More info: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Here is a starter pack of MPIfG researchers and alumni. Hit follow for research on economic sociology and political economy! If you are a current or former MPIfG researcher and would like to be added, please let us know in the comments. #socsky go.bsky.app/P1fDXjf

Good to know we are outdoing the potatoes!

Given the spike in activity on here (finally!), it might be a good moment to repost two recent working papers on the governance and history of the 'poster child' of the EU's new industrial policy: the Important Projects of Common European Interest or IPCEIs. Links 👇

The Economist is taking no prisoners this week.

🚨New LUHNIP Policy Brief with @luukschmitz.bsky.social & T. Wuttke in which we summarize key findings from our recent paper on the 'Costs of Conditionality' and elaborate & expand on our policy suggestions. 🔗https://leap.luiss.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/LUHNIP-PB2.24-Costs_of_conditionality.pdf

🚨 New working paper with @luukschmitz.bsky.social & Tobias Wuttke. To better understand how EU industrial policy actually works, we take an in-depth look at the governance of Important Projects of Common European Interest. Questions and comments welcome! 🔗 osf.io/preprints/os...

Every once in a while, I read a piece where I can't decide whether it's whacky or brilliant. This is one of them: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Brookfield shows us what geopolitical rent-seeking looks like: "We are really excited about what is ahead of us in the next two to three years because of the trends of decarbonisation, digitisation and deglobalisation to come” www.ft.com/content/5fde...

German constitutional court three weeks ago: emergency fiscal spending for climate is unconstitutional. A German court last week: climate policy is unlawful as missing emission targets exposes citizens to collective threats. I do wonder whether Christmas trees are also magic money trees?

Verelendungspolitik: (1) pursue a neoliberal policy mix that breaks down public services and infrastructure, causing economic hardship. (2) beat the drum of xenophobia and blame migration. Lo and behold, a mode of politics is born.

Put this alongside any 1980s report and I challenge you to find the difference. www.euractiv.com/section/econ...

 📢 MaxCPE is back for a new season with an exciting lineup! Join us online for our first session on Weds 18 October, 3pm CEST. Tommaso Crescioli & @toonvano.bsky.social present "David versus Goliath: The Political Economy of the Superstar and the Small Firm“ 👉 More info mpifg.de/1030945/curr...

A list of financial data sources, curated for political economy use cases. Official statistics as well as datasets compiled by organizations and academic researchers. Originally assembled for my students, now available on my website. Suggestions welcome! benjaminbraun.org/teaching/dat...

In my first few days here, I've already encountered some great new research and info that used to make the other place great. If BlueSky really takes off, I am wondering to what extent it can resist the enshitification that plagues so many online platforms (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt...)