Whatever you might think of Maduro, the seizure and kidnapping of a head of state takes us to a very dark place. Vast, arbitrary, extra-legal power, which could be exercised almost anywhere, regardless of the character of the target government.

Godt vintersolhverv. Som særlig julegave til dig har vi analyseret magteliten anno 2024 og lavet denne rapport magtelite.dk/magtens-netv...

New paper! How are emissions scenarios 📉 from the IPCC (and other sources) actually used by decision-makers? We asked them, and the results are out just in time for the holidays 🧑‍🎄🤶🧑‍🎄 (with @idasogn.bsky.social & @climansen.bsky.social)

How did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield? Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.

this May, I sat down with the philosopher Michel Feher, an exception interlocutor, to talk about the Wall Street Consensus, for the project Diagrammes www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuNv...

[1/3] Before everyone scatters away on holidays, a reminder to people here interested in the history of climate economics and/or the politics of climate modelling about two ongoing calls for papers. One questions futures, the other is history-oriented, take your pick!

The ancient Greeks had a machine for democracy, the kleroterion, today democracies are dominated by the tech of financial markets. My conversation about capitalism, class analysis, and democratic theory - first published in the Swedish magazine Röda Rummet, now in English at @versobooks.bsky.social

If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder! 🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄 Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!

A lot of writing on renewable energy depicts the industry as "laborless," suggesting that workers in the industry aren't really central to the politics of the "energy transition." My new article in @societyandspace.bsky.social shows how mistaken this view is. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk! A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action. (1/4)👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Ifølge Landbrugsavisen er antallet af hekltidsgårdejere nu mindre end én promile af befolkningen. Vi nærmer os koncentration af jord som under feudalismen

HISTORIC WIN IN DENMARK! 🚨 The permit to begin new oil extraction in the North Sea was unlawfully granted! The Danish Energy Complaint Board has just overturned the permission given in 2024 to open new fossil production in DK and the world is now safer with one less oil field 🥳 The victory is ...

🚨You always wondered about how to make sense of the many accounts on Green Finance? We got you covered: @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @danmertens.bsky.social ky.social Julius Kob and I critically review existing accounts and argue for an integrated analytical approach👇 doi.org/10.1017/fas....

How to make sense of China’s rise? For Phenomenal World I wrote something on its changing role in global finance. China is not building a dollar-style empire of sprawling markets and speculative finance but something leaner, more functional & tightly managed. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-s...

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

Are fossil fuel companies really "part of the solution to the climate crisis" or "essential allies in the energy transition"? CSSN scholars Marcel Llavero-Pasquina and Antonio Bontempi investigate companies' stake in the transition in their new paper below. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Me and a bunch of brilliant colleagues got an op-ed responding to the recent political attacks on Roskilde University in the Danish newspaper Politiken today.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

New book hitting the shelves today "Climate & Class: How to Keep the Climate Fight from Becoming a Culture War", with @chellersgaard.bsky.social and Andreas Mulvad.

New conference program just dropped! Go check it out! marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

This is despite consistent obfuscation, banalization and both-sidesism by German media and politicians. But it's no surprise - a very large part of the population has long been indifferent or hostile to the political, cultural and media elite's unconditional support for Israel.

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

My university has shockingly proclaimed that it "should be primarily for students from Zealand and Denmark, not for Bangladesh or elsewhere". Colleagues, please support us in this difficult time by signing the staff's open letter to the Board of Directors and Rectorate: forms.gle/Z4U6Z6qDePHm...

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

Finance & Society is the gift that keeps on giving! Just as we've gotten home from our fabulous conference in Copenhagen – huge thanks again to all of you and the organizers! – we're delighted to announce the publication of issue 11(2)! 🎁🎉 173 pages packed with the good stuff – do check it out!

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

The International Association of Genocide Scholars has passed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide. Read the resolution here genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10

Danish friends and comrades, I will be at the Copenhagen Business School tomorrow (Sep. 2 @ 10:30) talking about my latest book on class, finance, and democracy with @versobooks.bsky.social. The event is open to the public: Porcelænshaven 18b, 2000 Frederiksberg, room 1.18

Looking much forward to this!

1/ My article is out in HOPE and I am excited. In writing the first concept history of WTP I show how early neoclassical econs understood that the amount someone is willing to pay for something often does not reflect how much they value it because rich people have way more money!

I'll spend the next 1½ in Copenhagen and Stockholm. I imagine that I’ll need a simple place for short stays in Stockholm. Do I know anyone who’s been in a similar situation, had a commuter room/apartment or other good arrangements? Do you have any advice, generally, & for finding somewhere to live?

134 FILOSOFFER SIGER FRA OVER FOR FOLKEMORDET I GAZA Læs erklæringen på paradoks.nu/stopfolkemord #dkpol @paradoks.nu

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

Well this is big. Chinese imports of crude oil, liquefied natural gas, and coal have fallen to near zero. (h/t @billmckibben.bsky.social) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"we thought only the poor people would suffer"

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions? What are pension funds’ climate considerations? And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues? Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social! 🧵

This may be an exaggeration but ... the International Court of Justice has just ruled that continuing the fossil-fuel economy is illegal.

What shapes fossil-fuel investment decisions? What are pension funds’ climate considerations? And how does the portfolio risk concept influence these issues? Excited to see my paper "The dark side of diversification: Passive finance and fossil-fuel investment" published in @finandsoc.bsky.social! 🧵

One week until deadline - please consider submitting a proposal/abstract

"Ecological planning in the Anthropocene " - 24-26 September 2025 - University of Geneva

On my way to the SASE conference in Montréal for the first time. Excited to meet people and discuss climate, democracy, finance, etc. Let me know if you're there! Also, striving to reduce my flying. So this'll be my first flight in... 8 years. Airports are such weird places, encapsulating troubles

In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition? @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest. Now out in SER! 🧵

Thrilled and relieved to have received a grant for a 3-year postdoc. The project will examine to what degree Danish pension funds’ climate-related investment policies have been shaped by the funds’ degree of democracy, divestment campaigns, fund characteristics, & prevailing financial structures.

Thrilled and relieved to have received a grant for a 3-year postdoc. The project will examine to what degree Danish pension funds’ climate-related investment policies have been shaped by the funds’ degree of democracy, divestment campaigns, fund characteristics, & prevailing financial structures.

War is not a spectator sport fought for a Western audience, and the war on Iran is no mere “distraction” from Gaza. Instead we must understand the illegal attack on Iran as an extension of the project in Gaza. 🧵

Say goodbye to 1.5°C. But remember, the next target is 1.51°C and not 2°C. We need to keep fighting. Every tonne of CO₂ emitted makes the job of future CO₂ removal harder, and every 0.01°C of temperature increase makes the world more chaotic and dangerous.

BREAKING! Big banks poured a staggering $869 BILLION into fossil fuels in 2024 alone. The new #BankingOnClimateChaos report is out and it's not good. During the hottest year on record, banks increased their financing of coal, oil and gas. Its unconscionable. Read: bankingonclimatechaos.org