Helpful, historically grounded paper by Frederick Cooper. Also a reminder of Léopold Sédar Senghor's concept of 'vertical' and 'horizontal' solidarities "Decolonizing Decolonization" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

➡️ ETUI conference: The road to 80% #CollectiveBargaining coverage Only 9 EU countries meet the 80% target under the Minimum Wages Directive. What’s next for the other 18? Join this discussion on strengthening collective bargaining across Europe 🌍️ 📅 2 March Register by 27 February 🔗 etui.org/4JZ

🆕Confronting Wealth Inequality in Ireland - New report from @oxfamireland.bsky.social and the Nevin Economic Research Institute - NERI makes the case for a tax on extreme wealth in Ireland and urges a principled stance on #GlobalTaxJustice. 👉Read it here: bit.ly/4reS6TZ

Call for papers for the 14th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with SETU Waterford. It takes place on 26 May. Send your title & abstract before 27 March, details here: www.nerinstitute.net/events/2026/... #economics #labourmarket

📢🇺🇳 Take part in a #UNTaxConvention Side Event! Stocktaking and Outlook of the UN Tax Convention Negotiations 🕐 13:15 - 14:30 NY 🗓️ Tuesday, February 10th 📍 CR-8, UN Headquarters Also available on UN Web TV: bit.ly/3ZqhMRe

Irish Times: US aircraft carrying out secretive deportations to Africa and the Middle East have landed in Shannon Airport on 10 occasions in the last year. Deportees are kept in chains on the aircraft. Our Govt does not want to know. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026... @gbrockell.bsky.social

For the FES, I wrote a short brief about how mainstream party strategies have fueled far-right success. They move toward more anti-immigration positions to win voters back. This does not work, but shifts public opinion to the right. Parties then react to shifts in public opinion. A vicious cycle.

Very happy that my book How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA @academic.oup.com has been shortlisted @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for the Mackenzie Book Prize (alongside five other excellent books!) www.psa.ac.uk/news/mackenz...

This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...

We're thrilled to introduce a new Tax Notes podcast, "History Is Taxing!” Join Robert Goulder and @joethorndike.bsky.social on March 3 as they unpack the origins of today's biggest tax topics, from tariffs to taxpayer privacy. 🎧 Follow wherever you get your podcasts: taxnotes.co/historypodcast

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Interesting, lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social. Democracy at work: Full report reportondemocracyatwork.org/en/the-report/

Don’t miss next week’s session in our online series on Comparative Political Economy (MAX CPE): @franziscool.bsky.social on “Asset Politics: The Making of a Green Venture Capital Fund”. 📅 February 11, 1–2pm CET 📍 online 📧 Sign up: [email protected] @humboldtuni.bsky.social s.gwdg.de/zG70h8

Expenditure restraint, revenue-raising, or longer-term institutional reform? @NERI_research’s event will explore the full range of policy options currently under active consideration for Northern Ireland’s public finances. 📅 17 Feb | 4–6pm 👉 www.nerinstitute.net/events/2026/...

The Just Housing research team of Paddy Bresnihan, Fiadh Tubridy and Kevin Credit have argued based on research, that numerous examples of poorly maintained homes have been reported, along with low numbers of A or B energy-rated rental homes. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

We're inviting submissions for the 3rd Irish Public Economics Workshop which will take place on August 27-28 2026 in Dublin with a keynote lecture by Prof. James R. Hines Jr. (@umich.edu) Call for papers👇 and submission details at publiceconomics.ie/submit

1/ Big news! Today, we officially launch the International Tax Observatory (#ITO)🚀 Building on the foundation of the EUTO, we are expanding our mission to address global tax evasion, wealth concentration, illicit financial flows & the intersection of taxation & the environment.

The Council is hosting its annual conference on Thursday 19th February. This year’s conference is on the theme of government revenue. This includes risks to Ireland’s corporation tax, and the impacts of ageing and AI on government revenue. Register here: ti.to/irish-fiscal...

Yale Community: Please join us for a lunch talk at noon next Tuesday (2/10) with @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social about her book “The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History.” Register to attend: bit.ly/4r1X46r

Brilliant response from the Africa Union to the complaint that the implementing #UNtaxConvention 's commitment to fair taxing rights between countries would require renegotiating 3000 treaties. Everything you need to know about the negotiations: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta...

Yep. "The bottom line is that acting as a predatory hegemon will weaken the networks of power and influence on which the United States has long relied and which created the leverage that Trump is now trying to exploit." by @stephenwalt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Useful. From Alex Dryden @soasuni.bsky.social via @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Underappreciated fact: The Great Transformation studies the rise of fascism. I have learned so much from revisiting this classic for my work on anti-fascist economics. Truly honored to be this year's Karl Polanyi Visiting Professor. See you in Vienna in June!

🔵Day 1 recap | #UNTaxConvention negotiations: 4th session of the negotiations in New York focused on two foundational commitments of the Convention: sustainable development (Article 4) & the fair allocation of taxing rights (Article 5). 👉 Full recap: bit.ly/49bYxRz

Three steps for national discussion on employment from @michael-taft.bsky.social - State-supported employment (espec construction & care) - The quality of employment throughout the economy - An active enterprise policy

A great, clear discussion with @criticaltakes.bsky.social and @zorkamilin.bsky.social

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Interesting from @himself.bsky.social - Trump/US's advantage is that it is much more powerful than any of its erstwhile allies individually. "Its disadvantage is that it is much too weak to crush them all at once." by @himself.bsky.social www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-limits...

From @cedricdurand.bsky.social "Ecological planning is the alternative to Green finance. But its institutional design must acknowledge the non-identity of nature, the importance of the Polanyian internal overview, and the need for robust democratic countervailing forces."

I've always found writing about grief difficult, but rewarding. Today I'm sharing this piece, adapted from my memoir's first chapter, which is a good intro to its themes (death is sad) and its tone (things are still funny). #NGAW2026 #IrishHospiceFoundation www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As this research comes to fruition, you can now visit our project website where you'll find a short film, our photo, art and writing galleries and a link our community artefact. sites.google.com/view/yup-the...

Still time to register for this week's #IdentitiesEvent! Investigating Social Change: Migratory Stratifications as a Fresh Analytical Tool 28 Jan, Online www.eventbrite.co.uk... @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsociology.bsky.social

New paper by @juliettedavret.bsky.social The politics of counting homelessness: The case of Ireland. Housing Policy Debate, doi: 10.1080/10511482.2025.2599125. OA postprint: mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/20...

Happy Birthday, Antonio Gramsci. #OnThisDay in 1891, the Sardinian Marxist was born. From Turin’s workers’ councils to founding the Communist Party of Italy, his Prison Notebooks - written under fascist imprisonment - reshaped Marxist thought on power and hegemony.

Hugely important work from our friends at @oxfamireland.bsky.social mapping the extreme concentration of the planet's wealth in the hands of a few eccentrics. #SpéirGorm www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

It pains me to inform you that the $100 million of U.S. Treasuries the Danish teachers and academics pension fund has announced it will sell are about all the U.S. bonds held by the country’s pension fund sector. Turns out Denmark’s pension funds have been staying away from U.S. bonds all along.

Cool. Interesting, useful and depressing (though the Tesla slides cheered me up)

We hear it all the time: Since the turn of the 2010s, thanks to the rise of tech, the US has pulled ahead economically. This idea is everywhere from Washington to Davos—and it's paralyzing Europe But it's simply not true! Let's look at what's really happening, with charts🧵

The good old days #speirgorm

“The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable,” Anders Schelde, chief investment officer at AkademikerPension, told Bloomberg on Tuesday.

William P. Gottlieb (photographer)

What an insane match and what a great victory. Dakar is absolutely wild with joy tonight. Senegal rek! !

Essential, explanatory reporting by the indefatigable @declanwalsh.bsky.social. "Fever for gold drives both sides in Sudan's war"

Horaah! @paulageraghty.bsky.social's images available at The Library Project. Paula has long been capturing the important struggles of our time, and the people who make them

I spoke with Disha Jani about my book THE SOLIDARITY ECONOMY on the @jhideas.bsky.social podcast. You can listen to it here! @princetonupress.bsky.social www.jhiblog.org/2024/06/17/t...

As everyone talks about Greenland, don't forget its actual global significance--a two mile thick sheet of ice that if melted would raise the sea level 23 feet (and long before that choke off the currents of the Atlantic) open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

13 climate litigation wins in 2025 by @isabellakaminski.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Defunding IRS enforcement means that... remaining IRS enforcement capabilities will likely pivot away from large corporations and the highest-income earners toward lower-income taxpayers, where audits take less time but generate lower returns for the IRS." Joe Hughes @itep.org

Two days before its general elections, Uganda has turned off the internet across the country. President Yoweri Museveni will be on the ballot for the seventh time, running to extend his 40-year tenure restofworld.org/2026/uganda-...