Re-advertised & open until 30 June: - Fully funded PhD @ University of Leeds (UK students only) - Focus: UK production & consumption transformations (scope to shape your project) - Strong political economy angle - 6-month secondment with Dept for Energy Security & Net Zero tinyurl.com/3d7s9ydx

🔴⏯️Missed our latest seminar on planning a sufficiency economy with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social? Good news! You can now watch full talk on our YouTube channel 🎥 Catch up on insights from WWII Britain to today’s eco-social transition debate #PostGrowth #Sustainability www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fYn...

"Mit Blick auf Katherina Reiches #Energiepolitik, muss man längst keinen Teufel mehr an die Wand malen. Der steht da schon längst und schlürft Biofuels." Warum aus der Abkehr der Energiewende eine Staatskrise wachsen könnte, in meiner @surplusmagazin.de Kolumne. www.surplusmagazin.de/heizungsgese...

Left: FT on March 6, 2026. Right: FT on August 11, 2025. Spot the connection?

The @europarl.europa.eu looks set on tuesday to vote through a report on the EU housing crisis that rejects the idea that financialisation has been a key driver. Read my co-authored letter with @danielagabor.bsky.social arguing aginst the report's findings www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Vast sums of public & private finance have been allowed – even encouraged – to flow into LNG terminals, AI data centres & military expansion, while the material foundations of energy security – renewable grids and storage capacity – remain deficient. This was not unavoidable but a political choice.

We seem stuck in a loop, but it needs repeating again & again: a progressive European project must (i) clearly oppose ongoing US‑Israeli aggression & (ii) recognise that energy security depends not on shifting fossil suppliers but on rapidly scaling renewables alongside demand‑reduction strategies.

I was never entirely convinced by the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) thesis. It obscures that, even when the US jumps 10 steps forward & then retreats 8, concrete 'next best steps' are still made that reshape the terrain & create conditions for further shifts that extend US power & dominance. 1/2

Fully funded PhD in Political Economy of Production and Consumption Transformations @envleeds.bsky.social The PhD is part of the PACT Centre (shorturl.at/XrzOi) & includes an optional secondment of up to six months at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. More info: shorturl.at/5GkEQ

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

you could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza.

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

Fixing housing means tackling the market shift that made homes tradeable assets tinyurl.com/4resamkz Good comment but profit-driven artificial scarcity isn’t just about too few homes built but also about affordability & use of existing stock. Distribution & use matter as much as quantitative supply

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Richard Baernthaler (University of Leeds), Chaired by: Chandni Dwarkasing on: 🎤 Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe 🇪🇺 🗓️ 26 November, 5PM 📍 SOAS, B103 info and livestream🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

🛢️We cannot lose sight of phasing out fossil fuels. @freddiedaley.bsky.social and @peternewell.bsky.social have a piece in The National Interest pushing back on the “build now, break later” mantra in the energy transition. nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-... A 🧵 on why that approach is risky👇

I really enjoyed this long debate with Andy Haldane on the state of Britain's macrofinancial politics and who are the real bond vigilantes www.podbean.com/media/share/...

How do we make progress towards a sustainable future? 🛤️ The SRI@21 research agenda explores questions that still need addressing, such as: ❓ How do we envision sustainable futures? ❓ Who makes decisions about sustainability? ❓ How should we measure our goals? SRI@21 launches 19 November 2025.

Extraordinary Mamdani speech defending Muslim life in the US. a breath of fresh air to see a politician standing up for principles. Standards in the US have fallen so low lately…

Karl Polanyi identifizierte den Wirtschaftsliberalismus als Wurzel reaktionären Denkens. Seine Theorie der »entbetteten« Märkte ist so aktuell wie nie.

BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...

This is precisely why (a) ESG has always been problematic by turning public policy issues into profit-making ventures & (b) credit guidance is necessary to direct commercial bank and non-bank financial sector finance toward public purpose (Screenshot from R. Armstrong’s FT “Unhedged” newsletter)

Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.

📌 Join us for the @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Seminar Series — bringing together leading scholars to discuss global challenges in political economy, sustainability, and development ‼️ 📅 upcoming events 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/colleg...

Worth watching the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab’s (@bentleyallan.bsky.social) presentation of “China’s Green Leap Outward” by @70sbachchan.bsky.social, @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social & Xiaokang Xue youtu.be/Pc2eu6YT2O0?... Some key takeaways, and a broader question that deserves more attention: 1/7

Nachdem die EU im Juni eine norwegische Kupfermine als »strategisch« wichtig deklariert hat, spitzt sich die Lage für die indigenen Sámi drastisch zu.

Israel attacks the Global Sumud Flotilla, continues to starve Palestinians in Gaza. Escalate peaceful disruptive action now. #DisruptComplicity now!

Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren, schreiben @rbaernthaler.bsky.social und Lukas Warning.

The genocidal state of Israel is intercepting the Global Sumud flotilla - shame on Spain and Italy who abandoned these brave people but grandstand at the UN. Shame!

„Öffentlicher Luxus für alle“ – Beitrag von Lukas Warning und mir im @surplusmagazin.bsky.social Was Mamdani vorschlägt, steht für ein neues Verständnis von Daseinsvorsorge. Nicht nur Verteidigung, sondern Weiterentwicklung öffentlicher Infrastruktur. 1/6 www.surplusmagazin.de/offentlicher...

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.

Israel’s colonial planners are dismantling Palestinian political economy through incursions into formerly autonomous areas & targeted economic measures (labour bans, tax revenue restrictions, banking constraints), shrinking the economy by 1/3 & accelerating institutional collapse on.ft.com/3IyhbrF

What about energy security when phasing out fossil fuels? A recent IEA report suggests “reducing demand” in high-income countries: tinyurl.com/4xtf74ap How? Shifting to collective, non-profit provisioning can cut energy use & improve wellbeing – crucial for strategic autonomy & energy security ⬇️

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

📝New publication! Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate: 1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The idea of a “housing shortage” is misleading. And building more homes won’t help if investors keep buying. You solve the housing crisis when investors quit the market. Two good pieces in the FT: www.ft.com/content/d905... www.ft.com/content/48bd...

In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...

This, among other things, exemplifies what it means to shield the economy from democracy—a hallmark of a capitalist political economy. www.ftm.eu/articles/fos...

'Are we going to retreat to a defense of central bank independence? Isn’t it time to actually define what the appeal of “our democracy” actually is? Isn’t it time to define what a democratic politics of central banking might look like?' by @adamtooze.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Deutschland braucht eine europäische Industriestrategie, um krisenfest zu werden. Das erfordert eine starke Daseinsvorsorge, schreiben @rbaernthaler.bsky.social , @sebmang.bsky.social und @jasonhickel.bsky.social

Europe’s accommodation of Trump is unprincipled & fails even as pragmatism. True pragmatism would reduce exposure to a hostile US. Instead, it's opportunism, damaging Europe’s politics by accepting that achieving anything requires not speaking the truth. @martinsandbu.ft.com

We're delighted to see that Barnthaler & Gough's innovative article 'Provisioning for Sufficiency' has been awarded the Egon-Matzner Award for Socio-Economics 🏆 Read the article for free 👉 spr.ly/63320faZqp @rbaernthaler.bsky.social #sustainability

Es braucht einen Erneuerungsplan – angepasst an die veränderten Bedingungen der globalen politischen Ökonomie, gegen Rechtsruck, für Zusammenhalt, eingebettet in europäische Industriepolitik. Mit @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social – @surplusmagazin.bsky.social tinyurl.com/vr5pvxhn

🚨 Out now: Die vierte Surplus-Ausgabe »Kampf um Zeit« ist da. Freizeit ist kein Luxus. Merz, Reiche und Co. greifen sie an – und gefährden damit Wohlstand und Freiheit. In den nächsten Tagen im Briefkasten, am Kiosk oder sofort online auf: 👉 www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-4-ka...