🚨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. 🧵

There is currently an open call for expressions of interest for directorships at any Max Planck Institute. This is an incredible opportunity for researchers with an established research profile and track-record of research leadership. Let me know if you have questions & please share widely!

Zum Start des #DGS2025 Kongresses in Duisburg posten wir hier eine Übersicht über wirtschaftssoziologische Sektionsveranstaltungen sowie AdHoc-Gruppen unserer Sektionsmitglieder – wir freuen uns auf einen spannenden Kongress und ein Wiedersehen in Duisburg!

Wir wollen Gerechtigkeit! Deutsche:

… denn die erforderlichen Mittel hatte man bereits für eine Erhöhung der Pendlerpauschale verplant.

Deutsche Hospitality ist wenn du beim Einlösen deines DB Getränkegutscheins für einen Kaffee vom Personal freundlich darauf hingewiesen wirst, dass der Gutschein auch für einen Gin & Tonic gültig ist. 🥰

My chapter traces (in @danielagabor.bsky.social's words) the story of "David the De-Risker" – exploring political conditions for why states turn to de-risking. For politicians, de-risking is about leveraging their reach, so we need to understand when this becomes politically attractive. Preprint 👇

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

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!

It’s out! Do check it out if you’re interested in #impactinvesting and it’s surprisingly large variety!

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

In Zeiten knapper Kassen und eskalierender Klimakrise entscheidet sich die Bundesregierung zunächst einmal für €2Mrd. zusätzliche Subventionen für AutofahrerInnen. Jährlich. Kann man sich wirklich nicht ausdenken.

📣 The Call for Papers for the British Journal of Sociology 2026 Conference is open! Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2024, we are delighted to announce its return on 23 and 24 April 2026 at LSE. 📆 Submit your paper by 20 October 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/TdmBcur

Die zwei klassischen Intermediärsrollen in der Netzwerkforschung – Tertius Iungens und Tertius Gaudens – in einer Person vereint. Soviel zu "Chinese Walls". www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/k...

Es ist 1 Bekenntnis zur Intransparenz politischer Vorgänge, dass Sitzungen der Bundestagsausschüsse — darunter die des Ausschusses für #Forschung — in dieser Legislaturperiode nicht mehr öffentlich tagen. Erschwert journalistische Berichterstattung & politische Arbeit massiv!! Wo bleibt der Protest?

📢📢 Job Alert In dem Projekt "Embracing Capital" im Rahmen des #Sfb294-tpl ist eine Stelle als Post-Doc ausgeschrieben. Untersucht werden soll die Ausbreitung und die veränderten Strukturen von Kapitalgesellschaften von 1948 bis heute anhand von Registerdaten. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

5/ Closing date: Sept 8, 2025 🗓️. Interview date: Sept 18, 2025 🎤. Looking forward to connecting with interested scholars! 🤝 Details here: bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Indeed. Germany is the second largest producer of EVs in the world. If any country can catch up with China, with some industrial policy and trade policy help to offset China's non-market distortions, it is Germany.

Whenever you feel the world is changing too fast, just let AI express how ManuscriptCentral's retro vibes give you comfort. 🎶 ManuscriptCentral, you're my retro flame 🎶 Now online: tomusic.ai/music/71e84f...

Whenever you feel the world is changing too fast, just let AI express how ManuscriptCentral's retro vibes give you comfort. 🎶 ManuscriptCentral, you're my retro flame 🎶 Now online: tomusic.ai/music/71e84f...

📢 Schreibe deine Masterarbeit beim Dezernat! Wir finden du solltest zu BIP-Elastizitäten von Bundesausgaben schreiben. Arbeit von Berlin+HO mit 38 h bei 2.000 €. 👉 Bis 31.08.2025 bewerben! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2282660?... #Stellenausschreibung #Masterarbeit #Berlin #Fiskalpolitik

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

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...

This looks unbearably good – what a stellar line-up and mix of exciting topics. Can't wait!

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

Just reading a paper from 1985. It contains bullet points. I thought these two things were mutually exclusive.

Check out a new piece by @mkblyth.bsky.social and me: 'Trump’s Global War on Decarbonization'. The Strategy? BLOCK Chinese green tech, PUSH US fossil fuels. @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/RE8I5Ix

When in doubt, sauté some apricots

Finally managed to turn this into a real blog post: Whatever happened to the Bielefeld School of STS? Where did Karin Knorr Cetina come from? Why did she go to Bielefeld of all places? And where did Bielefeld disappear to? wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/whatever-h...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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! 🧵

Elon Musk said Grok 4 is “maximally truth-seeking.” But if you ask Grok 4 questions about controversial topics, one of its first steps is to search for what Musk has said publicly about the topic, and then it shapes its response around that. Yes, really: techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/g...

If you are at #SASE2025 and have questions regarding our open SER special issue, feel free to come to our open Q&A session at the end of our 10:30AM session tomorrow!

Starting tomorrow! 🤩🤩 If you are at #SASE2025, do join us!

Issue 2 of 2025 is out now! With papers on ecologization, gendered labour of finance, temporalities of indebtedness, housing in Swedish growth model, state capitalism in France, economization of immunization, cyber socialism/neoliberalism, and necro-economics www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

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! 🧵

Very much looking forward to kick off our @sasemeeting.bsky.social Mini-Conference on asset stranding co-organized with @vapunkt.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social with this fabulous online panel. All SASE participants are very welcome to join us on Zoom today at 4PM! Let me know if you have any Qs!

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have completely missed the drama behind this but this report by @catherinedevries.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social is very instructive: I had no idea EPSA was tied to a for-profit company and membership fees went to its 3 shareholders(!) epssnet.org/wp-content/u...

This looks excellent! A sober look at what pension funds can and cannot do under the existing macrofinancial regime.

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! 🧵

Anschlusszusage light Im Herbst strich Berlins #Wissenschaftssenatorin bundesweit beachtetes Reformprojekt für mehr #Dauerstellen in der #Wissenschaft. Jetzt legt Verwaltung Alternativen vor mit neuen Stellenkategorien und altbekannten Unsicherheiten. Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/06...

Just out! D. Burnier, @baphil.bluesky.social and I study the moral background of impact investing. How do asset managers deem impact finance moral? Intentionality, Measurement, and Transcending Opposition fuel consequentialist and deontological moral reasoning. www.socio-journal.ch/article/view...

How did the 2021-22 cost shock impact corporations' pricing strategies? We fed 138k earnings calls into the machine – but we also read loads of them in the old-school way. 🤓 A short 🧵 on the three arguments executives relied on when explaining why they perceived an unusual pricing opportunity.

Not sure I've ever been this excited for a presentation. Will have the great privilege to be giving a 90min Institute Seminar @mpifg.bsky.social later today, taking stock and looking ahead at my work here at the Institute!

Excited to share this paper because it does something new: We're testing the implicit coordination hypothesis proposed by Weber & Wasner. Analyzing earnings calls, we find that large, economy-wide costs shocks make executives feel very good indeed. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW PAPER Oil, shipping, tariffs: We are back in a world of cost shocks. Our AI/LLM analysis of 138,962 corporate earnings calls shows how economy-wide cost shocks let large firms raise prices & increase profits—triggering sellers' inflation. 🧵 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

And here it is: "Living on buffered time: Toward another sociology of storage" (open access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sagt eigentlich alles über die SPD dass sich prominente Mitglieder gegen die Außenpolitik positionieren aber die Absenkung der Körperschaftssteuer keinen vergleichbaren parteiinternen Widerstand erzeugt.