The 5th paper from our #assetstruggles special issue is now online: Asset struggles and credit regimes: how dominant growth coalitions shaped credit policy and homeownership in Germany and Sweden, by @dustinvoss.bsky.social Check out the open access paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Including an AP position in International Political Economy.

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Springer Nature retracted two studies by Max Planck. In response to a question from @samkean.bsky.social, they issued this statement: "Detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

Stellenausschreibung! 75%-Stelle an meiner Professur an der @unimarburg.bsky.social Offen für Promovierende wie Promovierte. Fragen gerne an mich. Gerne teilen! stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/1...

Whenever I feel the world is turning too fast I just remember that Cologne will need 23 years (!) to reopen ~200m of collapsed subway tunnel. If all goes according to plan, that is.

FT loves that Germany will introduce a funded pillar to its pension system because it will ... "create a bigger pool of investment capital." I know only a few things but one of them is: Bigger pools of pension-related investment capital is the last thing rich countries need.

Opening day of the Great American State Fair drew light crowds, long walks, and mixed reactions from visitors. Here's what it was like inside the America 250 event. washingtonian.com/2026/06/26/i...

BMU macht jetzt auch einen auf #ichbinhanna: strukturelle Probleme auf die individuelle Eben verlagern und das dann allen ernstes "Den Klimawandel gesund meistern" nennen. Kann man sich nicht ausdenken!

Bei Rente via Umlageverfahren: Lohnsteigerungen sind gut für die Rentenfinanzierung. Arbeitende 🤝 Renter*innen Bei Rente via Kapitaldeckung: Lohnsteigerungen, so sie die Profite und damit die Aktienpreise mindern, sind schlecht für die Rentenfinanzierung. Arbeitende⚡️ Renter*innen.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Woher kommen die Private Equity Renditen, die im "schwedischen Modell" den Lebensstandard im Alter sichern sollen? Zunehmend aus Krankenhäusern, Pflegeheimen, Mietwohnungen – beliebte Anlageobjekte für Private Equity. Die Konsequenzen für den "Lebensstandard im Alter" sind fatal – literally: 5/

In der Debatte um die Rentenreform wird häufig übersehen, dass Kapitalrenditen nicht einfach vom Himmel fallen sondern erst einmal erzeugt werden müssen. Wenn das im Umfang einer nationalen Rente geschieht sind die Folgen insbes. was Ungleichheit betrifft enorm. Dazu hier die zentralen Punkte ⬇️

Die Koalition will einen Rentenfonds nach 🇸🇪 Vorbild, in den 2% des Lohns fließen. Wie schon bei Lindners Aktienrente (remember him?) greift die progressive Kritik an diesem Element der #rentenreform viel zu kurz. Internationale Evidenz zeigt: Kapitaldeckung = Finanzialisierungsmaschine. 🧵

“Wir verbieten das Verbot von künstlicher Intelligenz”. An Universitäten. Bei Prüfungsleistungen. Da bin ich jetzt einfach sprachlos. Was nicht so oft vorkommt. Soll doch halt eine KI für “beide Seiten gewinnbringend” schreiben, was hier stehen könnte. www.br.de/nachrichten/...

The NSF slashing funding of basic research by 20-30% after fully winding down its social, behavioral and economic sciences unit. Now uses arcane provision to hand public science funding directly to venture capital funds working on AI. I don't think European science is prepared. At all.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

One single company wiped out the GDP of Poland within just a week - surely this must be the most reasonable mode of valuation we can think of?

Re-reading a paper from the late 1990s and thinking what a vibe 3d bar graphs were. Such naive symbols of techno-utopianism. The last beacons of progress before it all went downhill.

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

The "liberal market economy" in 2026 is market liquidity without market governance

The "liberal market economy" in 2026 is market liquidity without market governance

Next up is @lacic.bsky.social, Felix Bühlmann, Sophie Serrano & Fabien Foureault's paper on (gendered) divisions in asset managers' "networks of interest defence". The paper finds important differences between mainstream and alternative AMs external networks & elite positions. Small teaser:

Next up is @lacic.bsky.social, Felix Bühlmann, Sophie Serrano & Fabien Foureault's paper on (gendered) divisions in asset managers' "networks of interest defence". The paper finds important differences between mainstream and alternative AMs external networks & elite positions. Small teaser:

This is a very good intro article to a very cool special issue on asset struggles.

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

Students looking for something digestible in French theory

A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...

Ihr seid auch bestürzt über angekündigte #DLFReform? Dann mailt dem Hörfunkrat, & zwar HEUTE! Er tagt morgen & Programmreform steht auf der Tagesordnung. Hab eben angerufen, Mailadresse erfragt & hingeschrieben. Macht Ihr mit? Adresse lautet [email protected]! Was ich geschrieben hab:

Mit der sogenannten „Reform“ killt der DLF ohne Not sein Alleinstellungsmerkmal & geht damit großen Schritt Richtung eigener Irrelevanz. Solidarität mit allen Journalist_innen, die sich um ihr Einkommen sorgen, während der DLF ihre gute & wichtige Arbeit durch selbstgewählte Konturlosigkeit ersetzt!

Now resorting to higher algaebra

Im ICE: Mann in 70ern erzählt am Telefon ausführlich und in breitem schwäbisch von seinen Problemen. Er organisiert zwei Stammtische, die jeweils ca. 6 Stunden dauern. Selbst wenn er sehr langsam Wein trinkt kommt er auf 0,25L/h oder 1,5L pro Stammtisch. "Wasser drink I ned."

Lieber Steuerprivilegien für Superreiche (und unnötig enge Fiskalregeln) als schnelle und pünktliche Züge

How the rejection letter sees us

Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.

Third paper from our #assetstruggles SI online! Mareike Beck makes the very important point that assets can also fuel conflict within households, often taking a gendered form not only because of the gender wealth gap but also because of qualitative differences in the assets women and men hold.

Second paper from our #assetstruggles SI now online: @hadoose.bsky.social makes the crucial point that asset struggles over climate governance not only include climate vulnerable & climate forcing assets – but that climate policy itself often takes an asset form, reconfiguring power. Check it out!

Papier très intéressant sur l'achat et la valorisation de terres au nom de la lutte contre le dérèglement climatique au profit de riches propriétaires terriens & acteurs de la finance.

Second paper from our #assetstruggles SI now online: @hadoose.bsky.social makes the crucial point that asset struggles over climate governance not only include climate vulnerable & climate forcing assets – but that climate policy itself often takes an asset form, reconfiguring power. Check it out!

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

And Spirit Airlines might still have been alive. No backwards retail banking = much less points on credit cards = no extra market power for those airlines capable of offering premium rewards

Some of the most exciting thinking about political economy in Britain has come out of PERC. Its closure is a huge loss and an indictment of the state of UK academia www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

Great work by the FT here on how SpaceX is set to dominate everyday savers' funds & pension plans. As it notes index providers have the choice on whether & when to include it, but are bought into the bubble ("AI/SpaceX are so big & what if their valuations surge further?!") ig.ft.com/spacex-ipo/

And Philipp & Natascha on how pension savers are limited in their influence over their own funds! bsky.app/profile/pgol...

Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

Maybe it is such blatant gaps between words and deeds that people are tired of?

It’s been brought to my attention that the Economist cover story is blaming Gen-Z socialism on “an influential group of socialist academics” led by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Turns out Gen-Z got radicalized by … our analysis of corporate earnings calls. Huge if true!

Die Kürzungen im Gesundheitssystem sind ebenso falsch wie dramatisch. Psychotherapeut*innen müssen ihr ohnehin zu knappes Therapieangebot um 20-25% reduzieren und Angestellte entlassen. Man kürzt bei den Schwächsten, nur damit Spitzenverdiener und Reiche ihre Privilegien behalten können. Beschämend!

Die Kürzungen im Gesundheitssystem sind ebenso falsch wie dramatisch. Psychotherapeut*innen müssen ihr ohnehin zu knappes Therapieangebot um 20-25% reduzieren und Angestellte entlassen. Man kürzt bei den Schwächsten, nur damit Spitzenverdiener und Reiche ihre Privilegien behalten können. Beschämend!

JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say