I think one of the challenges of social science as a profession is that the longer you do it, the more difficult it becomes to answer how and why to do it.

Completely wild that of those organizing the 1832 "cradle of German democracy" Hambach political festival the largest professional group was – economists 🤯

Luftraum unterhalb des Sitzes im ICE jetzt auch Kampfzone. Es gibt wirklich keine Sicherheit mehr.

Anatomie der deutschen Seele: Kritik nicht vertragen können und versuchen über den Rechtsweg zu unterbinden. Denn nur das Urteil einer höheren Instanz kann uns die ontologische Unsicherheit nehmen. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/v...

First-year student hearing Introduction to Sociology

More trouble than previously thought... Thanks @suscrockford.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @aminsamman.bsky.social for brilliant critiques of 'Paranoid Finance'!!! And @busedoyu.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social @jcultecon.bsky.social for setting this up!!! doi.org/10.1080/1753...

if you're wondering how the AI bubble is doing, OpenAI is borrowing USD 4bn from private equity TPG/Bain Capital/ Brookfield Asset ​Management, at 17.5% interest, to embed OpenAI products in their 2,000+ portfolio companies. literally paying Wall Street to force its products on their firms

Cannot talk of the US as one entity when it comes to energy. "New England heats with fuel oil. The Southeast heats with electricity. The Midwest heats with natural gas. Same country, completely different energy systems. Every county in one map:" ht John Bistiline x.com/JEBistline/s...

Meine Studie zeigt, dass die Presse nur selten über die reichsten Deutschen berichtet; wenn, dann konzentriert sich die Berichterstattung auf bekannte Persönlichkeiten und variiert je nach historischem Ursprung des Vermögens (doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292). Erklärt hier in der @zeit.de:

So, der Entwurf fürs GEG (künftig GModG) ist da. Dass Gas- und Ölheizungen darin wieder zugelassen werden, war ja bekannt. Dass sie bei den Optionen gleich an erster Stelle aufgeführt werden, ist dann aber nochmal ein zusätzliches Statement...

Join us in Vienna to discuss inequality, economic mobility & labor markets! With @franziskadbacher.bsky.social and @izmartinez86.bsky.social I'm stoked to announce this workshop, keynotes by @emilynix100.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social. Nov 19-20, submit by June 30: www.wu.ac.at/ineq/ws26

Very much looking forward to be teaching @mpifg.bsky.social signature #economicsociology PhD course this year. The course is a slightly modified version of the one developed by Jens Beckert featuring three amazing guest lectures I look particularly forward to! 1/3

Kind of crazy how the structure of the US payment system will shape the coming consolidation wave in the airline industry. Just because the system enables high credit card fees, network airlines can make higher revenues from milage credit cards which will save them in the fuel crisis 🤯

!! DEADLINE TOMORROW !!

New article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social with @james7jackson.bsky.social"The political economy of China’s green transition." To support non-China specialists working on climate change, we provide a structured approach to understanding China's green transition: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Surely all of these will turn into net profits within usual investment time horizons. We can see this already happening with AI first movers outperforming on profitability - oh wait!

Die geplante Gesundheitsreform ist genau so regressiv wie befürchtet: Weil die höchsten Einkommen durch die private Krankenversicherung aus dem Solidarprinzip ausgenommen sind, fehlt den Kassen das Geld. Die BR antwortet mit der Kürzung von Leistungen anstatt der Ausweitung des Solidarprinzips.

"Insgesamt erließ der Freistaat seit 2019 Erbschaft- und Schenkungsteuer in Höhe von 3,3 Milliarden Euro. (…) Der eigentliche Skandal: Diese millionenschweren Steuererlasse tauchen in keiner offiziellen Steuerstatistik auf."

Deutschlands Reichste werden laut einer neuen Studie kaum in den Medien erwähnt. Dieser Vorhang des Schweigens verhindert eine aufgeklärte Debatte über Ungleichheit, schreibt @maxhsr.bsky.social.

Finde Rosa hätte in Resonanz das Gefühl beschreiben sollen, wenn sich die Anzahl der als ungelesen markierten Emails langsam wieder der Null nähert. Das Gefühl, aus eigener Kraft die der Beschleunigung ausgesetzten Weltbeziehungen wieder in Einklang zu bringen.

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University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

Der Gesetzentwurf für die #WissZeitVG-Reform kommt im Juni - also über 1 Jahr nach dem Koalitionsvertrag. Dafür wird die Beteiligung „auf ein Minimum reduziert“, um Zeit zu sparen, so @table.media. Aber wir werden uns Gehör verschaffen! 📣 ✊ 🪧 #NotMyWissZeitVG #IchBinHanna @gew.de #Dauerstellen

Facilitating the monetization of corruption - you really have to appreciate just how zeitgeist Polymarket is

Life achievement unlocked 🔓 My research is featured in @alanbeattie.bsky.social's Trade Secrets column! The EU "Commission’s repeated attempts to run a coherent green industrial strategy are showing few results" www.ft.com/content/f082... ...is what I find in my analysis too tinyurl.com/2sddm8e8

Scheint ja richtig gut zu laufen die Idee der CDU durch programmatischen und diskursiven Rechtsruck bei AfD-Wähler*innen zu punkten 👍

Members of the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social have contributed to a series of reflections on the (contradictory, emergent, uncertain) 'state of the state', introduced by Andrew Barry and me (open access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.

Social structures appear in social action. This is why different views on how and why we act demarcate differences in theory. My intro-level course "theorizing social action" is designed to help bring these perspectives to life by inviting students to theorize. Posting the syllabus here 1/2

Social structures appear in social action. This is why different views on how and why we act demarcate differences in theory. My intro-level course "theorizing social action" is designed to help bring these perspectives to life by inviting students to theorize. Posting the syllabus here 1/2

pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good ! academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

It was a great pleasure to speak about my book Currency of Nihilism with @garethwatkins.bsky.social and @pyramidmaster.bsky.social on their podcast, Death Sentence. We touched on everything from French theory and punk rock to prediction markets. Have a listen below!

All I want is functioning BlueSky and a nice nap but even that is now too much to ask 😭

🚨 VACATURE Het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap van Uni Leiden is op zoek naar twee UD2s met expertise in één of meer van de volgende gebieden: de Europese Unie-politiek, politieke economie, milieupolitiek, beleid en/of de Nederlandse politiek. careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Universi...

Very much looking forward to be teaching @mpifg.bsky.social signature #economicsociology PhD course this year. The course is a slightly modified version of the one developed by Jens Beckert featuring three amazing guest lectures I look particularly forward to! 1/3

Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat beim EnBW-Konzern Vorschläge bestellt, die Batteriespeicher bei den Auktionen für ein Strom-Backup benachteiligen würden. Im Lobbyregister wurde das erst nach Anfrage des SPIEGEL vermerkt.

This paper on the Italian output gap controversy in the run-up to the Covid-19 crisis documents the profound disagreement between the European Commission and the Italian government over Italy’s output gap - with major implications for assessing compliance with EU fiscal rules.

Vom 12. - 13.11.2026 veranstaltet das DHI Rom in Kooperation mit dem AK Historische Soziologie eine transepochale Tagung zum Thema "Asymmetrische Beziehungen – asymmetrische Verhältnisse". Die Frist des CfP läuft am 01.06.2026 aus, wir freuen uns auf spannende Beiträge! dhi-roma.it/index.php?id...

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

So much news about the far-right turn of French elites these days that I'm making a thread... 👇🧵 #1: Jordan Bardella (Marine Le Pen's sub if she can't run in 2027) is dating Louis XVI's heiress, Princess Maria de Bourbon Deux-Siciles. Rassemblement National officials call it a 'modern fairytale'...

In ihrem aktuellen FAZ-Gastbeitrag beklagt Katherina Reiche eine "Selbsttäuschunug" in der Energiepolitik. Tatsächlich fällt der Täuschungsvorwurf aber teilweise auf sie selbst zurück, denn der Text enthält diverse falsche oder irreführende Zahlen. Ein Thread. (1/17) www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

This is amazing work by @freedaaron.bsky.social. Thanks @adamtooze.bsky.social for Chartbooking it.

THE ASSET CLASS publishes today! The book is a roving investigation of private equity, a surreptitious realm of finance that has infiltrated almost every corner of our lives…

If you’re in Berlin this weekend, join us for One Big Beautiful Bach We’re playing the Mass in B Minor together with the fabulous Konzerthausorchester Saturday, 6PM, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt Tickets: cantusdomus.de/projekte/h-m...

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!

The rumours are true – Finance and Society conference 2026 *is* happening! 🥰🫠 So much better than chocolate!

The rumours are true – Finance and Society conference 2026 *is* happening! 🥰🫠 So much better than chocolate!