Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions

Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development. Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. " youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA

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Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets! Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br... open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”

📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers! We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert). Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p

The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

As the revision of the #SFDR comes to an end, I am joining @reclaimfinance.org and +120 experts in calling on the @ec.europa.eu exclude companies developing new fossil fuel projects a minimum criterion across all #SFDR product categories. There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!

Ahem, the meek European derisking state

Really important article with a razor-sharp argument: Contra the notion of universal ownership, @kprodani.bsky.social et al. show that Big-3 portfolios "largely exclude the very parts of the global economy where environmental harms will be most severe." Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

🚨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. 🧵

⏳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

"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september, UNIGE Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA @dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.

First time a minister resigns over Gaza. That genocide support by most European governments had triggered zero ministerial resignations until now: To my mind the single most damning statistic about European political elites.

Looking great! Really excited for the panel I’m organising on biodiversity finance, featuring great papers by Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social , Maud Borie, Roelien van der Wel, and co-authors like Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social

“Green Microfinancial Regimes” by @danielagabor.bsky.social and @benbraun.bsky.social leads RIPE Altmetric score for 2025. Check out the entire SI on Macrofinance and the Green Transformation edited by @leahdowney.bsky.social Leah Downey and @markblyth.bsky.social

Lots of great new papers in Phil Imprint, but as a longtime fan of TS Eliot's Four Quartets, I really loved this one

The EU is fueling Israel's genocide and occupation in Palestine🚨 As EU foreign ministers meet to decide on sanctions against Israel, our new analysis reveals that the EU is pumping billions of euros into Israel’s economy. 🔴 It's time to stop business as usual. www.somo.nl/economic-san...

----JOB---- Phenomenal World is seeking a Managing Editor to join our team. Please circulate widely, and email [email protected] to apply! www.phenomenalworld.org/events/pw-se...

Spare an angry thought for the ghouls at Boston Consulting Group, who, in a global first, didn't charge for their shitty consultancy work to 'increase the value of Gaza from zero to billions'

First you carpet-bomb, then you privatise their public land, and confiscate the private land of the survivors, which you generously allow then to stay in a 'housing unit'. And you get to call it a 'development plan'

More information about the conference's content and program:

New report by UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese on the 'economy of genocide' - the corporations enabling and profiting from the Israeli occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Financial actors and universities are named on pages 20-25. www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

"How do we know that insurers get the price right and the risk right?" Blistering presentation from @madisoncondon.bsky.social at @benbraun.bsky.social @mkblyth.bsky.social political economy of finance Summer school scholarship.law.bu.edu/do/search/?q...

My new article in Political Studies: ‘Transition: Revisiting a Troubled Concept in the Age of Climate Change’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @polstudies.bsky.social @lsepoltheory.bsky.social @lse-ei.bsky.social @lseblogs.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

Good morning, Did you know that the cloud has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry? That a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes? thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggeri...

We're very excited to announce the publication of issue 11(1)! 143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts. Do check it out!

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

🚨 New Working Paper published: Out of the light, into the dark: how ‘shadow carbon financing’ hampers the green transition and increases climate-related systemic risk 🛢️💸🏝️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... A 🧵 with our main arguments:

📚 I'm sharing here the reading list we'll be using at the Dutch Environmental Assessment Agency for our reading group on the politics of modelling nature. See below an overview of key literature on the politics, history, sociology, and philosophy of climate and biodiversity modelling.

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking → Why finance is a worldmaking force → Why derisking undermines itself → Why we need a Smart Green State instead Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In short, were the university to choose to defend itself, some simple arithmetic suggests that — at least financially — it could. Easily." From the leading scholar of US higher ed financialization. 👇

I don’t often swear on here but are you fucking kidding me with this framing

💥New from our EU @taxobservatory.bsky.social today: A first quantification of how a minimum tax on super-wealthy Europeans could contribute to a safer and more resilient Europe 🧵 www.taxobservatory.eu//www-site/up...

A quick summary 🧵 ! 🌍🌍🌍 @kprodani.bsky.social and I make two new claims, provocatively stated: (i) Quantifying climate transition risk is easy, biodiversity is not (ii) The most recent regulatory strategies entirely escape the "risk-based approach" said to dominate prudential policy. /1

I have lived in authoritarianism before, and participated in a popular movement against it. My political voice was born in it. I was just talking to a friend - this moment is *triggering* because it feels like so few people are reacting on the magnitude of what I know is coming.

Launch of Finance Aesthetics - 8th April 5-7pm, @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social w/ @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social @erosamon.bsky.social @maxhaiven.bsky.social @adriennebuller.bsky.social & Emma Sofie Brogaard - register here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae... @goldsmithspress.bsky.social

Interesting! “Money Talks: Futures for the Economic Humanities” University of Edinburgh, 28–29 May 2025 blogs.ed.ac.uk/future_of_mo...