⏳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...

Great to see this out! With @kprodani.bsky.social at ->OMFIF #banks #biodiversity www.omfif.org/2025/03/beyo...

📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

excellent Leah Downy piece in our RIPE 'derisking' special issue on why we should talk more about coercing/disciplining finance - 'we must recognize how foundational coercive power, and thus coercive policy, is to sustaining a well-ordered democratic state' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Freedom for Capital Not People charts the theoretical developments responsible for reshaping today's world economy, unleashing capital against democracy. Finally coming out in English, in June with @versobooks.bsky.social. Thanks @quinnslobodian.com

I had been looking for something like this: a no-nonsens overview of the various pressure points at which finance can – in theory! – wield sustainable influence.

Starter pack of people and organisations who do work on policies to promote economic democracy, primarily through social ownership and democratisation of finance. I'm sure there's a lot missing here so please give suggested additions

Cowards www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

For anyone planning to go on holidays to Albania at some point, this new museum in Gjirokaster about one of the first published female writers should be good. balkaninsight.com/2024/12/20/m...

Thanks to all the contributors! @annakornbluh.bsky.social, @lclaberge.bsky.social, @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, @lalouverouge.bsky.social, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @sarahcomyn.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, @quinnslobodian.com, @anniemcc.bsky.social, @blanqui.bsky.social 1/2

For new people, this is a great way to find environmental social scientists: go.bsky.app/GNpJZBo

Leah Downey wrote this fantastic in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social back in Sept that I shamefully only read today. In it, she attacks contemporary central banking not on the usual grounds, but on the ground that it adopts the wrong approach to stability: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

I've created a starter pack with people who study the history of economics. I hope it might be useful to someone. I'm sure there are many omissions and if you want to be part of the list or help complete it, just let me know. #EconSky go.bsky.app/5jQoAGz

#envhist #envhum #histsci Exciting opportunity to do a paid PhD in the history of biology: www.academictransfer.com/nl/345235/ph... Come work with @rafdebont.bsky.social @blenormand.bsky.social and me ❤️

Does anyone know whether Blackrock, State Street, and Vanguard use and publish exclusion lists (not exclusion methodologies but lists of specific companies they exclude)?