My scholar in residence lectures at @mpifg.bsky.social start tomorrow Tuesday. The title of the series is ”The Redistributive Ethos in Crisis: Three Imaginaries Dismantling the Welfare State” in which I try to analyse the decline of the Nordic welfare model. Chainsaws and scissors will be mentioned.

Pretty much done with the last corrections and very happy about it. Out in July! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526190055/

Oli ilo olla jokin aika sitten uuden Miljonäärien tasavalta -podcastin vieraana. Kannattaa laittaa seurantaan.

"Liberaalien demokratioiden eetos on perustunut yksilöiden yhtäläisin mahdollisuuksiin. Ellei perintöjä suitsita, ylisukupolvinen eriarvoisuus syvenee ja sosiaalinen liikkuvuus vähenee." @hannakuu.bsky.social HS-vieraskynä: www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

@hannakuu.bsky.social puhuu järkeviä #perintovero sta: Keskustelu siitä on tunneperäistä, pelottelevaa ja soveltuu anti-meritokraattisiin feodaaliyhteiskuntiin, ei nykyaikaisiin hyvinvointivaltioihin, joissa yritetään pitää edes joistain tasavertaisuuden rippeistä kiinni. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Three days in Hannover in the symposium ”Unlocking Private Wealth as a Resource for Solving Global Crises”, bringing together family business scholars, practitioners and some sociologists.

On the boat to Germany, where I will spend the next three months as a visiting scholar at @mpifg.bsky.social. Plenty of time to read the proofs of my forthcoming book ’Streaming privilege. How television teaches us to accept inequality’, by @manchesterup.bsky.social

”Universalism in flux – Welfare profit-makers’ views towards the institution of welfare universalism” How economic elites of the care sector, who provide services funded by the welfare state, understand the Nordic model. Our article w Laura Tarkiainen is out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK

💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

Onko konsensuksen aika ohi? Voiko kannattavaa bisnestä tehdä pohjoismaiset arvot edellä, vai löytävätkö meilläkin trumpilaisuus ja elinkeinoelämä toisensa? Vedän sunnuntaina paneelin aiheesta ”Onko elinkeinoelämä radikalisoitumassa?” Käänne-festareilla. kaannefestival.fi/conference-e...

A new book just out, focusing on the social acceptance of inequality, edited by Francesco Duina and Luca Storti. I wrote about the abolition of the wealth tax in Finland and how the parliamentary discussions around it reflect a new acceptance of wealth accumulation in the Nordic context.

My article on the tv hit Succession and its media reception finally out. Keywords Schadenfreude, fantasy, dynasties. My argument being that it is a fantasy-driven construct appealing to a middle class desire to see the rich as miserable people destined to fall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This paper is part of a forthcoming special issue on Families & Wealth edited by @hannakuu.bsky.social @celinebessiere.bsky.social @katiehiggins.bsky.social. They threw a fabulous workshop in Finland last year where I received invaluable advice about how to move this paper forward.

Excited to finally share my new paper (w/Raphaël Charron-Chénier) out in BJS! Staying Apart for the Kids looks at how older adults consider preserving family wealth in their new relationships. Drawing on my interviews with mid/late-life daters, we show how accumulated wealth shapes dating decisions.

Kutsuhuutoni Suomen elinkeinoelämälle.

Something new and exciting ahead! After 6 years of continuous criticisim against the compositions and actions of university boards in Finland, I was now nominated to sit in one of those boards at the wonderful Uniarts. Not only universities but also art needs our tireless support in these times!

Tervetuloa torstaina klo 17-21 Kapitalismin yöhön Antikvariaatti Sofiaan Helsinkiin. Ruodittavana tuoretta kapitalismiaiheista kirjallisuutta ja tuoreita suomennoksia Milliltä, Adornolta, Eribonilta ja Tanskasen Tympeiltä tytöiltä. Vapaa pääsy! helsinkifestival.fi/taiteidenyo/...

I wrote this piece for the upcoming @bjsociology.bsky.social special issue on Families and Wealth, edited by @celinebessiere.bsky.social , @katiehiggins.bsky.social, & @hannakuu.bsky.social . There are going to be so many fantastic articles in it and I can’t wait to read them in their final forms.

I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.

A new article just out in which we introduce the concept of welfare profit-makers and describe how private profit-making from publicly funded health and care services gets legitimised by those benefitting from marketization. Co-written with Laura Tarkiainen. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

First draft of a new book sent to the publisher. (And already noticed two typos in the table of contents!)

Nyt kun Tampereen yliopistolla lakkoillaan, on hyvä aika kehua Hanna Kuuselan (@hannakuu.bsky.social) mainiota kirjaa TAUn ja TTYn yhdistymisestä säätiöyliopistoksi, jonka hallinnossa ei tutkijoiden ja opiskelijoiden mielipiteistä ei oltu niin kiinnostuneita. #kirjallisuus #yliopisto

📢 Here is an exciting job opportunity at the TU Berlin. Please spread the word and apply! Post-Doc, 5yrs, work on your independent research on ownership and / or wealth inequality, teach 2 courses per semester, collaborate with me and in a supportive team. www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenaussc...

Checking the proofs of my chapter for the book ’The Social Acceptance of Inequality’, by Francesco Duina & Luca Storti. It will be an interesting collection that highlights the social and cultural dimensions of inequality. Here an interview with the editors: ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2024/05/the-...

5. Adding to this, the type of skills elite have obtained through their education varies (but not always along the level fof credentials described above). Engineers and natural scientists still constitute a substantial part of economic elites in China, France or Finland.

4. The credentials also differ. In sic of the countries, at least around a fifth have a doctoral degree. However this is very rare, for instance in the Scandinavian countries

3. The degree of international recruitment and recruitment from the economic capital of the country and other key functional urban areas varies substantially. Economic elites in Argentina, Italy, Portugal and France are born in the countries largest urban centres.

2. When looking at the very apex of the economic elites, the lack of gender diversity becomes even stronger. However, the gender gap in WED is strongly correlated with the WEF Gender Gap Index.

Some highlights: 1. Economic elites vary a lot. However, they are varieties of pale, stale and male. Here is the age distribution across gender. Note that in particular the US is very much a gerontocracy, also when it comes to economic elites

So happy that the first paper of our very big collaborative and comparative effort on elites, called World Elite Database, is now out in @bjsociology.bsky.social Finland is included in this project that offers standardised data about the economic elites of 16 countries.

Interested in the use of consultants and public reforms? A Special Issue edited by me and my great colleagues @mattiylonen.bsky.social and Ringa Raudla for Public Money and Management is now out as a collection. You may want to start with the editorial. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why has the market for climate consulting grown so much in the past decade? At what cost? V happy to see our paper @phdskat.org on this brave new world alongside so many great contributions in an SI by @mattiylonen.bsky.social @hannakuu.bsky.social & Ringa Raudla www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Erityisesti pidin monista kulttuuriviittauksista ja, yhtenä yksityiskohtana, Taikavuori-allegoriasta, se sopii tähän aikaan hyvin! Lisään vielä, että Taikavuoressa kiinnostava on myös Mannin esipuhe. Se käsittelee aikaa ja etäisyyttä tapahtumiin, jotka ovat Syytöksessäkin keskeisiä.

Luin @hannakuu.bsky.social teoksen Syytös, joka käsittelee Tampereen yliopiston yhdistymisprosessia ja sen yhteydessä käytyjä valtapelejä. Tarinan piinaavuus välittyy lukijalle hyvin. Silti Syytös laajenee henkevästi myös isommaksi pohdinnaksi demokratian puolustamisesta. #kirjataivas >

#Syytös on kertomus #yliopistouudistus 'sta, sen seurauksista sekä ahdistava kuvaus #demokratia 'n, #sivistys 'n ja #työelämä 'n rappiosta, jossa vastuussa olevat (lue: me) luovuttavat vallan koijareille, mahdollistaen kurjuuden ja kiusaamisen. Kiitos, @hannakuu.bsky.social! 😍🙏❤📚 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Kirjataivas

My new article out in Economy and Society, analysing the rise of the rich and the figure of the wealthy private owner in Finnish business media. I suggest we are moving towards a neo-accumulationist regime characterised by new admiration of private accumulation. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vastapaino on yli 800 kirjaa julkaissut, riippumaton 43-vuotias tiede- ja tietokirjakustantamo. Kaikki sen tuotot käytetään lyhentämättömänä kirjallisuuden hyväksi, ei sen omistajien. Vuosi 2023 oli kustantamolle tappiollinen ja siksi tämä tukikampanja: kirja-ale 25,5% ! Vastapaino.fi

One day left to send your abstracts for the special issue on Families and wealth.

I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

A new job, a new campus. Started as the Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Jyväskylä where the campus is largely designed by Alvar Aalto.

Our (most likely) last article on the Finnish top earners with Anu Kantola. In the paper we show how the top earners craft an establishment fantasy which helps them to orientate their political action and justify their social position. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Two year post-doc at LSE's International Inequalities Institute working on inherited inequality and social mobility - deadline Dec 1st jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

@mpifg.bsky.social has a call for postdoctoral researchers in #EconomicSociology and #PoliticalEconomy. Having visited the institute for three months last year, I can highly recommend its intellectually ambitious and inspiring atmosphere. Application dl in mid-Dec career.mpifg.de/jobposting/d...