Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions: doi.org/10.1111/1911...

👁️‍🗨️ Flinders Uni in Adelaide has a Political Economy lecturer post—calling for expertise in IPE, Asia, climate, and geoeconomics—and where you would get to work with the likes of the wonderful Maryanne Kelton and the good folk in the Jeff Bleich Centre. See here: www.seek.com.au/job/85900447

📔My book comes out May 29! Based largely on my own research at the intersection of #EconomicSociology and #BehavioralEconomics, it is intended for an educated general audience. You can pre-order now on Amazon ($24.00): amazon.com/dp/0226839311

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...

How are things turned into assets? We argue that #assetization requires bridging different scales: transnational ideas of asset classes need to be linked to messy local realities. How is this done? And why does this matter? We study #impactinvesting in the UK and Geneva to address these Qs. 🧵

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What's that sound? It's DBCFT time *again*?! www.ft.com/content/2ba5...

Thrilled to see my article w. @seanoriain.bsky.social on Ireland's Corporate Tax Games w. @ripejournal.bsky.social, drawing on global wealth chains @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, coding of capital by Katherina Pistor & infrastructural power @benbraun.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ PwC is trimming its global network, offloading units and exiting countries, to reduce risk after an unprecedented wave of scandals.

Important piece by the magnificent @martesaga.bsky.social and the first empirical publication of our WEB-project ✨ www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/... @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

The EU threatens new taxes on US Big Tech. Again. This time in response to Trump's tariff tirade. This is the latest in a decade-long transatlantic spat that has radically transformed the global tax landscape. A quick 🧵

The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets" The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/

Interesting read www.ft.com/content/ff0a...

Time to update the tracker

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen? Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Full special issue out today: Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991... See the open access article by GJ and yours truly: "Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

The first episode of my new Radio 4 series, Untaxing, is 1.45pm today; then the same time every day this week. Available on BBC Sounds as soon as each episode airs. BBC Sounds link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New article with Lucia Quaglia on how EU banks and EU regulators engaged in ‘noisy geopolitics’ by leveraging the digital sovereignty agenda to push for tighter controls on (US) bigtechs. Part of a special issue on ‘Transformation of Banking’ in Competition and Change doi.org/10.1177/1024...

📚✨ 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....

Martin's The Meddlers shows how an Anglophone & French elite technocratic network replaced colonization with international cooperation to justify sovereign interventions in lockstep with capitalist interests. My review in @historians.org's American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

4. Lukas Bogner wrote a great piece on the role of law and transnational expertise in shaping the 'asset coding' of green finance that upholds many pillars of conventional finance (and hence limits its effectiveness) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚: 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙐𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵, 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗹, 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲, 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗟. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 @lenseabrooke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0170...

Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society

We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

Very excited to be collaborating with Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social and Olga Mikheeva on this year’s conference. We’ve already lined up some amazing keynote speakers. Check it out and come join us in Copenhagen!

Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

When states are not good at industrial policy it is municipalities that can develop that muscle. And not just city states, but cities of 500k as well if they have what it takes. New article in Competition and Change with @Medve-Balint and @Clara Volintiru journals.sagepub.com/eprint/T56CA...

🌐 Just Released! «The Political Economy of National Security, Critical Infrastructure and Securitization of Foreign Investments», edited by Jakub M. Godzimirski and me, investigates how states reorient their strategies facing the securitization of foreign direct investments. bit.ly/405vV6d

Mark Schwartz in full-on Hegel mode, taking stock of Piore & Sabel's 'Second Industrial Divide'. They were wrong, but since the Owl of Minerva flies at dusk, it's worth looking back to understand why global capitalism didn't turn into one big flexible specialization Emilia-Romagna.

My first post on Bluesky - a great blog by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - citing my current research conducted with @mjarv.bsky.social wordsinspace.net/2024/12/13/t...

Out now! New study w/ @cornelban.bsky.social on European policy elites and economic crisis management. What do we find? 'Fidelity', in contrast to the idea of "Ivy League-educated transnational pragmatists who float between private and public realms" Open Access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Below their very top tier, Europe’s policy elites have conventional careers with little public–private mobility or high-end educational prestige. Furthermore, these elites have ‘fidelity’ in staying with public organizations. New paper with Leonard Seabrooke www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Berlin friends: next Tuesday at 4pm I am presenting findings from my new book project at the Freie Universität. Join us!

Excited to share my new paper “Governing on par with states” published #openaccess in RIS @risjnl.bsky.social. I examine how private actors have shifted from entities to be regulated to being viewed as necessary part of solutions to global problems. 1/5 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Economy and Space Vol. 56, No. 8 is now available online! It features a theme issue entitled "Entangled Chains of Value and Wealth in Contemporary Capitalism", edited by Jennifer Bair, Stefano Ponte, Leonard Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/56/8

We used to have a division of labour - we do value, you do wealth sort of thing (reminds me of a Soul Coughing song …) Then we put our heads together. We struggled to agree on things but eventually did - so you should read this stuff (-;

It's publication day! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/trade/ricard...

All IPE scholars!!! 👀 15th Annual Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) workshop. Adelaide University / Flinders University, February 6-7 2025 Full call here: www.ppesydney.net/2025-aipen-w... Paper/panel proposals to Len Seabrooke, [email protected], by 30 November 2024.

🚨 JOB ALERT - Come work with me on #offshorefinance and #geopolitics!! There's a #postdoc opening in my Freigeist Research Group at Freie Universität #Berlin. 100%, 2 years. 🗓 Deadline: 16.12.2024 Details: lnkd.in/ee5_MWpp P.S. Sharing is caring 🎁 www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

What a nice surprise after a sleepless night to learn that the incredible @anneapplebaum.bsky.social recommended my new book, "Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism," on today's Ezra Klein podcast as one of her Top 3 books to read on kleptocracy & the incoming Trump administration. Links:

We have a publication date: 6 January 2025. Many years in the making - can’t wait to see this book in print. global.oup.com/academic/pro...