This column by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the antisemitic mass murder in Australia, reflecting on the justifications for acting on ancient hatreds, is very good indeed. Depressingly comments have not been enabled. Because they couldn’t be. www.ft.com/content/4209...

📢 Career Opportunity. University of St. Gallen Three funded PhD positions in the GOVPET project, focused on skill formation and the political economy of technological and eco social transitions. 🗓 Deadline. 31 January 2026 🔗 sase.org/career-oppor... #PhDJobs #PoliticalEconomy #SkillFormation

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

new paper by Sean Westwood: With current technology, it is impossible to tell whether survey respondents are real or bots. Among other things, makes it easy for bad actors to manipulate outcomes. No good news here for the future of online-based survey research

If McNamara could etch one lesson into marble, it would be this: “be okay with the struggle.” “Because it’s hard doesn’t mean you’re dumb. It’s supposed to be hard.” 5/

Ironically, while language and methods are becoming more complex, the political reality that is being studied (or better: created for study) often ignores the many complexities of the real world.

“likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo? The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors? Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens. Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-... 🧵

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself

The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌

Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future

We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social

Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power. Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.

They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that.

Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉 📄 Read the full article here: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week. The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died. It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Hard agree. Markets are always & everywhere political. The change today is that it is now *visible*, whereas neoliberalism was sold as a fairy tale of everyone winning under the free hand of the market, no politics involved. As Polanyi famously said, "even laissez-faire was planned."

The embassy in Berne sent this letter to the local bakery as well. The response was swift: the bakery sent a letter with a form where the embassy had to declare, that they will not support - amongst other things - the deportation of humans, otherwise they can bake their croissants themselves.

good to see that @adamtooze.bsky.social shares the 'transformative tariffs' diagnostic of the Trump 2.0 trade policy, instead of the 'chaos, chaos' liberal chant adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

Our article on Swiss municipality-level vote results has just been published in the @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled results from 1866 to 1944 by visiting numerous archives and filled some gaps of the dataset for the period 1944-2025 from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.

But what really propels me to “Cassandra out” in public-facing fora, for whatever it’s worth, is this: I’ve lived how rapidly free societies can slip into competitive authoritarianism and even brutal dictatorship. Scores of my brilliant, peaceful pro-democracy friends languish in jails.

NEW - Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment - cup.org/42vfiTR - @megapeng.bsky.social & Patrick Emmenegger "we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment" #OpenAccess

I am incredibly honored that my paper "Shaping institutional change in skill formation", which is my first-ever PhD project, has received the @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy& Welfare Best Paper Prize and has been published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...

The energy system is undergoing transformation, but so far few signs of a transition: Three slides I prepared for last week's class and will show at the climate capitalism event tonight: The 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹, the 𝕓𝕒𝕕, and the 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶.

Just published on APSR First View: "Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative" by Lucas Leemann (@LucasLeemann), Patrick Emmenegger, and André Walter. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Until recently, policymakers still pretended to care abt climate (in EU, still?😱🫠). Looking at public investment, I ask: Do they really? Why may they prioritize other objectives? With what effects? W/ other great contributions, food for thought here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

GOVPET is a truly amazing community of scholars - can’t think of a better opportunity for PhD students working on these topics to get feedback on their research!