🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Wir befinden uns in der größten fossilen Energiekrise. Die Ölproduktion is so stark gefallen wie die Nachfrage 2020 mit COVID. Die Bundesregierung sollte schleunigst darauf reagieren statt die Zeit mit Debatten über Mehrwertsteuererhöhung & Fracking zu vergeuden. Mein Beitrag im @freitag.de heute.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

Does AI do p-hacking? Yes it does open.substack.com/pub/causalin...

1/9 Reuters: "China said that Mexico's trade measures against it, including tariff increases, ​constitute trade and investment barriers and that it had ‌the right to take countermeasures." rld/china/china-says-it-has-right-retaliate-against-mexicos-tariff-hikes-2026-03-25/

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

Das Kolloquium des Fachgebiets Soziologie in der Sozialökonomie an der @uni-hamburg.de zeigt im SoSe 2026, wie die historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft sozialökonomische Transformationen analysiert @dgswisoz.bsky.social. Mit @ueberdruss.bsky.social, Virginia Kimey Pflücke und @trgn.bsky.social.

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/

I'm Europe. This is my energy strategy. x.com/meme_ec/stat...

Australia....on DAY 19 @katemac.bsky.social

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

*breathing into a paper bag*

🚨 Just published in Socio-Economic Review! 🚨 @sasemeeting.bsky.social The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate finance By Benjamin H. Bradlow and Aishwarya Swamidurai The article is available open access at the following link. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

War is reshaping global markets. I have a paper under review that asks: who wins or loses when supply chains meet geopolitics, and what are the political implications? Since the world is changing faster than our overburdened peer-review system can handle, here's the 📃 + a🧵 osf.io/preprints/so...

𝗥𝗜𝗣 Noch kürzlich unterhielte ich mich mit KollegInnen über das Auseinanderfallen von gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung auf der einen, seines – im Grundgedanken demokratisch-antiautoritären – Werkes auf der anderen Seite und, wie schmerzlich diese Erfahrung sein muss.

Fossil fuels have "a disproportionate capacity to increase inequality when their prices rise" -- very pleased to be quoted on the impacts of high oil and gas price on profits and inflation inequality in @theguardian.com Thank you, @guardianheather.bsky.social for covering our research!

2 wars in 4 years. This war will dramatically accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security. "The rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels and the whims of idiots" bsky.app/profile/just...

Doing Industrial Policy in a Geotech World: Challenges and Opportunities. New Special Issue eds Salih Işık Bora, @fbulfone.bsky.social & Timo Seidl www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

What a day to cover this topic. Short version: Financial hegemony is when you don't need to start wars to get what you want; and also when, if you 𝘥𝘰 start a war*, your borrowing cost goes down and your currency goes up. * Which you'll be tempted to start one regularly.

amazing Merz came back from China peddling neoliberal 'we dont work hard enough' nonsense instead of ' the Chinese State can do industrial policy like no one else' He's the Keir Starmer of Germany, learning nothing, doubling down on the same disastrous strategy

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

I have a new, open-access paper out in the European Journal of Sociology: “Commodification and Social Reproduction: Theory and Mixed-Method Evidence on the Effect of Privatization on Childbearing.” After a long journey, it’s finally published online. 1/10 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Financial war in response to trade war and territorial threats? More and more people appear to be calling for it. So I updated my post on U.S. Treasuries holdings—now with the latest data. benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...

New issue of "economic sociology" out now: "Is globalization over? What tariffs tell us." Edited by Jeanne Lazarus, with contributions by Jonathan Levy, @quinnslobodian.com, @yingyaowang.bsky.social and @trgn.bsky.social s.gwdg.de/ORk2ux

🚨 MAX-CPE is back! Our online series on Comparative Political Economy offers monthly workshops on topics ranging from financial nationalism to tax havens and geofinance. Coming up December 17, 2025: “Making Global Migration More Acceptable?” by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social s.gwdg.de/vcF6uF

131 review request for around 30 papers 🫣

Just realized we've already sent out 131 reviewer requests for our SER special issue with @vapunkt.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social. Have to admit I totally underestimated the time and effort it takes just to secure reviewers. So a big thanks to everyone who agreed to our request!

Call for participants 🔥 The 4th Doctoral Conference @mpifg.bsky.social is happening and if you’re pursuing your PhD you really should be part of it. It’s a relaxed, super inspiring atmosphere and you‘ll build a great network of peers 🌍 Submission is open for 4 more days ✨

As I have argued, the most cost-effective ways to help distressed places is to provide "customized services" rather than business tax incentives. Such services include infrastructure and training. dev-equitablegrowth.pantheonsite.io/federal-and-...

1/Senior US official caught coaching Russia on how to massage Trump on Ukraine deal. Why? Because we are entering a new international order based not in state interests but clique interests. Welcome to neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

With thanks to @ukandeu.bsky.social for asking me & Patrick Bayer to summarize our recent @bjpols.bsky.social article where we argue that while UK/EU communities exposed to climate mitigation are generally afraid of net zero, some may be more interested in int'l climate cooperation than you think...

The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

(5/10) Analyses on 22 years of ESS data from 30 countries provided clear and consistent support for this gender intensification explanation, by demonstrating that the youth gender gap peaks in middle adolescence, narrows during late adolescence, and mostly disappears in early adulthood.

Just in time for German vice chancellor Klingbeil’s China visit more evidence of China shock gutting German core industries. www.ft.com/content/239e...

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Scientists operate on principles of good faith. But this is just ridiculous. If you, dear reader, take nothing else away from The Drain paper, it is that publishers cannot be invited to the table any longer. They can participate and carve a space, but they can't be part of shaping policy. 3/n

For-profit journals are supposed to improve research quality, yet they're perversely incentivized to churn out whatever they can monetize. This was happening before AI (see Strain: bit.ly/43gJPUM), and AI will make it worse. It's insane that we volunteer our time to help them do so. 4/n

Pleased to have my research featured in @nytimes.com reporting on China's role in a global green transition www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...

Imagine a wealthy country that is several years into a brutal energy price and Chinese competition double shock that's decimating its industrial base. What should the economy minister do? a) Something b) Double down on carbon shock therapy by bringing the old ordo guard back in from the cold... 1/2

“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

After publishing the 1953 paper with stolen data and winning a Nobel Prize, James Watson basically coasted on the back of Franklin's work for an astonishing 71 years with few substantive contributions to the field.

A week after the arXiv was forced to tighten down on submissions because of overwhelming volumes of AI slop, bioRxiv is throwing the doors wide open.

As @awhf.bsky.social documents, that’s exactly why ALEC is so successful www.liberalcurrents.com/against-mast...