Tim Gill has written some great stuff about tall buildings. Attitudes towards them are a lot more complex than people think.

For your last minute Christmas gift list. A list of damn good books, including one recommended by me: www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/ps-c... See you all in the new year!

Yesterday, CEU's Budapest site served as the venue for the Hungarian launch of Angela Merkel's memoir Freedom. After the event, Julius Horvath (CEU's Executive Director for Budapest) had the honor of welcoming the former German Chancellor to CEU's historic campus. Thank you for the opoortunity! 👏

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

My IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...

Thrilled to see the population-change decomposition method I developed now applied in the @EBRD Transition Report 2025–26, Brave New World.😃😃 EBRD report: www.ebrd.com/home/news-an... My publication: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

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📢 New issue, including the Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, a debate on EU & NATO enlargement after 2022 and JEPP news 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

🏦 Matthias Thiemann, Dan Mocanu & @piroskadora.bsky.social : The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What's the state of play around #AI sovereignty in Latin America? Natan Amado picks it apart in this RegulAite working paper. Spoiler alert: without push-back, AI dependency will only entrench LA's peripheral position in the global economy. www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/A...

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field. Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social Send them your abstracts!

And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc... In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...

Hoo boy. Feral emeritus prof here (possibly an idiot). 1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵. Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n

“With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.”

Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...

Just finished discussing this book with our pol. econ PhD students. We all liked it, some more other less, for its attention on consumption as institutionally defined, historical findings, and the general argument about the similarities of business strategies of US retailers digital or otherwise.

Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.

But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. poets.org/poem/student...

“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” — Joseph Fasano Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth.

Feeling *extreme* FOMO to be missing this event happening at Columbia today and featuring a packed roster of GOATs including @veenadubal.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others!! iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...

The young age profile fully offset population losses from negative migration in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2020. Population Council just featured my Population and Development Review paper in a short summary! #demography #migration #Poland popcouncil.org/insight/driver…

Driving myself slightly mental thinking about pension fund capital and spatial metaphors. It can’t be ‘unlocked’ or ‘deployed’ because that (wrongly) suggests it has a *location* - it is *here* and could/should be *there*. Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*

To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...

🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski: Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488

This afternoon!

When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...

Obviously a self-serving recommendation, but I've found this chapter useful for structuring + historicizing discussions about sovereign debt in my IPE classes. Students often find sovereign debt intimidating, so breaking down how these contracts are written/enforced/restructured can be helpful.

already 10+ years ago wade jacoby said that europe was a trade dependent status quo power in a world in which the status quo was disintegrating and trade was stagnating and this (car industry lobbying) is one big reason why the EU is not up to the challenge h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social

Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card

Washington thought coercion would keep China down. But as @yelingtan.bsky.social @Mark Dallas @himself.bsky.social & @abenewman.bsky.social show, it did the opposite. Dependence became danger — and China learned to turn US pressure into its own power. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/america-th...

OK, given we're in "snark at the econ Nobel*" time of the year - something I am genuinely interested in knowing: What's the most robust counterintuitive finding in your particular subject/specialism? *yes, we know

PTSD: I recall the numbing feeling at a recent Sciences Po seminar when Aghion spoke as keynote...

At the French foreign office where Sciences Po director Luis Vassy notes that no other course gets as much student demand as security studies. Good news for my job prospects, I guess.

L'économiste français Ph. Aghion qui a conseillé E. Macron sur sa politique économique en faveur de la croissance, justifiant ainsi de nombreuses régressions sociales (droit du travail etc), une politique économique en échec, vient de recevoir le Prix Nobel d'économie. Fin de la blague.

Fühlt sich irgendwie surreal an, wenn das Nobelpreiskomittee Arbeiten zu anhaltendem Wachstum auszeichnet und vor einem Rückfall in Stagnation warnt, während die Welt brennt.

The world is a Cobb Douglas production function. Growth depends on innovation and the Impatience of the Representative Agent. The “size of innovations” depends on research activity and skilled labour. How much does this help us understand current trends in productivity, automation and inequality?

Aghion and Howitt 1992 wins the Nobel Prize? Safe choice I suppose but does rather highlight the extent to which the discipline has run into dead ends on the big questions about growth, productivity and distribution.

I don’t think this stuff can ever recover from this burn from Krugman.

Finally a reason to be proud to be Hungarian. Please read Laszlo Krasznahorkai, he is very good.

Me when my paper's policy implications still haven't been implemented one year into into the peer review process.

Over the last two decades, Romania, Czechia and Slovakia cut their life expectancy gap with the EU27. But Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria remain stuck — showing little convergence. #demography #lifespan #Poland #Hungary #Romania

CBI is legitimised by 2 arguments. Progressives should defend 1 and keep fighting against 2. 1. Classic separations of powers. The king should not held the purse directly 2. The inflation nutter credibility argument (k&p77,b&g82,rogoff85) whereby the cb plays a discipline role against labor demands

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Our latest paper on how far authoritarian leaders can go to instrumentalize the local banks for political survival. It should be of interest to US colleagues and anyone interested in US politics.

Interested in how authoritarian leaders use banks within their inherited neoliberal polity on the global semi-periphery? To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks? check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.

the FT read Miran (Trump's appointee to the FED) so i didn't have to, and i read the FT so you don't have to. Miran's proposals for FED "independence" substantively: www.ft.com/content/cc45... free link with registration.

Interested in how authoritarian leaders use banks within their inherited neoliberal polity on the global semi-periphery? To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks? check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.

♨️Hot off the press The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1024...