U.S. regions more exposed to AI saw faster emissions growth, more reliance on fossil fuels, and dirtier electricity generation. cepr.org/publications...

My new paper on "Economic sociology and the far-right" is out in the @jcultecon.bsky.social ! How do businesses promote the far-right? How does the far-right transform accumulation regimes? How is the new reactionary, post-neoliberal regime embedded in tools of surveillance and control?

Think we're seeing why the left has histroically been so determined to takeover Labour rather than setting up something new. They need an infrastructure because setting one up seems beyond them.

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I’ve also just done this

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

faintly ridiculous that @timharford.ft.com has to spend his time pointing out the obvious, but here we are on.ft.com/3VWYtgs

I posted a thing on LinkedIn - which is not like me - about an event @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social on insurance in the polycrises earlier this summer. 🧐 Greta Krippner, @maijutanninen.bsky.social @rfelliott.bsky.social ++ taking the view on an insurance city www.linkedin.com/posts/liz-mc...

I hate marking but sometimes when you read @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social diss acknowledgements, esp from students for whom this path is not straightforward, well it’s 🥹

It is completely valid to make keto soda bread when you’re reeeeally trying to meet a deadline by avoidance. I have not eaten bread for a very long time but this tastes like the actual

Stephen is correct as usual but also i'm glad he's called out the utter bullshit about eCoNoMiC aNxIeTy

WaPo gets to decide who speaks on its opinion page. And I get to say they can't pretend they're for "personal liberties" when they join a coordinated state effort to repress the voices of people who don't speak the way Trump wants in response to a newsworthy event. Support @karenattiah.bsky.social

"But there is a new arbitrage to fill the gap — a way to raise the insurance capital for private credit growth, without the need to find actual insurance policyholders"

great piece by @leeharris.ft.com about FABN, an acronym you have never heard of this intertwining of insurance & unregulated finance is so much larger than ppl (who aren't obsessed w/ such things) realize also it makes me happy to see a former Maroon editor in chief & Prospect writer @ FT!

I didnt expect the crisis of liberal democracy to unfold with Abundance liberals like Ezra Klein normalising white supremacy as 'liberal' dialogue just because the guy didnt hit people on their heads.

Regular reminder that the FT finds itself often to the left of Keir Starmer, just by simply asking the obvious questions.

Are we really facing an economic crisis like in the 70s and possible bailout? Read the one and only @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social to find out..... ukandeu.ac.uk/what-can-rac...

Interesting that @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social argues that financial market concerns that a populist party might win the next UK election helps explain the interest rate premium attached to UK debt. Might this see PR being mobilised as a necessary step to remove a punishing burden on growth?

What’s the opposite of joined-up thinking? The government’s abject failure to address these issues will produce more decrepit towns turning to Reform and a much more elitist HE system with fewer places and less choice for w/c students, and maybe more young Reform voters.

How do we fix the government silence on this? How do we fix our own local managerial silence? The death grip approach we currently have is such a waste of expertise. Faculty and staff and students could be enrolled in reimagining Britain's unis.

"For example, higher education accounts for around one in five knowledge jobs in both Hull and Edinburgh."

🚨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris – PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) 💸🗺️

Tirane’s beautiful airport and its 4 euro achey 59 yo knee tea. I’m not ready to return to semester or the world

Ben’s my friend and I know he gets it

arrived in copenhagen from Tirana , 70 minutes to clear passport control with the special blue passport

More things to like in Tirane

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.

The UK: not great, not bad, just kinda average. on.ft.com/462WKLd

Tirana’s Rock or the Skanderberg building after Gjergj Kastrioti (1405-1468) whose face it is

We have been in search of lost bluesky

I mean look at it this way, that’s a face of a building

"There is no genocide without genocide denial" Eyal Weizman from @forensicarchi.bsky.social

This is not unfathomable Endless austerity & trickledown economics create fertile breeding grounds for the far right Political economics 101

I think there’s maybe something about a place that’s suffered as much as Albania and come back with such architectural swagger and charm that makes me feel this

This is the most fun I’ve had writing a thing in a long time. From super sheds to the private equity nexus and catastrophic risk. ( #insurance all the way down)

On the beach @jcultecon.bsky.social

Idk it may not be much, but I’ll take pension funds biting back on.ft.com/45N50QN Top pension fund pulls €14bn from BlackRock in sustainability pivot

Watching the Tirana storm from a position of safety while writing about super sheds and environmental insurance PE nexus meltdown.

My um, Albanian storms are a lot more than an upturned wheelie bin

Ian Hislop, "It is pretty ludicrous we have got to a state where a man is arrested for carrying a joke? I mean, freedom of expression, freedom of speech, all those things we claim to be interested in?" Shame on Labour this isn't the change any of us wanted after 14 years of Conservative chaos

Prompting the perennial question about what the mice are scheming

Incidentally I landed on Berle & Means via this Bill Maurer which he must’ve written when he was about 12. It is SO good I can’t decide what to think about it, this is something that happens …

Berle & Means 1932 🧐The future may see the economic organism, now typified by the corporation, not only on an equal plane with the state, but possibly even superseding it as the dominant form of social organization.

Fascinating (and deeply depressing) read

[FR👇] 🎙️ The sociologist Melinda Cooper (Univ. Paris VIII, ANU) analyzes recent shifts in capitalism. The end of neoliberalism? Not a Keynesian comeback, nor a revolution—but a new phase : rising “robber barons” and unprecedented capital concentration. 📹 Full interview online buff.ly/LRPgf95

July’s delay-repay lands in lockerbie where enough of the passengers hit the Royal pub to cause a last minute rescue of a missing elder drinker when the train got the all clear 80 minutes late