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Re-upping in light of recent events:

lots of great things about academia but it systematically lacks the depth of quality sports banter with your colleagues and peers you might get elsewhere (there i said it)

Small potatoes in the bigger scheme but people are often confused when they hear Danish unis deny more and more applicants each year - not because of status or capacity or whatnot, simply because successive governments decide they want fewer university-educated citizens.

Back from @sasemeeting.bsky.social in Bordeaux, which was as usual an absolutely banger of a conference. See you all next year in Glasgow!

What climate fiction movie is this again? Denmark hit highest ever temperature (37C) and had golf ball-sized hails today.

Also quite funny that Trump is like "this is *imminent*!" when EU members have been unable to agree on anything digital tax-related for literally a decade (and they're no closer!), meanwhile a steady trickle of unilateral initiatives have proliferated.

It is worth saying again - again! - about the section 301 bluster that there are already a raft of s301 investigations completed, just lying around, waiting for action, on exactly European digital taxes *from Trump's first term*

Ahem.

For those who lived through the global financial crisis years, the European North-South switcheroo on so many fronts has truly been a thing to behold

It’s that time again

Is 34 slides too much for a 12-minute talk? Asking for a friend..

Student evaluations that'll make your heart melt 🥰

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

Another day of perusing the latest research from various journals and.. So. Many. Conceptual-only. Interventions.

🧵(1/12) On Tuesday, @hamiltonproject.org released my proposal on reforming US international tax. I suggest raising corporate rates for the biggest profit taxpayers, and strengthening US international tax rules to better align with the large potential of international efforts.

The FT printed my letter today on digital taxes, wherein I write that distributive conflict may be a more useful lens than collective action problems for understanding the last decade of OECD-led cooperation failures.

Good letter. I agree that it’s not a collective action problem. It’s a USA problem. DST only becomes truly necessary because the US broke the pillar I/II reforms. It‘s not just that the US is a bully, it’s that its bullying is incoherent.

The FT printed my letter today on digital taxes, wherein I write that distributive conflict may be a more useful lens than collective action problems for understanding the last decade of OECD-led cooperation failures.

Reading pedigree showing itself here

Hello @dieworkwear.bsky.social I’d like to report a crime, just saw a man in a full navy pinstripe suit with Adidas Specials

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A thousand economists sigh in remembrance of a great natural experiment opportunity lost

Jeg forestiller mig lige gruppe-chatten med Mærsk- og Lego-familierne, Holch Povlsen, Clausen mv. der diskuterer et anonymiseret ‘Løvens Hule’-format for kampagner mod formueskatten

I feel attacked

This looks like an instant hit from Troels Krarup and Peter Karnøe who find that - across decades of technological, political, and economic changes - preeminent government-advising Danish economists consistently ignore dynamics of political economy and innovation to advocate (only) for carbon taxes.

Good to see that the Americans are not letting it go to their head. (I can say this safely while they’re still asleep)

Clearing out some notes, we had an discussion in research group on AI and our research recently, and here’s a list of policy suggestions that came up:

A rare win for European sustainable finance regs

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

Somehow the consensus in the FT world has become that we must deal with the revolutionary change to our societies and economies ushered in by AI by… raising capital gains taxes a little bit?

On this task again this year. I'm actually not sure there was a single essay among the 150 business school applications I read that highlighted climate change as a particularly pertinent issue.

Oh man, this is a real gut punch.

extra happy these days to be in the complicity-denoucing pensions space

A new opening in our department. If this is something you would consider and have questions, please get in touch! www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 position, this! At Copenhagen Business School, we are hiring an associate professor (tenured position) in economic sociology/political economy. Great environment, great colleagues. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested.

The doom loop remains live.

𝐃𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦 position, this! At Copenhagen Business School, we are hiring an associate professor (tenured position) in economic sociology/political economy. Great environment, great colleagues. I’m happy to talk to anyone interested.

You just have to laugh at this point

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but

This is an absolute banger from CBS phd Noya Kohavi, your must-read for this week:

Given the extensive empirical record, no one should even half-believe Capgemini’s figures that a quarter to half of all the world’s wealthiest relocate/plan to in any given year.

Milei’s marketing of Argentina as an AI haven is interesting for lots of reasons but not least the complete contortion of the legal history of the modern corporation

OIne of the more surprising pieces of news. Hungary, under a center right prime minister, might be the first European country to impose a wealth tax since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Today is a day in our little nation

Important new story from @jessedrucker.bsky.social and @dylanfreedman.nytimes.com reinforces our work at @factcoalition.bsky.social to close offshore tax loopholes. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b...

"Oh just the five parallel sessions I'd like to attend on a Friday afternoon"

Det er så absolut legitimt at ønske lavere selskabsskatter i Danmark. Rent faktuelt er presset fra den internationale konkurrence på lige præcis det område dog faldet, snarere end øget, de seneste år.

hi, big four expert here! this is not funny, the big four only do this when they’re in extreme distress.