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 ✨

*Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Fourth Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy! Abstract Deadline: December 1, 2025 Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1432364/2026... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

📣 We're welcoming applications for our Visiting Researchers Program (summer semester 2026). If your work focuses on political economy or economic sociology, apply for a research stay (2-12 months). Open to researchers at all career levels! Apply by October 31, 2025: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...

Packed room for the opening lecture by corneliawoll.bsky.social on "Economic Statecraft and Negotiated Justice in Global Markets." Part of our Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy. Thanks to the fantastic speaker and organizers! @palmapolyak.bsky.social @dustinvoss.bsky.social

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬... 🧵 1/2

📌Reminder: die tolle FMM (Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies) Konferenz findet dieses Jahr zum Thema „Gendering Macroeconomics“ statt. #FemÖk In Berlin, 23. bis 25.10.25. ⌛Call for Papers bis 31. Mai! Alle Infos hier:

🏭💶🌍 Can export finance keep pace with an escalating climate crisis? We have a new study and a stellar panel to discuss this. Join us on 7.5. online: www.oefse.at/veranstaltun... cc @oefse.at @annahehenberger.bsky.social @oilchange.bsky.social @lukasoberndorfer.bsky.social @georgfeigl.bsky.social

My first paper of my dissertation 'Patrimonial Relations. Kinship, capital and conflict in super-rich Families' is out now on open access! Here I discuss how super-rich families use relational work on affective family ties as an economic resource. @bupjournals.bsky.social

We would like to invite you: 🌍 Webinar: Aligning Export Finance with the Paris Agreement 📅 Study launch & discussion on export credit agencies, climate targets & the politics of delay. ⏰ The climate clock is ticking – can export finance keep up? ℹ️ Info & Registration 👉 www.oefse.at/veranstaltun...

⏰ Beschäftigte wünschen sich kürzere Arbeitszeiten 📄 Neue IfSo Expertise: www.uni-due.de/soziooekonom... @ifso.bsky.social

Meine Rezension zu J. Dinkel "Alles bleibt in der Familie" ist jetzt bei KZfSS zu lesen: Laut D. wurde das 19./20. Jhd. zum Zeitalter der Familie. Die „Gesellschaft der Singularitäten“ gilt nicht für Erbordnungen. Im Gegenteil setzt sich das "Familienprinzip" durch link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣 We’re hiring! For our research areas led by Lucio Baccaro and Jens Beckert we are inviting applications for senior researcher positions in political economy: s.gwdg.de/Sw6Mu8 and economic sociology: s.gwdg.de/trrYgR Please spread the word!

Most amazing news: the MPIfG Summer School for Women in Political Economy is taking place again this fall. Apply everyone! 💫

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

At last, this paper found a (nice!) home in Stato&Mercato. With Francesco Bagnardi, we offer an explanation for the deep variation in Italian governments' policy approaches towards informal employment - shifting between enforcement efforts & blatant forbearance. www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1425/...

New publication alert! @paytongannon.bsky.social and I write about the importance of trustworthy, timely data on abortion in the case of Italy, but this dynamic plays out around the world. Citizens need to be able to hold public bureaucracies accountable! Read more in @revdem2020.bsky.social!

The call for papers is now open for the CJRES conference on "Cities and the Climate Crisis", held at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge in July: cpes.org.uk/events/cjres... This theme will also be the focus of a special issue of @cjres.bsky.social, so get your submissions in!

Last week, master's students from @ifso.bsky.social visited the MPIfG. They gained insights into research on topics like "Generational Conflicts in Times of Crisis" and "Decarbonization in Export-Driven Economies" and had a chance to discuss careers paths in social science and at the Institute.

New paper out with @nilskupzok.bsky.social on "Green macrofinancial bargains: how economic interests enable and limit climate action." 1/

Hello Blueksky! Here we are with our new Issue and our first Post on this website! In this Editorial Jakob talks about Richard Easterlin and his impact on him. Please share widely! www.heterodoxnews.com/n/htn338.html

What a week ahead! ✨ The one & only @katemcnamara.bsky.social visits us in Cologne to talk about EU Economic Statecraft in the Age of Geopolitics Then @luukschmitz.bsky.social & I are hosting this stellar lineup of scholars for our Geoeconomic Turn in IPE workshop 🌍 @mpifg.bsky.social

🚨📣 We are so back: ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘 - 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence - PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs - All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors) - A-team of instructors 🙏💪 - Mark Blyth 😎 Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!

Surveillance pricing--also called price discrimination--the latest tool of profit maximization. Consumers are losing the information war. This report, the last hurrah of the Federal Trade Commission for at least four years. tinyurl.com/bde8d8fn

Der größte Klima-Brocken ist die Abschaffung des #Klimabonus. Dabei ist er ein zentrales Instrument für den sozialen Ausgleich der CO2-Steuer und die Streichung belastet gerade einkommensärmere Haushalte am stärksten: www.momentum-institut.at/news/klimabo... 8/

This is the list of cost-cutting measures that Austria is sending to the EU to avoid a deficit procedure (climate measures in green). Will climate targets ever trump budget targets?

This epic starter pack👇 has just become *even better* with the arrival of @manuelamoschella.bsky.social 🚀 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

We use company income & ownership data to construct a global network of shareholdings with 397,619 nodes including private companies. The diagram shows how 2022 fossil fuel profits are intermediated until they reach ultimate U.S. beneficiaries. Not much goes to pension funds. 7/

In case you are also following the French situation minute by minute, here is my take on its implications for EU fiscal governance for the @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Thank you again to everyone who attended this year’s Annual Colloquium! A special thanks to our doctoral researchers for presenting insights into their dissertation projects

Can't believe this wasn't a thing yet— 50 *women* in political economy I follow & you should too! 💡 Send me more! 🙋‍♀️ go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

It took a while for me to enjoy talking about my thesis. Now I’d almost not stop talking about it anymore and had lovely conversations about how countries’ export orientation shapes their decarbonisation trajectories at today’s @mpifg.bsky.social institutstag 💫

Silver lining from last week: a daytrip with this *smashing* group of scholars from our @mpifg.bsky.social Political Economy research group 🥰 Hit follow! @dustinvoss.bsky.social @annahehenberger.bsky.social @aspidea.bsky.social @eneimanns.bsky.social @robinhet.bsky.social @lcadzow.bsky.social

New day, new event! Today we use the international Women’s day @ @mpifg.bsky.social to reflect on the situation of female researchers & collectively find solutions to better it. Pleasure to organise this with @zarahwestrich.bsky.social Pauline Kohlhase @trgn.bsky.social Joshua Cova & Robin Hetzel ❤️‍🔥

Today is the day! Ever since we started organising the Third Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, we grew more and more excited about hosting this event today and tomorrow at the @mpifg.bsky.social

February not starting good: currently warmer than usual by a wide margin. climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_dail...

An article in the FT about the missing fossil-fuel phase out in the COP draft & ads by Exxon for "low emissions" industry. Reminds me about the finding that oil industry spends most on ads when the climate crisis is discussed in the media or congress: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

To the phd students out there who have not applied yet: there is one week left to submit your abstract to join for the Third Doctoral Conference @MPIfG_Cologne, discuss your work and mingle with peers over two days in Cologne, so follow the shared link and submit now 🚀 polsky cpesky ipesky

Devika Dutt and I are teaching our Decolonising Economics module for the first time this term (inspired by our book with @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @cacrisalves.bsky.social). In case anyone's interested, we've made the syllabus publicly available :) ingridhk.files.wordpress.com/2023/10/6yyd...

Realized I reposted this yesterday already.. Anyway, here’s the associated study. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Hi all! The ***call for participants*** for the 3rd Doctoral Conference @ MPIfG is out and shared below here. I'm excited to be part of the organising team and ask you to share this or submit smthg if you want to participate, discuss and mingle with phd-peers in Cologne next spring! t.ly/_u5Qo