Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 60. Geburtstag heute, Rahel Jaeggi! Pünktlich zum Fest lotet dieser Band das Spannungsfeld von Materialismus und Emanzipation neu aus: zwischen Freiheit und Notwendigkeit, zwischen Geist und Materie, zwischen Bewahrung und Revolution. Out now!

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Don’t miss next week’s MPIfG Lecture by @kaikodden.bsky.social: “Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism“. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8, 16:30 📍 MPIfG, Cologne 📧 Sign up: [email protected] 🔗 s.gwdg.de/nlm4Mk

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

"What if Odysseus had himself tied to the mast not for 30 min but for 20, 30 years? First, muscles are going to atrophy. Second, he's going to lose control of the ship." – Leah Downey "The monetary system may be both democratically legitimate and corrosive of democracy over time." #financedemocracy

Next Tuesday 4:30pm (26 May), Lina-María Murillo (UT Austin) discusses her book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands –uncovering how Mexican-origin women fought to reclaim autonomy across the border. Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c

El “modelo”.

I am not a Hayek scholar but it's still really exciting to see these digitized papers online. Digitized archives are so valuable for broadening the scope of people who do history of economics. www.hoover.org/news/papers-...

1. As a good complement, earlier this year I published this chapter in the edited volumen Market Economists Beyond the West, edited by Tobias Rupprecht in Routledge. In there, I relate the 1980s story to the longer Peruvian genealogy of neoliberal ideas. www.routledge.com/Market-Econo...

1.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d...

Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House.

Today in Berlin

Captain it's Wednesday

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

With Alexander Kluge the other great theorist of the public sphere died, shortly after Habermas. Today we live the effects of the pacification of conflicts through “facades of legitimation” & “pseudo-publics” & the resulting blockages of social hopes, experiences & needs he diagnosed. 1/2

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 ⬇️

We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

Keynes Spring School 2026 am Institut für Sozioökonomie @unidue.bsky.social – jetzt letzte Nachrücker:innen-Plätze sichern. Bei Interesse: Schickt uns eine Mail! Alle Infos zur Keynes Spring School 2026: www.uni-due.de/soziooekonom...

The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci...

Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...

The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies. So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.

On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share! events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taught

the US is engineering a famine in Cuba, intensifying el bloqueo. some expect the Cuban military to fight regime change, unlike Venezuela.

📢 Call for abstracts We’re happy to be organising this one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @uclamericas.bsky.social on May 26, 2026. We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6. 🔗 Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx

Die Universität Leipzig setzt Kürzungen des eigenen Haushalts durch die Nichtverlängerung von laufenden Promotionsstellen um, meine ist auch betroffen. kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/01/29/l...

To everyone interested in knowing more about political economy of finance it doesn't get better than this!

Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...

JOB: Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

PhD Student, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, discusses a project of archival recovery in northern Peru Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo... #Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork

Even after two world wars and a century of upheaval, wealth in 🇩🇪 shows strong persistence. About 8% of today’s top fortunes trace back to the early 1900s: 82 of the richest families today were already among the richest in 1913, challenging the idea of a fully meritocratic elite.

Deutschland ist ein Paradies für Milliardäre: 156 leben jetzt in Deutschland. Das ist ein Drittel mehr als im Vorjahr. Ihr Vermögen wuchs um 21 Prozent auf 691 Milliarden Dollar.

The deadline has now been extended to December 15, 2025. Esperamos sus contribuciones! Información detallada aquí: tinyurl.com/3s8ddkt2

The AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po in Paris invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher who hold a PhD in one of the following areas: Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Economic History, or related fields. Apply by Jan 5th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This is fascinating and disturbing from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on rise of 'financial nihilism' (cc @aminsamman.bsky.social !) in the asset economy www.ft.com/content/c17a...

Very sorry to hear that Rosemary Thorp has passed away. She was a wonderful mentor and a top scholar. Her economic history of Peru (with Geoffrey Bertram) is one of the most important works of Peruvian history written to date. She will be missed.

Today is the official UK publication day for Silicon Empires! I'm excited to have it out and hear what people think. There's an enormous amount happening every day in AI, and it's difficult to gain a stable perspective. I wrote the book to try and get some secure hold on that constant flux. 🧵

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...

*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

Today! :) 🤓📚 #economics #decolonisation

📢 Applications are open for the MPIfG Visiting Researchers Program 2026 in Cologne. Scholars in economic sociology and comparative & international political economy are invited to apply for 2–12 month research stays. 🗓 Deadline: October 31, 2025 🔗 More details: sase.org/career-oppor...

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I wrote this piece with my friend and colleague @vanessa endrejat on the conflict between Germany and EU fiscal rules. Check it out!

Excited to share this paper because it does something new: We're testing the implicit coordination hypothesis proposed by Weber & Wasner. Analyzing earnings calls, we find that large, economy-wide costs shocks make executives feel very good indeed. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...