The distance between "smart money" hiring preferences and our universities' AI policies (blabla, it's like Internet, you cannot escape it, better teach them something they will use anyway, blablayou are a luddite if you want to ban IA from your teaching blabla) is much wider than Hormus straits.

Think using a chatbot makes your work better? Think again. 1/3

Change my view: carbon credits are one of the most vicious technocractic/technological fantaisies about our ability to engineer the ecological "transition", perpetuating old and dirty forms of domination under shiny new market savy clothes. Fascinating research here.

April 2026 Bailey is very much like October 2007(!) Trichet

Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social "This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...

Matrix's LLMs generated hallucinations as a policy template

Our next @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social seminar will be an exciting discussion about planning the future in twentieth century Europe, organised by Zoe Evrard and Margaret Pulk, with Alexander Aerts, @jonaselvander.bsky.social, @hugocanihac.bsky.social, Dimitri Zurstrassen and myself (1/2)

New report: wind and solar are driving down wholesale electricity prices across Europe. On average, prices were ~24% lower in 2023–2025 than if gas had set the price at all times. Thread below👇

There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is a far bigger fuel,fertilizer,food crisis for Asia & Europe than it is for US. That has been my argument since war began That weakest people will suffer most.Again, just as after Ukraine 20-30% SUPPLY is out.Asian govts now doing Covid-style DEMAND-side reductions tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

Another @laurenleek.eu classic

Anyone teaching energy/IR/finance/ecology/political science etc, please do share with students & colleagues I concluded my talk with @picharbonnier.bsky.social wise words. Slides here: tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe... @katemac.bsky.social & my podcast ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER tinyurl.com/PolycrisisPo...

Very useful comparative oil shock data viz.

It is vital that EU policymakers find effective ways to syphon off the windfall profits of fossil fuel companies. It is the only way to lessen the economic shock, using price controls or transfers, while limiting the pressure on public finances. 1/4

As with renewables, European authorities are, again, on the wrong side of history for this one www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Avec @jvtk.bsky.social, nous avons écrit une tribune pour le monde, appelant la @ecb.europa.eu à ne pas renouveler les erreurs commises en 2022, quand elle devra réagir au nouveau choc énergétique et inflationniste qui s'annonce. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Let's prepare for "long lasting" energy shock, without mentionning once "renewables", says the EU commissionner for energy. www.ft.com/content/7d3a...

I would like to be glad to say "Schadenfreude", but given upcoming famine risks in global south and wealth transfers from low/middle class households to energy companies shareholders, I just cant.

Does being high-skilled protect you from ethnic bias when applying for a UK visa? In a new pre-registered experiment to be published in International Migration Review, I find that high occupational status doesn't shield immigrants from ethnic prejudice — it may activate it.

Fully agree! With @felixsimon.bsky.social we wrote "the proliferation of AI content may increase the value and demand for authentic content" knightcolumbia.org/content/dont...

Another episode of "How fossil fuels dependence weakened the EU's economic and political autonomy": www.ft.com/content/6bf1...

Can Péter Magyar win a deeply rigged election? Would Orbán leave power—and would anything change even if he did? How did we even get here, and why, against all odds, do we still cling to hope? I wrote up my (admittedly messy) thoughts ahead of April 12 brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

“Stock markets rise on five-day delay of war crimes”, is a headline somewhere I guess?

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

Meanwhile, somewhere in the EU bubble: how can we add "slash green regulations to improve market competiveness" in that list?

As a prep for an interview with a journalist, I looked for info on the prevalence of long-term contracts for gas in Europe. I found this: globallnghub.com/europes-expo... I don’t know whether the situation in 2026 is similar, but if it is, it’s time for the industry to hire more risk managers. 😱

"When the wise person points at China's role in expanding renewable capacities worldwide by crasing green utilities' price, the fool (ahem, European Commission) looks at markets' distortions/industrial overcapacity/disloyal competition.

Brilliant take from @triofrancos.bsky.social. The Western green movement was so fugace. And the Great Green Dismantling started well before the Trump 2.0 fascist backlash: weak politicians, powerful carbon lobbies, disorganised green industry, mediocre conservatives lurred into "antiwoke" narratives

Oh, a ripple effect.

Et avec tout ça, on ne sait toujours pas si Dune est une fable écolo/tragédie des ressources pimpée au LSD ou une grosse vrille libertarienne/reac/islamophobe pimpée au LSD.

"Lego’s chief executive has lambasted Danish wealth tax proposal, arguing it would hurt the rich Scandinavian country significantly.(...) Lego posted another set of record annual results with revenues rising 12 % in 2025 to $13bn and net profit up about a fifth to $2.6bn" www.ft.com/content/5d28...

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Monetary policy is about facing dilemmas, always. High IR hurt low/middle class households, as it is more difficult to get/pay back a mortgage, and the ecological transition with its cpaital intensive industries. Low IR+QE favor tech bro's fascist oligopolies and turbocharge billionairs' wealth.

Great to see extensive NYT & FT coverage of our paper on the fossil-fuel profit bonanza during the previous war-induced oil & gas price spike. Links in Gregor’s thread. 👇

Here we go - EU industry chief Stephane Sejourne presents the long-awaited Industrial Accelerator Act "What I'm talking to you about isn't just a change in our modus operandi - it's actually a change in doctrine. This is something that was unthinkable even just a few months ago"

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

What a day to cover this topic. Short version: Financial hegemony is when you don't need to start wars to get what you want; and also when, if you 𝘥𝘰 start a war*, your borrowing cost goes down and your currency goes up. * Which you'll be tempted to start one regularly.

The only good alternative is that the vilain has a Credit Suisse account where his yacht's loan is securitised. www.ft.com/content/1a09...

If you were to wrote any novel including sordid elite crime/abuse in between early 90's and late 2010s and your main character does NOT have a Deutsche Bank account, then you are a failed novelist. www.ft.com/content/b1d9...

Which stage of the AI bubble are we when "advances in ceramics during toilet manufacturing" are the new frontier technology for chips' manfuctaring, alongside a soup maker using resin "derived from its expertise in umami flavourings" to make chips' insulation material? www.ft.com/content/4252...

Some snapshots from ongoing work with @cleocz.bsky.social & Liu Li: Looking at labor economics textbooks over time, you see the discipline shift in the 1970s. Earlier textbooks revolve around industrial relations & trade unions. Later ones centre on labor markets & human capital.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it. open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Very belated repost, but ok: Europe's national leaders will meet today to discuss the future of industry (in a castle, of course). Can it remain competitive? If so, how?

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

Seeing your (old by now) book (the tiny green one, bottom right the monetary section) on the shelves of someone else, when randomly scrolling bluesky and without knowing how it ended there, is a joy that never gets old and worth to share. Great collection by the way @claudia-sahm.bsky.social

Oui mais si on pouvait faire reproduire les nfts des insectes et les vendre via sa propre crpyto, disons l insecta, on en serait pas là. Il a manque la vision strategique de Dogami.

This enraged me for so many years...when DEI guidelines exist in Europe for aca recruitements, they also never mention class/social background elements

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵