Great conversation between Jeffrey Church and John McCormick on John's new book The People's Princes www.podomatic.com/podcasts/the...

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

Everything I know about corporate governance I learned from succession, so I assume the Paramount offer will be scuttled by someone failing to show up at a board meeting or some random ex family member who then never reappears

Pls share/re-post! New Onora O'Neill Prize! Here's a brand new @ecpr.bsky.social book prize in pol-theory, regardless of whether it's your 1st/10th book! Had honour of asking Onora myself if she would lend us her good name: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... @biapt.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social

So ok maybe someone has dealt with this. CBA is premised on willingness to pay. But it's willingness to pay in the future when the policy has taken effect. By then all sorts of things in the rest of society may have changed that affect the opportunity costs and so changed willingness to pay.

We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter

We're recruiting! Please do spread the news far and wide. We're excited by the prospect of being joined by another great new colleague!

Philosophers! When is an inaction that knowingly causes some people to pay higher taxes the same as "raising their taxes"? I feel like this is your moment.

Update: free copy available within the next 14 days, CUP tells me! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Oh sacred budget! May the market anoint you and the OBR grant you favour. Amen.

Since Labour won power, an insidious little phrase has been popping up constantly in the media: "tax raid". So I looked into this for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social And it turns out it once meant something completely different. www.thenewworld.co.uk/phil-tinline...

Excited to see my JMP cited in the Economist—it highlights the tradeoffs workers could face with a higher minimum wage and suggests more worker protections like Fair Workweek laws could be important alongside minimum wage increases www.economist.com/finance-and-...

excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

If you're a PhD student in political theory, definitely submit an abstract. This was a terrific conference last year, and the organising committee is an amazing group. philevents.org/event/show/1...

From September 2025 - Rethinking Citizen Competence: A New Theoretical and Empirical Framework - cup.org/3I85Zlp - @stevenklein.bsky.social & @ethanvporter.bsky.social #OpenAccess

The LMU announces the cancellation of a seminar on the topic "the targeting of Palestinian academia". The cancellation announcement is titled "LMU as a place of pluralistic discourse". Couldn't make this up. www.lmu.de/en/about-lmu...

Rewatching the Simpsons with kids and the episode with this joke about republicans and democrats just came on... evergreen

Labour had a window for big tax raises or fiscal change - right after the election, when they could have used the "Tory's left us with a bigger mess than we realized, we need to save the NHS." Their innate caution has led them to a dead end.

Misinformation *is* central to democratic problems today, but the solution is *not* to correct such epistemic failures directly. Instead, we must address them at their roots, in social identity. Or so I argue in a new post for @apaphilosophy.bsky.social. blog.apaonline.org/2025/11/12/t...

KCL PPE for Public Policy Graduate Conference 📅Date: 26 Nov 2025 🏟️Place: KCL Waterloo Campus 🎤Keynote: Prof. Jonathan Wolff 📊Sessions: Interdisciplinary & Policy-oriented (see ⤵︎for details) 📝Register here: kclppe4pp.github.io Please come join us!! #PPE #Econsky #Philsky #Polisky #Policysky

The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.

Even starmers own loyalists have seemed to settle on "getting rid of him will roil the markets and make us look chaotic" rather than "he's a good leader"

Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society. Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇 renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...

Wolf wrote a massive book arguing that the relationship between democracy and capitalism has broken down and needs a rebalancing, but when faced with the concrete policies that would enable that he balks

we honestly have no idea what we are creating and doing here do we.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

FULL STORY: Finding that federal agents repeatedly used force that “shocks the conscience” and lied about their actions, a federal judge issued a sweeping injunction designed to permanently rein in agents’ use of tear gas and pepper balls. @wttw.bsky.social news.wttw.com/2025/11/06/f...

great news for Udit and Bruno, really excited we will be co-hosting this project!

My short piece on democracy and elections was just republished in the magazine Kronika published by the Institute for Philosophy in Zagreb, Croatia kronika.ifzg.hr/2025/11/04/a...

I'm excited that we will be hosting a discussion of John McCormick's new book, The People’s Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty, here at KCL, with comments from Lawrence Hamilton, Camila Vergara, and David Wootton. Do sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-people...

Wanting a European welfare state with less-than-American taxation system.

Labour government preparing to hike income taxes - blaming bond markets. not one adult in the room will say the obvious: 1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles 2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions 3. ignore bond vigilantes www.ft.com/content/5c8f...

Bond markets love it when you do two contradictory things at once.

From the late 19th century to 1920s, American corporations invented "americanness" and forced it on immigrants, in part to reduce labour mobilisation and unrest. Ford famously paid bonuses if immigrants could prove they had become American. Assimilation was a tool of union busting.

🆕 Enemies of the people: How Stalin’s Gulags shaped Russia Gerhard Toews (New Economic School) & Pierre-Louis Vézina (King's College London) discuss how Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns: https://ow.ly/Eceb50Xch32

In their new book, Dr Martin Moore and King's colleague Dr Thomas Colley show how states are battling to control and shape the news in order to entrench their power, evade scrutiny, and ensure that their political narratives are accepted 📚 Read a short preview here 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/how-news-is-...

My gym now has a psychic

A happy change: my article on Rousseau’s three general wills is now open access at the Review of Politics. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

American politics are somehow simultaneously the most depressing and the most hopeful/awesome of any democracy

Luckily this opens up a space for labour to seem moderate and sensible which they will surely take and win the day

Lazily reading Schmitt's Political Theology and deciding Love Island is the antichrist

Excited to be back at the University of Chicago for this already excellent conference

Me trying to interpret the meaning of a status update in editorial manager

My colleague and friend Ed Hall is, by his own admission, not the best at the self-promotion that is part and parcel of modern academia. But I have just finished this and think it’s a really important book that political theorists of all stripes ought to read. amzn.eu/d/3RfY3xr

In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.

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