Trump’s economic agenda is testing the institutional foundations of neoliberalism, not just its policies find @thinkwoodist.bsky.social and @vapunkt.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

✍️ My take on why Britain’s two-party system has collapsed in the LSE British Politics blog 👇

Trump's tariffs, industrial policy, and feuds with Powell aren't the end of neoliberalism but a reshuffling of its supporting cast. As our article of the week shows, the system's actual core remains intact. By @vapunkt.bsky.social et al. in @govjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/MX3Af1O

Terrific short piece by @paulcairney.bsky.social that's equally applicable to Canada's federal govt. Important for advocates (in public health and otherwise) to get past the 'speaking truth to power' understanding of advocacy that buys into this mistaken view of how policymaking works.

1/ New paper in @govjournal.bsky.social with @vapunkt.bsky.social: "The Supply Chain of Economic Ideas: Institutional Discourse and Policy Change in U.S. Economic Governance, 1945-2024". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Read Dr James Wood's (@thinkwoodist.bsky.social) research on debt driven growth in 'Finance & Space'. @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social

📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed! journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... For further info contact our editor @historydafydd.bsky.social: [email protected] @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

Mainstream business coverage (like this piece in the Economist) contends that profits are unexpectedly rising DESPITE uncertainty & a supply crisis. But profits are rising BECAUSE of uncertainty & a supply crisis. Greedflation [sophisticated version] is real. via @halsinger.bsky.social

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

New Article: Competition Law and Varieties of Capitalism in the Long Run: The Evolution of Institutional Complementarity, 1890–2010 From: @chasefoster.bsky.social and @sebastiankohl.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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....

Delighted to have published this brilliant and important collection

*NEW ACADEMIC JOB MARKET REPORT* If you missed the launch of the new #Politics #Academic #Job Market Report at #PSA26 it's now online. Authored by @ralphscott.bsky.social, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social & Dr William Allen in collaboration with PSA ECN @psaecn.bsky.social ➡️ Read report buff.ly/q8IwqWj

Can US state government policy drive national innovation? 🇺🇸 I joined the I Hate Politics podcast to discuss how states like TX, CA, ME, and MI are driving the US economy in the 21st-century. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Where does debt-driven growth actually happen? New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system. Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The dismal tide accelerates, sweeping from Coventry through Sheffield Hallam to London South Bank. 1/2

America's growth model has a geography problem. Rising house prices drive local growth, but household debt doesn't. National value chains leave debt-loaded manufacturing regions with the risk without the rewards Full paper available @financeandspace.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18 March, @thinkwoodist.bsky.social presents 'States of Innovation: Driving the American Economy in the 21 Century', as part of the @stcatharines.bsky.social Political Economy Seminars series: www.politicaleconomy.group.cam.ac.uk

"Few Reform supporters have voted for Labour at any point in the 21st century. This is true if we look at where Farage’s parties drew votes between 2015 and 2025, and across twenty years of voting history" This type of conclusion is not specific to the UK.

🚨 Please share widely! 🚨 I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame. Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

Inflation was the defining issue of the 2024 election, yet neither party seriously questioned the Federal Reserve - the institution primarily responsible for controlling it. New piece @lseusablog.bsky.social on how partisan politics shielded the Fed from scrutiny: blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

This is becoming an increasingly important issue, but it needs to be recognised that previous governments sold tranches of student loan debt to private investors, so many students are making repayments to financial institutions, not the government www.ft.com/content/7bf5...

Just out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: how housing wealth shapes whether people feel heard. Together with @madselk.bsky.social and @benansell.bsky.social, I looked at a neglected determinant of political efficacy: homeownership. Read the #OA paper: doi.org/10.1080/0140... Quick overview below (1/5)

Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point? My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CARNEY: “.. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.” 🔥

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

America’s innovation ecosystem will survive Trump’s cuts to R&D writes @thinkwoodist.bsky.social @campolis.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk c.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

My book on American innovation policy is out! 'States of Innovation' shows how state and federal governments are active catalysts driving innovation-led growth, challenging the idea that US capitalism is uniquely market-driven. www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

A graph that tells you everything you need to know about why British politics is in the state it is in.

Absolutely amazing chart from @peterkellner.bsky.social's piece in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social today: www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-kellne...

🗓️ One for your calendar 🔥 The 2026 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (academic.oup.com/cjres) annual conference , will be held in St Catharine’s College, Cambridge UK on 16-17 July 2026.

Job - please share widely! Canada Excellence Research Chair in Comparative Democratic Resilience in the Global South. Research focus - grassroots movements, Indigenous sovereignties, and racial justice campaigns contesting and transforming public institutions www.mun.ca/vpacademic/m...

When big banks worry that something will look like a bribe, you have to ask, why don’t Amazon and the others think about this?

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!

NEW! How should Labour respond to the two key issues to voters of the economy and immigration and what are the electoral stakes this week of the budget? Read on for our answer... @nprcoxford.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Out Tomorrow! So excited that my book A History of Modern Britain in 12 Crises will be published tomorrow by @brisunipress.bsky.social This looks at 12 crises from the People's Budget of 1909 to COVID-19 and how they have shaped British politics. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/a-history-of...

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

With thanks to @ukandeu.bsky.social for asking me & Patrick Bayer to summarize our recent @bjpols.bsky.social article where we argue that while UK/EU communities exposed to climate mitigation are generally afraid of net zero, some may be more interested in int'l climate cooperation than you think...

Governing by Decree: The Trump Presidency and the Decline of “Legislating Together” | Political Science Quarterly Interesting, cautious take on the utter collapse of U.S. checks and balances, but fails to cover Trump’s rule of law breaches & corruption. academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Mike Green is writing some amazing stuff at the moment. It's not in the delta, it's in the level and the cost structure. Read this and you will understand Angrynomics on a new level: www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

From the great new NBER paper by Bloom et al on the cost of Brexit. It ain't pretty - they estimate UK GDP is down between 6-8%. Consistent with the doppelgang model of @johnspringford.bsky.social for CER. A lot of 'free' GDP available availabe for Labour if it had the courage to reset properly.

It is indisputable that Brexit has been an economic disaster, and notable that none of its political architects have paid any price.

Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳 "Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂 doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Attention is on NEETs today, but the problem is much worse. NEETs include stay-at-home parents & jobseekers. Strip those out to focus on people not working, not seeking work, not in education & not parenting: this group of economically & socially dislocated young adults has *doubled* in a decade.

Breaking out of old paths? Towards a research agenda on path decline Michaela Trippl, Maximilian Benner and Jannik Kastrup Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, rsaf045, doi.org/10.1093/cjre... #PathDependence #LockIns

📢 We’re hiring! King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics. Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-... Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department. @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

#Europe’s prosperity hinges less on shiny sectors than on building on its #skills & potential base. As Tessarin, @ronboschma.bsky.social, @lideyu.bsky.social & Petralia show in @cjres.bsky.social, #regions thrive when dense, high-skill ecosystems reinforce themselves. doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

New working paper showing rising house prices challenge US innovation outputs in the long run, but this disequilibrium between the US' debt-driven growth model and its liberal market institutions can be managed through state fiscal interventions. Full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....