With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

🚀 Governments need long-term stability but also agility to respond to new challenges. IIPP Professor @rainerkattel.bsky.social expands on the concept of 'agile stability' and provides examples from his book 'How to Make an Entrepreneurial State'. 🎙️ Listen here: buff.ly/ptO3wKu

V interesting article in J of Economic Perspectives on lessons from Asian-style industrial policy: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

"Entry fees...start at $490,600, on top of monthly fees that start at $5,541" How long before Labour floats the idea of universities as retirement communities to shore up the government's fiscal position? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/r...

🔥 Read Mariana @mazzucatom.bsky.social Mazzucato's excellent commentary for the upcoming CJRES issue on Mission-oriented policy... Mission-oriented policy: from fixing markets to shaping markets and debunking myths about the state doi.org/10.1093/cjre...

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

I wrote about how and why social media has largely become boring and why it's a bad idea to eat your own brain: www.forkingpaths.co/p/is-social-...

S. Erdem Aytaç, David Steinberg and I have a new experimental study out now in @bjpols.bsky.social exploring the impact of inflation on support for Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. TL;DR: price increases hurt Harris' popularity, especially among Ds and Is, and in regions hit hardest by inflation.

This poll in The Times is still open. Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

"if anything employment outcomes are worsening more rapidly for those with fewer skills looking for blue-collar jobs than the highly skilled seeking knowledge work" on.ft.com/43eYeRZ @jburnmurdoch.ft.com as ever doing the essential work. It's not just AI. And education still matters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

A *permanent* US history job! Goes without saying that this will be highly competitive, but the US history faculty at Cambridge are some of the most supportive colleagues you can ask for. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT902/a...

Really excited to be recruiting to this role at @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. We're looking for someone to help broaden our connections between the school and the worlds of academia and policymaking. Sound interesting? Details below. www.bennettschool.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

LSE's Department of Methodogy is searching for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. Applicants from across the social sciences are very welcome! Please reach out if you would like any more details.

TLDR if you don't wanna read the paper thread: A climate motivated energy transition requires a lot of money from investors. Ofc interventionist policymakers gotta provide markets with high levels of info over time. But our paper indicates that windows of opportunity can discipline investors in SR.

We’re advertising for a 30 month postdoc position in US Politics (very broadly construed). The role is mainly research, but allows the holder to gain experience teaching UK and US undergraduates. Happy to answer any and all questions. Application deadline 27/10. (Start date early 2026.)

NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

This is a great opportunity for ECRs in the social sciences (and beyond): www.writersandartists.co.uk/Bloomsbury-A...

Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions: doi.org/10.1111/1911...

Apply for a 4 year postdoc (JRF) @christscollegecam.bsky.social Politics and International Studies is one of the eligible fields. Details below. Deadline 16 September 2025 noon UK time. www.christs.cam.ac.uk/stipendiary-...

***New article announcement!*** Prosperity and inequality in mature knowledge economies Barely a week goes by without new reports of generative AI displacing high-skilled knowledge work. But this is part of a trend stretching back more than 20 years. [1/5]

The US’ Polycentric Innovation State @thinkwoodist.bsky.social James D G Wood doi.org/10.1093/cjre... 📣 Open Access

This is a good point, but sadly, LinkedIn seems to be the place where I get the strongest engagement with my research posts (150 responses from 950 connections vs 7 responses with 2.3k connections on @bsky.app)

Study inequality? Apply! Inequality is broadly defined (interdisciplinary and topic-wise) to include education, labor markets, gender, health, minority rights, social stratification, climate change, etc. This is a great conference for early-career researchers with generous funding available!

📣 We are hiring! 👇 This PhD position is part of a research project that examines how growing income inequality can reshape the way democracy functions by influencing both political discourse and public opinion. More info here: www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3542...

Now this looks like the start of the end of Neoliberalism to me www.ft.com/content/0cae...

🎓 PhD scholarships at Univ. Duisburg-Essen: up to 8 funded positions in Political Economy of Socio-Ecological Transformation Start: June 2026 Funding: €1,750/month + allowances Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 Details: sase.org/career-oppor...

In a recent article, @jfmorin.bsky.social and I argued that the rise of private space organizations like SpaceX was not primarily driven by ingenious tech entrepreneurs. At its heart, their rise was made possible by the support of public organizations like NASA 👩‍🚀 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.

In “Financial dominance: why the ‘market maker of last resort’ is a bad idea and what to do about it” (CJE 2025) I argue that bank regulators failure to understand what it is that banks do, why they are important, and how they help stabilize financial markets doi.org/10.1093/cje/... 1/18

Very excited to have received the proofs of my forthcoming book "States of Innovation" to be published with @brisunipress.bsky.social towards the end of the year! The book examines the innovation policies of the US federal government, Maine, Michigan, California, and Texas after the 2008 GFC.

How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

‘Here, then, is the simplest solution of all to the paradox: people just despise inflation.’ If you enjoy people watching in malls this is a piece you might like by @robarmstrong.bsky.social on.ft.com/4h5HqlT

Just an honest labor statistician collecting the data, crunching the numbers, and reporting them fairly, and definitely not an extremist ideologue with an axe to grind, unshackled from respect for the law or political norms.

central planning 2.0 is pretty wild. Let's just skip to the Five-Year Plans and be done with it

Job posting: 2 Assistant Professor positions in the LSE's International Relations department. One in International Political Economy, preferably with a focus on climate/environment or global business. Deadline is 7 September. Please distribute in your networks. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD919/a...

How do federal and state governments drive innovation in the US? My new paper @cjres.bsky.social shows how the 'Polycentric Innovation State' with multi-level, place-based policies is reshaping regional growth in places like Michigan and Maine academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...

This paper illustrates why it matters much more if Robert Jenrick says something intolerant than if Nigel Farage says the same thing - centre right politicians have much more influence on social norms policing tolerant behaviour than radical right politicians

The Economy and Society Early Career Paper Prize 2026 is now live. £1000 prize. Submission deadline: 15/12/25 Details here and in the News and CfP section of our website files.taylorandfrancis.com/economy-and-...

a portrait of the worst and stupidest people alive today. you are welcome: on.ft.com/4mtItOd

'Housing affordability and availability may end up being the biggest political issue of our lifetime'

And we have an incredible list of section co-chairs for Belfast 2026, from 18 countries and every part of Europe. We are really grateful to these dedicated colleagues for taking on this role and helping us shape the future of political science in our continent. epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

PhD position (closing soon): employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

RIPE Editor @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social reflects on the history of IPEG at @mybisa.bsky.social - which was often entwined with the growth and development of our journal.

Others have noted that this means foreign-born people are LESS likely than UK-born people to be in prison. What I want to note is that The Times is now referring to foreign-born UK citizens as ‘foreigners’. This includes Boris Johnson, Sir Mo Farah, Emma Watson, Rory Stewart and little old me.