New research! Austerity and the labour market in the UK. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Headline result: austerity reduced wages, increased employment rates, and contributed to weak productivity. 1/n

You can’t transfuse vitality into a region stripped of its #ecosystem anchors overnight. As @christina-wolf.bsky.social shows in her new JoEG article, gutting East German #cities & #regions of their local anchor firms reduced them to highly-vulnerable 'Satellite Platforms'. doi.org/10.1093/jeg/...

Very pleased to share my latest article: “The making and unmaking of uneven development: the role of anchor firms in creating and overcoming industrial decline in East Germany” in the Journal of Economic Geography: doi.org/10.1093/jeg/... A 🧵

Our article with @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social and Ben Tippet is out in Socio-Economic Review! We examine pension financialisation and pension wealth inequality in the UK — focusing on how the rise of Defined Contribution (DC). academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

🚨 5 Fully Funded PhD Scholarships at the University of Hertfordshire's CFSR Topics include: 🌍 Public Banks & the Just Transition 🌿 Drivers of Green Discontent ⚡ Geopolitics of Green Hydrogen Apply here 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f... More topics 👉 www.herts.ac.uk/research/cen... Please share!

Great to see this piece by on our #netzero work with @londoncouncils - www.themj.co.uk/comparing-fu...: central government is in a better position to borrow at the scale required to fund netzero. @christina-wolf.bsky.social @bbonizzi.bsky.social

📢📢Financing #netzero at local level - in partnership with @londoncouncils.bsky.social, we explained why central funding is more sensible for scaling-up #local netzero investments. londoncouncils.gov.uk/news-and-pre... @christina-wolf.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @bbonizzi.bsky.social

To all female scholars, working in the broad field of political economy: Apply for the Max Planck Summer School for women in political economy! Two years ago we had a blast! www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025....

*Call for Applications* We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025... Please share widely! @mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social

📢The 2025 PKES-YSI PhD Conference will be hosted at the University of Hertfordshire! If you are PhD student in pluralist economics, apply by Fri 7 March, to receive feedback on your work from a senior academic + connect with like-minded researchers. More info: ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/16th-p...

🚨Great funded PhD opportunity working on decarbonising public transport in the Global South - pls share! www.gre.ac.uk/docs/rep/com...

📣 Calling PhD candidates in pluralist economics and political economy! Do apply for our PhD workshop held at University of Hertfordshire this year 👇

The PKES PhD conference this year will be at Herts. If you are a PhD student with interest in pluralist economics consider applying! You will get your work discussed by a senior academic, and meet like-minded people. More details (incl application link) here ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/16th-p...

The last General Election has seen much talk about Reform UK's popularity in so-called 'left-behind places, characterized by socioeconomic deprivation. Looking at variation in deprivation levels across the UK's constituencies suggests this pattern exists, but only partially. A short thread. 🧵

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm. And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

📯 PhD Scholarship opportunity at University of Greenwich. Applications by 3 Jan 2025. www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

The term 'left-behind' conceals more than it reveals. #Europe’s vulnerable #regions differ: some bear scars of deindustrialisation, others face demographic collapse, while rural areas grapple with isolation. @sanne_velthuis et al. show that policy must grasp this complexity. doi.org/10.1080/0034...

What is the role of the BRI in promoting structural transformation in low- and middle-income countries? @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social and @lindacalab.bsky.social have put together this fantastic SI, which will be launched on Wed 11 Dec 2025 at 12.30pm. Join us!👇

Gorgon CCS is the world's largest pure carbon capture and storage operation. Since 2019, it has been weakly sputtering away out on Barrow Island at Australia's highest emitting industrial facility. You may have heard it's a failure. Do you know why it's a failure? A long article and accompanying 🧵

So you got the plan, but have you got the state capacity? (To misquote Shania Twain) Looking forward to presenting this paper on state capacity for decarbonisation next week at @mpimmg.bsky.social's conf on 'The Fragmentary State' Paper has been a v long time coming but I think it's nearly there 🙏

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

EU steel crisis: ArcelorMittal delays green investments, Thyssenkrupp plans to cut 40% of jobs. They’re under pressure to decarbonise while staying competitive. Why? Green hydrogen (H2) is not ready at scale. Green H2 is controversial, technically, environmentally and politically. Implications? 🧵

1/ 📢 How Manufacturing Interests Dominated the German Response to the Energy Crisis Check out our new article with Anke Hassel and Martin Höpner, now open access in Politics and Society! 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

1/ Northvolt’s bankruptcy has sent shockwaves through the European battery industry. What is happening in the battery market? A thread 🧵

New CABS list is out. Noticeable changes for the UK hetecon community: 1) Socio-economic review upgraded to 4* 2) Kyklos downgraded to 2* Everything else stable. charteredabs.org/academic-jou...

Paul Mason on Labour's industrial strategy green paper: What's missing is an explanation of how it will execute these actions and how they, in turn, will achieve the objective. htsf.substack.com/p/getting-uk...

The Political Economy Starter Pack has had an update - still working my way through the Political Economists moving over to @bsky.app - suggestions are very helpful! go.bsky.app/NgpPxi4

Useful map of EV battery gigafactory projects in Europe, of which many are by Chinese/Korean companies

Useful overview of government initiatives to support the semiconductor industry. Note the limited scale of public funding in the UK. semiengineering.com/global-gover...

How the US lost the solar power race to China: Chinese producers got the certainty of robust government backing for renewable power, hence steady demand. Meanwhile US and EU producers faced austerity and got too comfortable in their cozy oligopoly. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

White hydrogen (Natural deposits of hydrogen): Finding it in large quantities could be a game changer in the energy transition. But there's real possibility of failure and the added risk of diverting limited climate capital for proven emission reducing technologies: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...