THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

“In June, Christine Lagarde declared ambitions to create a ‘global euro.’ Yet at neither the European Commission, nor the Eurogroup, nor the European Council, has a real discussion about internationalization taken place.” NEW by @shahinvallee.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/a-g...

Reading now. The opening chapters are so relentless. Fear and loathing everywhere and all at once.

Serious blockbuster alert

“Since the announcement of their hunger strike on 20 October till 10 December 2025, the hunger strike by jailed Palestine Action activists was mentioned a total of 12 times in the British mainstream newspapers.” That is so damning and grim.

Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

“We are now being told, at a central level, that we are not permitted to perform any university work from abroad … without explicit, prior authorization from a manager.” 🤯

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Rare case of book where the title will sound even better in German.

Amazing.

*🦋 meme* Is this industrial policy?

Berlin hat mehr Polizei pro Einwohner*in als NYC oder London. Und das ist ziemlich teuer: Personalkosten machen ca. 3/4 des jährlichen Polizeibudgets aus. Und es geht noch weiter: 2026/27 sind weitere 1.224 neue Stellen geplant. Zu lesen in unserem Bericht www.racismontrial.org/de/blog/news...

"The so-called Deutschlandfonds, which will be anchored in state development bank KfW, ... seeded with about €30bn in public money and loan guarantees." Textbook derisking to ensure infrastructure will pay off for US private equity. Genius move by SPD finance ministry. www.ft.com/content/52c7...

“Making the tragedy of the horizon”

This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...

This is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points. Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.

Taking back control – sign me up!

This is a real European Commission document, obtained via the right of access to documents. It instructs staff with management responsibilities to use AI to draft documents and formulate speaking points. Whatever you think of technocracy, soon there'll be little 𝘵𝘦𝘬𝘩𝘯𝘦 (skill) left in Brussels.

US Dominance: 70% of ALL the data centers in the world are in one country. The state of Virginia alone has more compute than Western Europe. FT's big new piece on "The AI power crunch" is staggering. ig.ft.com/ai-power/ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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

We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Making the tragedy of the horizon”

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order! 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity. tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

🚨 MAX-CPE is back! Our online series on Comparative Political Economy offers monthly workshops on topics ranging from financial nationalism to tax havens and geofinance. Coming up December 17, 2025: “Making Global Migration More Acceptable?” by @alexandreafonso.bsky.social s.gwdg.de/vcF6uF

Great to see this follow-up to the systemically significant prices paper. Bringing good news: Many of the sectors most decisive for supply-driven inflation are 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 the main inequality drivers. Meaning two birds, one stone!* *For monetary policymakers open to sectoral price stabilization measures.

I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

Sehr wichtiges Papier zu Teuerungskrise und Verteilungseffekten in den USA und lesenswerte Kurzfassung im Thread von @isabellamweber.bsky.social

For example, a shock to food generates inflation 126% higher for the poorest than the richest decile; for petroleum and coal products, inflation is 54% higher for the poorest, revealing sectors where price increases have systemic distributional effects. 8/16

Great to see this follow-up to the systemically significant prices paper. Bringing good news: Many of the sectors most decisive for supply-driven inflation are 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 the main inequality drivers. Meaning two birds, one stone!* *For monetary policymakers open to sectoral price stabilization measures.

Re-inventing post-Roman Europe, one crypto state at a time. It would be funny if it wasn't so sinister.

A worldview that divides people into givers and takes will prevent people from supporting redistribution, inclusion, sustainability and other progressive values. It will prevent people from voting Labour in elections. Labour is shaping public opinion against progressive politics.

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

“This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity. Accomplishing this transformation would involve undermining existing liberal governments in cahoots with Europe’s own far right”

📢 Call for Submissions UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗 forms.gle/HXU4DnBq9HmX...

The true long-term cost of delegation: Enabling private deliberation by removing public deliberation eventually destroys capacity for economic reasoning at the society/polity level.

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I am very happy to report that my article on the strange non-death of credit rating agencies has been published in New Political Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

The hegemonic transition? That train has left the station, buddy.

The US has a technological approach that AI developers claim they don't even fully understand, and is oriented towards a goal that may not ever exist. China is pursuing real world technologies embedded with AI, and it has overtaken everyone at the technological frontier. www.ft.com/content/4561...

Over the last 11 financial years, the UK Treasury has spent more on paying interest to the banking sector on their reserves than it has taken in from them in corporate and sector-specific taxes. In 2024-25, it paid over 3 times as much for interest on reserves as it received from taxes on banks.

If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder! 🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄 Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!

“Playing the market”, but for real.

In this episode of @tbsocialist.bsky.social, @christophsorg.bsky.social is interviewed about his journal article "Finance as a form of economic planning", which discusses the relationship between finance and economic planning under capitalism and socialism. www.indep.network/new-the-bloc...

Very interesting paper on the rise of design-based empirical work in political science. No surprises: Survey experiments have surged to 45% of designed-based publications, which are highly concentrated in top journals & institutions.

I spent months talking to many, many people for this long post-mortem of the Inflation Reduction Act: What forces were responsible for creating it, and how could it be gutted so unceremoniously? What might come next? No easy answers ofc but hopefully a bit of clarity newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Once again, I am pleasantly surprised. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality. The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*

“The trouble is, there’s an alliance between Treasury officials and ideologues on the left” is the saddest Labour mandarin quote I’ve ever read. Just how lost are these people?

(3) Dorothee Bohle and Lina Ehrich discuss the housing agenda of the radical right. Their analysis reveals how radical right parties attempt to reconcile housing affordability with their broader ideological commitments, including their stance on immigration, nationalism and the patrimonial family.