🚨 Introducing CommonsCorpus: a comprehensive, annotated and machine-readable database of UK House of Commons' speeches, containing speakers' party-political ID and socio-demographic information. Joint work w/ ➡️ @irenegermani.bsky.social Available here: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Forgive the all caps but we have a FULLY FUNDED PHD SCHOLARSHIP at UWE Bristol Research in Economics for a project under the banner of “Just transition to net zero.” Deadline is 12 October. Please share with interested candidates and free to drop us a line. www.uwe.ac.uk/research/pos...

New article with Lucia Quaglia examining the EU’s defensive statecraft to defend financial sovereignty around central clearing houses and Bigtech digital platforms, in Journal of International Economic Law doi.org/10.1093/jiel...

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

The majority of foreign ETF flows into US assets are now currency-hedged, @katie0martin.ft.com reports. Who’s on the other side of all this hedging, I wonder? And how expensive are those contracts? on.ft.com/4nCpzoS

Such bad reporting on the speech, if you then hear what he means by "competitiveness"... unregulated tech companies, forever chemicals and combustion engines! Draghi is himself a fossil

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

today, Rachel Reeves meets BlackRock & Blackstone bosses to ask what British derisking state can do for them. New Rip-off Britain project by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows what institutional ownership has done for us: 200bn from our pockets to Big Finance!

Me when my paper's policy implications still haven't been implemented one year into into the peer review process.

For FX management, but also to minimise balancesheet losses, the favorite @sebdiessner.bsky.social central bank folk theory! Also, they delegate voting rights in these companies to external providers tasked to ensure "good governance" (aka blank check), cf. @jvtk.bsky.social. Very close to AMC

“But they don’t want to take any role in these companies — it is purely a tool to manage the currency.” The SNB becoming a top US tech shareholder purely for FX management reasons illustrates the gestalt switch of US stocks from risk asset to global reserve asset of sorts.

I join the now abundant discourse about Abundance. A good book but more importantly a bellwether book for the orientation of the center-left. But like many, they hope we can engineer a way around politics and put things back in the hands of competent technocrats...I am not so sure...

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

🚨 @patrickbayer.bsky.social, @lorenzocrippa.bsky.social and I have a paper entitled “Energy Transition, Financial Markets and EU Interventionism: Lessons from the Ukraine Crisis” cond. accepted at @psrm.bsky.social. Text: federica-genovese.com/downloads/Ba... Gist of the paper in this 🧵 : 1/12

💥 New article out @reggovjournal.bsky.social Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden & Britain @ndurazzi.bsky.social @federicofiletti.bsky.social @simonetonelli.bsky.social David Hope, Hanna Kleider onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Happy to see this out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! ➜ doi.org/10.1080/1350... The paper asks why the European Commission @ec.europa.eu increasingly sponsors participatory innovations – such as the European Citizens' Panels – although their strategic and functional value remains elusive 🧵 1/6

Hi everyone, I'm here (finally!). But better late than never, right? Thrilled to launch this project with @brentcebul.bsky.social !!

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

The article introduces a simple typology of RE derisking instruments, drawing on @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social and others, to make sense of policy support of renewable energy investments in Europe [2/5]

A highly recommended read, and folllow. Congrats, @maxwillems.bsky.social!

Absolutely brilliant piece by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social for the latest Brooklyn Rail, bringing together Simon Clarke, @benbraun.bsky.social's asset management capitalism, @iliasalami.bsky.social's state capitalism and much, much more. brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: “Not concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!“ on.ft.com/4gzdDlT

Point taken, but it's important that this was a battery factory (🌮, GOP) and that the Korean EVs are much better than the German ones, like for like.

German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: “Not concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!“ on.ft.com/4gzdDlT

If you remain sanguine about the potential for catastrophic geopolitical events under Trump II, here’s a rec: Read Annie Jacobsen‘s Nuclear War scenario alongside this mega scoop about Trump I recklessly sending a SEAL team into North Korea. You’ll never sleep again. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Herr @ronensteinke.bsky.social, weshalb schreiben Sie regelmäßig Artikel darüber, dass Israel angeblich keinen Völkermord begeht? Warum schreiben Sie nicht darüber, wie das Töten, Verstümmeln, Vertreiben und Aushungern der Palästinenser durch Israel gestoppt werden kann? bsky.app/profile/rone...

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

Indeed one wonders when Occam‘s razor is going to come for the social democratic poli sci literature on social democracy & migration…

If you remain sanguine about the potential for catastrophic geopolitical events under Trump II, here’s a rec: Read Annie Jacobsen‘s Nuclear War scenario alongside this mega scoop about Trump I recklessly sending a SEAL team into North Korea. You’ll never sleep again. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

I've followed defence tech industry (war tech?) narratives for a while - renaming of the DoD as Department of War, & the pivot to some crude ideation of war, victory and warriors is a longer-standing fantasy floated by figures like Alex Karp (Palantir) and Palmer Luckey (Anduril). 1/

Delighted that my paper with @ethanvporter.bsky.social on democracy and citizen competence is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Job Alert U. de Montréal 🚨 Assistant/Associate Prof: Politics or IR of China If that sounds like you and you speak some French, please consider applying for this job. Our dept is ultra-friendly, support is good, and Montréal is amazing! Reach out with any Q?s tinyurl.com/y9trt5va

This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️

Bizarr, dass das Grimme Institut, das sich der gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung von Medien verpflichtet hat, ein derart delulu Dokument mit teils sehr dubiosen Quellen und nachweislich falschen Angaben als Begründung anführt, um jmd. wie Judith Scheytt einen Preis nachträglich wieder zu entziehen.

4/ Then, @mkblyth.bsky.social and co-author @nfraccaroli.bsky.social on the political economy of Inflation, which they predict is back in a big way for the future. wwnorton.com/books/978132...

2/ Next, Aditi Sahasrabuddhe's _Bankers' Trust_ on the crucial role of individual personalities and relationships in global central banking www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Very few social-democrat-vs-democratic-socialism vignettes can rival Sweden's future finance minister getting photographed in parliament scribbling ‘wage-earner funds are a fucking piece of shit.’ From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

this trend was already evident in the early 1990s. some shameless self promotion: uva.theopenscholar.com/files/herman... uva.theopenscholar.com/files/herman...

Very few social-democrat-vs-democratic-socialism vignettes can rival Sweden's future finance minister getting photographed in parliament scribbling ‘wage-earner funds are a fucking piece of shit.’ From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10

Part 2 is now published, time for the debates to begin! newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

While having opposed preferences, both camps display similar rhetorical strategies: depending on the "inflation season", they mobilize the data, theories and policy principles that help them make their preferences prevail... ... Even when it means being time-inconsistent!

Migrating birds, selective blindness, strategic skepticism, weaponized uncertainty – this paper has it all. Do give it a read, it's excellent work.

Latest on Substack: My interview with photojournalist Alaa Mohsen Qreiqeh about Israel's war against the press – and the hope that Western media will finally show solidarity hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/my-uncle-w...

What should be publicly owned, or privatised? @ewanmg.bsky.social builds develops a theory of when public or private ownership leads to better outcomes, using comparative data from OECD countries in sectors such as water, rail, electricity, and telecommunications ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

And it was all skeets and no tweets! Thanks to all re-posters on here.

Very discomfiting report on the state of the graduate jobs market in UK. An aspect of teaching that frankly I don't think we're well equipped to confront, let alone address. Both numbers and anecdotal evidence (e.g. AI on both sides messing with applications/recruitment) are bleak. on.ft.com/4lPaP4Q

May-August total job number comparison is fucking brutal: May-August 2024: 310 total positions (212 open to assistant TT) May-August 2025: 226 total positions (138 open to assistant TT)