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Unerwartet, trotzdem da: Rossmann Deutsche Bank Antifa.

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

The energy transition happens often in unlikely places at unprecedented rates. Take Nepal: Over the past year, electric vehicles accounted for 76 percent of all passenger vehicles and half of the light commercial vehicles sold in Nepal. Five years ago, that number was essentially zero.

Another gentle reminder. The only way for Germany to stop the meltdown in its auto sector is by working with Europe. Germany is too small to go it alone. Anyone with half an econ brain can see that.

this is just such a stark contrast to the general Western mood that climate politics is dead. THIS is what climate politics is about (the political economy of decarbonization). Everything else follows.

This is the way to deal with Trump.

Zohran Mamdani will be the 111th mayor of New York City. He represents everyday people who struggle to pay rent and bills, let alone save or get ahead. Yes, you can build affordable cities. Vienna did it a hundred years ago, and there is no reason we cannot do it again today. 1/4

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Sam Altman gonna single-handedly cause the Second Great Depression

Mamdani: hey man, maybe we should use a fraction of the $1 billion the guy I am running against gave to Elon Musk when he was governor for something else instead. Maybe for fast and affordable buses in the city? FAZ: Yep, definitely Klassenkampfrhetorik www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...

ich finde das ein gutes Beispiel für die begrenzte Aussagekraft der 'Populismus'-Kategorie: die einen wollen das Ende der liberalen Demokratie, die anderen einen höheren Mindestlohn. Wenn man beide in einen Topf wirft, kommt so etwas dabei raus (nevermind d. empirische Unhaltbarkeit solcher Ideen)

Might be a useful companion piece to @ulrichbrand.bsky.social and co-authors recent, excellent article in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I think we largely agree, but we see more scope for bureaucratic agency to overcome the structural limitations of the #environmentalstate.

With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do? The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇 If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

You think your elections are nail biters? In the last poll of the polls, the @peilingwijzer.bsky.social produced by @tomlouwerse.nl, before election day in the Netherlands tomorrow, three parties are tied for first place peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl

Maslows Hammer gilt auch hier usw., aber es ist doch erstaunlich, wie sehr die Dramatik der Diagnose - Deutschland wird bald Italien - von der Popeligkeit der Lösung - schafft die Mütterrente (wtf?) ab - konterkariert wird. Es liegt nahe, dass weder die Diagnose noch die Medizin helfen werden.

Auch dieses Semester gibt’s an unserem Arbeitsbereich ein spannendes #Kolloquium u.a. mit @mbabic.bsky.social, @bettikohlrausch.bsky.social, Stefanie Hürtgen, Heiner Dribbusch sowie mit einem Vortrag von mir. Heute Abend stellt @stefanschmalz.bsky.social seine Thesen zum #Teslaismus vor. Seit dabei!

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

a bit late to the party, but Krugman's take on the Argentina drama is worth your time: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-is-tru...

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world! Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

No words

as someone working with the demographic affected by this on a daily basis, I see two ways out: either the AI bubble bursts and we get back to a pre-pandemic graduate job market (lol)- or soft neo-luddism becomes a political idea progressives should seriously consider www.ft.com/content/62e7...

Uruguay, y'all. I been sayin.

good article by Wallace-Wells on the diminishing salience of climate politics and how geoeconomic competition is reshaping decarbonization: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

the history will continue until morale improves

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

let's fucking go

At first I thought GPT 5 had got this right then I saw things like "Tonnessee," "Mississipo" and my personal favourite "West Wigina." Please do not respond just saying the different typos to me we can all read the joke, we all know about "Distrricke"

@mbabic.bsky.social über Zölle, #Geoökonomie und die LA Lakers: www.swr.de/swr1/swr1leu....

Am Montag ist @mbabic.bsky.social bei SWR1 Leute zu Gast und spricht über Zölle und den Welthandel: www.swr.de/swr1/swr1leu....

Kurze Unterbrechung der Sommerpause für diese grandiosen Gäste. Mit @alexanderthiele.bsky.social geht es um den "Machtfaktor Karlsruhe" (Campus) und den Fall #BrosiusGersdorf. Zudem habe ich @mbabic.bsky.social zu Gast zur neuen "Geoökonomie" @suhrkamp.de. podcaste97de5.podigee.io/323-machtfak...

Neu in der WirtschaftsWoche: habe einen Essay darüber geschrieben, wie wir die nicht mehr so flache Weltordnung besser verstehen können. Schaut mal rein 👇 emagazin.wiwo.de

Hört Mal rein!

Zusammen mit Oliver Weber @oliverbweber.bsky.social habe ich eine Replik auf Mark Schiertz @schieritz.bsky.social verfasst. Die Mitte muss sich radikalisieren, sonst hat sie gegen den starken Extremismus keine Chance. Könnt ihr bei @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social lesen: jacobin.de/artikel/mark...

Sodium-iron batteries at grid scale: 200MW/400MWh, enough to "regulate up to 580 GWh annually." "The facility supports more than 30 local wind and solar power stations, alleviating the impact of intermittent supply and facilitating the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid." 😍

"Dit cloudfascisme is ook zo nevelig als een wolk: even vloeibaar en ongrijpbaar, overal en nergens tegelijk, het is als de lucht die betrekt bij naderend onweer" Behalve de cloud is dit exact hoe fascisme een eeuw geleden werd beschreven. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...

'we can win back voters many have written off – if we give them something to vote *for*'

🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Schon krass wie Menschen nach jedem Funken Hoffnung dürsten. Fast als könnten progressive Parteien was davon lernen.

Mamdani defined what he calls the politics of the future in his post-election speech. This is how you beat fascism: not by administrating the decline (hello Democrats), but by contrasting the darkness of fascist end-times obsession with the vision of a new dawn. More of this, please 👇👇👇

The fundamental task to maintain some price (and hence political) stability in a heating and geopolitical world is to decarbonize rapidly and fairly. Everything else is noise.

New paper in @ripejournal.bsky.social: What if state capacity isn’t hollowed out by derisking but used to signal feasibility to investors? My research suggests states build capacity for bankable policies. The problem: where $$$ doesn’t flow, capacity won't grow. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Heute in der Freitag: mit Julia Werthmann sprach ich über das Ende der neoliberalen Globalisierung - mehr hier: www.freitag.de/autoren/der-...

Im Podcast »Die neuen Zwanziger« geht es u.a. um @mbabic.bsky.social und sein Buch »Geoökonomie«. Was kommt nach der neoliberalen Globalisierung? Wer die neu entstehende Weltordnung begreifen will, muss sie aus der Perspektive der Geoökonomie betrachten, so Babić: shrk.vg/Geooekonomie-B

Wolfgang M. Schmitt und Stefan Schulz haben im neuen Zwanziger Salon 'Geoökonomie' ausführlich besprochen. Ich finde, das Gespräch hat viel Tiefgang und zieht wichtige Schlüsse. Es lohnt sich also sehr, mal reinzuhören. Und das könnt ihr hier tun: neuezwanziger.de/2025/06/3032...

Let's fucking go www.ft.com/content/6f71...

Published May 6th 2025. Everything you ever wanted to know about inflation but were far too busy to ask. Go get it now!

Frederik Theiling hat mit mir über Geoökonomie gesprochen. Das Ergebnis gibt es hier: frederiktheiling.substack.com/p/die-geooko... Hier geht es zu Frederiks Substack: frederiktheiling.substack.com