Sounds fascinating! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

Pourquoi y a-t-il autant de consultant·es dans les politiques de l'UE ? Pourquoi dépenser des MILLIARDS en consultant·es sur le moyen-terme ? Qu'est-ce que ces nouvelles relations d'expertise nous disent du gvt international ? La réponse bientôt dans la RFAP avec @marylou-h.bsky.social et V. Lebrou.

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

"How does hiking rates help with oil price shocks" It's not that central bankers don't have any answers to such questions. It's more they often seem embarrassed to give those answers

Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

The Greens are the only party in Europe that is serious about price stability

FAZ is endorsing the end of Ulrike Malmendier's term in the German council of economic experts because a) she was too far away (Berkeley) b) her research is not as relevant anymore c) behavioural economists tend towards paternalistic solution. Sigh.

My book “The Technocratic International” now has a cover — out this summer! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Can't wait!

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point? My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Spread the word.

Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.” journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

The SNB is levelling up its visitor centre. Probably no rival to Citéco Paris but it does look very nice! www.moneyverse.ch

Day three at new job in Frankfurt @mpilhlt.bsky.social. Nice to be finally on the ground and able to attend the myriad of CB-related events on offer. First up: IMFS/Frankfurt School of Finance book presentation.

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

In Frankfurt today to attend the ECB Legal Conference. Over the past years, I've spent a lot of time with economists working on the ECB/monetary policy. Curious to see these topics discussed from a legal perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...

Looking forward to this discussion on Wednesday!

I reported this week's Money Talks podcast from the mountain, lake and lodge at Jackson Hole. Featuring Kristin Forbes, @jonsteinsson.bsky.social ‬, Barry Eichengreen and - at 10,000ft - @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social Listen to my Jackson Hole audio diary: www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

Things that are totally normal in Cologne: 4,000 fans of 1. FC Köln attending a special mess in the cathedral at the start of the season. Organ plays the club‘s hymn (the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, with a German text) priest sings along (from 1h19m).

Masterarbeitsthema gesucht? Wir suchen eine:n Masterstudent:in, um die #Elastizitäten von Bundesausgaben zu analysieren. Wenn du dich für #Makroökonomie begeisterst und mit deiner Forschung Impact erzielen willst, bewirb dich jetzt! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2282660?...

🎓 Yesterday, at the graduation ceremony of the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE), we had the great pleasure of honoring ‪@tobiasarbogast.bsky.social, @cerencevik.bsky.social, @hadoose.bsky.social, ‬... 🧵 1/2

My new book on 'The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations. Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics' with Stephan Pühringer and Jens Maesse is out!! You can dowload the whole book in open access below: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Off for some holidays, catch you on the other side for more of this ⬇️

Cool new @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social project. Dashboard for supply side inflationary pressures. ⬇️ dezernatzukunft.org/supply-side-...

🚨Job-Alert: Wir suchen eine:n #PolicyAnalyst / #Economist (w/m/d) für nachhaltige Finanzmärkte. Du kennst dich mit Klimapolitik aus und möchtest handfeste Vorschläge entwickeln? Dann komm in unser Team! dezernat-zukunft.jobs.personio.de/job/2151256?... #Job #Hiring #Klima #Finanzen #ThinkTank

I had the pleasure of co-hosting our Money Talks podcast on the German economy, Merz and the fiscal bazooka, feat. @monika-schnitzer.com and @philippasigl.bsky.social. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

A wonderful memory of Stan Fischer being warmly greeted by his disciple and friend Mario Draghi at the @ecb.europa.eu Central Banking Forum in Sintra. Central-bank watcher watching at the back

🎉 All the contributions to @finandsoc.bsky.social special section on the “Scientization of Central Banks” are now online! 👉 shorturl.at/Izq9r In the intro with Francesco Sergi, we refine the concept of scientization along 3 key dimensions 🔹 Policymaking 🔹 Contributory 🔹 Legitimizing

For my first Bluesky publication, I am happy to share that my first single authored article is out in Comparative European Politics and open access! The article aims to explain the concept of moral hazard's domination of the EU's policy response to the Great Recession rdcu.be/embpS

Interesting read.

For anyone in Paris in June and interested in expertise: www.icp.fr/a-propos-de-...

A good one for your reading lists! Can always count on Steffen and his team to unpack the complex technicalities of money and finance to show us where the magic happens. 🏦💶

Second round of voting will not happen today

Blyth's new book is out before he managed to create a Bluesky account. Order it anyway! I'll let you know when he gets here. www.amazon.com/Inflation-Gu...

New publication (co-authored with @simeonbischl.de)! Excited to see Chapter 2 of my PhD published in EJPE: How Central Bank Independence Shapes Monetary Policy Communication: A Large Language Model Application. A thread below: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

FSN (Finance and Society Network): deadline approaching, final call for the Finance and Society Conference 2025! financeandsocietynetwork.org/fsn-2025-fin...

REPORTER: Powell says he won't leave even if you ask him to TRUMP: Oh, he'll leave. If I ask him to he'll be out of there ... I'm not happy with him. If I want him out, he'll be out of there real fast. Believe me. REPORTER: Are you trying to remove him? TRUMP: Yeah, next question.

Today in Financial Times, @martinsandbu.ft.com: In the fight for technological control over the economy, the EU needs a central bank digital currency (..) when Trump placed sanctions on Iran, Europe could not act (..) the €zone is dependent on US payment systems (..) The time for a digital € is now.

Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK. Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽 www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

Our paper is now out in print!

Le CESSP est désormais présent sur Bluesky ! Retrouvez l'actualité scientifique du laboratoire : événements, publications, etc. 🌐 cessp.cnrs.fr 📰 S'inscrire au Journal du CESSP ➡️ urls.fr/UUA-2W @ehess.fr @cnrsshs.bsky.social @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social #sociologie #science #politique

Deadline for fully funded PhD at Manchester extended to 14/4. Start date 1 Sep 2025. Pls repost. The degree can be in any relevant discipline incl soc sci, soc stats, law, comp sci. The project can focus more on discourse #NetworkAnalysis or more on #TextAnalysis, tbd. #datascience #NetworkScience

For a new project with @tiagomramalho.bsky.social (🎉) on the European Commission's expertise, I've built a #rstats script to scrape ECFIN directorate's publications: economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/publications... Could be useful to others ▶️ github.com/agoutsmedt/c... #political_economy #OpenData