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-...

Now open access on @tandfresearch.bsky.social! Ní Chasaide, N., & Ó Riain, S. (2025). Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation. Review of International Political Economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tesla has a clean energy arm and applied in July for a licence to supply power to British homes. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments. Placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence. David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

British state, stripped of resources by 14 years of reckless rightwing government [is] contorting itself to maintain relations with ever more extreme regimes abroad... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

♨️Hot off the press The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream. Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers. Customer bills up 47% this year. End fleecing. Nationalise water.

A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Interesting handbook on Degrowth here. Open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

🚨New article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization" We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇 Here:

🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025) How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms? We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024... @sfb294.bsky.social

Are you ready to hand more than £1,000bn to England's privatised water companies by 2050? Shareholders don't invest. Money will be extracted from customers, shareholders will own the resulting assets and income streams and collect dividends. Public ownership is the only sane way.

📢New book on the block📢 curious and looking forward to checking this out. www.routledge.com/Realizing-an...

Zack Polanski ‘open to’ working with new Corbyn party www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We are very happy to announce the publication of our edited volume ‘State, Capitalism & Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft’ (/w Andreas Nölke) with @brisunipress.bsky.social! 🥳 Check out the book here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/b... 1/

I'm very happy to be joining the editorial board of Competition & Change, a journal which has become home to some of the best and most stimulating interdisciplinary research in political economy and socioeconomics. Give us a follow and stay tuned for updates!

Look who's here, and doing very well 👇

Forget about the improved impact factor: The best news for @compchange.bsky.social is that @aritassinari.bsky.social has joined as associate editor!

🚨@compchange.bsky.social is now on Bsky!🚨If you’re not following it yet, now’s the time — stay connected for updates on cutting-edge research and calls for papers @benbraun.bsky.social @aritassinari.bsky.social @johannespetry.bsky.social @antonioandreoni.bsky.social @emilyrosenman.bsky.social

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates. To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4. This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

If you are around London tomorrow join this great workshop at SOAS organised by post Keynesian Society.

Our Annual Workshop is tomorrow, 12 June, at SOAS with Hannah Hasenberger, @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social, @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, @leilagautham.bsky.social @jomichell.bsky.social and Peter Skott. 13:30 - 18:30 UK time. No registration required. postkeynesian.net/event/2025-a...

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Taking Thames Water under public ownership could cost close to zero. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

I'd love to be able to perform this dance sometimes.

📯📯Five (5) fully funded multidisciplinary PhD opportunitties at University of Hertfordshire. Check out the projects here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMT230/f.... Apply by 26 May 2025.

The English higher education sector is broken on.ft.com/3EFiiEj

"Government & the regulators have not encouraged water companies to spend what they need to. The sector now faces significant environmental and supply challenges. To meet these challenges, it will need to attract investment and spend at a rate not seen before." www.nao.org.uk/reports/regu...

📢📢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

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

40% of the world's dirty money is laundered through the UK and its crown dependencies and overseas territories. Laws passed to create impression but not enforced. 49,521 UK registered companies have not provided details of persons of significant control. Companies not struck off.

Thousands are set to lose almost 2/3 of income as a result of welfare cuts announced by Starmer’s government on.ft.com/4itF1BV

US makes fresh push for World Bank to back nuclear power https://www.ft.com/content/e5e497a3-0c61-46a2-9a50-91757e7f1a61

Five years on: Britons among hardest hit by Covid fallout www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Cringy self-promotion alert, but since I struggle to summarize my work when asked here's a summary: Together with Jan Groos I have edited a special issue of Competition&Change on Rethinking Economic Planning. Intro here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 1/

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 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...

Musk tells US federal workers to explain what they achieved last week or be fired

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic. This is truly shocking read. The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame. voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

Up to 14 Simon/Hallsworth post-docs. Focus is Political Economy (broadly conceived) and also some funding specifically directed towards research on Chinese political economy and collaboration with non-academic partners. Closing date is 7 March 2025. www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/research/fun...

Treasury seeks clarity on cost of renationalisation of Thames Water. www.ft.com/content/669d...

Trump wants around 50% share in Ukraine’s resources in exchange for its assistance to the war-torn country. on.ft.com/4jZoZAC

The judge blamed government for not providing the testimony on the costs of a temporary renationalisation. on.ft.com/4gwosU6

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy