🎓 Western University is hiring a Dancap Chair in Corporate Governance at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, shared between the DAN Department and Faculty of Law. 🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor... #SASE #AcademicJobs

We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History! If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

What do we know about corporate ownership? This study finds that the real owners of MNC shares can be identified in only 5.8 % of all cases. Over 80 % of the top ten shareholders of 500 large MNCs are institutional investors. journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...

Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered https://on.ft.com/44ZCSrS | opinion

Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union: SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers www.ft.com/content/052e...

The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) aims to get EU citizens to invest more of their savings on capital markets, a goal to be achieved in part by further privatizing pensions. Daniela Gabor in the FT on why the SIU is based on false assumptions: www.ft.com/content/052e...

This interesting portrait of Karin Kneissl, the former Austrian FM, shows how an ambitious career diplomat turned into a far-right outcast www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Chairing conference panels has its pitfalls. The Economist proposes three rules: www.economist.com/business/202...

Wirklich wichtig, dass in der Entwicklung rechter Parteien einer der frühesten Formen des neuen Typs gewürdigt wird, Mogens Glistrups Fortschrittspartei in Dänemark, in der Kritik am Steuerstaat und die Ablehnung von Arbeitsmigration amalgamierte. www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...

Der EuGH hat soeben Maltas Goldene Pässe für rechtswidrig erklärt. In seiner EU-Kolumne hatte Martin Höpner (in Übereinstimmung mit vielen Juristen) mit einem anderen Urteil gerechnet. Hier - jetzt frei lesbar - die Kolumne und seine Argumente: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/euro...

Martin Wolf in the FT on the fiscal and distributive effects of Trump's tariffs and of the OBBBA. Their combined net effect on the income distribution is regressive. The rich benefit most from the tax cuts, while the tariffs will affect the poor more: www.ft.com/content/31f4...

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

How Europe’s left got radical on immigration - in dramatically different ways. Denmark and Spain - let’s take a look👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Bauernsuizide: Die Suizidrate unter Männern in der Landwirtschaft ist um 48 % höher als im Durchschnitt aller Männer. Diese Sendung beleuchtet mögliche Ursachen: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Viel ist von Trumps „Mar-a-Lago” die Rede. Oft fehlt der Hinweis, dass dieses hübsch-hässliche Anwesen einst vom Wiener Architekten Josef Urban (1872-1933) ausgestattet wurde. In Österreich war er davor ein Mitbegründer der progressiven Künstlervereinigung Hagenbund.

“A Speech to Europe 2025” is starting in a few minutes! If you can’t attend the event in person, a livestream is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9exC...

... and tomorrow at @sdu.dk www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Austria's new national government is de-prioritizing climate action, but the City of Vienna is stepping up its efforts. This reminds us of the importance of local decisions. Interesting article on NPR: www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

Delighted that my paper with @felixkersting.bsky.social on agrarian inequality, authoritarianism and democracy in Prussia and Sweden has been accepted for publication in Comparative Political Studies! Find the previous version here: osf.io/preprints/os...

Janan Ganesh (FT) asks the interesting question why an increase in travel has not reduced nationalism. The answer, I suggest, might be social polarisation. Some people travel more (and become more open-minded), but is the rest that has turned more nationalist. The two segments barely overlap.

Corporate America has been lobbying intensely behind the scenes to change Trump’s mind on tariffs in recent weeks, as this FT essay shows—much of it in private, to avoid Trump’s “bruising” counterripostes.

Michel de Montaigne: Über die Kunst des Gesprächs oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

My new article is out!! Capital controls critically shaped the evolution of export/finance-led economies. The Bundesbank used controls on innovative financial products until 1998 and hindered Frankfurt's development into a vibrant financial hub doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆 He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

Martin Wolf on how Trump's tariffs will hit the global economy. Only one thing is certain: Elevated uncertainty. www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

I wrote a piece in The NY Times about global economic stagnation and the way it is shaping politics today, less visibly perhaps than other factors, but more deeply.

Our work on the World Elite Database is featured by the excellent Simon Kuper in the Financial Times www.ft.com/content/ff0a...

The FT about some of the findings revealed by the World Elites Database: www.ft.com/content/ff0a...

Das Magazin Arbeit&Wirtschaft hat mich zu den politischen Strategien der österreichischen Industriellenvereinigung befragt. Bei Interesse könnte ihr den Artikel hier lesen:

Walter Benjamin's Essay "Über den Begriff der Geschichte" (1940) als Radiolesung: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Während der Koalitionsverhandlungen ließ die Industriellenvereinigung lautstark mit eigenen Forderungen und der Bereitschaft zu einer Kickl-Koalition von sich hören. Einige Politikbeobachter:innen sehen darin einen historischen Kurswechsel. Doch was steckt dahinter? 👇

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @pnas.org

Do you want to learn more about sustainable finance or ecological economics? The new MA in Socio-Economics at Roskilde University might be right for you. Knowledge of Danish required. Deadline for application: March 1st. ruc.dk/kandidat/sam... #roskildeuni

New publication! 🚨 @alvarooleart.bsky.social and @juanroch.bsky.social explore the double standards, exclusivity of belonging, and colonial roots that define the EU's contrasting narratives of 'Europe', focusing on Ukraine and Palestine as case studies. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Why do some unions support the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, while others oppose it? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate this question in a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy. doi.org/10.1177/0143...

From @jeffkopstein.bsky.social Jeff Kopstein in the NYT, on the dangers of the return to patrimonialism. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/o...

"During the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the ÖVP formed a coalition with the FPÖ, hoping to either make it more moderate or conclusively demonstrate its incompetence. The fact that neither happened holds lessons for Europe as a whole." www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

100 years ago Saturday the NYT ran a story that did not hold up well at all. www.nytimes.com/1924/12/21/a...

Eine Radiolesung aus Adornos "Résumé über Kulturindustrie" (1963) oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Business historians have a lot to contribute to the study of business power. I look forward to reading this forthcoming Special Issue in th journal Business History, edited by Maiju Wuokko and Susanna Felman: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Tripartite concertation between governments and the social partners has declined in many European countries, but its role varies across countries, finds this new paper in BJIR by Alex Afonso et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of an outstanding sociologist and a vital contributor to SOFI’s success. Professor Emeritus Walter Korpi passed away on November 19, at the age of 90.

I'm trying to build a starter pack of people working on social protection across the globe. Early days! But please share suggestions as more people join. go.bsky.app/FP9qJZV @scottsantens.com @jdcmedlock.bsky.social @ugentilini.bsky.social @rachelstrohm.bsky.social @floriangrant.bsky.social

I made a quick starter pack on scholars working/having worked on historical political economy (wide definition). go.bsky.app/Hz9LmgL (please make [self]suggestions to improve the starter pack)

Big business and corporatism in Sweden, 1955-1962. Very interesting paper by the business historian Rikard Westerberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Why do some unions support the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, while others oppose it? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate this question in a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy. doi.org/10.1177/0143...

Come work with us! We are hiring an ass/assoc professor in leadership at Roskilde University