Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing. In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

Unter der Inflation haben viele Menschen gelitten. Andere fuhren große Profite ein, erklärt Wirtschaftsprofessor Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social im Interview mit @maxhsr.bsky.social.

Hat mich gefreut über die Energiepreiskrise 2022 in Europa und ihre Gewinner mit @maxhsr.bsky.social vom @surplusmagazin.bsky.social sky.social zu sprechen. Interview: www.surplusmagazin.de/energiekonze... Zugrundeliegende Studie: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

No, it's still wrong. The rate of *temperature* increase has not decreased, in fact it has gone up. The rate of warming of past decade is about twice that between 80s and 2010. As for the argument that we have made progress with regards postulated end-of-century warming, I'm just too tired...

The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE. Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024. As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

But windfall profits flow upward: in 2022, half of record fossil-fuel profits went to the richest 1%; only 1% reached the bottom half. Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy. My new piece for @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

Killer chart from Gregor Semeiniuk and co-authors showing where in the income distribution pandemic windfall oil profits ended up.

Wenn ihr heute von steigenden, springenden oder zulegenden #Öl-Preisen lest, denkt immer an diese Graphik und die in dieser visualisierten krassen Profite, die 2022ff. im Kontext der Energiekrise gemacht wurden. #Profit-Inflation 👇👇👇

Even more of a case for a carbon tax on investment income: bsky.app/profile/greg...

🚨 OUT NOW! Our new @science.org study led by @kohrathefog.bsky.social is the first to comprehensively quantify the health impacts of and inequities in outdoor air pollution exposure across all stages of the US oil and gas lifecycle: extraction ➡️ transport/storage ➡️ refining/processing ➡️ end-use. 🧵

Good illustration of the need to look at the relative price changes that are happening in parallel with a "general" rise in inflation. The windfall gains associated with rising fossil fuel prices had a huge impact on inflation outcomes at different points in the income distribution.

Very important paper by @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social that shows, as I have argued, that tax policy is climate policy. We cannot phaseout #fossilfuels without attacking their wealth. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Who benefitted from energy price shocks - thread

"The incremental U.S. fossil-fuel profits in 2022 relative to 2021 were enough to increase the disposable income of the wealthiest Americans by several percent and compensate a substantial part of their purchasing power loss from inflation that year, thereby exacerbating inflation inequality. "

📢 must-read new paper! 👇

Fantastic paper. Data by sector, geography, investor entity & distributional impact (in terms of wealth, race, education). @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".

If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike. Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social 👇

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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

After working on climate policy in Eastern Europe at the World Bank, I'm excited to return to academia as associate professor at UMass Amherst. I'm more committed than ever to studying the political economy of the low-carbon transition & living within planetary boundaries to drive real-world change.

Interesting new paper from @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social looks very relevant for 🇨🇦 also. They look at US data but I imagine shareholder impact for Canadian companies has a lot of similarities www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important message on effect of record #fossil-fuel profits on #inequality not via cost-of-living but excessively unequal 'redistribution' of profits to shareholders. Thanks @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social and friends at @openuniversity.bsky.social & elsewhere www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Energy rebound is elusive but key for climate change mitigation. My co-authors & I developed a framework to consistently trace all energetic and economic aspects of rebound & visualize them. Framework: doi.org/10.1177/0195... 
Visualization & car & lamp upgrade examples: doi.org/10.1177/0195...
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If you have any brain cells left for thinking about "AI," whatever that might mean, I have a review of Matteo Pasquinelli's The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence in the new issue of @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The global distribution of wealth is enormously consequential. Yet, how the mega trend of our time, climate change, impacts this distribution remains vastly understudied. @lucaschancel.bsky.social @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social & co finally raise this crucial question in their latest article.

Europe seems to be preparing to run a war economy. It will have a choice of going down the path of WWI when free market principles were applied to wartime challenges, or WWII when planning delivered a broad-based economic success in the US. See: How China Escaped Shock Therapy.

📢Call for Papers📅 We happily announce the #29FMM conference, entitled „Gendering Macroeconomics“ 👩📈 It is scheduled from 23 to 25 October 2025 in Berlin. Deadline for paper proposals: 31 May We really look forward to receiving your abstract. More information www.boeckler.de/de/aktuelle-...

diese ganze berichterstattung so im sinne von „der psychisch angeschlagene deutsche, der vollkommen unpolitisch war und nur zufällig in nazigruppen aktiv aber das heißt ja nix…“ fuckt mich KOMPLETT ab und sie machen das einfach immer schamloser

The tariff shock will create an opportunity for sellers’ inflation 2.0. It functions like the pandemic cost shocks. There will be plenty of confusion on the part of consumers. Prices will rise promptly but inventories were bought at pre-tariff costs. This alone means windfalls.

No, I didn't predict BlackRock reinventing itself as advance guard of Trumpist territorial expansionism. But the key point in 'Exit, control, and politics' has aged awfully well: 'Too big to not internalize external effects' is superseded by 'too big to not internalize political forces/conflicts.'

How does climate change impact the distribution of wealth? In Nature Climate Change we map out the impact channels. There's a lot we don’t know yet & much depends on how societies decide to allocate burdens & upsides of climate change. 1/6 @lucaschancel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does climate change impact the distribution of wealth? In Nature Climate Change we map out the impact channels. There's a lot we don’t know yet & much depends on how societies decide to allocate burdens & upsides of climate change. 1/6 @lucaschancel.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our paper "Climate Change and the Global Distribution of Wealth" is out in @natclimchange.bsky.social! We study how climate impacts & policies are transforming wealth inequality 🌍 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Huge thanks to an incredible team: C. Mohren, P. Bothe & @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats. After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

Please enjoy my last ever post at Climate.gov/ENSO Blog. This afternoon I was fired by the Trump Administration 15 days before my 2yr probationary period ended on March 13. I have worked at NOAA since 2010, and I'm so incredibly proud of the work I did. If anyone wants a quote, let me know.

Dass Friedrich Merz zu den Themen „Bürgergeldempfänger“ und „Totalverweigerer“ stumpf lügt, hat offensichtlich keinen Nachrichtenwert… Anbei meine Kolumne mit ein paar Zahlen dazu. www.stern.de/kultur/buerg...

2025 is going to be a turbulent year for climate, nature and food policy. Want to be at the forefront of evolving policymaking? Here's a starter pack I made of folks working in environmental policy. Please let me know if you're also a policymaker and want to be added go.bsky.app/BqDPT3S

“Considerable evidence suggests U.S-born college-educated women are particularly likely to benefit from the relatively cheap labor [done by immigrants] that keeps outsourcing prices low” writes @nancyfolbre.bsky.social She links to that evidence: www.jstor.org/stable/26843...

New restrictions on legal immigration, combined with rapid deportation of the undocumented, will likely worsen already painful shortfalls of paid health care, elder care, and child care services in the U.S. www.revaluingcare.org/the-immigran...

Mein Buch «Die Rhetorik der Rechten» ist leider sehr aktuell. Ich schaffe es zeitlich nicht, eine überarbeitete Neuauflage zu veröffentlichen. Das Buch ist mittlerweile vergriffen.Ich habe mich entschieden, es gratis zum Download zur Verfügung zu stellen: www.franziskaschutzbach.com/die-rhetorik...

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World Bank Policy Research Working Paper on green technology opportunities in Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia. @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

**New working paper** How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students? Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.