My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳 It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The paper looks at decades of council expenditure data from London councils: how far as Big Con deepened our local authorities' dependencies on their services, and how much does it cost us all? To sign up to CADA to join our next projects go here: autonomy.work/cada/

This report is coming out very soon. It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners. It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by @rosiecollington.bsky.social & @mazzucatom.bsky.social. It's a fantastic piece of work!

Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - the videos and slides of the 25-27 sept 2025 Geneva conference are available here. Enjoy ! www.unige.ch/sciences-soc... @jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social

Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!

If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder! 🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄 Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!

I love to catch up with the avant garde of Tory opinion

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

what on earth (current banner on the US Treasury website)

🤯 Between 2011-2016, Appalachia lost more than half of its coal mining jobs (32,000 out of 60,000) 🤯 @nicolasschmid.bsky.social & co link this to an increase in Republican vote share by ~4% in 2012 elections & the effect persisted into 2016 (& I guess beyond) doi.org/10.1088/1748...

Really excellent research from @tillhilmar.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social: How the far right exploits (real) inequality and economic anxiety to not only weaken climate policy but also legitimise a broader anti-immigration agenda www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I cannot even begin to explain how hard the Instagram algorithm pushed this stuff throughout my pregnancy

At the moment I'm thinking a lot about my brilliant (& offline) colleague Oddný Helgadóttir's suggestion that our intellectual priors (read: rationalist assumptions about political behaviour) may not be very helpful for making sense of the world rn

In Chile, fossil fuel & petrochemical firms are becoming the only private investors willing/able to shoulder risks of green hydrogen. Infrastructure buildout is effectively a new frontier in fossil capital hedging (as @jptilsted.bsky.social & Oliver predicted!) energynews.biz/chile-scales...

I sense that Copenhagen increasingly votes left not just bc of how awful private rental sector is but bc renters can see irl how good alternatives are & know what the centre is withholding from expansion (social housing & coops = big % of housing stock). a good case for small housing wins everywhere

New piece about MAGA's Fed strategy: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Writing this book has been a completely different ball game (🤱👶) I no longer have entire days where I can dunk my head into the process. I'm writing in 3-5hr blocks, twice a week. Sometimes I feel like Im getting nowhere, but look! Slowly chipping away (now at 45k words) & enjoying the time so much

Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...

Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics

Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...

East Coast pals/colleagues - I'm heading your way! Will be visiting Georgetown & World Bank Group Archives in Feb & March 🕵️‍♀️ Then heading to Providence & onto ISA in Ohio with tiny assistant baby R & husband in tow (shout out to Denmark's paternity leave system). Let me know if you'll be around 🙏

I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)

For more on IRS: The agency is run by people who personally benefit from reversing IRS positions on tax enforcement, and have fired a huge chunk of its tax enforcement staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

when I see someone wearing meta ray bans

Lots of great things about it, but Mamdani’s victory is also an encouraging win over the evil AI hate slop that Cuomo was tossing at the virtual wall at the end there. Deepfakes are dangerous but they are also a sign of despotic desperation.

Everyone is hope scrolling now

'States of transition? From governing the environment to transforming society' 🌍 What is the role of the state in supporting transitions towards a more sustainable world? A new Environment and Climate Politics Working Group article by Peter Newell 🌟 Read now! 👉https://ow.ly/OFk250XmhCN

what a day to be alive

He is proposing five municipal grocery stores

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

new from me ⬇️

👇👇 And the “just get a number” logic has of course led to.. drumroll .. :

I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...

Do you have a student that would be a great candidate for a MA in European Studies at Georgetown? Nominate them for a Flynn Scholarship to come and study with us at the BMW Center for German and European Studies. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I got to read an early draft of this excellent book by my friend @mattcole.bsky.social! Absolute must read for anyone wondering how wage theft became so normalized across our economies & how things could be otherwise 💸🤑💰🪙💳👷🏼‍♂️👩🏿‍💼👨🏻‍🏭🧑🏾‍🍳👨🏾‍🏭🧑🏼‍🔧👩🏿‍🏫👩🏻‍🌾❤️‍🔥🚩🌹🍞

My first book, *Unpaid: the Past, Present and Future of Wage Theft*, will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social in May, 2026! This book is born from experience. It is written for anyone who is dissatisfied with the capitalist wage system. UK pre-order: www.waterstones.com/book/unpaid/...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.” The description of AI slop I didn’t know we needed. Thank you Zelda Williams www.bbc.com/news/article...

do YOU have an FT premium subscription? if so can you please send me a gift link to this? few things upset me in the way that not being able to access everything on the FT despite paying an exorbitant subscription every month does 🥲 www.ft.com/content/557a...

At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡 open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...

I expect we'll be seeing a lot more of this.

The department of Economic History at LSE is hiring! Assistant Prof. (all fields and period). Deadline for application 4 November 2025! @lseechist.bsky.social For more info ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.

Some good AI news: people still do not wanna read books written by AI & feel unfulfilled if they find out they are My bet is that this won’t change. Like Zoom parties vs irl socializing & the failure of the metaverse, there are just some (nice, human) things Silicon Valley wont be able to get right

1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

New book hitting the shelves today "Climate & Class: How to Keep the Climate Fight from Becoming a Culture War", with @chellersgaard.bsky.social and Andreas Mulvad.

This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG