Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

it’s time to put every left wing person in britain in a Conclave

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

derisked developmentalism 2.0. at the IFC on.ft.com/3KaUGd6 World Bank seeks to boost firepower by offloading loan risk to investors

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent 🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

1 year exactly since the release of my debut book w/ @versobooks.bsky.social. In February '24 I wrote down in my journal my goals for the release - audiences reached, countries travelled, connections made etc. This 1st year wildly exceeded all my expectations, I am so so grateful. What's next? 1/4

@mkblyth.bsky.social on why he writes for public audiences 💯 couldn’t agree more as a much more junior researcher I also find I often get my better analytical thoughts & ideas when I’m not tethered to the academic article format (& its potential, often scarier readers, no offense)

I am reading late 90s editions of WIRED (for a fun project*) and the ads are particularly fascinating. It's wild to imagine that once upon a time the prospect of meeting strangers on the internet was envisaged as a fundamentally Good Thing. rip the chat room imaginary, I guess

"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september, UNIGE Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA @dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social

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

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

8/9 The real risk to Europe lies not in overinvesting in clean energy, but in locking itself into new forms of fossil dependence—exposing economies to the very vulnerabilities they have worked to escape.

7/ To call this “ideology” is to invert the facts. The ideology is the pretense that fossil fuels remain the cheaper, safer choice when the opposite is increasingly true.

Either way, I fear this has huge implication on research of parliamentary speech forward. Could we still infer speeches is reflective of what ever qualities of MPs we are interested in if they are/might be AI generated?

this is ridiculous

I’m in @financialtimes.com on Trump’s recent move to make the Pentagon the top shareholder in the US only rare earths mine. This is the “worst of all worlds” resource nationalism: a toxic mix of environmental harm, militarism, Big Tech, financial de-risking, and asset appreciation. Link below ⬇️

Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass. Advance copies of the new baby have arrived!! If you are a bookworm like me, you can pre-order your physical copies here: lnkd.in/dKh3Q9pB Or you can get your free PDF version right now: lnkd.in/dZxeATSR

If you're around Copenhagen on 17 Sept afternoon, we're hosting a talk with Damon Silvers, AFL-CIO director and visiting prof at UCL, on the labour movement, climate change, and Trump (courtesy of @rosiecollington.bsky.social). Should be great! Details and sign-up here:

I am beginning to really loathe ChatGPT's voice, with its em dash overuse, overconfident colon clauses, other weird punctuation eg. "word.", pithy headings etc It feels especially annoying to find it in reviewer comments - even if it's been human-guided, it makes the review harder to trust somehow?

Trump, transitions & turbulence: How can the labor movement respond to the geopolitical & climate struggles that define our era? Excited that Damon Silvers, long-time AFL-CIO policy director, will be giving a seminar at CBS next week! Please share w/ students & register here cbs.nemtilmeld.dk/1303/

Two extremely cool post-doc positions open in our research group as part of the Algorithms, Data and Democracy project at CBS! Apply!!

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

"The neoliberal revolution may have dismantled the planning capacity of the US state, but industrial policy lived on in the Pentagon." Always glad to see @triofrancos.bsky.social's analysis. Stop reading unserious "is Trump a degrowther?" think pieces and read this instead.

Please complete this survey on parental leave in the UK, as the gov reviews this broken system. Having taken shared parental leave twice, I can say that it is stupidly hard to organise & too often makes no financial sense. Mat pay is too low, statutory pat leave is too short! bit.ly/4fgwPUQ

Back in May I spoke with the excellent @maxinefowe.bsky.social from @surplusmagazin.bsky.social about green (state) capitalism, unbankable transitions and state capacity 💸 I was giving birth on the day the interview was published so sharing now instead 💚 [In German]

Back in May I spoke with the excellent @maxinefowe.bsky.social from @surplusmagazin.bsky.social about green (state) capitalism, unbankable transitions and state capacity 💸 I was giving birth on the day the interview was published so sharing now instead 💚 [In German]

We are so thoroughly cooked.

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

a few weeks ago I gave birth to this tiny human & became a mum. it’s been the most transformative & transcendental thing. also, physically tough with a challenging birth & lots of hospital trips since. mums are so badass. midwives are heroes. expect slow replies (& everything else) for a while 🐌💕

How did the 2021-22 cost shock impact corporations' pricing strategies? We fed 138k earnings calls into the machine – but we also read loads of them in the old-school way. 🤓 A short 🧵 on the three arguments executives relied on when explaining why they perceived an unusual pricing opportunity.

NEW PAPER Oil, shipping, tariffs: We are back in a world of cost shocks. Our AI/LLM analysis of 138,962 corporate earnings calls shows how economy-wide cost shocks let large firms raise prices & increase profits—triggering sellers' inflation. 🧵 Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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! 🙏

New paper in @ripejournal.bsky.social: What if state capacity isn’t hollowed out by derisking but used to signal feasibility to investors? My research suggests states build capacity for bankable policies. The problem: where $$$ doesn’t flow, capacity won't grow. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper in @ripejournal.bsky.social: What if state capacity isn’t hollowed out by derisking but used to signal feasibility to investors? My research suggests states build capacity for bankable policies. The problem: where $$$ doesn’t flow, capacity won't grow. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My interview with @jomichell.bsky.social on the #SpendingReview for @insidecroydon.bsky.social Some really interesting insights into Reeves' economic policy and the state of the economy ... insidecroydon.com/2025/06/16/a...

thanks to Bob Jessop for this review of my book: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Detoxification alongside defossilisation changes how we should think of and approach climate change www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking → Why finance is a worldmaking force → Why derisking undermines itself → Why we need a Smart Green State instead Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New research note out in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power Elite in Greenland. The main finding: There is a highly knit elite network in Greenland. However, there are also clear fracturing lines based on the Greenlandic-Danish divide. A 🧵on findings doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Been (happily) off the US abundance debate but reading the NYT piece, curious if/how Klein/Thompson grapple with the extent to which corporate power itself is a key source of lacking US state capacity?

The modern GOP is ideologically committed to smashing the clean energy revolution. Climate people need to digest this. We won't win climate stability w bipartisan deals. Lasting climate wins will require green economic populism: beating the right until it concedes. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

currently (re)reading & ugh i forgot how beautifully written this book is! it could so easily have been stuffy & staid but i’m remembering how much i enjoyed the reading experience the first time around circa 2017(?) - pre-phd, working full time & only able/willing to read what was fun & interesting

Not just water or banks or finance … the socialisation of risks and costs is everywhere. @francescoppola.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @radiobeartime.com

Private Efficiency vs State Inefficiency Unsafe tower blocks, residents facing homelessness. 💔 The council is footing the bill to keep Willow Rise running because the private company doesn’t have the funding to maintain it. Look closely to see the pattern: private profits, public consequences.

New Publication - with my BlueSky absent friend James Silverwood we detail how renewable energy markets were created by the environmental state in the UK - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My interview with @dialogueearth.bsky.social on critical minerals, geopolitics, socio-environmental protest, and the possibility of confronting the injustices and inequalities that have long structured global supply chains. dialogue.earth/en/energy/qa...

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today, @brettchristophers.bsky.social continues our series on *Democracy in Power* by examining justifications for public ownership. Is “democracy” the strongest argument for public ownership in the power sector? Is it even a credible argument? And if not, what other rationales are more persuasive?

I wrote a review of @brunoleipold.com's brilliant book:

This could be of interest for example to @ahokasjaj.bsky.social and others at the BIOS research unit.