Profiteering is not a bug but a feature of wars. TotalEnergies took “advantage of the wartime disruption to make a bumper profit” of more than USD 1 billion. The right response to this war is to end the war, cut off windfall profit opportunities and stabilize prices. www.ft.com/content/eba8...

The people's DOGE: Mamdani scraps $9 million contract with McKinsey 😎

Government must deliver for working people—and every dollar in our budget should work as hard as they do. That’s why I directed every agency to cut waste and help close our budget gap. Here’s some of what we found.

Global capital investment in clean technology manufacturing has kind of dropped off a cliff over the past two years. Note that this is different from deployment of clean electric power and transport, which went up. Data from @rhg.com. www.cleaninvestmentmonitor.org/reports/glob...

Tomorrow I'm heading midwest for @isanet.bsky.social, where I'll be presenting initial findings from my project with @lenseabrooke.bsky.social on market data infrastructures, environmental & social risk & the brave new world of development finance (beyond derisking as we know it!) See you there?! 🕵️

New op-ed out in the Danish media oulet Børsen: "Selling off the state-owned company Ørsted will weaken Danish energy security." Co-authored with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, @rosiecollington.bsky.social, @voldsgaard.bsky.social, and Søren Lund Frandsen borsen.dk/nyheder/opin...

The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

new post! 🕵🏼‍♀️🕵🏼‍♀️🕵🏼‍♀️ www.instagram.com/p/DVEWaFzGdX...

hello from fieldwork!

Look ma, I made it! 👩‍🎤 (I was asked to do a reel about The Big Con to mark the launch Polish translation while in Poznań a few weeks ago. Extremely millennial of me to finish a reel with “thanks for listening!!”) Wielka ściema, coauthored with @mazzucatom.bsky.social & translated by Joanna Bednarek

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

There is something that feels especially thrilling about writing a paper based on nice extensive interview data in the age of ChatGPT brain rot and academic slop

🚨New piece in Politics & Society! w/ @maxkiefel.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 doi.org/10.1177/0032...

it’s not just a horribly unfair system — it’s also so terribly and unsustainably designed “In the last year £15.2bn of interest was added to loans, but only £5bn repaid” Glad to see the FT editorial acknowledging the insanity www.ft.com/content/82f5... Britain’s inequitable student loan system

In honour of the FT and Statista declaring Deloitte and PwC the top consultancies for sustainability services, worth re-upping @rosiecollington.bsky.social's and my piece on the rise of climate consulting:

New, from me: Defenders of police abuses will sometimes talk about “bad apples” spoiling the barrel. This is the wrong metaphor for ICE and CBP. The barrel itself is rotten. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

1/Board of Peace is not about peace through cooperation but peace through dominance and extraction. Clear effort to replace rules-based international order with a structure that bolsters Trump and his effort to create a neo-royalist system. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...

I think what puts me off using LLMs more than anything is that some of the smartest people I know - who were always good writers - are using it for posts on here/LinkedIn/substacks/articles (!) & seem to think the rest of us can't tell! Reliance on LLMs creates a kind of LLM-blindness in the user 😭

This is the AI bubble’s end game: “when AI has infiltrated work processes to the point that exit costs are prohibitive, the customer base will be unable to escape and coerced into paying up. The world will be hooked on AI, and the tech firms will collect handsome profits.”

I see your excellently thought-out, flawlessly written Substack and raise you my far less polished new Instagram (note: typos/chaotic stories/reels/posts are in fact anti-LLM activism and not because I am a sleep deprived new mum) www.instagram.com/p/DTfisz9iPU...

Whomst among you has a @thetimes.com subscription? Can I please ask for a friend link/PDF of this article? 🙏 www.thetimes.com/business/com...

having had some experience of IPE journals (compared to policy studies) it’s interesting how little in the way of empirical material you seem to need to get published. the empirics are usually what makes me want to read a paper in the first place

AI is increasingly good at this stuff, which is a bit of a problem since we already have too many frameworks and not enough empirical research

wow I really picked a great time to take my Danish husband and son with me on a research trip to the US huh

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

“Each of these acts may be insignificant, but an orientation toward friction is really the only defense we have against the life-annihilating suction of technologies of escape.” www.thecut.com/article/broo...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato." surreal times dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

"As commercial publishing interests converge with new technologies, a system emerges where scholars increasingly bear the costs of low-esteem publishing that limits genuine scholarly contributions." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

One structural way to deal with prolific LLM use in article publishing is to ensure hyper-publication is not rewarded in job appointments/promotions. The social corollary is to look skeptically on those who engage in such practices, esp where there is no actual new empirical data (all too common)

my six month old agrees (he likes his sleep)

THE BIG CON will be out in Polish next month - and I couldn't be more excited to be visiting Poznań, Warsaw & Kraków on the 14th, 15th & 16th Jan to chat about it! 📕 More details to follow - let me know if you'll be around! - but for now, here is the beautiful cover from our publishers, Heterodox

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