As part of our Max Planck Law Fellow Group, we have been running a webinar series on Independence and Democracy in the EU. This Wednesday, 10th June from 2.30 PM we are hosting what promises to be a very interesting discussion on US cryptomercantilism vs EU monetary sovereignty.

"Oh just the five parallel sessions I'd like to attend on a Friday afternoon"

Rasmus Corlin Christensen@phdskat.org · 2mo ago

Browsing the 2026 SASE programme is a dangerous gateway drug

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Happy Easter from Finance and Society team! Here is our special easter egg for all of you: a fresh Call for Papers for this year's Finance and Society conference happening again at CBS Copenhagen! Deadline: May 1st Hoping to see many of you there!

📢 Updated EBI working paper out 📢 ➡ “Cryptomercantilism vs. Monetary Sovereignty. How stablecoin laws shape the battle for international monetary supremacy“ (with Edoardo Martino and Eric Monnet) ⬅ Available #openaccess at @ssrn.bsky.social papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Sounds fascinating! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Virtuous Bankers

An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became “a great engine of state”

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We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG)@mpifg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

Pourquoi y a-t-il autant de consultant·es dans les politiques de l'UE ? Pourquoi dépenser des MILLIARDS en consultant·es sur le moyen-terme ? Qu'est-ce que ces nouvelles relations d'expertise nous disent du gvt international ? La réponse bientôt dans la RFAP avec @marylou-h.bsky.social et V. Lebrou.

Happy to launch the new website of the Political Economy Working Group in Belgium! politicaleconomy.be 🔍 Meet the team 📚 Browse publications 🔬 Explore projects 📅 Stay tuned for events The website is built with @rstats and @quarto.org. It is open source: codeberg.org/agoutsmedt/e...

"How does hiking rates help with oil price shocks" It's not that central bankers don't have any answers to such questions. It's more they often seem embarrassed to give those answers

Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

The Politics of Inflation

Inflation returned to the foreground of political economies worldwide after 2019, after 30 years of relative quiescence. Inflation remains unpopular—including among those who are hurt by the policies ...

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Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

think @zackpolanski.bsky.social should ask: 1. why is Labour allowing Bank of England to abdicate its public duties during crisis? 2. How are interest rate hikes going to deal with inflationary pressures triggered by oil shocks without inflicting massive further damage on our battered economy?

every quantitative measure is actually a stack of qualitative assumptions in a trenchcoat

The Greens are the only party in Europe that is serious about price stability

Jeremy Cliffe@jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

FAZ is endorsing the end of Ulrike Malmendier's term in the German council of economic experts because a) she was too far away (Berkeley) b) her research is not as relevant anymore c) behavioural economists tend towards paternalistic solution. Sigh.

My book “The Technocratic International” now has a cover — out this summer! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Can't wait!

SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics@sasemeeting.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Update for SASE Bordeaux 2026 Due to an exceptional surge in submissions this year, the SASE Annual Meeting in Bordeaux will now run for four days instead of three. 🗓 New conference dates: July 1–4, 2026 More details: sase.org/events/2026-... #SASE2026 #SocioEconomics #AcademicConference

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

Trump's Dollar | Steffen Murau

Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar

phenomenalworld.org

Did Congress forget the Fed controls inflation, or was forgetting the point? My paper in New Political Economy shows Congress engaged in strategic repoliticisation, where political conflict serves electoral interests and preserves the Fed's technocratic autonomy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Strategic repoliticisation: inflation, blame, and the fracturing of democratic accountability in the United States

When inflation returned to the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic after decades of price stability, it created a critical test for the accountability mechanisms underpinning the system of d...

tandfonline.com

Spread the word.

Darren Dodd@badlyoverdrawnboy.ft.com · 7mo ago

www.ft.com/content/7ab6... Free FT for schools

Œconomia launches a new type of publication: Data & Quantitative Methods in the History/Philosophy of Economics The goal: give space to reflections often sidelined in traditional articles where transparency & discussion of methods get cut for “results.” journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...

Quantitative Methods and Data in the History, Philosophy, and Metho...

Œconomia – History / Methodology / Philosophy invites submission of articles that present, discuss, or make innovative use of data and quantitative methods in the study of the history, philosophy, ...

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The SNB is levelling up its visitor centre. Probably no rival to Citéco Paris but it does look very nice! www.moneyverse.ch

Home | Im Moneyverse erlebst du Geld wie nie zuvor

Neue Sehenswürdigkeit: Im kostenlosen Museum wird das Phänomen Geld in einer multimedialen Ausstellung erlebbar. Ab dem 10. April 2026 im Kaiserhaus Bern.

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Day three at new job in Frankfurt @mpilhlt.bsky.social. Nice to be finally on the ground and able to attend the myriad of CB-related events on offer. First up: IMFS/Frankfurt School of Finance book presentation.

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 11mo ago

NEW - Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ - @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social #OpenAccess

In Frankfurt today to attend the ECB Legal Conference. Over the past years, I've spent a lot of time with economists working on the ECB/monetary policy. Curious to see these topics discussed from a legal perspective. www.ecb.europa.eu/press/confer...

ECB Legal Conference 2025

The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purch...

ecb.europa.eu

Looking forward to this discussion on Wednesday!

FEPS Europe@feps-europe.eu · 12mo ago

Register for our conference "Inflation preparedness in the EU" 👉 bit.ly/InflationPre... We'll discuss 🔸Lessons learned from recent inflation episodes & how to prevent it 🔸What a🆕inflation governance framework should look like & how to develop it By FEPS w/ @eesc.bsky.social Fondazione Nenni & TASC

I reported this week's Money Talks podcast from the mountain, lake and lodge at Jackson Hole. Featuring Kristin Forbes, @jonsteinsson.bsky.social ‬, Barry Eichengreen and - at 10,000ft - @laura-veldkamp.bsky.social Listen to my Jackson Hole audio diary: www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

Gone fishing: our economics editor’s Jackson Hole diary

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how Donald Trump’s fight with the Fed escalated in a usually quiet corner of Wyoming

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Very pleased to announce the full programme for this year's Finance and Society conference, which will take place on 11-12 September at Copenhagen Business School. Registration now open to the public. Come join us! @finandsoc.bsky.social financeandsocietynetwork.org/prog-finands...

Things that are totally normal in Cologne: 4,000 fans of 1. FC Köln attending a special mess in the cathedral at the start of the season. Organ plays the club‘s hymn (the Scottish folk song Loch Lomond, with a German text) priest sings along (from 1h19m).

Gerd@uehmche.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Um 11:45 beginnt die Übertragung der ökumenischen Fan-Andacht zum Saison-Beginn. Die 4000 Eintrittskarten waren innerhalb von Minuten weg. 77 Jahre #effzeh & 777 Jahre im Kölner Dom am 15.08.2025 youtube.com/live/hPJTuhr...