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Thank you to everyone who made it today, and especially to our great speakers! It was great to officially launch our special issue today and see your interest and the lively discussions on #assetstruggles. For those who missed it, we have recorded the event and will upload it soon!

Théo Bourgeron@theobourgeron.bsky.social · 2d ago

This afternoon, @pgolka.bsky.social and I are organising a fantastic online event with a great line-up of speakers for the launch of our New Political Economy special issue on "Asset struggles". More than 60 people booked already, join us here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asset-stru...

We're very much looking forward to this - last minute sign-ups are still possible! #assetstruggles

Théo Bourgeron@theobourgeron.bsky.social · 2d ago

This afternoon, @pgolka.bsky.social and I are organising a fantastic online event with a great line-up of speakers for the launch of our New Political Economy special issue on "Asset struggles". More than 60 people booked already, join us here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asset-stru...

We're very much looking forward to this - last minute sign-ups are still possible! #assetstruggles

Théo Bourgeron@theobourgeron.bsky.social · 2d ago

This afternoon, @pgolka.bsky.social and I are organising a fantastic online event with a great line-up of speakers for the launch of our New Political Economy special issue on "Asset struggles". More than 60 people booked already, join us here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asset-stru...

This afternoon, @pgolka.bsky.social and I are organising a fantastic online event with a great line-up of speakers for the launch of our New Political Economy special issue on "Asset struggles". More than 60 people booked already, join us here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/asset-stru...

Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.

🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr

Sign up until tomorrow!

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️

Sign up until tomorrow!

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️

In 1990, when we started caring about climate change, transport was only the 3rd largest sector in the EU, well behind energy supply & industry, and barely higher than residential emissions Now it's the largest as emissions in those sectors have declined while it stayed stable

Ah those precious two days each year when you know you’re exactly on the right way – very much looking forward to @finandsoc.bsky.social conference 2026!

"Wachstumschancen der privaten Kapitalmärkte nutzen"

Riskante Investments: Bundesregierung beziffert möglichen Schaden für Krankenkassen

Millionenschwere Darlehen für Immobilien, riskante Fonds und mögliche Totalverluste: Dutzende Krankenkassen haben zahlreiche Fehlinvestments getätigt. Nun nennt die Bundesregierung erstmals eine mögli...

tagesschau.de

Also notable that Fritz Scharpf's ideas about input and output legitimacy come up in Ezra Klein's interview with Anton Jager today. You could construct a pocket political history of Germany around the debates in MPIfG in the mid-1990s.

Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last wk.

Reposting the piece @williamcallison.bsky.social and I wrote seven years ago about Sahra Wagenknecht who is in a position now, if she chooses, to put AfD in power in Saxony-Anhalt. Wolfgang Streeck remains among her advisers. dissentmagazine.org/article/pop-...

Heute begannen die Haushaltsberatungen im #Bundestag. Für die Verkehrs-Infrastruktur sieht es düster aus. Trotz 400 Mrd € #Sondervermögen für zusätzliche Investitionen in die #Infrastruktur sollen die Investitionen in Straße, Schienen- und Wasserwege sinken. Trotz eines enormen Nachholbedarfs!

This week, I have the privilege of delivering the opening keynote to this amazing programme @finandsoc.bsky.social Conference 2026. What a way to mark the UK and European publication of our book, FinTech Capital @andrewleyshon.bsky.social @fintechcapital.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

Amin Samman@aminsamman.bsky.social · 4w ago

Very pleased to announce the programme for this year's @finandsoc.bsky.social conference. We'll be talking everything from prediction markets and offshore finance to acid capitalism and the assetization of horses. Come join us in Copenhagen if you can! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

Wir freuen uns riesig, im Frühjahr eine gemeinsame Tagung mit der Sektion Politische Ökonomie der DVPW zu organisieren, um die Verbindungen zwischen unseren beiden (Teil-)Disziplinen neu auszuloten. Beitragsvorschläge sind bis zum 15.10. sehr willkommen! Danke für euren Re-post 🙏

Come be my boss! We're advertising for a new head of department:

How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️

Testing the limits of cross-time-zone Zooming with this one. Looking forward to it.

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 2w ago

How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️

How does assetization and assetmanagement inform social conflict? Join us for an online launch event for our NPE special issue "Asset Struggles" on Sept 17th 2PM (German time), featuring: @melindacooper.bsky.social, @jenmcarthur.bsky.social, @benbraun.eurosky.social ⬇️ Signup in post below ⬇️

RIP Marx. Corporate Profits in the US "have hit the highest level since the aftermath of the second world war, while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent and a widening political backlash" www.ft.com/content/6f3a...

TIL Zelizers argument also works in reverse

Kate Knibbs@knibbs.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The Googler arrested for insider trading on Polymarket has begun mounting his legal defense. One of the arguments put forth: these were bets, not swaps: www.wired.com/story/google...

Die USA setzen ihren Kampf gegen linke zivilgesellschaftliche Projekte in Europa fort. Nun hat es das bekannte Internetkollektiv Autistici/Inventati getroffen. Das wehrt sich gegen die Vorwürfe und Sanktionen. netzpolitik.org/2026/autisti...

USA sanktionieren italienisches Internetkollektiv

Die USA setzen ihren Kampf gegen linke zivilgesellschaftliche Projekte in Europa fort. Nun hat es das bekannte Internetkollektiv Autistici/Inventati getroffen. Das wehrt sich gegen die Vorwürfe und Sa...

netzpolitik.org

I posted a thing on LinkedIn, and I really mean it. Very excited for this step and my biggest of thanks to each and everyone of you who has helped me along the way 🙏🙏

Congratulations, Philipp! 💐 well deserved! 👏

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 4w ago

I posted a thing on LinkedIn, and I really mean it. Very excited for this step and my biggest of thanks to each and everyone of you who has helped me along the way 🙏🙏

I posted a thing on LinkedIn, and I really mean it. Very excited for this step and my biggest of thanks to each and everyone of you who has helped me along the way 🙏🙏

Very pleased to announce the programme for this year's @finandsoc.bsky.social conference. We'll be talking everything from prediction markets and offshore finance to acid capitalism and the assetization of horses. Come join us in Copenhagen if you can! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

I feel sorry for the dentists and doctors. I also recall my presentation in 2024 at a meeting of their pension funds' asset allocators in Cologne. I delivered my usual message: Channelling pension capital into private assets is a really bad idea. They were not happy. Oh well.

Job alert!🔥🔥🔥 Wissenschaftliche:r Mitarbeiter:in - Arbeitssoziologie und empirische Methoden (100%, 2 Jahre befristet, dann unbefristet) bei uns am Institut für Soziologie, FSU Jena Frist 2.9.26 Wir freuen uns auf Bewerbungen + gerne Ausschreibung weiterleiten. jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/a...