Top economics journals are going to use a specific AI tool to assess submissions "Editors may also offer authors Refine's technical comments at earlier stages of the refereeing process" So many ways this is an awful idea. And even basic economics tells you why. www.refine.ink/blog/economi...

Refine partners with the American Economic Association and the Econometric Society

Two leading publishers in economics now use Refine's AI-assisted technical verification as part of their publication processes.

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Call for Papers | EJHET special issue Economists under Pressure and the Political Limits to Economics We welcome historical, comparative, and archival work on how economists have worked under political pressure, censorship, war, exile, and institutional constraint. @shoet.bsky.social

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

C'est officiel 🥳 Je serai à la rentrée prochaine Maître de Conférences en économie à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne ! Après 4 ans de thèse à @uparisnanterre.bsky.social et 3 ans de postdoc à @sciencespo.bsky.social, c'est une immense joie d'être titularisé, et de rejoindre le CES de P1 !

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

This is a very good intro article to a very cool special issue on asset struggles.

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

How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵

🧵 with some wild facts such as: “Renewables-plus-storage is so cheap that in large parts of the world it is cheaper to build a whole new clean power plant than just pay for the fuel and maintenance for a fully-depreciated gas generator.”

David Fickling@davidfickling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

People are still underestimating how much the prospects of LNG growth in Asia are totally busted. Even setting aside the Hormuz factor, the economics are just brutal: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It’s been brought to my attention that the Economist cover story is blaming Gen-Z socialism on “an influential group of socialist academics” led by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Turns out Gen-Z got radicalized by … our analysis of corporate earnings calls. Huge if true!

Indépendamment des qualités des dits experts, que le gouvernement demande à des économistes de dire quelle politique budgétaire mener est une mauvaise idée. Au mieux, ça le dédouane de choix qu'il ferait de lui même ( ce à quoi servent les "experts du smic") au pire ça dessaisit le politique...

A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract

For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

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New OSF preprint with @luissattelmayer.bsky.social 🦋: "Issue Competition on Social Media. A new comparative dataset on parties' issue agendas in 18 countries." We introduce a dataset of party issue agendas built from 4.6M social media posts across Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, covering 219 parties.

After spending the week trying to build bridges between JSTOR, Elsevier, Scopus, Econlit, and OpenAlex to build a large database of economics articles with @thomasdelcey.bsky.social ...

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 · 5mo 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

Updated my plots for the evolution of the CO2-intensity of GDP for OECD plus other large economies and emitters. Since 1990, CO2-intensity has declined in most major economies (points below the 45° line). Exceptions here are Saudi & Indonesia. Scroll down for the big ones, India and China.

New article out in Climate Policy with @james7jackson.bsky.social: "Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Subsidizing global decarbonization: how Chinese state support for clean technologies enables and (potentially) obstructs a worldwide green transition

Over the last decade, green technologies have been deployed at record-breaking speeds across the world. No actor has been more important to this process than China, which now dominates what is cons...

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J'ai toujours été prudent quant à l’idée d’une accélération du réchauffement mondial. À partir de maintenant, je ne le serai plus. 1/6

Les écoles du supérieur privé racolent les étudiant•es sur les réseaux en offrant des contrats d’apprentissage clés en main chez des entreprises partenaires. Le tout financé par l’État, et managé par d’anciennes ministres ayant mis en place ce système. #ESR @cpesr.fr @juliengossa.cpesr.fr

Some snapshots from ongoing work with @cleocz.bsky.social & Liu Li: Looking at labor economics textbooks over time, you see the discipline shift in the 1970s. Earlier textbooks revolve around industrial relations & trade unions. Later ones centre on labor markets & human capital.

Banque de France's governor just announced a surprise resignation in June. The timing has major political implications: it lets Macron appoint a successor whose 6-year term (ending 2032) will outlast the next president's 5-year mandate (2027-2032), preventing any potential far-right appointee

Le Monde@lemonde.fr · 6mo ago

Le gouverneur de la Banque de France, François Villeroy de Galhau, annonce qu’il quittera ses fonctions en juin, avant la fin de son mandat

Brutal must read

Paul Krugman@pkrugman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

About Kevin Warsh paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-bad-heir...

With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, we are designing a survey experiment with low-income Germans 🇩🇪 Survey folks: any tips on reliable institutes, good practices, or any useful approach for harder-to-reach groups? We are really grateful for any hint or experience 🙏

💥 My article '𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝: 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧' is now available (open access) in the 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰! 📄 Find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 📣 @epsrjournal.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

#job #IA The Centre for Socio-Political Data is looking for a #postdoc to join @egrossman.bsky.social and @jrovny.bsky.social to study the long-term historical evolution of key political issues in the framework of a project on the dynamics of issue evolution funded by OpenAI. Apply👇

🎓 New paper in Political Studies (@polstudies.bsky.social) I examine whether there are gendered differences in how people • evaluate the Bank of England’s performance in controlling, & • perceive and react to inflation more broadly. 🔗 Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... tltr? 🧵👇

Our Happy New Year present for 2026: a new, clearer version of our ShinyApp to explore central banker speeches! Please try it out, and reach out if you encounter any problems, or have any suggestions to improve it for your use case (and of course, our underlying CBS database is still open access)

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...