Kicking off the Political Economy of Finance summer school v.3. At @lse-ei.bsky.social for the first time. Topic: “Finance and democracy”. Day 1: My co-hosts @mkblyth.bsky.social and @realbrianjudge.bsky.social in the morning, then @anninak.bsky.social, now @marionf.bsky.social.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Pleased to share my latest article, “Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore,” published at Social Science History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How can we put green planning into practice? Last Tuesday, @brusselermel.bsky.social, @isabelestevez.bsky.social, @gkahan.bsky.social, Justus Henze (@communiade.bsky.social) and I had a really interesting discussion on this question. Recording is now online!

INDEP x Green Planning Commission Online Panel – Green Planning for Transition and Policy

YouTube video by INDEP - Network for Democratic Economic Planning

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Enjoyed the conversations in Hannover at the political economy of European industrial policy event organized this week by Hellen Callaghan, @trgn.bsky.social & Bob Hancké. The presence, clear-eyedness and energy of the EC speaker, Maive Rute (DG Grow) were a highlight.

🎟️ ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION @cmmonwealth.bsky.social’s Green Planning Commission is joining forces with @indep.bsky.social for a joint event on how we can translate green democratic planning from framework to policy. 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 3PM UTC Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indepxgree...

INDEPxGreen Planning Commission: Green Planning for Transition and Policy

INDEP and Common Wealth's GPC's explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into concrete policy proposals.

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ready for redcaju.org Derisking and Alternatives workshop in Senegal! packed program with 23 (!) papers, interactive format (no ppt, all read/comment, two discussants per paper) and great mix of young/ish from the Global South and North. A special issue in the pipeline too.

*breathing into a paper bag*

This is insane.

Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...

Bruno Leipold@brunoleipold.com · 6mo ago

Looking into the Meidner Plan and came across his calculations for when workers would, under different scenarios, gain majority control of their company

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me. www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

is there a technology that "the left" is excited about? www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i...

The left is missing out on AI

As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

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prepping for week 3 of my seminar - an intro to green industrial policy. really impressed by the quality of discussion so far, w students sharing perspectives on singapore, turkey, hungary, china, and more. big thanks to @bhbradlow.bsky.social for the inspiration. dm for the full syllabus!

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

On 19th March 2026 from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 at SciencesPo Salle 900, 9 rue de la Chaise, Paris, we are organising a workshop about ecological planning with @gkahan.bsky.social and LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group. Register here: www.indep.network/event/worksh...

Workshop - Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration

This workshop is organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms…

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📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣 Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊 That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

cover art is juuuuust about final

Landmark move: New York City's comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social, with hundreds of billions under his control, recommends dropping investment giant Blackrock because they won't reckon with climate change. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NYC’s Lander Recommends Dropping $42 Billion BlackRock Mandate

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander is urging three of the city’s pension funds to drop BlackRock Inc. because of “inadequate” climate plans, the latest move to penalize investment firms for failing...

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Thinking back to this excellent concluding paragraph from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's Substack post after Zohran Mamdani's initial primary victory:

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection. Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance. https://bit.ly/4312Zid

Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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

Ten days left to submit proposals for the inaugural ALPE conference in Richmond. Come join us for this exciting launch! lpeproject.org/blog/cfp-ina...

CFP: Inaugural Association of Law and Political Economy Conference

A forthcoming conference will launch The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE): a membership organization with a regular annual conference, elected leadership, and an architecture for open…

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For Europe, the lesson is sobering: we talk “sovereignty funds,” but GGFs already operate as a parallel financial infrastructure on a scale we haven’t matched. This is how China turns finance into an industrial weapon.

it’s articles like these that give new meaning to Arrighi’s argument that organizational innovations help reconsolidate hegemonic orders. if the American century was powered by vertical integration, the Chinese century will be powered by competitive high-tech sectoral planning

Review of International Political Economy@ripejournal.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds by Xuan Li & @cornelban.bsky.social

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

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Critical Theory in Berlin@ktbberlin.bsky.social · last yr.

Registration now open for our mini-workshop on "Democratizing Finance" with Michael A. McCarthy (UC Santa Cruz), author of "The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)". criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy. Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

Melanie Brusseler@brusselermel.bsky.social · last yr.

In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...