Finally out, with @shahinvallee.bsky.social our ambitious story for European Macro Policy Network (EMPN) on the future of the global euro empn.eu/publication/...
James Wood
@thinkwoodist.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor in Political Economy @campolis.bsky.social | Staff Fellow in Politics @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social | Associate Editor @cjres.bsky.social | Researching innovation policy, housing, & the construction of political crises |
JOB Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government / Rokos Professor of Government, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/foundin...
Founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government and Rokos Professorship of Government
The University of Cambridge is seeking an exceptional academic leader to become the founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government, alongside appointment to the Rokos Professorship of Government. Thi...
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🔥Our upcoming issue is Cities and the Climate Crisis - edited by Meric Gertler, Betsy Donald, Amy Glasmeier and Siqi Zheng. The Editorial Introduction is open access online: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
The climate crisis: in what sense an urban problem?
In February 2026, the Trump Administration made global headlines when it reversed a scientific ruling by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) known
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I did a somewhat deep dive into the recent OpenAI and Anthropic "hacks" for an upcoming interview. IMO, the AI companies are better off running with the "rogue AI" story because the real story is actually pretty embarrassing. Like making your Wi-Fi password "wifi" embarrassing. 🧵
Really great that our now-departed chancellor - the one who totally failed to speak up publicly about the authoritarians cancelling all of our Title VI/FLAS area/language studies grants - decided that ~all of our scarce $$$ should go to new faculty & a new school dedicated entirely to CS/AI.
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 2mo agoI hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...
NEW PAPER Duncan Bell, "Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain" (2026) Forthcoming in Duncan Bell & Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Psychic Socialism: Telepathy, Freedom, and Individuality in Interwar Britain
Draft chapter - a version of this essay is forthcoming in Duncan Bell and Eileen Hunt (eds.), Political Theory and Speculative Literature. <div> <br> </div> <
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A call for papers for a special issue in CJRES on the changing economic geographies of the defence industry. The defence industry has a complex relationship to industrial and regional policy. What are the spatial & regional implications of the new arms race? academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/...
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society | Oxford Academic
A journal of the Cambridge Political Economy Society. The journal publishes multi-disciplinary research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change, and examines the effe...
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Really enjoyed presenting States of Innovation to policymakers at Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy - the write up is available here: www.csap.cam.ac.uk/beyond-the-m...
Beyond the market: government and innovation in the American economy - Centre for Science and Policy
Has America’s economy been driven by the private sector alone, or has government played a more decisive role than we think? Dr James Wood explored the evolving role of government policy in propelling ...
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📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477
Interested in contributing? The Call for Papers is available here: academic.oup.com/cjres/pages/... and still accepting abstracts! @harrygarretsen.bsky.social, @dfkogler.bsky.social, Ron Martin, Davide Luca, Janka Stoker and Michael Stuetzer
Brief pause from Messi's magic to share my new piece in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Education as a Political Institution" which explains why we should stop treating education as just another public service Open access here: tinyurl.com/yezzkam5
Education as a Political Institution
Education institutions are fundamentally political. They mold political values, shape inequality, create opportunities for patronage through teaching jobs, and can even be used for political surveilla...
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This is basically my current theory of the centre-left in the UK and maybe elsewhere. Many people who claim to want higher redistribution and lower inequality maybe don’t when push comes to shove. But they definitely do want social liberalism and they’re not willing to trade that off.
Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 4mo agoA function of the higher income base that Labour now have that such policies are not their real preference any more. Asking your voter base to take socio-cultural hits in return for economic policies that benefit other people turned out not really to work because most people aren’t that selfless
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. 🧵
Next up is @lacic.bsky.social, Felix Bühlmann, Sophie Serrano & Fabien Foureault's paper on (gendered) divisions in asset managers' "networks of interest defence". The paper finds important differences between mainstream and alternative AMs external networks & elite positions. Small teaser:
Out now in Research Policy: Innovation and housing markets are both seen as engines of US economic growth, but do they work in harmony or are they at cross purposes? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
At cross purposes? Housing markets and innovation in American Political Economy
The Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature offers two distinct but insufficiently integrated institutional accounts of US growth dynamics: the…
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Out now in Research Policy: Innovation and housing markets are both seen as engines of US economic growth, but do they work in harmony or are they at cross purposes? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
At cross purposes? Housing markets and innovation in American Political Economy
The Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature offers two distinct but insufficiently integrated institutional accounts of US growth dynamics: the…
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Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.
NPR@npr.org · 5mo agoMisogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.
I just typed lumenproletariat instead of lumpenproletariat, and now I have a whole new understanding of Severance 🤯
Not so long ago, the depoliticisation of money was a widely accepted observation. Meanwhile, Trump’s attacks on CBI, militarised Sondervermögen, and the rise of Bitcoin point to repoliticisation. 1/3
Trump’s economic agenda is testing the institutional foundations of neoliberalism, not just its policies find @thinkwoodist.bsky.social and @vapunkt.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...
Trump’s economic agenda is testing the institutional foundations of neoliberalism, not just its policies | LSE United States Politics and Policy
Given the Federal Reserve’s key role in leading neoliberal policies, if Trump can successfully reduce its power, this would signal genuine system change.
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✍️ My take on why Britain’s two-party system has collapsed in the LSE British Politics blog 👇
LSE British Politics and Policy@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 6mo ago💡New! Britain’s two-party era is ending, but Brexit is still shaping British politics. By @sarahobolt.bsky.social of @lsegovernment.bsky.social. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
Trump's tariffs, industrial policy, and feuds with Powell aren't the end of neoliberalism but a reshuffling of its supporting cast. As our article of the week shows, the system's actual core remains intact. By @vapunkt.bsky.social et al. in @govjournal.bsky.social buff.ly/MX3Af1O
Terrific short piece by @paulcairney.bsky.social that's equally applicable to Canada's federal govt. Important for advocates (in public health and otherwise) to get past the 'speaking truth to power' understanding of advocacy that buys into this mistaken view of how policymaking works.
Policymaking doesn’t work the way Westminster thinks | LSE British Politics
There is a prevailing story in Westminster about how policymaking works. That story is a myth, but it still matters.
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1/ New paper in @govjournal.bsky.social with @vapunkt.bsky.social: "The Supply Chain of Economic Ideas: Institutional Discourse and Policy Change in U.S. Economic Governance, 1945-2024". onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Supply Chain of Economic Ideas: Institutional Discourse and Policy Change in U.S. Economic Governance, 1945–2024
This paper develops the supply chain of economic ideas framework to address how institutional networks coordinate to achieve both stability and change in economic policymaking, arguing that both are ...
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Read Dr James Wood's (@thinkwoodist.bsky.social) research on debt driven growth in 'Finance & Space'. @trinityhallcamb.bsky.social
Finance & Space@financeandspace.bsky.social · 7mo agoWhere does debt-driven growth actually happen? New research in Finance & Space finds it may not be where debt is taken on, but elsewhere in the system. Read James Wood's 'The spatial dynamics of America’s debt-driven growth model' here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📖Interested in reviewing a book for us?📖 We have a long list of fantastic books we are looking to have reviewed! journals.sagepub.com/author-instr... For further info contact our editor @historydafydd.bsky.social: dafydd.townley@port.ac.uk @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
Mainstream business coverage (like this piece in the Economist) contends that profits are unexpectedly rising DESPITE uncertainty & a supply crisis. But profits are rising BECAUSE of uncertainty & a supply crisis. Greedflation [sophisticated version] is real. via @halsinger.bsky.social
I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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