♨️Hot off the press The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen? Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system

Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...

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The UK will soon have a new industrial strategy. What can we learn from past policies, and from examining the sectors in the government's recent green paper? Our new CMA report looks at the data. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/industrial-policies-new-evidence-for-the-uk 1/

NEW: Where and how does the government spend its money? @beeboileau.bsky.social, @maxwarner.bsky.social and @benzaranko.bsky.social's new interactive tool allows you to explore where and how the government spends money, over time and across the UK. 📊 Explore the data: ifs.org.uk/calculators/...

We're very excited to announce the publication of issue 11(1)! 143 pages packed with important & timely research on issues such as QE, the asset economy, Tesla, green finance, and inclusion, as well as three exciting essays/reviews featuring Wittgenstein, central banks & bailouts. Do check it out!

🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010... We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

📢 New JEPP collection 📢 One of Europe's toughest 🥜 to crack? Balancing the green and digital transitions while staying competitive. Martin B. Carstensen and Berthold Rittberger bring together the latest JEPP collection on European competitiveness in the twin transition 👇

The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition

Explore the article collection: The politics of European competitiveness in the twin transition. Published in Journal of European Public Policy.

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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

The term critical minerals is being thrown around “without a lot of attention to what it means." @triofrancos.bsky.social True dat. ‘Metals are the new oil’: B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals projects to counter tariffs: thenarwhal.ca/bc-critical-...

B.C. fast-tracks critical minerals mining to counter tariffs | The Narwhal

Observers worry B.C.’s rush to fast track critical minerals projects will impact the environment and Indigenous Rights

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The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.

Interested in money, machines, minerals? Delhi’s Center for Science and Environment is doing some of the best work on climate political economy out there. Had a blast chatting with @aygoswami.bsky.social about how developing countries navigate the polycrisis & Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtkE...

Climate Policy in the Era of the Polycrisis: What can we expect in 2025?

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Dear CPE/IPE/SER colleagues & friends, as my mid-term TT evaluation is coming 😱, I was wondering if you (or anybody that you know of) have made use of one of my papers in one their courses' syllabus? If that's the case, could you please tell me (here or by email) 🫶?

Why are minerals so central to geopolitics? How green are electric cars? Why is anti-mining protest increasing? Can the inequalities of the global economy be transformed? I tackle these topics in my book EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism 👀 September 2025 @wwnorton.bsky.social

The real short to medium term constraint on serious rearmament is industrial rather than financial. Finding the money is relatively straightforward. Spending it is harder.

If you’re wondering how on earth Europe navigates the post-transatlantic era of defense spending, self imposed fiscal restraint, energy vulnerability and climate goals… so are @70sbachchan.bsky.social and I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/eur...

Europe Enters Its Metal Era | Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay

What kind of Europe survives a fractured transatlantic military alliance?

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Find the EU communication on the Clean Industrial Deal here commission.europa.eu/document/dow...

Weaponised interdependence along the lines described by @abenewman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social over access to raw materials, as discussed by @edconway.bsky.social. If you haven’t listened to this week’s Rethink now’s your chance. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Sounds - Rethink, Rethink... the global economy

Forget tariffs, what are the systems and raw materials that underpin the global economy?

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Dependency on Starlink casually weaponized by US administration. Conclusions for Europe and anyone else in orbit of former US-led alliance should be crystal clear. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

The energy system is undergoing transformation, but so far few signs of a transition: Three slides I prepared for last week's class and will show at the climate capitalism event tonight: The 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹, the 𝕓𝕒𝕕, and the 𝔲𝔤𝔩𝔶.

Euractiv has shared a leaked frameowkr for state aid measures to support the Clean Industrial Deal Looks ambitious www.euractiv.com/wp-content/u...

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

New pub 📢 "SoftBank: Empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism" New Political Economy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

SoftBank: empire-building, capital formation & power in Asian digital capitalism

Venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley have long enabled digital enterprises from Meta to Google. This article investigates SoftBank, a Japanese conglomerate whose Softbank Vision Fund (SVF1)...

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Until recently, policymakers still pretended to care abt climate (in EU, still?😱🫠). Looking at public investment, I ask: Do they really? Why may they prioritize other objectives? With what effects? W/ other great contributions, food for thought here: politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

📊 Last week, we released our new central bank speeches database, which almost doubles the coverage of the @BIS_org database. We also released a tool to facilitate research on central bank communication: meet the #CBSpeeches explorer! Four tools for the price of one (=free!)

🚨📣 We are so back: ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘 - 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence - PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs - All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors) - A-team of instructors 🙏💪 - Mark Blyth 😎 Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!

‼️ Hiring ‼️ Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich 📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years) 📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years) Application deadline in early March. Job ads & details: tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

Building a starter pack on climate change and finance. It's limited to who I know is on bluesky—help me fill in the gaps! go.bsky.app/8XqqNtg

📈 After months of research, our Bruegel European Clean Tech Tracker is now equipped with an interactive map visualising investments into the manufacturing of solar panels, batteries and EVs. [To use it, just go to: Highlights -> BETA Bruegel Investment Monitor] www.bruegel.org/dataset/euro...

I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲 It’s incomplete - who else is on here? go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk