Who are the crypto bros? The amazing Izaura Solipa crunched the data. Short answer: Crypto bros share the same privileged traits, educational credentials, and institutional access that characterize elites in 'traditional' Wall Street segments. Just out in SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

A new opening in our department. If this is something you would consider and have questions, please get in touch! www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

On the political economy of memes from a brilliant colleague! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Making sense of memes: how to study distributed knowledge as lay economics

Internet memes are increasingly recognized as part of political discourse, yet there is no consensus on how to study them. Much existing scholarship has focused on impact – debating whether memes f...

tandfonline.com

My department is hiring: eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Important new work by my colleague Søren Lund Frandsen on green industrial policy and its organisational microfoundations.

Jacob Hasselbalch@jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Great new work from Søren Lund Frandsen on the microfoundations of #industrialpolicy: "the effectiveness and direction of #greenindustrialpolicy cannot be understood by investment volumes alone but must be traced through its organisational microfoundations": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to share that our article, with Jérôme Pélisse, is out in Socio-Economic Review academic.oup.com/ser/advance-... @cnrsshs.bsky.social @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @clerseumr8019.bsky.social @cso-sciencespo.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social @sciencespo.bsky.social ⬇️

In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition? @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest. Now out in SER! 🧵

What happens when venture capital discovers women’s health. Some observations on the investment narratives getting this market moving in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social. Thanks to SI editors @maharafiatal.bsky.social, @brandaid-world.bsky.social & Sofie Elbæk Henriksen. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Investment narratives in women's health: Insights on ‘tech for good’ from a new market - Eleni Tsingou, 2025

Femtech, the corporate term that describes a marketplace for women's health populated by start-up companies and venture capital investors, is receiving att...

journals.sagepub.com

A fantastic team of editors and a very useful volume. All open access. My contribution with @mnance.bsky.social on bank power and owning financial infrastructures.

Carola Westermeier@c-westermeier.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published! You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Turning male fertility into a competitive sport. The start-up is also setting up a betting market. femtechinsider.com/startup-rais...

Startup Raises $1M to Launch World’s First Competitive Sperm Racing Event in Los Angeles | Femtech Insider

A new startup called Sperm Racing has raised $1 million led by Karatage, with participation from Figment Capital and Karman to launch what they describe as the world's first live sperm racing competit...

femtechinsider.com

Come to Copenhagen!

Finance and Society@finandsoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

New paper out with Socio-Economic Review 🎉 Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Varieties of capitalism and patient capital in developing and emerging economies: evidence from Kenya

Abstract. Patient capital (PC) has gained traction in discussions about how finance can better serve society. While PC is a central concept in comparative

academic.oup.com

At long last I have my own copy of one of the books of the year - by the awesome @manuelamoschella.bsky.social

SER call for papers for a special issue on offshore finance.

Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · 2y ago

Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

💥My @ejir.bsky.social article "Beyond Authority" now has an issue! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 💡I argue that international organizations govern global challenges not only through norms, standards and numbers but also through practice in the field. Short thread below! #OpenAccess

The climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses and damages. Help us understand how they affect contemporary societies & political economies. Join @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social & me at: - SASE Mini Conference - Paper Workshop @mpifg.bsky.social - Special issue at Socio-Economic Review

Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis

Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er

academic.oup.com