Florian Schmidt

@floschmidt.bsky.social

Historical and Political Sociology of Money | Literature| Football | Member of RG "Monetary Sovereignty" | @Hamburg Institute for Social Research

Excited to share a new paper on transformative statecraft. We start from a critique of the compensation consensus in climate politics/political science. Compensating losers works – plenty of evidence for that. But when the goal is transformation (not reform), we need to think about mobilization. 🧵

Title: Beyond compensation: Climate politics, mobilization, and transformative statecraft 

Authors: Benjamin Braun & Leah Downey 

July 8, 2026 

Abstract: Governments have pursued decarbonization through a combination of subsidies for capital and compensation for people. Political scientists have identified the compensation of those who incur losses from climate policies as the the central challenge in building green coalitions and achieving a just transition. However, a decarbonization path aimed at limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius en- tails transformative change for virtually everyone. We argue that, under such con- ditions, a compensation-based approach reduces green backlash to pocketbook concerns; citizens to bundles of fixed preferences; and evaluation to policy-by- policy assessment. Proposing to move beyond compensating existing preferences, we contend that transformative statecraft reshapes preferences through political mobilization. From this perspective, a technocratic approach—focused on calcu- lation and compensation—constitutes a binding constraint on green statecraft. We defend this mobilization-based approach against the objections of manipulation and deprivation of freedom and suggest that a democratic version of transforma- tive statecraft is possible.

"Großbritannien musste zwar die Vorherrschaft über die nordamerikanischen Ländereien aufgeben, gewann aber den Kampf um das dominierende Geldparadigma." @aaronsahr.bsky.social rezensiert Edwards faszinierendes Buch über die monetären Gründe der Amerikanischen Revolution: www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Unabhängigkeit der USA: Papiergeld als vergessene Ursache der Revolution

Die Kolonisten revoltierten nicht nur gegen Steuern, sondern auch gegen britisches Silber – sie wollten ihr eigenes Papiergeld behalten. Andrew David Edwards über ein unbekanntes Kapitel der amerikani...

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What are the keywords of Socionarratology? This week at Humboldt University Berlin, the international conference “Keywords for Socionarratology” brings together scholars from Princeton, Humboldt, EHESS Paris, FU Berlin, Harvard/TU Berlin, Lüneburg and beyond (1)

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Vor einem Jahr haben Ulrich Bröckling, Laura Wolters und ich uns getroffen, um über das Rätsel politischer Endzeiterzählungen, die Unterschiede rechter und linker Apokalyptik und die Frage nach einem Apokalypse-Verbot zu sprechen. Verschriftlicht in der aktuellen MW36-Ausgabe.

Mittelweg 36@mittelweg36.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Mehr zum Beitrag und zum Heft 2/2026, Narrative vom Ende und das Ende der Narrative: www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

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

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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

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couldn‘t help thinking that this is so much smaller than the space it occupied in my head. there’s a relief in the objectification of thought: however troubling or obsessive, every idea can take the form of a handy, well-folded paperback.

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»Dieses Buch ist ein Ereignis. Es ist eines der besten und wichtigsten Sachbücher der vergangenen und der kommenden Jahre. So zugänglich und gleichzeitig so tiefenscharf und politisch umsichtig ist bislang zum Thema noch nicht geschrieben und nachgedacht worden.« www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/aaron...

Aaron Sahr: Der Bitcoin, endlich von einem neutralen Beobachter erklärt.

Das Buch „Fake Coins“ des Wirtschaftssoziologen Aaron Sahr sollten alle lesen, denen ihr Geld nicht egal ist.

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Workshop and Fellowships on POLITICS OF PAYMENTS are still open for application until March 22. We're looking forward to discussing theories and transformations of money and payment infrastructures with you in Hamburg @his-hamburg.bsky.social in September! www.his-online.de/fileadmin/us...

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Carolin Müller@carolinmueller.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Workshop + Fellowship opportunities on "Politics of Payments: Theorizing the Transformation of Monetary Orders" @his-hamburg.bsky.social! We invite submissions on theoretical and political analyses of monetary systems, with particular attention to transformations. www.his-online.de/fileadmin/us...

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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.

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