Heading to Alghero 😎 looking forward to a great conference!
Gabriele Gratton
@grattonecon.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Economics, UNSW Sydney. ARC Future Fellow http://gratton.org http://resilientdemocracylab.org For rocks&cats: http://instagram.com/prof_not_pro
In equilibrium, as this paper shows, de facto power tracks standard measures of market power, survives bans, taxes, and technocratic delegation, and can skew innovation toward regulation-resistant technologies. By @grattonecon.bsky.social & @bartonelee2.bsky.social at @ethz.ch buff.ly/fkYG29M
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We are hosting a conference in honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland. Join us in celebrating his remarkable and lasting contributions to economics. Registration: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conference...
MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...
MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...
Lehan Zhang (@ethz.ch) presents joint work with @grattonecon.bsky.social (UNSW) and Hasin Yousaf (UNSW) and @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social (UNSW & CEPR): "Adding fuel to the (gun)fire: how politicians polarize the public debate" 🔥 #WISE2026
Let me just re-up our review of Dani Rodrik's new book ("Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World") in light of this very interesting podcast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Economics for Inclusive Prosperity@econfip.bsky.social · 4mo agoHarvard Kennedy School economist Dani Rodrik was ahead of the curve predicting the end of neoliberal globalization. Now he's defying conventional wisdom again, saying the service sector—not manufacturing—is the most promising source of good jobs in the future. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...
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Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...
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Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Check out this article by @grattonecon.bsky.social. It features his important work with @bartonelee2.bsky.social -- along with the contributions of Massimo Morelli, @trfetzer.com, @caroartc.bsky.social, and Laurenz Guenther. Most importantly, however, it www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/how-...
How democracies erode
Democracy is not collapsing, but it is eroding. Across the West, economic shocks, political constraints, and widening gaps between voters and institutions are reshaping stable democratic systems into ...
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When you see the proofs, it feels a bit more real ✨ Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right (Oxford University Press) will be published online in June 2026 and in print in July 2026.
BusinessThink on our paper with @bartonelee2 and Hasin Yousaf, “Bad Democracy Traps” “Why we don’t trust politicians (and what this means for democracy)” www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/tru...
Trust in democracy and the limits of public policy
UNSW research examines how political trust and voter beliefs about institutions shape democratic performance and support for long term reform
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Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.
This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
Finishing up the slides for the launch this Thursday night. Excited... and a bit scared
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right! youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win? | The Argument
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🚨 Join us in Sydney for the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop 26-27 Feb 2026 Info, program, and registration👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper. www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
Behind Populists’ Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy - ProMarket
Populist leaders like United States President Donald Trump are zealously challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. This backlash follows decades of steadily increasing delegatio...
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Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats
We study a stylised model of the rise and fall of technocratic democracies: democracies that delegate policymaking to unelected technocrats. In our model, technocratic democracies arise when majori...
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🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century
The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …
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Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow. bsky.app/profile/cepr...
Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 8mo ago📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June. Deadline: 31 January 2026 cepr.org/events/4th-c... @rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social #EconSky
There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration. Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 8mo agoVery much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation! I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
