New publication out: Prefigurative plastic politics. Published in the Earth System Governance journal, our global mapping of 125 grassroots and community-led initiatives building alternative futures to fight plastic pollution. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Prefigurative plastic politics: Alternative organising in the global plastic economy

This article examines how grassroots and community-led initiatives engage in prefigurative politics, understood as building alternative futures in the…

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New working paper out in LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social's working paper series, co-authored with @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’" www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’ - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

In this paper, the authors propose green economic planning as a framework for states to set ambitious climate plans.

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New State of the Art article in @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. States, markets, and decarbonization are colliding in ways that political economy is only just beginning to map. This article is our map. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

"Epistemic derisking" describes how knowledge infrastructures – such as energy models, scenarios, and plans – are leveraged by states in efforts to mobilize private capital for energy transitions. New article with @rosiecollington.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance - Rosie Collington, Jacob Hasselbalch, 2026

Over the past decade, governments have increasingly sought to mobilise private capital for expanding renewable sources of energy for the goals of decarbonisatio...

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New op-ed out in the Danish media oulet Børsen: "Selling off the state-owned company Ørsted will weaken Danish energy security." Co-authored with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, @rosiecollington.bsky.social, @voldsgaard.bsky.social, and Søren Lund Frandsen borsen.dk/nyheder/opin...

“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”

“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”Konservative, Liberal Alliance, Dansk Folkeparti og Danmarksdemokraterne har for nylig markeret sig i valgkampen med et fælles udspil om at fr

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Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social

New article out with @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, Kevin L. Young and Søren Lund Frandsen in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Journal of Organizational Sociology. We adapt niche construction theory to study interactions between organizations and environments. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

How Niche Construction Shapes Organizational Fields and Populations

Niche Construction Theory (NCT), a recent offshoot of evolutionary biology, emphasizes how agents modify their surroundings and create organizational variation in an environment. Here we discuss how N...

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I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

New op-ed out in @prospectmagazine.co.uk with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice: The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice

The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right

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check our network and submit a paper for Bordeaux 2026!

SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics@sasemeeting.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🌍📈 Introducing Network V: Geoeconomics SASE welcomes a new research network exploring the intersections of geopolitics, international political economy, and national capitalist systems in a time of global transformation. 🔗 Learn more about the new network: sase.org/networks/v-geoeconomics

With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do? The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇 If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits

Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...

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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....

On the ground: the microfoundations of green industrial policy

Governments across the world are expanding public investments to support green industries and infrastructures under the banner of green growth and decarbonisation. Much of the political economy sch...

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Tag yourself. I'm a coalition based, green industrial policy ecosocialist, rooting for high integration democracy, green growth everywhere with surgical degrowth, defending international solidarity, a mostly optimistic we-have-the-technology-we-need approach and a dynamic understanding of history.

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

We’re stuck in a false choice between green growth and degrowth. One promises to fix the planet by growing the economy, the other by shrinking it. But when you look closer, neither is a coherent political project. And there’s more overlap than most debates admit.

We’re stuck in a false choice between green growth and degrowth. One promises to fix the planet by growing the economy, the other by shrinking it. But when you look closer, neither is a coherent political project. And there’s more overlap than most debates admit.

Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …

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New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …

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"BYD’s ascent thus forces a question that goes beyond industry: Can Europe still make things at scale in a world where power lies in the ability to integrate finance, technology, and policy faster than anyone else?"- @cornelban.bsky.social's new #geoeconomics substack (substack.com/home/post/p-...)

The Electric Mirror

BYD, Volkswagen, and the Political Economy of the EV Divide (with Asger Dam)

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New article out! Outcome of a collaborative effort with Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susana Borrás, Alan Irwin and Vera Simoneit, funded by a local strategic initiative at Copenhagen Business School. #innovation #innovationpolicy #organization #grandchallenges www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Organizing transformative innovation: Advancing an organizational research agenda within Transformative Innovation Policy

In a world increasingly shaped by geopolitical divides, technological disruption, and the climate crisis, Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is mo…

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1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals

Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...

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4 NEW pieces, with @cornelban.bsky.social + @jhasselbalch.bsky.social on state planning, @rosiecollington.bsky.social on planet-critical sectors, @shayaksengupta.bsky.social + Abhinav Jindal on multilateralism, and @brusselermel.bsky.social + @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on derisking (Links below)

"The green state must rise from the ashes of the derisking state... plan for a future of resilience or resign ourselves to chaos and the perils of climate adaptation under authoritarianism." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind.... @cornelban.bsky.social #decarbonization #planning #ClimateSky

Green Indicative Planning | Phenomenal World

With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coor...

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The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf

Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An excellent collection of short pieces on post/de growth and International Relations. This is cutting edge and important work and deserves a wide readership. #internationalpolitics

Review of International Studies@risjnl.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎉 Vol 50(5) is out!🎉 This issue includes several research articles and the forum "Towards post-growth IR." 📚Read Here ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 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...

In our latest issue, check out the new article by Jacob Hasselbalch & Matthias Kranke one of IR's blindspots: that economic growth is a driver of global unsustainability. It is free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3Xt3HRr

In our latest issue, Lorenzo Fioramonti conducts a comparative analysis of the three main post-growth theories as part of the post-growth IR forum. Have a read! 📄👉 buff.ly/4agCB4S

In our latest issue, Chukwumerije Okereke argues that "green growth is a more pragmatic and realistic approach to global climate justice because it is more sensitive to the norms, structures, and dynamics of global politics." 📄 👉 buff.ly/3VJbGJt

"An age after growth is not only possible but likely." Check out Bentley B. Allan's article: "Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth" in our latest issue. It's free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3ZeVi5h

In our latest issue, Michael J. Albert (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) contributes to the post-growth IR forum through the lens of Neo-Gramscian theory. His article is free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/48uxyfR

In our latest issue, Rajeswari S Raina & Rishabh Kachroo discuss post-growth agrifood systems by exploring the persistence of hunger and food crises in the 21st century. It's free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/4gF8eZU