A well-timed special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geosky #ipesky

📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1

So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms.  But we will not be silenced. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International

A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

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The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

State capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformations

Researchers increasingly invoke the concept of ‘state capacity’ to analyze how and when states pursue decarbonization and renewable energy policies. Drawing on a review of recent climate governance...

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Unsustainable for a democracy.

Gabriel Zucman@gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Bedrijven kunnen niet zonder biodiversiteit. Mooi artikel over het #businessandbiodiversity assessment van #IPBES. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... Met inbreng van o.a. @wietekewillemen.bsky.social @kprodani.bsky.social en anderen

“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5...

Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise. Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2

In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.social

The problem of knowledge in the Anthropocene

In the twentieth century, debates about economic planning were largely shaped by arguments concerning knowledge and the acquisition of information. As the century drew to a close, the dispute was a...

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Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all!

Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 7mo ago

Upcoming talk at LSE! "Research is a Land Relation" with the always superb @maxliboiron.bsky.social. 5pm 3 Feb LSE room OLD 3.24. See website SLCC.online for details!

NEW: Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics - Matthias Taeger and Daniel Buenza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics

Whether as economisation or performativity, scholars in market studies have problematised various entanglements between financial markets and climate change. Studies have identified, for instance, ...

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Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think.

It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e...

Out in spring from @bentarnoff.com & I www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42.

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 8mo ago

Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists

Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcX

Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions

Eric Roston@eroston.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see Like the US economy Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters. Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗

Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas complicit in Sudan atrocities

The French banking giant said the ruling by a jury in New York was 'clearly wrong' and that it plans to appeal.

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New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...

Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power

Power is frequently acknowledged in conservation as a limiting factor, something to be cited, problematized, or managed, less frequently is it engaged with as a lived, situated, and multidimensional ....

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"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development. Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. " youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA

Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze

YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets! Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br... open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...

Questions on My Mind

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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers! We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert). Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p

The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

The Long Heat

Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later...

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As the revision of the #SFDR comes to an end, I am joining @reclaimfinance.org and +120 experts in calling on the @ec.europa.eu exclude companies developing new fossil fuel projects a minimum criterion across all #SFDR product categories. There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!

Ahem, the meek European derisking state

Philipp Golka@pgolka.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Kind of crazy the EU Commission actually beliefs such nonsense! Creating tax incentives to push bank deposits into equities actually *reduces* the capital available to the economy as it shifts money from bank balance sheets (ie corporate lending) to pure speculation.