Wie funktioniert die sizilianische Mafia und von welchen Mythen ist sie geprägt im gesellschaftlichen Diskurs in Italien? Meine talentierte Freundin und Politikwissenschaftlerin Miryam Frickel schriebt im Jakobin: jacobin.de/artikel/mafi...

Die Mafia ist Italiens heimliche Wirtschaftsmacht

Dunkle Sonnenbrillen, Maßanzüge und Handküsse? Solche Bilder aus »Der Pate« sind ein Klischee – in Wirklichkeit ist die Mafia ein knallhartes Wirtschaftsunternehmen, das Milliarden umsetzt und tief im...

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A very welcome and necessary intervention on the "polycrisis" discourse!

Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

New article from @abieler.bsky.social on the empiricism of polycrisis debate and how to parse structural and conjunctural analysis @adamtooze.bsky.social

one of the coolest things I've participated in during my PhD, highly recommend (And this time in London!)!

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

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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

Bernie, Heidi, Zohran. Die Linke tut sich traditionell schwer damit, strategisch über personale Führung nachzudenken. Warum ihr aber gerade heute wieder zentrale Bedeutung zukommt, analysiert Max Lill. 👇 zeitschrift-luxembur...

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

JEPP Journal@jeppjournal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🌱🪙 In their introduction to the Special Issue "Puzzling, powering, profiting: The politics of sustainable finance in Europe", editors @danmertens.bsky.social and @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social define EU sustainable finance & outline how best to analyse it 💡 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

In my several years of central bank research, I never thought I would read about a central banker's George Clooney-like handsome features and his homoerotic appeal to his fellow technocrats. If you can't guess who that is : journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mark Carney and the Gendered Political Economy of British Central Banking - Chris Clarke, Adrienne Roberts, 2016

In this articleWe account for Mark Carney’s role in the naturalisation of gender in finance and explain how this depoliticises important questions of gendered f...

journals.sagepub.com

is this what cognitive dissonance in stock & bond markets look like?

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · 12mo ago

Trump is sandblasting away at the foundations of finance and markets are like 'lol nothing matters, number go up' me, 300 free clicks, etc: on.ft.com/3HcyVIJ

With transnational fin governance institutions rolling back their climate work, it's really alarming to see that all we have is voluntary efforts and capacity building from the likes of the NGFS. Simply not enough to coordinate decarbonization: greencentralbanking.com/2025/07/18/g...

G20 watchdog pauses climate change work amid member division

The Financial Stability Board has paused further work on climate change risk amid division as the US pulls back from green policies.

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Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Malnourished medical staff say they are struggling to provide care to injured civilians, while recovery rates are also hit by

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Wie ist die Lage vor Ort in Gaza? Der Chef des Palästinenserhilfswerkes UNRWA im Gespräch mit Hanno Hauenstein (@hahauenstein.bsky.social) über tägliche Überlebenskämpfe, hungernde Kinder und den Zynismus der israelischen Blockadepolitik (F+)

UNRWA-Chef: „Kinder in Gaza sagen: Vielleicht finde ich in der Hölle Essen“

Wie ist die Lage vor Ort in Gaza? Der Chef des Palästinenserhilfswerkes UNRWA über tägliche Überlebenskämpfe, hungernde Kinder und den Zynismus der israelischen Blockadepolitik

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@mbabic.bsky.social ready to hug trees and challenge our conceptions on state capitalism on the second day of the Political Econom of Finance Summer school at the Watson Institute

Talk about dressing for the occasion:

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · last yr.

The Political Economy of Finance Summer School 2025 at the Watson Institute has been off to a great start. We had @thunen.bsky.social on the dollar empire (no pic sadly but fantastic talk, and shirt); now politics of debt and debt relief with @chloethurston.bsky.social.

tragedy of bad fashion choices

Katie Martin@katie0martin.ft.com · last yr.

"He’s kind of charming but don’t fuck with him" Can Mark Carney stand up to Donald Trump? - on.ft.com/3RehpVV

A very important contribution to the lore on green central banking!💯

Jacqueline Best@jacquelinebest.bsky.social · last yr.

What role can central banks play in addressing climate change today? In our just-published article, we argue that we are at a critical juncture in which the future is highly indeterminate. Written with @matpaterson.bsky.social + 14 other amazing scholars /1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

With the flood of bad news, it can be hard to get perspective on just how much damage Trump is doing. So we made a chart to get across Trump's whole-of-government approach to wrecking the climate: at least 82 actions from 20 different agencies in 52 days. 🎁 link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A Timeline

Trump’s environmental directives are gutting basic protections for Americans and the agencies designed to deliver them.

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while academics flex with their h-index...

Titus Blome@derlampenputzer.bsky.social · last yr.

ich verliere völlig den verstand

Huge news from Turkey: Ekrem İ̇mamoğlu, Istanbul’s popular mayor and Erdogan opponent has been detained alongside a long list of his political allies. This comes hours after his decades long university diploma was revoked; today long list of alleged crimes, claiming he leads a criminal organization.

drop in for an early start to the ISA and to discuss politics of climate finance and central banks with us! #ISA2025

Sylvain Maechler@sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · last yr.

For early birds at the @isanet.bsky.social Chicago, come tomorrow morning for our presentation on Biodiversity Scenarios and Climate’s (Un)Learned Lessons with @christianelliott.bsky.social Other great papers including from @krdgnydn.bsky.social

Power of Haustürgespräche 🫶

In #Niedersachsen droht dem 30-jährigen Êzîden Badi Juki S. aus dem Shingal die #Abschiebung in den #Irak. Teil seiner Familie wurden, wie der @flueratnds.bsky.social berichtet, vom IS ermordet. Vor zwei Jahren, Anfang 2023, hatte der Bundestag den Völkermord an den Êzîd:innen anerkannt.

A week prior to Trump's inauguration the Federal Reserve quit the Network for Greening the Financial System, the NGFS. I wrote about what the NGFS is and what they promote within the green central banking debates for PPE Sydney.

Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · last yr.

Fabulous to welcome @krdgnydn.bsky.social as a new author on Progress in Political Economy (PPE) — banking on climate change? www.ppesydney.net/green-centra... @clairerhiannon.bsky.social

Do you want to explore what’s happening? I am recruitung doctoral researchers for my Lise Meitner Research Group on Technology and Sovereignty @mpifg.bsky.social Find more information in the link below Apply by February 28, 2025 Starting date is October 1, 2025 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/e...

Federal Insurance Office, part of the US Treasury, has also left the NGFS. Their statement is more acerbic in its wording compared to the Fed's, mentioning how the NGFS' roles are different than other int'l technical intitiatives (it isn't!) and their work on monetary policy is transgressing.

manifest this

Erik Peter@retepkire.bsky.social · 2y ago

Der Plot-Twist des Jahres wäre eine Mehrheit für Rot-Rot-Grün. Groß ist der Unterschied zu CDU-AfD nicht. Und FDP und BSW fliegen raus

„Was die Merz-CDU unterschätzt: Die AfD ist mehr als eine Übersteigerung konservativer Haltungen. Sie will gar nicht mit der CDU koalieren, zumindest nicht als Juniorpartner. Die AfD will die CDU bedeutungslos machen.“ schrieb Carina Book schon im August ‘23: www.akweb.de/ausgaben/695...

Die Schlandmauer

Wie die Union unter Friedrich Merz auf das Konto der AfD einzahlt

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Linken-Abgeordnete Akbulut in Zug angegriffen #Baden-Württemberg

Linken-Abgeordnete Akbulut in Zug angegriffen

Nach eigenen Aussagen wurde sie dabei rassistisch beleidigt und sexuell belästigt.

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In light of the Fed's resignation from the NGFS, you can see here that they were never that much interested to begin with. I'm glad this amazing tool by @jdeyris.bsky.social is finally public for all to use!

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 2y ago

The Shiny app of global central bank speeches that @jdeyris.bsky.social programmed and is now sharing here is an absolutely amazing public resource. We've been using it for a while and it's unbelievably useful. Go check it out. cbspeeches.shinyapps.io/explorer/