Antitrust and the Age of Asset Management - this book by Andrew McLean on the corporate consolidation driven by asset managers looks like it will be an important read (forthcoming Nov) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Antitrust and the Age of Asset Management — Harvard University Press

A compelling account of the role of asset managers in driving consolidation across the American economy, offering a bold call to revive and reinforce US antitrust and antimonopoly policy.Recent decade...

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'état. Director Johan Grimonprez

DMovies@dmovies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Murderous colonialism and Black music are combined to intoxicating effects, in this dazzlingly inventive documentary about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba Now on various VoD platforms: dmovies.org/2025/03/10/s...

The South Centre's Anne Wanyagathi was invited as an expert panelist on wealth taxation in Kenya, at an event co-organized by Oxfam Kenya, Kenya Human Rights Commission and Institute of Public Finance. The discussion explored the feasibility of a net wealth tax in Kenya, ...

@paullangley.bsky.social & @andrewleyshon.bsky.social's Fintech Capital is a thorough examination of the worldwide digital transformation of people’s everyday monetary & financial relations driven by the emergence of FinTech. Out now (1 Sep UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

You can be upset about this OR you can happily use AI. You cannot do both.

Marcel Krueger@marcelkrueger.bsky.social · 3w ago

In Ireland, data centres used 22% of the country’s total energy in 2024 – more than all urban households combined in that same year. An incredible 80% of Dublin's electricity use can be attributed to data centres. Via the excellent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social. europeancorrespondent.com/en

Busy conference on Ancient Classics on in @maynoothuniversity.ie today. Little do the participants know that this sociologist looks upon them admiringly as some of the heroic seed savers of knowledge :-) cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io

CCC 2026 at Maynooth Uni.

Host site for the 2026 Celtic Conference in Classics, at Maynooth University

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"At each stage of Guinea-Bissau’s economic history, women’s unacknowledged labour in cashew cultivation & processing provided the floor that kept households alive and the system functional. When the formal economy contracted, that floor held. When the state withdrew, that floor held." #WomensLabor

Cashew capitalism - part two | ROAPE

The dominant cashew economy had established patterns that outlasted independence in 1974. By then, Amílcar Cabral was already dead, assassinated by Portuguese agents in Conakry the previous year. He n...

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www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Government should not chair EU debates on tech policy, academics say

Open letter criticises State’s ‘questionable track record’ on digital policy and corporate tax

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European and US companies continued to sell pesticides abroad years after they were banned at home. Our reporter traveled to Kenya to learn how farmers are paying the price for these chemical products with their health — and how they’re fighting back.

Multinationals Sold Kenyan Farmers a Lethal Harvest

European and US companies continued to sell pesticides abroad years after they were banned at home. Our reporter traveled to Kenya to learn how farmers are paying the price for these chemical products with their health — and how they’re fighting back.

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Only shifting the terrain by political mobilization can lead to green transformation - a powerful argument.

Benjamin Braun@benbraun.eurosky.social · 4w ago

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. 🧵

📣 We're hiring! The ETUI is seeking a senior researcher, ideally with team-leading experience, to conduct research into future-oriented topics of relevance for the world of work, with a particular focus on the #JustTransition Interested? More info here 🔗 etui.org/4fp

So pleased to have this brilliant book physically in my hand today! Many thanks to @etshermer.bsky.social for intellectual and organizational leadership on this, and fellow series editors Kim Phillips-Fein and Andrew Wender Cohen for helping usher this into print.

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

🔜 One month to go until the next round of #UNTaxConvention negotiations. Before talks resume in August, catch up on what happened in previous sessions & what's ahead. 👉Follow the negotiations with our explainers, analysis and updates: taxjustice.net/topics/un-ta... #TaxJustice #GlobalTax

The Irish Labour History Society and the Women’s History Association of Ireland are hosting a conference, 24/25 July, Lissadell, Sligo to mark the centenary of the death of Eva Gore-Booth. Early booking is advised for what will be a gathering of historians & feminists to consider Eva’s legacy. 👇🏼

Just out w/ @jacobhell.bsky.social - "Cloud assets and the “unit of compute”: Market dominance in commercial computing" #assetization #cloudcomputing #datacentres #bigtech || journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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I spoke to @newleftreview.bsky.social about the political economy of climate: supply chain geoeconomics, why Biden’s signature climate policy didn’t stick, political weakness of green capitalism, Chinese industrial policies, global South resource nationalism &more newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026

An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...

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The August #UNTaxConvention talks will decide who wins global tax reform: multinationals or people The OECD's "minimum tax" deal was watered down to 15% and the US exempted its multinationals So African nations took the fight to the #UN @jayatighosh.bsky.social at @novaramedia.com w/ Michael Walker

What an incredible World Cup by the DR Congo team, who overcame a devastating Ebola outbreak and war, and brought unity and hope to so many through dark times. Fimbu!

Our latest #bookreviews come from Hannah Farrimond, Jesse Callahan Bryant, Eirini Ktori and Madhuri Kamtam. @hannahfarrimond.bsky.social, @irenektori.bsky.social, @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social Read The Sociological Review magazine. #OpenAccess. buff.ly/HcfvZUa

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Quinn Slobodian@quinnslobodian.com · last mo.

The outcome of the war (so far) has been to show that weaponized interdependence cuts both ways, leaving the US no choice but to ease up on one of its own key chokepoints, incredible. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Amazing. Ancient Egyptian versus Modern Egyptian Arabic. Video is in Egyptian Arabic but you'll get the gist of it. Some words haven't changed in 5,000 years. Via www.instagram.com/reel/DYKjGpA...

We are closing @goldperc.bsky.social after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them www.goldperc.uk/project_post...

Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre

The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

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It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds. Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation

Polity@politybooks.bsky.social · last yr.

Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing. See more: www.politybooks.com/...

For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven roape.net/2022/02/08/t... #econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social

The Debate - why economists get Africa (really) wrong | ROAPE

In a debate on radical political economy, economics and economists working on Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven look at the use of statistics, mainstream economics, power, imperialism, pa...

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How and why do some countries restrict their fossil fuel production? We explore this in @ripejournal.bsky.social, based on fieldwork in 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇬🇧the UK, 🇨🇴Colombia & 🇨🇷Costa Rica. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social, @freddiedaley.bsky.social, and Dani Soto.

Why do countries adopt supply-side policies? The international political economy of fossil fuel phaseouts

Ambitious goals to limit global heating cannot be achieved without significant efforts to cut fossil fuel production. Yet, comparative analysis of the international political economy dynamics that ...

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📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory! The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty. Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️

Special Issue: Insurance and Social Theory

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Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more. Now all online— phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...

Solar. Very interesting by @janrosenow.bsky.social People in Pakistan "ran ahead on deployment and left the institutions trailing. The result is a boom and a crisis happening at the same time, in the same place."

Jan Rosenow@janrosenow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

JUST DROPPED: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the energy transition's wildest stories, and nobody planned it. World's #2 panel importer in 2025, mostly on rooftops. No subsidy, no scheme. But it also has a dark side. More in my latest newsletter 👇 janrosenow.substack.com/p/pakistan-t...

Out now - The Housing Question, a special themed issue of Rundale that @kathleenstokes.bsky.social and I edited. Featuring 5 really excellent pieces on #housing in Ireland from all across the artist <-> scholar <-> activist spectrum 🌈 www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/t...