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Zsofi Barta

@bartazsofi.bsky.social
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Political Economist; Sciences Po; previously UAlbany; Author of "In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt" (Michigan 2018) and "Rating Politics" (OUP 2023)

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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
New Paper out in Socio-Economic Review! Part of a coming special issue on the socio-economics of loss and decline. About the 4D chess of using blended finance for the coal exit in the Global South. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... (or ask me for a copy if you don't have access)!)
 The spectre of de-assetization: legal infrastructures and fragile fixes in fossil decommissioning - Lukas Bogner. Abstract: Efforts to decommission coal power plants in the Global South are constrained by the legal infrastructures that create and protect them as assets. This article examines the Asian Development Bank’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) as a case of managing these constraints via a series of increasingly complex and fragile spatio-temporal fixes: First, power purchase agreements and investment treaties require compensation of investors at business-as-usual asset valuations; second, for lack of public funding, this compensation is to be generated via a blended finance mechanism; third, its inability to stem these costs necessitates further legal-financial engineering, including a novel guarantee mechanism and ‘coal-to-clean’ credits. The ETM and its successive fixes are haunted by the power relations inscribed in asset creation and protection in the Global South. This renders ‘de-risked’ transition finance dubious as a blueprint for fossil decommissioning and highlights the troubled nature of climate-related asset stranding in transnational, hierarchical legal space.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 20/06/2026
1/ The purpose of green industrial policy has inverted. It used to pay for a public good: clean energy that cost more, benefiting everyone. Now it captures advantages a country keeps for itself. That shift, from a shared cost to a prize seized, is the story of the transition.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out: Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
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/...
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Europe is obsessed with Chinese industrial domination. But the more seriously I take the "China is winning" argument, the less sense China's endgame seems to make If European industry collapses, demand for Chinese exports collapses with it. My latest: brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/chinas-gro...
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China's Growth Model Has No Endgame
The European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand.
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Eleni Tsingou @etsingou.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On the political economy of memes from a brilliant colleague! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Making sense of memes: how to study distributed knowledge as lay economics
Internet memes are increasingly recognized as part of political discourse, yet there is no consensus on how to study them. Much existing scholarship has focused on impact – debating whether memes f...
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China. But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves. New paper & thread 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Publication alert! 🔔 My new article in @ripejournal.bsky.social shows that the way in which credit ratings assess climate risks is detrimental to chances of the green transition. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/DEWKJ... 1/n 🧵
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Tragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratings
How do financial markets influence the green transition? Advocates of harnessing markets to foster the green transition claimed that market rationality is a reliable mechanism to channel investment...
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Pleased to finally publish this paper with Mareike Beck on the epistemic origins of the 2022 gilt market crisis in @jeppjournal.bsky.social   How can we explain the limited regulatory response to the increasing systemic risk of LDI strategies in UK pensions? 1/n 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good ! academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...
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Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy
Abstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@palmapolyak.bsky.social ’s work on EU battery policy is electrifying! No, seriously it is the best stuff you can read on this sector.
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Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Happy to listen and learn from Brian Greenhill on Trump's withdrawal from dozens of international organizations last week, @goodauth.bsky.social . Part of what Brian calls the liberal international order's "moment of crisis." goodauthority.org/news/trump-p...
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Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of dozens of organizations
Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of dozens of organizations. Brian Greenhill discusses the impact of this move – and how Americans see international organizations.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 31/07/2025
Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
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David Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The independence of the Bank of England was supposed to facilitate the application of economic reasoning to public policy. But if independence=taboo on discussing the interactions btw fiscal & monetary policy, then not even technocrats deliberate on one of the biggest economic policy issues!
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
I am very happy to report that my article on the strange non-death of credit rating agencies has been published in New Political Economy. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....
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Erik Peinert @erikpeinert.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l... … The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.
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Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes
Abstract. Motivated by the contemporary extremes of monopoly power in the United States and globally, this book uses an in-depth comparison of the United S
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
OK, I finally gave in. I'm here. Now to migrate a bunch of users.
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
We highlight three own goals of failed internationalization: 1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports 2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive) 3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Fantastic piece on one of (the many) ways in which the EU has been punching well below its weight.
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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
📣 Roundtable Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs 📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm 📍Sciences Po Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Roundtable - Book Presentation of Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, CEE)
Presentation of Jan Rovny's new book - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals in France
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
🚨 Tax evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice. Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade. 📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
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Camilla Locatelli @cami34.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Stamattina è uscito sul Fatto Quotidiano questo mio pezzo in cui commento l'approvazione della Commissione Europea del budget francese. La Commissione sembra sempre soprassedere sulle violazioni francesi dei target, anche grazie alla capacità dei tecnici francesi nel dialogo con la Commissione
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“Perché la Francia è la Francia”: l’Ue e i conti pubblici di Parigi - Il Fatto Quotidiano
Negli ultimi giorni, il governo francese ha sorprendentemente ottenuto l’approvazione dei propri piani di spesa da parte di Bruxelles. L’esecutivo, recentemente insediato e guidato dal primo ministro ...
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
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Taxes on top incomes and financialisation
Financialisation is one of the most prominent economic developments of the past half century in the advanced democracies. While the existing literature focuses on financial deregulation and liberal...
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Anke Hassel @ankehassel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just published, open access, another paper with @donatodc.bsky.social and Martin Höpner @mpifg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective - Martin Höpner, Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, 2024
We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and re...
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Manuela Moschella @manuelamoschella.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
(R)IPE rocks! 🎉 No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Very cool project!!
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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🚨Job Alert🚨 We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union) Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude... #AcademicJobs #PolSci
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Recruitment 'Assistant Professor (tenure track)'
Recruitment 2024 /2025 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in political science / Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union
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Timothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
My book, Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, published by @TempleUnivPress is now available for pre-order with a 25% discount. If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students. tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Short and sweet case study of how ill equipped financial markets are to account for climate related risks.
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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LSE European Politics @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
💥 New: Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit ✍️ Camilla Locatelli @mpifg.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit
A no-confidence vote triggered by a dispute over the French budget has led to the collapse of the country’s government. Camilla Locatelli writes that France’s fiscal challenges offer important less…
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Tracy Alloway @tracyalloway.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great read on the rise of lightly-regulated insurers. As more traditional insurance companies exit markets like Florida and California, some others are stepping in. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Florida, California Home Insurance Market Infused by Riskier Carriers
A lightly regulated insurance market is offering coverage to homeowners in states that saw withdrawals of major insurers.
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
https://shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Why I am not predicting another financial crisis? My latest - the second of the three big challenges facing the global economy... annpettifor.substack.com/publish/post...
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Why am I not predicting another Great Financial Crisis?
The answer can be found in the 'Bailout State'
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Isabelle Guinaudeau @iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The French Parliament has just brought down Michel Barnier’s government via a vote of no confidence – a first since 1962. A 🧵 on what is happening, what to expect next - and how the far right is capitalizing on the crisis.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 04/12/2024
In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels. Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? The answer: learning curves.
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𝘎𝘰𝘥 𝘏𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘍𝘭𝘢𝘨𝘴 @bheanilla.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
IMF style troika but for Germany where experts from Ireland, Spain and Greece teach them how to borrow and spend.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 04/12/2024
When the Bundesbanker once known for his sharp suits looks this crumpled you know something’s not in ordo. on.ft.com/3BfhCUj
Financial Times,
Bundesbank chief calls for softer debt brake to ramp up investment
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Olaf Storbeck and Patrick Jenkins in Frankfurt
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Read the full article at:
https://on.ft.com/3BfhCUj
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Pepper Culpepper @pculpepper.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
American economic dynamism and the American oligarch problem in two graphs by Martin Wolf in today’s FT.
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Daniel Mertens @danmertens.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We had a strong, but short-lived career on the twitter-thing: our IPE working group in the German Political Science Association is now on bsky. Get in touch, more information (in German) here: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
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Internationale Politische Ökonomie
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
"Bundesbank president Joachim Nagel told the Financial Times the next government needed to reform its so-called debt brake, which bans Berlin from borrowing more than 0.35 per cent of GDP in any fiscal year, to address the longer-term economic risks facing Germany." www.ft.com/content/702d...
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Bundesbank chief calls for softer debt brake to ramp up investment
German central bank president Joachim Nagel urges Berlin to relax rules to address defence and infrastructure shortfalls
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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨 great new paper! 👇
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Reminder that UK economy and society has become a series of compounding housing/finance bubbles
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Christopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pleased to chat with @saadgulzar.bsky.social to discuss South Asia's air pollution crisis and how bureaucrats can make a difference. goodauthority.org/news/can-bur...
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Air pollution in South Asia has reached dangerous levels.
How government structures across South Asia can help tackle the serious recurring air pollution problem each year.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 29/11/2024
New paper with @nilskupzok.bsky.social out in Perspectives today! We show how decarbonizable industries are reshaping climate politics through what we call "the decarbonization bargain." 1/
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Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I cannot wait to get my hands on this book!
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Ben Clift @benclift.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🎙️ SPERI Presents... 🎙️ New Thinking in Political Economy: Climate Scenarios w/ Ben Clift & Caroline Kuzemko Why is modelling climate scenarios so important for climate mitigation policy, and what are technocrats getting wrong? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Listen now: tinyurl.com/ufpk7jp8
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New Thinking: Climate Scenarios w/ Ben Clift & Caroline Kuzemko
SPERI Presents... · Episode
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Emiliano Grossman @egrossman.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Many studies have suggested that people don't vote based on broad economic concerns. But there is increasing evidence that people respond strongly to material developments if they can clearly gauge their effect on themselves. Here's another example showing the effects of rising rents:
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