Reposted by Zsofi BartaLukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026New 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)!) 21510
Reposted by Zsofi BartaJonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 20/06/20261/ 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. 1468
Reposted by Zsofi BartaPhilipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Just 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! 14621
Reposted by Zsofi BartaDaniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026New 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/... 1134
Reposted by Zsofi BartaPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Europe 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...brettoninthewoods.substack.comChina's Growth Model Has No EndgameThe European debate about China is obsessed with production. It spends remarkably little time thinking about demand. 810625
Reposted by Zsofi BartaEleni Tsingou @etsingou.bsky.social · 05/06/2026On the political economy of memes from a brilliant colleague! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comMaking sense of memes: how to study distributed knowledge as lay economicsInternet 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... 053
Reposted by Zsofi BartaPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 21/04/2026There'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.... 923975
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The article could be of interest to @70sbachchan.bsky.social chan.bsky.social, @katemac.bsky.social sky.social, @brettchristophers.bsky.social ers.bluesky.social, @afolkers.bsky.social luesky.social, @savannahcox.bsky.social? 130
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Huge thanks to everyone who read and commented on previous versions, especially @jvtk.bsky.social , @vapunkt.bsky.social, @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and @matthiasthiemann.bsky.socialwan.bluesky.social 130
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The article argues that this strategy reflects rating agencies’ urge to offer insurance against short-term climate-related financial risks while avoiding committing to any one model of climate risks that might put them at odds with the markets. 6/n 160
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026…ratings coordinate market expectations around a “wait-and-see” approach to longer term risks, making a “climate Minsky-moment” more likely. 5/n 150
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026The upshot of this strategy is that ratings are lower (and thus funding is more expensive) for issuers that opt for mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency-building and forgo “dirty” sources of income and… 4/n 150
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This is because rating agencies explicitly choose to - discount longer-term threats; - account only for the immediate costs (but not the benefits) of mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency-building measures; - reward income-generation over proactiveness. 3/n 181
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026While the claim that financial markets could become the motor of the green transition has long been debunked, the article shows that ratings actively delay the repricing of unsustainable assets & make funding costlier to issuers with more sustainable behavior. 2/n 12710
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Publication 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 🧵tandfonline.comTragedy of the horizon on steroids: the green transition and credit ratingsHow 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... 14421
Reposted by Zsofi BartaScott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Pleased 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... 32610
Reposted by Zsofi Bartaherman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026pleased 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-...academic.oup.comStrong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political EconomyAbstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o 02714
Reposted by Zsofi Bartaherman 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. 192
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 06/02/2026What an honor to be included in such great company! I would love to take this course. (And thank you for making grad students read and discuss books, not just articles! We should all do it more.) 030
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Yes, please! (Would be super interesting for a book chapter I am writing.) 000
Reposted by Zsofi BartaChristopher Clary @claryc.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Happy 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...goodauthority.orgTrump plans to pull the U.S. out of dozens of organizationsTrump 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. 155
Reposted by Zsofi BartaBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 31/07/2025Incredibly 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... 8240120
Reposted by Zsofi BartaDavid Woodruff @dmwoodruff.bsky.social · 06/12/2025The 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! 0187
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I am immensely grateful to all who helped me think this issue through and commented on the various drafts, especially @mkblyth.bsky.social and @thunen.bsky.social. 010
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025This article has had a long and winding road to publication and it elaborates on the argument that I first made in this piece written for the Phenomenal World. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sov...phenomenalworld.org 120
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025Instead, it should be understood as a reflection of the systemic role that ratings play as a coordination mechanism providing an anchor for market participants’ expectations about ‘safe assets’. 140
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025In it, I argue that the recurrent failures and the resilient authority of the ‘Big Three’ rating agencies should not be understood in terms of credit assessment failure and regulatory permissiveness. 120
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025I 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..... 1277
Reposted by Zsofi BartaErik Peinert @erikpeinert.bsky.social · 12/08/2025My 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.academic.oup.comMonopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy RegimesAbstract. 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 84618
Reposted by Zsofi BartaMark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 06/06/2025OK, I finally gave in. I'm here. Now to migrate a bunch of users. 2213622
Reposted by Zsofi BartaJens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025We 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” 1194
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Fantastic piece on one of (the many) ways in which the EU has been punching well below its weight. 192
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 31/01/2025I will come to your talk tomorrow! (I hope I get in :-) 020
Reposted by Zsofi BartaCentre 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...eventbrite.frRoundtable - 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 1125
Reposted by Zsofi BartaInternational 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/... 1278
Reposted by Zsofi BartaCamilla Locatelli @cami34.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Stamattina 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 Commissioneilfattoquotidiano.it“Perché la Francia è la Francia”: l’Ue e i conti pubblici di Parigi - Il Fatto QuotidianoNegli 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 ... 021
Reposted by Zsofi BartaLukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Since 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...doi.orgTaxes on top incomes and financialisationFinancialisation 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... 36230
Reposted by Zsofi BartaAnke Hassel @ankehassel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Just published, open access, another paper with @donatodc.bsky.social and Martin Höpner @mpifg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comShielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective - Martin Höpner, Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, 2024We 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... 1185
Reposted by Zsofi BartaManuela 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 0194
Reposted by Zsofi BartaCentre 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 #PolScisciencespo.frRecruitment '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 02730
Reposted by Zsofi BartaTimothy Weaver @timweaver.bsky.social · 18/12/2024My 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... 3139
Zsofi Barta @bartazsofi.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Short and sweet case study of how ill equipped financial markets are to account for climate related risks. 1118
Reposted by Zsofi Bartacornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Indicative 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....tandfonline.comGreen economic planning for rapid decarbonisationSustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering... 96432
Reposted by Zsofi BartaChristoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Interesting 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.... 14011