Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Got a big paper from my current work on transitions to green tech manufacturing in the Global South conditionally accepted at one of sociology’s top generalist journals. Could not be more thrilled! More soon… 1150
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJulian Go @juliango.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Latest news: 2 of my sociology colleagues, John Levi Martin & Geoff Wodtke & I each wrote separate reviews of the Vanderbilt-Wash U Report on Sociology by A. Rubin. For my brief opinion and links to all 3 reviews, see this blogpost: scatter.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/g...scatter.wordpress.comguest post: scholarly malpractice and the vanderbilt-washington university report on sociologyThe following is a guest post by Julian Go. By now readers of scatterplot will be aware of the Sociology portion of the Vanderbilt-Washington University Report (VWUR) by Ashley Rubin. Part of the “… 68740
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Such important work by colleagues at the NZIPL! And it raises a critical question: why are some Global South countries more capable of attracting and using this investment for building up green industry than others? 1176
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowLukas 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
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 02/09/2026CALL FOR PAPERS Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand and @princeton.edu Joint Symposium THE CLIMATE FACTORY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH 1-2 April 2027 Johannesburg, South Africa www.wits.ac.za/media/wits-u...wits.ac.za 011
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Welcome (back) to the Institute for Advanced Study @benbraun.eurosky.social. There couldn't be a more timely topic than "Emerging Forces in Global Political Economy" and we are fortunate to have you leading the School of Social Science community in this crucial discussion. 1283
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowHenry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is an impressive line up. 031
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Occupying my office at the Institute for Advanced Study today. This is where book #2 is going to be written, by hook or by crook! 070
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Who gets to decide what science gets done and for whom? In @bostonreview.bsky.social's “How to Save Science” forum, @scijust.bsky.social and I argue that issues of public accountability are key to any democratic future of the federal research enterprise. 02210
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAndrew Leifer @andrewleifer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026"American science needs an executive branch constrained by checks and balances" now out in Nature Physics with Andrea Liu, Sidney Nagel and Thierry Emonet. Gift-link: rdcu.be/fCDGE Original: doi.org/10.1038/s415... @natphys.nature.com #physicsrdcu.be 074
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJeremy Wallace @jeremywallace.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Eyes emoji. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 2649
Reposted by Benjamin H. Bradlowjohnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...afm.orgAFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly PartonToday, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist… 2667341776
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 24/08/2026How did Sociology become the hate piñata of Concerned Pundits on the education beat? The past month saw calls in the press for the discipline to be "liquidated" bc it's a "scam." My theory: it's bc we expose the harms of inequality. Me in today's @economist.com:🎁 www.economist.com/by-invitatio...economist.comWhy is sociology the hate-piñata of the social sciences?Accusations that it is thinly disguised socialism are wide of the mark, writes Brooke Harrington 1222973
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Carney: “Canada fuels American growth, supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of their electricity imports, and 60% of their crude oil imports. “I don’t think they want us to stop sending any of that energy.” 1024258
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowBrett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!penguin.co.ukHouse SocietyThe world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ... 27331
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowIlias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This stops in 2022. I imagine that we'll see a pretty much vertical line for the years 2022-2026, once these are included in the database. 021
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowSocial Forces @socialforcesfan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026📖 New book review in Social Forces "Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg" by Benjamin H. Bradlow Reviewed by @schechtlm.bsky.social ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf114 002
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Appreciate @drodrik.bsky.social's discussion of an article I co-wrote with @akentikelenis.bsky.social in his chapter on "Making the Green Transition Happen" in Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s418... 050
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/ 514155
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026This is an institutional crisis, but it is also an epistemological crisis — especially for the social sciences, which have treated the US as a theoretically important case. With its increasing epistemological marginality, a rational response would be a more global and transnational social science. 060
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 17/08/202611/ Europe and China have traditionally been larger export markets for Africa, but have hardly proved themselves reliable friends, either. For its part, Europe is set to impose a carbon border tax, which will be particularly painful for a handful of African countries. www.ntu.edu.sg/cas/news-eve... 161
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Adam Tooze's book Carbon is finally going to be out in February 2027. Pre-order here! Climate Crisis and the Eclipse of the West 38324
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Looking forward to learning from / with this crew over the next academic year. www.ias.edu/sss/social-s...ias.eduSOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINARExcept where noted in bold in the list below, the Social Science Seminar is held on Mondays from 10:30am-12:00pm in Room 5 of Rubenstein Commons. Attendees include Faculty, Members, and Visitors in th... 020
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I have a forthcoming chapter on the South Africa / Morocco comparison in a volume edited by @mkblyth.bsky.social @danieldrisc.com and Lucio Baccaro on "greening growth models." These notable gains are happening at the same time as many risk everything to leave. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comWhy Morocco’s ‘forgotten’ young are fleeing to EuropeFailure to translate growth into better living standards has driven migration attempts into Spain’s Ceuta enclave 13111
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 12/08/2026My book URBAN POWER is selling for just $12 on Amazon right now. www.amazon.com/Urban-Power-...amazon.comUrban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology)Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology) [Bradlow, Benjamin H.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Urban Power: Democracy and Inequality in São Paulo and Johannesburg (Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology) 140
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowLivio Silva-Muller @liviosilva.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The answer I propose involves thinking about climate change as an issue of state-building in a transnational space. The analytical focus is on the interactions between the national environmental bureaucracy, opposing elites, and their ties inside and outside the nation-state. 121
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowLivio Silva-Muller @liviosilva.bsky.social · 27/07/2026One of my dissertation papers is out this week, I answer one question: How do states build and lose decarbonization capacities? It's about the Brazilian Amazon since 1985, an increadible case of succesful, state-led decarbonization! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... 🧵🧵🧵journals.uchicago.eduReach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 132, No 1How do states build and lose the capacity to decarbonize? Based on a comparative-historical analysis of Brazil’s drastic reduction and later resurgence of CO2 emissions from 1985 to 2022, this article... 1135
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026I have a new short essay out in LIMN's special issue This Is Not a Platform titled "Platform Obscurantism: The Hidden Substrates of Machine Learning." ChatGPT is a platform. That may be the least interesting thing about it. limn.press/article/plat... 🧵limn.pressPlatform Obscurantism - LimnChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent... 46827
Reposted by Benjamin H. Bradlowcornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In this article in @socioeconreview.bsky.social I show why Europe is trillions euro behind China in lending to activities that can save the climate.academic.oup.comGreen monetary transitions? Central banking and climate finance in Europe and ChinaAbstract. This article examines the political economy of “greening” central banking as a contested project dynamically evolving on the spectrum between neo 095
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowDaniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/07/2026Friends!!! My book, Why Carbon Taxes Failed, is online. Chapters are free to download if you have access to @academic.oup.com: academic.oup.com/book/62984 1134
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJeff Gordon @jeffgordon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Industrial policy is often in tension with competition - a problem I call "the dilemma of picking winners." In this essay and the associated working paper, I propose a framework for doing industrial policy without entrenching the winners. lpeproject.org/blog/the-dil...lpeproject.orgThe Dilemma of Picking WinnersIndustrial policy will often require picking winners: if there were already many domestic firms capable of producing the desired output, there would be no compelling reason for subsidy or special… 0147
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowFinbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Brutal. 100,000! Volkswagen is planning to cut up to 100,000 jobs and end production at four plants in Germany in a significant acceleration of its cost-cutting plans as Europe’s largest carmaker seeks to survive the rapid advance of Chinese rivals.ft.comVolkswagen to axe up to 100,000 jobs in sweeping cost-cutting driveRestructuring follows blockbuster sale of marine engines unit to US private equity firm Bain 33923
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 25/06/2026What an absolutely brilliant moment for Bafana Bafana! On to Sunday against Canada in LA. 020
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowLivio Silva-Muller @liviosilva.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Just out in @socialforcesfan.bsky.social some of our work comparing Elites in Brazil and South Africa! Using a small survey with random sample of CEOs, legislators, and top bureaucrats in both countries, we unpack the contradictory ways elite think about merit and taxation and redistrution. 2116
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJoshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Today is the day! My book, Owning The Green Grid, is officially out in the world! *For orders placed today, June 23, only* use the discount code "MITP30" at checkout to receive 30% off. 20% off with the code "READMIT20" anytime after. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/814358... 56820
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Really looking forward to presenting some new work at the Science, Knowledge and Technology pre-conference at ASA in August! 041
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 04/06/2026funny how no one calls this...."overcapacity" 1218
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Can't wait for this one -- congrats, @jeremywallace.bsky.social! 131
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowThe Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/06/2026With more cows than people, Brazil is the world's largest producer of beef. @samcowie84.bsky.social writes on the country’s cowboys.thebaffler.comRodeo Clowns | Sam CowieBrazil has fused the codes of the American West onto its own supposedly endless tropical frontier of savannah and rainforest. 0123
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This is after years of officials from both parties in the US continuously berating China for its [declining share of] coal power. 050
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowSociedad Mexicana de Sociología @smsociologia.bsky.social · 01/06/2026La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz 2211641
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowDaniel 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 Benjamin H. BradlowPatrick Heller @pheller.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I have new article out in the Sociology of Development on the possibilities of building welfare states in the global south. Its free for now: online.ucpress.edu/socdev/artic...online.ucpress.eduThe Democratic Social Developmental StateParameters of the Possible in the Global SouthColonial legacies and the structural constraints of global capitalism pose significant obstacles to building welfare states in the Global South. Yet the past three decades have seen significant progre... 022
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Excellent essay by CK Lee in the new @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. "Three Frontiers of Global China" phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo... 041
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Without a strategy to absorb the advanced technology associated with contemporary automobiles, overly restrictive local content requirements are no panacea. The US is looking increasingly like middle income countries struggling to keep up in this sector. 010
Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 27/05/2026"The gap between principle and practice yawns wider with every export control and company added to the Entity List. You can almost see the eyes of America’s adversaries twinkling." — @quinnslobodian.com 062
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowJanet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 27/05/2026If you 👍 the Pope's recent Encyclical, you'll 😍 our new paper, shifting the conversation about "ethics" to one about political economy. Catch it here in pre-print before its release next month! #academicsky 14815
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Save 50% on our "Best of 2024" titles (including ebook and audiobook editions) through June 9th with code SPRING50 at checkout! press.princeton.edu/books/best-o... Some exclusions apply. @guidoalfani.bsky.social 044
Reposted by Benjamin H. BradlowSASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 27/05/2026📖 #HannahPool won the 2026 Alice Amsden Best Book Award for The Game: The Economy of Undocumented Migration from Afghanistan to Europe Congrats to shortlisted authors #ThomasAguilera, #FrancescaArtioli, #ClaireColomb, #BenjaminBradlow, #KatherineEvaMaich & #YingyaoWang 🔗 sase.org/news/2026-al...sase.org2026 Alice Amsden Best Book Award Winner Announced | SASE News 032