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Brent Terhune @brentterhune.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

15/ As I started 2026, I am reading "The Maniac" by Benjamin Labatut, and enjoying it very much! But that's for another year! My complete 2025 reading list on @goodreads: www.goodreads.com/user/year_in...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

14/ The novel moves across times as the scholar investigates the digital traces of the main characters. A reflection on how we will see our present from the future, but also on how art and literature are anchored more in mundane life events than in grand narratives and forces.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

13/ Several interesting novels this year, but perhaps the one I keep thinking about is Ian McEwan's latest. "What We Can Know" is set in 2119. A literature professor obsesses over a lost poem from 2014, before what the future calls "the Derangement" www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

12/ They happen when good people become ethically blind, when organizational context overrides individual values. Corporate malfeasance is almost never a "bad apple" story, but the result of clearly identifiable organizational patterns. I hope more corporate leaders will read it!

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

11/ Closer to my research interests: GuidoPalazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage's "The Dark Pattern" They show how corporate scandals at Volkswagen, Wirecard, Boeing, and Theranos don't happen because of bad people. www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

10/ I hope Vuillard's words will not become true, even if they do ring true: "We never fall twice into the same abyss. But we always fall the same way, in a mixture of ridicule and dread." 94249

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

9/ Reading about the February 20, 1933 meeting between 23 top business leaders and Hitler, and the support they pledged to the rising Nazi party should warn all conservatives of the dangerous game they are playing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

8/ Éric Vuillard's "The Order of the Day" (L'Ordine del Giorno as I read it in Italian) is a short fictionalized historical narrative on the early rise of Hitler and the role of business leaders in enabling it: www.goodreads.com/book/show/41...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

7/ Once you see these patterns, you can't unsee them. Every ESG debate. Every diversity initiative. Every climate proposal. The same three reactionary arguments, remixed endlessly.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

6/ Hirschman noticed that every reactionary argument against progressive change follows one of three rhetorical scripts: It will backfire and make things worse (perversity) It won't work anyway (futility) It will destroy what we've already won (jeopardy)

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

5/ Hirschman noticed that every reactionary argument against progressive change follows one of three rhetorical scripts: It will backfire and make things worse (perversity) It won't work anyway (futility) It will destroy what we've already won (jeopardy)

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

4/ Hirschman's "The Rhetoric of Reaction" is required reading to inoculate readers against much of the reactionary propaganda we see today (especially on LinkedIn!). www.goodreads.com/book/show/15...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

3/ 17th-century philosophers convinced themselves that commerce would civilize humanity. The pendulum then swung in the opposite direction, framing capitalism as a destructive force. We have been living through a continuous swinging of this pendulum ever since.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

2/ I re-read two books by the great Albert Hirschman and plan on reading more of his work this year. Starting with "The Passions and the Interests" (1977). www.goodreads.com/book/show/35...

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

1/ I spent 2025 reading about reactionary thought. Then I realized: the rhetoric never changes, only the target. Logged 21 books across multiple languages this year. Some reflections on the ones I keep thinking about. Full post: bit.ly/4aPWG5P 🧵

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The 3rd Edition of the online BS4CL Global PhD Course: Organizing the Climate Transition will take place from January 22 to April 9, 2026. FREE access for PhD students. Apply by December 20, 2025! www.iese.edu/faculty-rese...

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Organizing the Climate Transition

This global PhD course prepares the next generation of scholars to generate impactful, in-depth knowledge about the climate transition.

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Mike Flannigan @mikeflannigan.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

New study in Nature on the Long-range PM2.5 pollution and health impacts from the 2023 Canadian wildfires www.nature.com/articles/s41... 'We find that 354 million (277–421 million) people in North America and Europe were exposed to daily PM2.5 air pollution caused by Canadian wildfires in 2023'

figure 3 from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09482-1
–c, Daily PM2.5 exposure in Canada (a), from fire sources in different source regions, anthropogenic sources and other sources (for example, biogenic, dust and sea salt). d–f, Cumulative fire-related PM2.5 exposures in Canada (d), from different source regions.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I am a huge fan of "what is this kind of argument and how can you do it right?" papers. I collect them and I've tried to write a couple, and think they can be tremendously useful especially for teaching. A new, useful addition to this set just arrived from @sociologicalsci.bsky.social:

sociologicalscience.com

How to Make a Functionalist Argument

Article: How to Make a Functionalist Argument | Sociological Science | Posted August 14, 2025

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thanks! Can you share the rest of the collection?

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The @economist.com must live in an alternative universe where the Partido Popular is “moderate” 😂 and the confrontation was caused by Pedro Sanchez (and not the PP who has mounted a lawfare campaign)! 🤬 Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down economist.com/leaders/2025...

economist.com

Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down

Pedro Sánchez needs to let his country’s democracy renew itself

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Honored to see our research with Matteo Prato cited in @economist.com AI talent war article. We found hiring “stars” can actually hurt team performance—especially for non-stars—as stars often absorb more resources than they share. www.economist.com/business/202... doi.org/10.1287/orsc...

economist.com

Are superstars as good when they move jobs?

The AI-talent scramble raises an old question

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Michael Bloomberg: "Not every life can be spared from climate change, unfortunately, but many more could be saved if elected officials stopped pretending that they’re powerless to do anything about it." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

bloomberg.com

The Texas Floods Were Made Worse by Climate Denialism

Elected officials must be held accountable, now and in the future, for the lives lost in disasters brought on by increasingly extreme weather.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Kickstarter campaign from one of the most creative video game studios in Barcelona - Check out GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike by Melbot Studios on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...

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GodsTV - Fight for clout in this fame show arena roguelike

A hilarious action game set in a madcap, 90's-throwback TV world where fame is a weapon.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Great start of EGOS conference in Athens with Max Richter's concert at the Odeon in the Akropolis! @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

and the most published one of the new batch is a statistician who famously wanted to go for herd immunity instead of vaccines 🤬

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I am watching Andor - a Star Wars spinoff - and in one of the episode the Empire create a situation where protesters and poorly trained young soldiers are put in the same small square. A powder keg which predictably ends with violence...eerily familiar these days 😡

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Good review but the author could have noticed the irony that Trump is the product of this unholy alliance between antielites and ultra-elites! The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape - on.ft.com/3FKSirx

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The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape

Two wonderfully detailed books explore the widening gap between the super-elites and everyone else

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

this @adambonica.bsky.social piece deserves to be read beside the yeoman work that @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social have been doing. The dismantling of administrative expertise is one of those stories that is so big that pro journalists with beats find it hard to focus on or explain .

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How to Dismantle a Democracy, One Job Posting at a Time

OPM’s new hiring memo imports the authoritarian playbook—quietly, bureaucratically, and by design.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Is there a future for responsible investment beyond ESG? I’ll be sparring (constructively!) with Tariq Fancy (bio: stanford.io/3RNVd5c) May 12th at @iese.bsky.social Join us as we explore what went wrong with ESG—and what comes next. alumni.iese.edu/events/173999 apply.iese.edu/the-rise-and...

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Tariq Fancy

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

“The strongest demand for stocks seems to be coming from retail investors in America, who like to “buy the dip”. Some of them could be allowing their investment in Mr Trump at the ballot box to cloud their financial judgment.” If this true it will crash again… economist.com/leaders/2025...

economist.com

Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war

The relief they are banking on needs to come fast

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

I hope the Catholics who voted for him are happy now.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Interesting reflection on the need to accompany national competition in green technologies with global cooperation to solve shared environmental risks, and avoid mercantilism (a major challenge today given the protectionist push of the US).

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Why the green-technology race might not save the planet

The emerging global competition for green innovation, markets and investments might boost prosperity without improving environmental sustainability.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I still cannot believe this is happening 😡😡😡

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Of course it had to be a finance professor 😂 and just threw out there random claims without bothering to check his claim with scholars who actually know something about it.

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Fabrizio Ferraro @fferraro.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

The scary ethical quandary of DOJ staffers - How to survive a purge: the secret diary of a DoJ staffer economist.com/1843/2025/04... from @economist.com

economist.com

How to survive a purge: the secret diary of a DoJ staffer

A lawyer struggles with their conscience. New colleagues are watching

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