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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 04/06/2026

Kicking off the Political Economy of Finance summer school v.3. At @lse-ei.bsky.social for the first time. Topic: “Finance and democracy”. Day 1: My co-hosts @mkblyth.bsky.social and @realbrianjudge.bsky.social in the morning, then @anninak.bsky.social, now @marionf.bsky.social.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

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Rohan Advani @rohanadvani.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Pleased to share my latest article, “Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore,” published at Social Science History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Enjoyed the conversations in Hannover at the political economy of European industrial policy event organized this week by Hellen Callaghan, @trgn.bsky.social & Bob Hancké. The presence, clear-eyedness and energy of the EC speaker, Maive Rute (DG Grow) were a highlight.

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

🎟️ ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSION @cmmonwealth.bsky.social’s Green Planning Commission is joining forces with @indep.bsky.social for a joint event on how we can translate green democratic planning from framework to policy. 🗓️ 14 April ⏰ 3PM UTC Register here 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/indepxgree...

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INDEPxGreen Planning Commission: Green Planning for Transition and Policy

INDEP and Common Wealth's GPC's explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into concrete policy proposals.

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

ready for redcaju.org Derisking and Alternatives workshop in Senegal! packed program with 23 (!) papers, interactive format (no ppt, all read/comment, two discussants per paper) and great mix of young/ish from the Global South and North. A special issue in the pipeline too.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/03/2026

*breathing into a paper bag*

PDF of book proofs:
SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN
The Hidden Life of Logistics
MIRIAM POSNER
Yale University Press
New Haven and London

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

This is insane.

By Maxine Joselow
Reporting by Washington Post
Article linked below

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Yusuf @yusufimaadkhan.com · 04/03/2026

Well that is just bait to make a chart for @neilwarner.bsky.social observablehq.com/@yusuf-imaad...

Picture of a chart: "The Meidner Plan. Employee fund's share of the individual company. 20% of profits allocated to the fund · Profit rates from 5% to 20%." Four curves show how employee fund ownership grows over 1 to 100 years at different profit rates (5%, 10%, 15%, 20%). Higher profit rates reach the 50% worker majority ownership threshold faster. A quote from Meidner, Hedborg, & Fond (1978, p. 47) explains the mechanism: companies issue new shares equal to 20% of profits to the employee fund. Grey dots from Meidner's original table overlay smooth lines using the formula s(t) = 1 − 1/(1 + fp)^t. Background features Meidner's eyes. Source: Meidner R., Hedborg A., & Fond G. (1978). Employee Investment Funds: An Approach to Collective Capital Formation. Graphic: Yusuf Imaad Khan.

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me. www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE

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Gabriel Kahan @gkahan.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

prepping for week 3 of my seminar - an intro to green industrial policy. really impressed by the quality of discussion so far, w students sharing perspectives on singapore, turkey, hungary, china, and more. big thanks to @bhbradlow.bsky.social for the inspiration. dm for the full syllabus!

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daniela russ @ueberdruss.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

what do we talk about when we talk about energy? my answer features (among many others) adorno, bogdanov, and the austrian communist wilhelm frank, who experimented with national exergy balances in the 1950s. out april 2026.

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INDEP @lndep.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

On 19th March 2026 from 9:30AM-3PM UTC+1 at SciencesPo Salle 900, 9 rue de la Chaise, Paris, we are organising a workshop about ecological planning with @gkahan.bsky.social and LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group. Register here: www.indep.network/event/worksh...

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Workshop - Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration

This workshop is organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms…

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Steffen Murau @steffenmurau.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣 Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊 That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

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Billy Fleming @joobilly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

cover art is juuuuust about final

Cover art for building postcarbon futures, a new book on climate justice and design due out in spring 2026

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Thinking back to this excellent concluding paragraph from @lioneltrolling.bsky.social's Substack post after Zohran Mamdani's initial primary victory:

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Perry Areolar @perryodontal.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

according to the liberation newspaper, documents dating back to a 2014 inspection by the French National Agency for the Security of Computer Systems reported a staggering detail: "the password of the louvre's video surveillance server was simply " louvre. "

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Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinstitute.org · 28/10/2025

NEW 📰: Building a more effective government that moves beyond the status quo requires honest reflection. Drawing on interviews with more than 45 former senior Biden officials, our latest report offers 161 practical recommendations for better governance. bit.ly/4312Zid

Image featuring a classical architecture building with columns, overlaid with a text quote from Elizabeth Wilkins of the Roosevelt Institute, "In Building a More Effective, Responsive Government: Lessons Learned from the Biden-Harris Administration, former Biden-Harris senior officials Hannah Garden-Monheit and Tresa Joseph draw from the insights, recommendations, and candor of more than 45 former public servants and tell a broader story we can’t forget: The problems with these institutions did not start with Donald Trump or Elon Musk, worse as they now are. These problems are, in part, what results from decades of bipartisan neglect, disinvestment, and deference to markets."

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Dan Seel @danseel.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Everyone wants to streamline bureaucracy, but maybe we'd get better results by making it *harder* for university admins to chase fads. Imagine the money we'd save with a mandatory cooling-off period before launching a "Center for Blockchain Studies" or dumping millions into the latest edtech toy.

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Jonas Meckling @jonasmeckling.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🌍 New in @nature.com: The geoeconomic turn in decarbonization, with data from Simon Evenett et al. and @industrialpolicy.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @natureatcal.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

For Europe, the lesson is sobering: we talk “sovereignty funds,” but GGFs already operate as a parallel financial infrastructure on a scale we haven’t matched. This is how China turns finance into an industrial weapon.

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Gabriel Kahan @gkahan.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

it’s articles like these that give new meaning to Arrighi’s argument that organizational innovations help reconsolidate hegemonic orders. if the American century was powered by vertical integration, the Chinese century will be powered by competitive high-tech sectoral planning

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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Very good @brusselermel.bsky.social - and what timing to publish this call for planning the American economy. Wonder what the Fed does in that progressive future :)

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Jack Taggart @jacktaggart.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📣 New article w/ @iliasalami.bsky.social & @tomchodor.bsky.social on the return of industrial policy globally @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does this signal a 'New Washington Consensus'? And does the return of industrial policy 'rebuild the ladder' of economic development? 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/yk2wvttc 1/12

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Fabulous lede from @jemima.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0e24...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

“This moment need not be seen as a crisis. Rather, it presents a pivotal opportunity for Brazil to assert itself as a sovereign economic power – less reliant on Washington and more engaged with an emerging multipolar global order.” -Pedro Rossi www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

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Yang Zhang @profyangzhang.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Glad to share my review essay “Changing China in Sociological Eyes” (AJS, July 2025). It reviews three recent books, while urging historicizing China’s reform and discussing the relationship between area studies and sociology. I’d love to hear your thoughts! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Changing China in Sociological Eyes The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 368. $120.00 (cloth); $...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan

With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

New policy brief that I co-authored with @akentikelenis.bsky.social for @plataformacipo.bsky.social, entitled "BRICS and the Green Industrialization of the Future." plataformacipo.org/en/publicati...

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Meet the new NYT city editor, Joseph McCarthy

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Jesus Christ, Bill de Blasio is cooking here. nymag.com/intelligence...

The editorial board took numerous shots at you and your tenure as mayor. What’s your response?
It felt like the New York Times didn’t understand New York City. It was this strangely conservative law-and-order, traditionalist view that totally missed the reality of the city today. My view is people are hurting and affordability is the issue and the Times just does not understand what everyday people are going through. They’ve disconnected from New York City more and more with every passing year. Obviously, they decided they didn’t care enough about New York City to make an editorial endorsement and then they show up with this wimpy, disingenuous editorial basically justifying why people should vote for someone corrupt in Andrew Cuomo, and not even recognizing that other new leaders had worthy ideas. I mean, the whole thing was like, “Let’s invalidate new young leaders,” right? It was unbelievably ageist and out of touch.

I was immediately transported back to 2013 when they said in their editorial when I was running for mayor that my ideas, like Pre-K for All, were impossible. They were absolutely dismissive, and their whole attitude was, Big bold ideas can’t happen, so why vote for someone who wants to change things? And I feel what they have become is sort of a parody of the status quo. They, in their own curmudgeonly way, just tell people to swallow hard and accept the unacceptable. If you talk to everyday New Yorkers, as I do all the time, you know that people really, really can’t stand the status quo in the city. But it’s not because they want to go back to some good old days of strongman leaders. It’s that they think their leaders don’t care about them, aren’t helping address the extraordinary pain they’re going through and the challenge of making ends meet.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“Politics is not just about the problems we have,” the authors rightly observe. “It’s about the problems we see.” Unfortunately, Abundance itself suffers from a severe case of myopia. Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director of @openmarkets.bsky.social, reviews ABUNDANCE:

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The Real Path to Abundance - Boston Review

To deliver plentiful housing and clean energy, we have to get the story right about what’s standing in the way.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Helen Hester @helenhester.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Got public luxury on my mind at the moment... See this wonderful, concise post from Phil Jones.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

It’s not all bad news.

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I have a new article out on wage-earner funds, a famous attempt at economic democracy in Sweden in the 70s & 80s. It explores the funds' defeat, emphasising the issue's stronger resonance with businesses compared to workers & the Social Democratic Party journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is very good and anticipates some of my own thoughts on the geopolitics of this moment. I have much more to say, but this is an excellent starting point.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Al Gore citing Theodor Adorno

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Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This whole piece is great but this paragraph especially:

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Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou @ariskomporozos.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Excellent op-ed by @abenanav.bsky.social. The Trumpist mess isn’t just a crisis, but also a prime opportunity to push for bold redistributive policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

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Opinion | There’s a Reason the World Is a Mess, and It’s Not Trump (Gift Article)

Global economic stagnation underlies today’s disarray.

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Manasi Karthik @manasikarthik.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Thanks for the great academic action shot @gkahan.bsky.social ! :) I really enjoyed talking to you all about how we can make economic sociology more relevant to our times. I'm excited about the possibilities for interdisciplinary work bringing het econ and IPE into econ soc!

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