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Gabriele Gratton

@grattonecon.bsky.social
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Professor of Politics and Economics, UNSW Sydney. ARC Future Fellow gratton.org resilientdemocracylab.org For rocks&cats: instagram.com/prof_not_pro

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🎉Persuasion often happens privately, behind closed doors, but its influence spreads via examples to larger networks and markets. So how should one optimally customize private communication behind closed doors? And who should one choose to target to influence a larger market? 1/3
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Still getting my head around this paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and co-authors -- but the intuition is very powerful!
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Giovanna Invernizzi @ginvernizzi.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Heading to Alghero 😎 looking forward to a great conference!
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
In equilibrium, as this paper shows, de facto power tracks standard measures of market power, survives bans, taxes, and technocratic delegation, and can skew innovation toward regulation-resistant technologies. By @grattonecon.bsky.social & @bartonelee2.bsky.social at @ethz.ch buff.ly/fkYG29M
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We are hosting a conference in honour of Emeritus Professor Alan Woodland. Join us in celebrating his remarkable and lasting contributions to economics. Registration: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conference...
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...
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USI Institute of Economics (IdEP) @usiidep.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Lehan Zhang (@ethz.ch) presents joint work with @grattonecon.bsky.social (UNSW) and Hasin Yousaf (UNSW) and @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social (UNSW & CEPR): "Adding fuel to the (gun)fire: how politicians polarize the public debate" 🔥 #WISE2026
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Let me just re-up our review of Dani Rodrik's new book ("Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World") in light of this very interesting podcast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ). academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Check out this article by @grattonecon.bsky.social. It features his important work with @bartonelee2.bsky.social -- along with the contributions of Massimo Morelli, @trfetzer.com, @caroartc.bsky.social, and Laurenz Guenther. Most importantly, however, it www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/how-...
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How democracies erode
Democracy is not collapsing, but it is eroding. Across the West, economic shocks, political constraints, and widening gaps between voters and institutions are reshaping stable democratic systems into ...
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
When you see the proofs, it feels a bit more real ✨ Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right (Oxford University Press) will be published online in June 2026 and in print in July 2026.
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
BusinessThink on our paper with @bartonelee2 and Hasin Yousaf, “Bad Democracy Traps” “Why we don’t trust politicians (and what this means for democracy)” www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/tru...
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Trust in democracy and the limits of public policy
UNSW research examines how political trust and voter beliefs about institutions shape democratic performance and support for long term reform
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New site live! resilientdemocracylab.org
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UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab
The UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab promotes and supports quantitative and qualitative research on democratic institutions.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, ​is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Finishing up the slides for the launch this Thursday night. Excited... and a bit scared
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right! youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
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Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win? | The Argument
YouTube video by The Argument
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
🚨 Join us in Sydney for the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop 26-27 Feb 2026 Info, program, and registration👇 www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper. www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
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Behind Populists’ Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy - ProMarket
Populist leaders like United States President Donald Trump are zealously challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. This backlash follows decades of steadily increasing delegatio...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats
We study a stylised model of the rise and fall of technocratic democracies: democracies that delegate policymaking to unelected technocrats. In our model, technocratic democracies arise when majori...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Great article by @jerusalem.bsky.social! www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-price-...
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The price of expertise
How independent agencies save us from political whiplash and spawn populist backlash.
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...
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How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism
YouTube video by The Argument
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 08/12/2025
🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century
The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow. bsky.app/profile/cepr...
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration. Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Four more days to apply!
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
🕵️‍♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀 DEADLINE: November 28. QUESTION? Email me. LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷‍♂️
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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf! The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions? They argue that what matters is not only
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development) Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc. ... is one hour from London, 20 mins from Birmingham 90 mins from the Peak District National Park Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 28/10/2025
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties". (When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
It's not our style to speculate on others' budgetary issues, But you may want to know we are hiring on this year's junior JM. 😉
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!! 🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️‍🔥 LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin... A short 🧵 👇 1/8
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Public debate surrounding 57 mass shooting events 2016-2022 become systematically more partisan and polarized after politicians join the conversation. Analysis of 4.75M tweets reveals that unlike other social media celebrities, interventions by politicians are uniquely partisan and issue polarizing!
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!! 🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️‍🔥 LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin... A short 🧵 👇 1/8
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
For more information about our department, check out this thread by one of our many wonderful professors, @grattonecon.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/grat...
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market. Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels. Apps Close November 28th econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor
Advertiser: School of Economics, Business School, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney
Field(s) of specialization: Any field
Position type(s): Associate Professor, Lecturer, Senior Lecturer
Location of job: School of Economics, UNSW Business School, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia
Degree required: Doctorate
Job start date: Flexible
Job duration: Continuing/permanent
Letters of reference required: 3
Application deadline: 28 Nov 2025 midnight UTC (accepting applications)
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The School of Economics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) is seeking to make one or more appointments at the level of Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Senior Lecturer and/or Associate Professor.

Applicants must have a PhD completed or near completion and must be able to demonstrate strong research abilities and a commitment to education. Applicants for lecturer positions should show promise of becoming internationally recognised scholars and excellent teachers. Senior appointments should have a demonstrated commitment to excellence in research, teaching and supervision, as well as strong evidence of academic leadership.

Successful applicants will be expected to develop an independent research program that achieves international recognition, supervise postgraduate research and teach in undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Applicants with expertise in any area of economics will be considered.

UNSW desires to be the exemplar Australian university and employer of choice for people from diverse backgrounds. We aspire to ensure equality in recruitment, development, retention and promotion of staff, paying particular attention to ensuring no-one is disadvantaged on the basis of their gender, cultural background, disability or Indigenous origin.

Application Process: All applications should be submitted online at www.econjobmarket.org. Applications must include a letter of application…
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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UNSW Economics Dept @unswecon.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
If I were a JMC, I would jump at this headfirst…
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