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Jacqueline Best

@jacquelinebest.bsky.social
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Political economy Prof at the University of Ottawa. Current research: the politics of inflation and central banks; the early history of neoliberalism; practical ignorance; social theory.

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I was so very sad to hear about William Connolly’s death. Bill was such an amazing and inspiring human being. He was someone who always tried to live according to his ethical philosophy - cultivating a remarkable generosity of spirit in himself that brought it out in those around him.
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
@quinnslobodian.com @thunen.bsky.social @dandrezner.bsky.social @jacquelinebest.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Very excited to have this commentary article out with RIPE!
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Very excited to have this commentary article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social – Open Access! . . . a short 🧵: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Endogenizing the limits of ideas: a ‘how-to’ guide to understanding ignorance and failure in ideational political economy
This commentary essay makes the case for a different way of conceptualizing the role of ideas in political economy by arguing for the need to endogenize the limits of ideas—recognizing the key role...
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
'Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions' 🌳 Review of International Studies article & video abstract by Sylvain Maechler co-authored w/ Jacqueline Best 🎉 Read and watch here! 👉 ow.ly/2jmh50XBOSk Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
Peaceful garden walkway with trees leading to a historic building.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 13/11/2025
#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions - cup.org/4hZNlcX - @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo for "Review of International Studies" next to an image of the Earth, with the hashtag #OpenAccess on a dark green background.
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I'm so pleased to have this open access article out, "Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions" in Review of International Studies (@risjnl.bsky.social) with Sylvain Maechler!
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Mardi prochain, nous recevrons Leonard Seabrooke, professeur d’économie politique internationale et de sociologie économique au département Organisation de la Copenhagen Business School. ➡️« Getting Action in World Politics » Présidé par @jacquelinebest.bsky.social >>> bit.ly/46gtcdq
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I'm very much looking forward to chairing this talk by Len Seabrooke as our first IPEN event of the year!
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
New article! This review surveys the state of knowledge regarding central bank activity on climate change, and argues that there is considerable indeterminacy in the trajectory of this activity & its potential to contribute to effective climate action. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Authors: Jacqueline Best, Matthew Paterson, Ilias Alami, Daniel Bailey, Sarah Bracking, Jeremy Green, Eric Helleiner, James Jackson, Paul Langley, Sylvain Maechler, John Morris, Stine Quorning, Adrienne Roberts, Jens van’t Klooster, Robert Watt and Stanley Wilshire.
Abstract: In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. We argue that the current situation is a critical juncture in which recent crises have created a highly indeterminate situation regarding what central banks might do regarding climate change. To date, some central banks have used these crises as opportunities for expanding their role while others have succumbed to pressure to withdraw from climate action. We explore three dynamics that generate this openness to various potential trajectories for climate action...
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
What role can central banks play in addressing climate change today? In our just-published article, we argue that we are at a critical juncture in which the future is highly indeterminate. Written with @matpaterson.bsky.social + 14 other amazing scholars /1 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises
In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New open-access article with a great team of scholars, expertly led by @matpaterson.bsky.social and @jacquelinebest.bsky.social, on central bank action on climate change. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @campolis.bsky.social
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Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises
In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New publication! Collaborative work. With thanks to @jacquelinebest.bsky.social and @matpatterson.bsky.social for their invitation and leadership. Full article: Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Climate change governance by central banks in an era of interlocking crises
In this article, we survey the literature on central bank action on climate change, focusing particularly on how the combined crises of COVID-19, inflation, and Ukraine have affected this action. W...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This is bad bad bad bad bad bad very bad no good. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands, with $400 million in federal funding at stake.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I think the academic community can help US academics, as well as academia in general, by providing safe haven for datasets that are being targeted by the Trump administration.
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Fantastic to have an essay published in this awesome collection! www.tni.org/en/article/t...
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The new frontline | Transnational Institute
Current geopolitical competition has deepened into a Second Cold War between US and China, but this is no longer a fight over territory but rather control of global networks – with increased state-led attempts to control semiconductor supply chains and electric vehicle (EV) production to digital platforms, transport infrastructure, and financial payment systems. How can the global South and social movements navigate this new geopolitical terrain?
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Next Thursday, we'll be joined by @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, CIPS Postdoctoral Fellow, as he discusses "The Rise of Nature-Related Risks and the Climatization of Biodiversity" Moderated by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #IPEN Learn more >>> bit.ly/3PJGlUh
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Jeudi prochain, nous serons rejoints par @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social, chercheur postdoctoral au CÉPI, qui discutera de « La montée des risques liés à la nature et la climatisation de la biodiversité » Modérée par @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #RÉPI En savoir plus >>> bit.ly/4atkNEZc
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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 03/02/2025
An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.
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Shawn Donnan @sdonnan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Fascinating (and worrying) post by @stephaniekelton.bsky.social who put Deepseek to work to assess the impact of a 25% US tariffs on imports from Canada on Canadian GDP. It, er, took Deepseek 12 seconds... stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/the-impact...
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The Impact of 25% Tariffs on Canadian GDP
The Bank of Canada vs Deepseek
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Happy to have this opinion piece out with CÉPI-CIPS uOttawa: I look at a lasting legacy of Trump's second term: the broad-based repoliticization of the global economy and a move away from decades of attempts by policymakers to depoliticize policy.
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’m very excited to have this open access article out in @ripejournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jeff Powell @powelljr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Central banks’ knowledge controversies, by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Central banks’ knowledge controversies
In the last few years, the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Canada have all initiated policy reviews to reassess monetary policy tools and ideas that were no longer workin...
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Wow! Thanks to the editorial board for doing this heavy lifting. It's great to see RIPE continuing to reach new heights!
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Sarah J. Martin @eatingpolitics.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Terrific news! I got a sneak peek of an early version - I cannot wait to get this in my hands on this!
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In our latest issue, Michael J. Albert (@uoe-sps.bsky.social) contributes to the post-growth IR forum through the lens of Neo-Gramscian theory. His article is free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/48uxyfR
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 first since I moved on here with with @danbaileypoleco.bsky.social and @matpaterson.bsky.social on how climate governance is politicising the Bank of England in New Political Economy - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Matti Ylönen @mattiylonen.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
In the 1980s–90s, many previously prominent social scientific questions on power and inequality faded into the background. Our brand-new article w/ @phdskat.org at @ripejournal.bsky.social probes into this dynamic through the concept of 'corporate escape' 🧵 1/10 www.tandfonline.com/doi/metrics/...
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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Yes, we're hiring at Durham Geography in the UK. Yes, two posts in human geography. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Assistant Professor in Human Geography (GEOG_01 %26 02)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization: eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
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Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
📢 Proud to share a collective effort to better understand what post-growth International Relations may look like. I had the privilege of guest-editing this Editors Forum on "Towards post-growth IR" in @risjnl.bsky.social together with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social! 🧵 /1 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Review of International Studies: Volume 50 - Issue 5 | Cambridge Core
Cambridge Core - Review of International Studies - Volume 50 - Issue 5
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list! go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
J’ai bien hâte de modérer cette conférence!
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I’m very much looking forward to moderating this talk!
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The Syllabus has an interesting new page on The Post-neoliberal Moment with a range of curated syllabi on (to simplify) the relationship between #bigtech #platforms & #neoliberalism Well worth a browse www.the-syllabus.com/ts-spotlight...
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The Syllabus
The good content is already here; it’s just not evenly distributed
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Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
When consulting the glossary of terms in Bruno Latour’s Politics of Nature, and you get helpful explanations like “Subject: see Object” 😑
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Jamie Peck @jamiepeck.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
pls share: funded by EPA: Economy & Space, up to 8 travel + accommodation stipends available to enable doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to participate in the "ideational geographies" workshop at UBC, June 11-13, 2025. Application details: blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
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Ideational geographies workshop
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Jeff Powell @powelljr.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Financial technocrats as competitive regime creators: The founding and design of the Network for Greening the Financial System, from @jvtk.bsky.social Helleiner and DiLeo onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Financial technocrats as competitive regime creators: The founding and design of the Network for Greening the Financial System
Why did a group of eight central bankers and financial supervisors from across the globe create a Network for Greening the Financial System in 2017? Why did they design this network as they did? The ...
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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It’s good to have the official spelling
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Next Tuesday we'll be joined by Randall Germain, Professor of Political Science at Carleton University & Ilirjan Shehu, a PhD Student and Contract Instructor at Carleton University 🏛️ Moderated by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #IPEN Take a look >>> bit.ly/4fRHOD0
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CIPS / CÉPI @cepi-cips.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mardi prochain, nous serons rejoints par Randall Germain, professeur de sciences politiques à l'Université Carleton & Ilirjan Shehu, doctorant et enseignant contractuel à l'Université Carleton 🏛️ Modérée par @jacquelinebest.bsky.social #RÉPI >>> bit.ly/3OgdZAb
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses and damages. Help us understand how they affect contemporary societies & political economies. Join @vapunkt.bsky.social, @trgn.bsky.social & me at: - SASE Mini Conference - Paper Workshop @mpifg.bsky.social - Special issue at Socio-Economic Review
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Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis
Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er
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James Wood @thinkwoodist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The Political Economy Starter Pack has had an update - still working my way through the Political Economists moving over to @bsky.app - suggestions are very helpful! go.bsky.app/NgpPxi4
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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hockeystick of hope! 👇
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Can't believe this wasn't a thing yet— 50 *women* in political economy I follow & you should too! 💡 Send me more! 🙋‍♀️ go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
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Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Let’s see how long it takes for the Trump Bump to turn into the Trump Slump (and maybe, if we’re really lucky 🤞 the Trump Dump).
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