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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

So great to be back to the Regulating for Decent Work Conference #RDW2025 @ilo.org - such a great line-up of papers, particularly on digital labour platform & (lack of) decent work, and empowering workers in global supply chains

Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🙏🙏🙏 to all of you @ @tuda.bsky.social @goetheuni.bsky.social @dfg.de Research Training Group 'Standards of Governance' for your challenging questions after my input talk ‘Conceptualising Standards’ yesterday. A great opportunity to refresh my mind on The Power of standards (@cambridgeup.bsky.social)

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

The powerful countermove to Trump’s bullying 👉 repealing the so-called anticircumvention laws forced by US to prohibit tampering with or bypassing software locks that control access to copyrighted works from which US monopolist giants extract huge rents. on.ft.com/3RLctIg

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The digital countermove to Trump tariffs

America’s mid-air dismantling of the global system of trade represents a one-time chance to compete

Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump’s tariff policy has nothing to do with trade 'If you understand Trump’s actions as the use of executive power to bully into complicity the institutions that would otherwise stop a slide towards autocracy, then it is easy to see how tariffs fit into the plan’ US Sen Murphy 1/3 on.ft.com/3G9vcKU

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News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes

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Michelle Marie @mmludz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

A meme showing President Trump, a penguin and JD Vance at the White house. Trump: Nice suit. Penguin: I'm nude. Remove tariffs or I shit on this chair right now. Vance: be careful with the couch.

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

And the good news is… 🙏 @snsf-ch.bsky.social for funding the 4-year project ‘Grounding uncertainty: standards & agency in digital labour platforms’. 👉 1 PhD & 1 PD researcher on how those platforms control a remote workforce & how this workforce cope & organise in the following countries: 🇧🇩 🇷🇸 🇩🇪

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Looking forward to having it soon in my hands!

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Bravissimo Anne! Amplement mérité🤩

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Frédéric Mérand @fredericmerand.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Le maccarthysme est de retour dans les universités américaines.

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Geoffrey Pleyers @geoffreypleyers.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Tribute to Michael Burawoy, one of the most inspiring sociologists of our times and a wonderful human being. Former president of @isa-sociology.bsky.social and @asanews.bsky.social In ISA Global Dialogue, the public sociology journal he founded. globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/articles/mic...

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Michael Burawoy, a Compass for Sociology in our Times

Michael Burawoy passed away abruptly on February 3, 2025. The International Sociological Association (ISA) mourns one of its most influential and inspiring presidents

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

International political sociology (IPS) panels kicks off at @unige annual conventional of the Swiss political science association. We are all set for a fantastic line up. For further detail, see www.svpw-assp.ch/fileadmin/ab... @annaleander.bsky.social @lucreziac.bsky.social

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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#DiPLab est à l'honneur dans Le Temps. Dans le nouveau podcast 'IA qu'à m'expliquer', écoutez Paola Tubaro (CNRS) présenter nos recherches sur les travail du clic qui se cache derrière les solutions de machine learning. www.letemps.ch/podcasts/ia-...

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Podcast - Le travail humain invisible de l'automatisation dans l'IA - Le Temps

Le nouvel épisiode de notre podcast consacré à l'intelligence artificielle s'intéresse de près à l'industrie des travailleurs du clic qui jouent un rôle important dans le développement de ces technolo...

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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Very excited to announce the publication of 10(3). The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and some cracking review articles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Finance and Society: Volume 10 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Finance and Society - Volume 10 - Issue 3

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

excellent new paper on green economic planning from excellent CBS colleagues @jhasselbalch.bsky.social & Cornel Ban, drawing on lessons from post-war indicative planning, contemporary industrial policy & corporate planning 🌻 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation

Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...

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Casilli @casilli.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Despite the hype, past research found no clear link between AI adoption and long-term productivity gains. Now a new report from @torontomet.bsky.social confirms it: no solid evidence that AI drives short-term productivity growth either. dais.ca/reports/wait...

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Waiting for Takeoff: The short-term impact of AI adoption on firm productivity

In this study, we tackle the critical question of whether AI adoption leads to productivity improvement at the firm level.

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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

This is big news for watchers of the academic research-attention economy complex

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

150 ans de conflit en 90 min + 1 message fort: 1) la question palestinienne ne meurt pas 2) elle mute 3) ... a une énorme charge symbolique 4) … qui aliment une attractivité sur les puissances en quête d’affirmation ds le système international 5) … et préfigure son évolution ds son ensemble MERCI

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Can’t wait for reading this. We are just brainstorming on this very issue with my colleagues @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social & Victor Cannilla from @unil.bsky.social

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Looking forward to reading this important piece 😁

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Insurtech is now increasingly jeopardising the solidarity principle on which microinsurance was initially conceived. It is high time to re-think the agenda that reinscribes the state as the primary risk holder and provider of universal social measures. 7/8

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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The larger picture: a debate between private & social insurance. Microinsurance was originally conceived as an alternative form of social insurance. 6/8

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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(i) a dysfunctional ecosystem constrains platforms’ interoperability; (ii) sites of valuation collide as a result of unsuccessful attempts to collect both traditional and alternative data; (iii) and price personalisation runs counter scaling up by aggregation and instead tends to unpool risk. 5/8

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Contradictions occur between the principles of platform scalability and insurance risk pooling. We analyse how the qualification and expansion of Insurtech depends on three processes: interoperability, valuation, and aggregation. Yet… 4/8

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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In brief, we argue that Insurtech’s promises fall short of expectations because… 3/8

yannickperticone.bsky.social @yannickperticone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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The paper engages current debates on digital financial inclusion and platform capitalism. It offers insights into the contradictory principles driving Insurtech in the inclusive insurance market and the limits to the ongoing global expansion of platform capitalism. 2/8

Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

You didn’t see micro-insurers? Watch out for Insurtech in inclusive finance and development...

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unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Les enfants, moteur des changements de comportement proenvironnementaux ? Plus un sujet est jeune, plus les initiatives visant à modifier ses actions en faveur de l’environnement sont efficaces. 👉 À lire dans l'uniscope: bit.ly/4crARqT

unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

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♟️Organisée par le vice-doyen Jean-Christophe Graz et la consultante recherche Ellina Mourtazina, la Journée annuelle de la recherche de la Faculté des SSP s’est penchée sur la notion d’échec, rarement mise en perspective. À lire dans le rapport annuel de l'UNIL - wp.unil.ch/rapport-annu...

sfb138.bsky.social @sfb138.bsky.social · 21/05/2024

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‼️ Save the date ‼️ On 🗓️June 13 at 🕕6pm, Prof. Dr. Grégoire Mallard will give a lecture on "Viral governance - How unilateral US sanctions changed the rules of financial capitalism" 📍Location: Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Ludwigstr. 23, Room 151

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Jean-Christophe Graz @jcgraz.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

Un tout grand merci à l’ensemble des participant·es pour ces partages d’expériences et réflexions critiques sur la notion d'échec. Une fois encore, ce rendez-vous annuel a mis en lumière la pluralité des activités et expériences de recherche au sein de la Faculté !

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

"All this is leading to the emergence of new economic divides between those who control the means of summarization, and those whose properties or livelihood risks being summarized into effective non-existence." www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...

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The political economy of AI

It's all about who gets what

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unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

La Journée des Masters du 5 mars est faite pour vous! Elle vous permet d’assister aux présentations des différents Masters de l’UNIL et des Masters conjoints avec la HES-SO et la HEP Vaud. Ouverte à toutes et tous, sur inscription wp.unil.ch/journee-mast... (@fdca-unil.bsky.social)

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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As we explain, “decisions and actions in times of ecological crisis must be taken, but given the situation of true uncertainty, they must be taken through the exercise of judgement, as well as with ‘prudence and humility’ (Knight, 1921: 375).” 9/9

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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We consider crises as critical moments when international actors must act while facing the problem of uncertainty & we show that IR studies struggle to sort out the processes underpinning decisions and actions taken in such crisis moments. 2/9

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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3) Finally, new developments in green central banking, particularly the “Green Swan” report by BIS are illustrations of Knight’s exercise of judgment in acknowledging the true uncertainty of future states of the world. 7/9

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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2) Recent financial sustainability reporting standards of the IFRS Foundation bring the ecological crisis into the realm of Knightian statistical probabilities. 6/9

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Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

1) The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting of the UN which provides biophysical statistics for environmental dimensions of economic activities is close to what Knight calls “estimates of probability”. 5/9

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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We illustrate our argument with the global ecological crisis and its uncertainty. We present 3 contrasting methods used by international actors to convert the time of the ecological crisis into decisions and actions. 4/9

Sylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

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We draw on Frank Knight 3 methods to reduce uncertainty based on distinct probabilistic calculus to anticipate future states of the world. While devised to explain the origins of profits in a capitalist economy, the methods can also inform IR conceptualization of crises. 3/9