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Jacob Hasselbalch

@jhasselbalch.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School // Political economy, climate change, sustainability, plastics, circular economy, experts and expertise // www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-…

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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very excited for the kick-off conference of my new Einstein Foundation research project next week. Featuring lots of empirical work on corporate, financial and state planning and a @futurehistories.bsky.social Live Episode. Registration, timetable etc. here: buff.ly/ciCXIxB
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New publication out: Prefigurative plastic politics. Published in the Earth System Governance journal, our global mapping of 125 grassroots and community-led initiatives building alternative futures to fight plastic pollution. Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Prefigurative plastic politics: Alternative organising in the global plastic economy
This article examines how grassroots and community-led initiatives engage in prefigurative politics, understood as building alternative futures in the…
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
New working paper out in LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social's working paper series, co-authored with @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’" www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
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Green economic planning as ‘directed entanglement’ - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
In this paper, the authors propose green economic planning as a framework for states to set ambitious climate plans.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
CC @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Congrats both! Really nice work. I look forward to reading the published version, I expect it's going to be very useful for orienting future research directions.
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 02/06/2026
New State of the Art article in @sasemeeting.bsky.social with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social. States, markets, and decarbonization are colliding in ways that political economy is only just beginning to map. This article is our map. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Taking derisking into dangerous new territory! Next up: derisk your ontology.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The contribution is to theorize and substantiate epistemic derisking as a novel form of derisking, adding to the more established and better understood financial and regulatory forms. Against conventional wisdom, epistemic derisking may actually build state capacity rather than reduce it.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Epistemic derisking" describes how knowledge infrastructures – such as energy models, scenarios, and plans – are leveraged by states in efforts to mobilize private capital for energy transitions. New article with @rosiecollington.bsky.social: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Epistemic derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance - Rosie Collington, Jacob Hasselbalch, 2026
Over the past decade, governments have increasingly sought to mobilise private capital for expanding renewable sources of energy for the goals of decarbonisatio...
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
New op-ed out in the Danish media oulet Børsen: "Selling off the state-owned company Ørsted will weaken Danish energy security." Co-authored with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, @rosiecollington.bsky.social, @voldsgaard.bsky.social, and Søren Lund Frandsen borsen.dk/nyheder/opin...
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“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”
“Et frasalg af Ørsted vil svække Danmarks energisikkerhed”Konservative, Liberal Alliance, Dansk Folkeparti og Danmarksdemokraterne har for nylig markeret sig i valgkampen med et fælles udspil om at fr
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Franziska Müller - DECT 6097 @squirrelista.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Come work with us! Tenure track position for development economics + postcolonial political economy, feminist economics, critical macrofinance. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... @univie.ac.at @divdececon.bsky.social @econ4future.bsky.social @econgeo.bsky.social @economicethics.bsky.social
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Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
Tenure-Track Professorship in Development Economics
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We use a case of competition between incumbent dairy company Arla and the oat milk innovator Oatly to give examples of four ideal typical varieties of niche construction.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The theory lets us connect changes in organizational fields and populations to changes in the environment. Niche constructors intervene directly in the environment to improve selection pressures, thereby also strategically changing field-population dynamics.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We contrast the Niche Construction Perspective with the cultural and demographic schools of organizational sociology. Niche Construction Theory endogenizes the environment to organizational analysis, offering new ways of understanding selection pressures, interaction, and variation. 
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New article out with @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, Kevin L. Young and Søren Lund Frandsen in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social Journal of Organizational Sociology. We adapt niche construction theory to study interactions between organizations and environments. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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How Niche Construction Shapes Organizational Fields and Populations
Niche Construction Theory (NCT), a recent offshoot of evolutionary biology, emphasizes how agents modify their surroundings and create organizational variation in an environment. Here we discuss how N...
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We contrast the Niche Construction Perspective with the cultural and demographic schools of organizational sociology. Niche Construction Theory endogenizes the environment to organizational analysis, offering new ways of understanding selection pressures, interaction, and variation.
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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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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
New op-ed out in @prospectmagazine.co.uk with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: "Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice: The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right" www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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Green growth versus degrowth is a false choice
The growth split in the climate movement only benefits the far right
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
check our network and submit a paper for Bordeaux 2026!
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Our core message: the environmental state is not a monolith. Its differentiated apparatuses (from central banks to energy planners) hold untapped potential for Paris-aligned, state-led #decarbonization.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
3️⃣ The “lame duck” critique sees bureaucracies as inert or status-quo forces. But in practice, capable and well-coordinated agencies often drive decarbonization through planning, innovation, and risk-taking.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
2️⃣ The “overburdening” critique claims states are too overwhelmed by crises to govern effectively. Yet many states have quietly expanded their economic and bureaucratic capacities — especially through green industrial and investment policies.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Quick summary of the three critiques and our responses: 1️⃣ The “glass ceiling” critique says states can’t transform capitalist systems. We argue that while deep systemic change is tough, sequencing and targeting decarbonization first is both realistic and necessary.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Tagging the rest of the authorship team on the 'decarbonization state' article: Daniel Hausknost, @alinabrad.bsky.social, Gabriel Eyselein, @mathiaskrams.bsky.social, Danyal Maneka, @melaniepichler.bsky.social and @etienneschneider.bsky.social
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Might be a useful companion piece to @ulrichbrand.bsky.social and co-authors recent, excellent article in Nature Climate Change: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... I think we largely agree, but we see more scope for bureaucratic agency to overcome the structural limitations of the #environmentalstate.
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Structural limitations of the decarbonization state - Nature Climate Change
The implementation gap between national climate targets and actual policies has been seen as a main barrier for decarbonization. Here researchers show it is rooted in the structural limitation of stat...
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
With Caroline Ahler Christesen and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social, we asked: what can the environmental state actually do? The answer is out now with @gepjournal.bsky.social 👇 If you ever wondered about this, check our paper and let us know what you think: direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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What Can the Environmental State Actually Do? Three Critiques and Their Limits
Abstract. Three critiques of the environmental state shape the discussion of its possibilities and limits. First, states are deemed structurally unable to mitigate climate change due to the “glass cei...
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great new work from Søren Lund Frandsen on the microfoundations of #industrialpolicy: "the effectiveness and direction of #greenindustrialpolicy cannot be understood by investment volumes alone but must be traced through its organisational microfoundations": www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the ground: the microfoundations of green industrial policy
Governments across the world are expanding public investments to support green industries and infrastructures under the banner of green growth and decarbonisation. Much of the political economy sch...
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Xan López @xanlopez.net · 09/10/2025
Tag yourself. I'm a coalition based, green industrial policy ecosocialist, rooting for high integration democracy, green growth everywhere with surgical degrowth, defending international solidarity, a mostly optimistic we-have-the-technology-we-need approach and a dynamic understanding of history.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Who doesn't love a massive table?!
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
In our new Ecological Economics paper (with @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social), we map where green growth and degrowth diverge — and where they converge — across politics, world order, and technology. Time to move past the binary and imagine a plurality of growth futures.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
We’re stuck in a false choice between green growth and degrowth. One promises to fix the planet by growing the economy, the other by shrinking it. But when you look closer, neither is a coherent political project. And there’s more overlap than most debates admit.
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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …
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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth
When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"BYD’s ascent thus forces a question that goes beyond industry: Can Europe still make things at scale in a world where power lies in the ability to integrate finance, technology, and policy faster than anyone else?"- @cornelban.bsky.social's new #geoeconomics substack (substack.com/home/post/p-...)
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The Electric Mirror
BYD, Volkswagen, and the Political Economy of the EV Divide (with Asger Dam)
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
What happens when transformative innovation policy meets organizational realities? Organization theory can help address some key gaps of scholarship on transformative innovation policy while opening new directions for policymaking and research in this area.
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New article out! Outcome of a collaborative effort with Jane Bjørn Vedel, Susana Borrás, Alan Irwin and Vera Simoneit, funded by a local strategic initiative at Copenhagen Business School. #innovation #innovationpolicy #organization #grandchallenges www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Organizing transformative innovation: Advancing an organizational research agenda within Transformative Innovation Policy
In a world increasingly shaped by geopolitical divides, technological disruption, and the climate crisis, Transformative Innovation Policy (TIP) is mo…
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
@mattkranke.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
1/7 Our new article is out in Globalizations: Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals. With @jasonhickel.bsky.social & @sebmang.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals
Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
4 NEW pieces, with @cornelban.bsky.social + @jhasselbalch.bsky.social on state planning, @rosiecollington.bsky.social on planet-critical sectors, @shayaksengupta.bsky.social + Abhinav Jindal on multilateralism, and @brusselermel.bsky.social + @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on derisking (Links below)
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"The green state must rise from the ashes of the derisking state... plan for a future of resilience or resign ourselves to chaos and the perils of climate adaptation under authoritarianism." www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ind.... @cornelban.bsky.social #decarbonization #planning #ClimateSky
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Green Indicative Planning | Phenomenal World
With derisking regimes falling short of meeting governments' pledges to reach net zero carbon emissions, what lessons can we learn from governance through indicative planning? Historically strong coor...
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The MPIfG is seeking a research group leader (tenure track) with a focus on the socioeconomic and political impacts of technological change to set up a new research group at the intersection of #economy, #society, and #technology. 📢Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/SULoAf
Application deadline: April 15, 2025
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 17/01/2025
Now out with New Political Economy: What's going on in the legal back-end of 'innovative' climate finance constructs? I provide some additional clues to why it's so hard to de-risk private climate finance by public means. Open access, too! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
An excellent collection of short pieces on post/de growth and International Relations. This is cutting edge and important work and deserves a wide readership. #internationalpolitics
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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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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In our latest issue, check out the new article by Jacob Hasselbalch & Matthias Kranke one of IR's blindspots: that economic growth is a driver of global unsustainability. It is free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3Xt3HRr
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In our latest issue, Lorenzo Fioramonti conducts a comparative analysis of the three main post-growth theories as part of the post-growth IR forum. Have a read! 📄👉 buff.ly/4agCB4S
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
In our latest issue, Chukwumerije Okereke argues that "green growth is a more pragmatic and realistic approach to global climate justice because it is more sensitive to the norms, structures, and dynamics of global politics." 📄 👉 buff.ly/3VJbGJt
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"An age after growth is not only possible but likely." Check out Bentley B. Allan's article: "Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth" in our latest issue. It's free to read now! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3ZeVi5h
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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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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
In our latest issue, Rajeswari S Raina & Rishabh Kachroo discuss post-growth agrifood systems by exploring the persistence of hunger and food crises in the 21st century. It's free to read now! 📄👉 buff.ly/4gF8eZU
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Jacob Hasselbalch @jhasselbalch.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
History repeating itself!
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