Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/06/2026It’s been brought to my attention that the Economist cover story is blaming Gen-Z socialism on “an influential group of socialist academics” led by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Turns out Gen-Z got radicalized by … our analysis of corporate earnings calls. Huge if true! 1826967
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniStefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social · 08/04/2026New paper in @proghumgeog.bsky.social. Some great colleagues' work is sampled @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social @landstuff.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social @azadehakbari.bsky.social @jamiepeck.bsky.social @reijer.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #geosky #ipesky 45114
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniMax-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 Call: Tenure Track Position The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience. Please share widely! 🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026 s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1 01414
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniGreenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 02/03/2026So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms. But we will not be silenced. www.greenpeace.org/internationa...greenpeace.orgWhat a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace InternationalA US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million. 17313289
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniRosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The literature on state capacity for decarbonization has grown so much since I started my PhD back in 2020, so this review has been rewritten so many times (and I had to cut a lot in this final iteration). Hope I’ve done it justice. Available open access here 🔓 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comState capacities for decarbonization: from investable transitions to green transformationsResearchers increasingly invoke the concept of ‘state capacity’ to analyze how and when states pursue decarbonization and renewable energy policies. Drawing on a review of recent climate governance... 162
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniJan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Unsustainable for a democracy. 093
Reposted by Klaudia Prodanipbesnl.bsky.social @pbesnl.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Bedrijven kunnen niet zonder biodiversiteit. Mooi artikel over het #businessandbiodiversity assessment van #IPBES. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/... Met inbreng van o.a. @wietekewillemen.bsky.social @kprodani.bsky.social en anderenlnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 055
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Many thanks to the Chapter 6 contributing authors @romainsvartzman.bsky.social @rensvantilburg.bsky.social @gerdie knijp @maud abdelli! 010
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 06/02/2026“I graduated with £42,000 of debt and even though I’m paying it off, it’s now £72,000.” It's truly an abomination: On a normal job you keep paying forever. 40 years! “Why would I trust a government that mis-sold me a loan when I was a child?” is a very good question. www.ft.com/content/7bf5... 44926
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 03/02/2026Spain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise. Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2 17334
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Sounds fascinating! @estherturnhout.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniCédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 23/01/2026In this paper I show that the prevalent forms of knowledge production and use are inadequate to guarantee the perpetuation of a safe ecological space and argue in favor of planning episteme against green finance 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social @dehes.bsky.socialtandfonline.comThe problem of knowledge in the AnthropoceneIn the twentieth century, debates about economic planning were largely shaped by arguments concerning knowledge and the acquisition of information. As the century drew to a close, the dispute was a... 34320
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniMax Liboiron @maxliboiron.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Hello London-ish people! I will be there doing a book talk on Pollution is Colonialism week after next! Feb 3. Free and open to all! 042
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniJournal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026NEW: Troubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politics - Matthias Taeger and Daniel Buenza www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comTroubled ontologies: an economisation approach to climate risk and its politicsWhether as economisation or performativity, scholars in market studies have problematised various entanglements between financial markets and climate change. Studies have identified, for instance, ... 033
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniJens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Wow... Writing this paper was a bit like watching a soap opera unfold. But it's out now in @bjpir.bsky.social The big story is still: The ECB marched forward, with clear democratic authorisation, but not the Fed. Green central banking is much more democratic than people think. 15118
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniThea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 24/12/2025It was an honor to be interviewed in-depth by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @proteanmag.com A key theme: how to analyze “extractive frontiers” from a world-systemic perspective attentive to both the structures of colonialism and capitalism—and to socio-ecological struggle proteanmag.com/2025/12/22/e... 06026
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 25/11/2025That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42. 4857
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniSylvain Maechler @sylvainmaechler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively? Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7 cup.org/4hZNlcXcup.orgFailure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge CoreFailure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions 14330
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniJasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions 141
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...aljazeera.comUS jury finds French bank BNP Paribas complicit in Sudan atrocitiesThe French banking giant said the ruling by a jury in New York was 'clearly wrong' and that it plans to appeal. 030
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniConservation Letters @consletters.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...doi.orgNaming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With PowerPower is frequently acknowledged in conservation as a limiting factor, something to be cited, problematized, or managed, less frequently is it engaged with as a lived, situated, and multidimensional .... 086
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Sounds very interesting. It says "page not found" when I click on the link. 020
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development. Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. " youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpAyoutu.beRebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam ToozeYouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation 27845
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniLea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025no wordstheguardian.comYoung lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war deadEvery name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive 1231142
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets! Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br... open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...open.spotify.comQuestions on My Mind 000
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniRodrigo Fernandez @fernandezamsterdam.bsky.social · 04/10/2025“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” 046
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniMax-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 02/10/2025📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers! We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert). Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p 02124
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniWim Carton @wimcarton.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering: www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...versobooks.comThe Long HeatWarming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later... 45223
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniSimon Schairer @simonschairer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025As the revision of the #SFDR comes to an end, I am joining @reclaimfinance.org and +120 experts in calling on the @ec.europa.eu exclude companies developing new fossil fuel projects a minimum criterion across all #SFDR product categories. There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds! 131
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Ahem, the meek European derisking state 0133
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 24/09/2025Really important article with a razor-sharp argument: Contra the notion of universal ownership, @kprodani.bsky.social et al. show that Big-3 portfolios "largely exclude the very parts of the global economy where environmental harms will be most severe." Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1172
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Wonderful list. Would also love to be on it if still possible! 010
Reposted by Klaudia ProdaniPalma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! 🙋 go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3 3423396
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 25/09/2025*small correction: should have added "e.g." in front of "big tech & financials" in the main post. Our argument is more about what they're not invested in than what they are invested in :) For the latter, Gibadullina 2023 offers a great overview, esp figures 4 and 8 (manufacturing is also prominent). 100
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Perhaps also interesting for @jvtk.bsky.social, @danielagabor.bsky.social, @annekervers.bsky.social, @jasprblom.bsky.social, @simonschairer.bsky.social, @iliasalami.bsky.social, @nicolaranger.bsky.social, @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social, @matthewarcher.bsky.social, @johanneslundb.bsky.social 120
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Written with @estherturnhout.bsky.social, @casey-lynch.bsky.social & Ekaterina Svetlova! Building on the work of @benbraun.bsky.social, @johannespetry.bsky.social, @janfichtner.bsky.social, @bbonizzi.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @vgalaz.bsky.social, @romainsvartzman.bsky.social 140
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025We think that this might not be possible without collaborating with civil society to “follow the money” from the ground up. @forestsandfinance.bsky.social @globalwitness.org @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social @greenpeace.eu @foeeurope.bsky.social @milieudefensie.bsky.social @ran.org 141
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025The broader point: Instead of trying to equate & group together the financial materialities that ecological degradation poses to “civilization,” the economy, financial actors, and financial stability, let's empirically contrast and geographically situate them – including along class lines. 230
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Mapping these along the palm oil supply chain shows that the Big Three are mainly invested in the downstream players (Unilever etc.) whereas “Fama’s quasi-laboratory” in the upstream criminal plantations. Unilever will likely be fine, so let's not put our hopes on the promise of universal ownership. 120
Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 24/09/2025We screen their portfolios against a civil society dataset (Profundo 2024) that lists 6,770 companies publicly excluded by other financial institutions for ESG reasons. We focus on investments in those excluded for all ESG reasons, environmental, biodiversity, deforestation, and palm oil in SE Asia. 120