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Len Seabrooke

@lenseabrooke.bsky.social
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Chair in Political Economy & Economic Sociology in the Florence School for Transnational Governance at the European University Institute. Research: global wealth chains / IMF / consultancies / corporate structures / experts & algorithms.

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New article further theorizing 'Climateflation' in the field of International Political Economy, with @james7jackson.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Enter the great volatility? Synthesizing a theory of ‘climateflation’ for international political economy
International Political Economy (IPE) has long viewed inflation as a central force driving instability. More recently, scholars have foregrounded climate change as a central theme of analysis for I...
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Eleni Tsingou @etsingou.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
A new opening in our department. If this is something you would consider and have questions, please get in touch! www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...
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Associate Professorship in Economic Sociology and Market Governance
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more. Now all online— phenomenalworld.org/issue/issue-...
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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social
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Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations
International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Different CBS. Copenhagen Business School.
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Applicants are required to submit a 3-5 page research agenda tackling one of the above themes. Deadline is October 15th. More information here: www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...
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Copenhagen Business School invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy / Economic Sociology at the Department of Organization. | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
This post is partly funded by the ‘ADD – Algoritmer, Data & Demokrati’ project funded by the Velux and Villum Foundations. This project is led by Professor Nørholm Sine Just at Roskilde University and the co-PI at CBS is Professor Leonard Seabrooke in the Department of Organization. Seabrooke is
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
The two post-docs are both for 36 months, with 24 months of research and 12 months of teaching. The teaching will be in courses like Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, and primarily located in the BSc and MSc International Business and Politics degrees.
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
One post-doc will investigate the environmental and economic trade-offs present in the corporate expansion of AI. The other post-doc will investigate how international regulatory and reporting standards reflect the actual environmental damage from AI use.
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 02/09/2025
Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions: doi.org/10.1111/1911...
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
👁️‍🗨️ Flinders Uni in Adelaide has a Political Economy lecturer post—calling for expertise in IPE, Asia, climate, and geoeconomics—and where you would get to work with the likes of the wonderful Maryanne Kelton and the good folk in the Jeff Bleich Centre. See here: www.seek.com.au/job/85900447
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Lecturer in Political Economy Job in Bedford Park, Adelaide SA - SEEK
Contribute to world-class teaching and research in political economy at a university ranked in the top 2% worldwide.
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Adam Hayes @adam-hayes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
📔My book comes out May 29! Based largely on my own research at the intersection of #EconomicSociology and #BehavioralEconomics, it is intended for an educated general audience. You can pre-order now on Amazon ($24.00): amazon.com/dp/0226839311
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Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior
In economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the often-unseen social forces that shape our financial behavior. Drawing on original research and engaging r...
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture. For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
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Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington
How the politics of investability determine climate financing
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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy. www.ft.com/content/daf5...
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Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics
Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
How are things turned into assets? We argue that #assetization requires bridging different scales: transnational ideas of asset classes need to be linked to messy local realities. How is this done? And why does this matter? We study #impactinvesting in the UK and Geneva to address these Qs. 🧵
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 24/04/2025
Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier
This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 29/04/2025
What's that sound? It's DBCFT time *again*?! www.ft.com/content/2ba5...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Thrilled to see my article w. @seanoriain.bsky.social on Ireland's Corporate Tax Games w. @ripejournal.bsky.social, drawing on global wealth chains @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, coding of capital by Katherina Pistor & infrastructural power @benbraun.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation
This article proposes a new analytical framework of ‘tax games’ providing fresh insights into the dynamics of global corporate taxation. Tax games are defined as institutionalised configurations of...
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This is super work, congrats Nessa!
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 21/04/2025
1/ PwC is trimming its global network, offloading units and exiting countries, to reduce risk after an unprecedented wave of scandals.
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PwC exits more than a dozen countries in push to avoid scandals
African firms say they lost over a third of their business as global executives forced them to drop risky clients
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Maren Toft @marentoft.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Important piece by the magnificent @martesaga.bsky.social and the first empirical publication of our WEB-project ✨ www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/... @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 11/04/2025
The EU threatens new taxes on US Big Tech. Again. This time in response to Trump's tariff tirade. This is the latest in a decade-long transatlantic spat that has radically transformed the global tax landscape. A quick 🧵
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EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen
European Commission president tells FT she wants ‘balanced’ deal but could hit US services in retaliation
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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets" The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/
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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · 11/04/2025
Interesting read www.ft.com/content/ff0a...
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A new who’s who of the global elites
They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 11/04/2025
Time to update the tracker
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Christopher Olk @christopher-olk.eurosky.social · 09/04/2025
#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen? Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system
Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...
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Basak Kus @basakkus.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Full special issue out today: Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991... See the open access article by GJ and yours truly: "Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change
Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the ....
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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The first episode of my new Radio 4 series, Untaxing, is 1.45pm today; then the same time every day this week. Available on BBC Sounds as soon as each episode airs. BBC Sounds link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Scott James @drscottjames.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
New article with Lucia Quaglia on how EU banks and EU regulators engaged in ‘noisy geopolitics’ by leveraging the digital sovereignty agenda to push for tighter controls on (US) bigtechs. Part of a special issue on ‘Transformation of Banking’ in Competition and Change doi.org/10.1177/1024...
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk? We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it. #openaccess: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Martin's The Meddlers shows how an Anglophone & French elite technocratic network replaced colonization with international cooperation to justify sovereign interventions in lockstep with capitalist interests. My review in @historians.org's American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
4. Lukas Bogner wrote a great piece on the role of law and transnational expertise in shaping the 'asset coding' of green finance that upholds many pillars of conventional finance (and hence limits its effectiveness) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Organization Studies @orgstudies.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗙𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙚: 𝙏𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙐𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙨 𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵, 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗞𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗹, 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗲, 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗟. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 @lenseabrooke.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0170...
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Lots of great positions at @mpifg.bsky.social, pls share! - 2yr postdoc in wealth research - 2yr postdoc in technology & sovereignty - 3+3yr senior researcher in political economy - 3+3yr senior researcher in economic sociology - tenure/director-track group leader digitalization & society
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Congrats Adam!
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Finance and Society @finandsoc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...
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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Very excited to be collaborating with Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social and Olga Mikheeva on this year’s conference. We’ve already lined up some amazing keynote speakers. Check it out and come join us in Copenhagen!
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Congrats, this is great work. Straight on to the CPE syllabus!
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
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Taxes on top incomes and financialisation
Financialisation is one of the most prominent economic developments of the past half century in the advanced democracies. While the existing literature focuses on financial deregulation and liberal...
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
When states are not good at industrial policy it is municipalities that can develop that muscle. And not just city states, but cities of 500k as well if they have what it takes. New article in Competition and Change with @Medve-Balint and @Clara Volintiru journals.sagepub.com/eprint/T56CA...
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Morten Skumsrud Andersen @skumsrud.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
🌐 Just Released! «The Political Economy of National Security, Critical Infrastructure and Securitization of Foreign Investments», edited by Jakub M. Godzimirski and me, investigates how states reorient their strategies facing the securitization of foreign direct investments. bit.ly/405vV6d
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The Political Economy of National Security, Critical Infrastructure and Securitization of Foreign Investments
This book comprehensively examines the subsequent repositioning of foreign investment policy and its consequences for national and international politics.
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
But that solo paper is all killer no filler!, will be a mega-hit when it's allowed to see the light of day.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 28/12/2024
Mark Schwartz in full-on Hegel mode, taking stock of Piore & Sabel's 'Second Industrial Divide'. They were wrong, but since the Owl of Minerva flies at dusk, it's worth looking back to understand why global capitalism didn't turn into one big flexible specialization Emilia-Romagna.
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Brave New World | Herman Mark Schwartz
A third industrial divide?
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Nanna Mik-Meyer @mikmeyer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My first post on Bluesky - a great blog by @shannonmattern.bsky.social - citing my current research conducted with @mjarv.bsky.social wordsinspace.net/2024/12/13/t...
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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Out now! New study w/ @cornelban.bsky.social on European policy elites and economic crisis management. What do we find? 'Fidelity', in contrast to the idea of "Ivy League-educated transnational pragmatists who float between private and public realms" Open Access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Elite fidelity in Europe’s crisis management regime
How policy elites occupy positions within broader governance architectures is important in understanding how crisis management regimes are produced to respond to macroeconomic woes. We examine the ...
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Below their very top tier, Europe’s policy elites have conventional careers with little public–private mobility or high-end educational prestige. Furthermore, these elites have ‘fidelity’ in staying with public organizations. New paper with Leonard Seabrooke www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Elite fidelity in Europe’s crisis management regime
How policy elites occupy positions within broader governance architectures is important in understanding how crisis management regimes are produced to respond to macroeconomic woes. We examine the ...
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cornelban.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction 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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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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