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Ronen Mandelkern

@mandelkern.bsky.social
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Political economist @TelAvivUni Neoliberalism; Macroeconomic Policy; Welfare State; Privatization; Economists; Ideas & Institutions sites.google.com/view/ronenmandelke… sites.google.com/view/pen-workshop

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
¡¡VOLUME 24, ISSUE 2 IS NOW OUT!! shorturl.at/AtRFj shorturl.at/jblyl Incl. work by @jennifermwelsh.bsky.social, @rbkhoury.bsky.social, @aasiegel.bsky.social, @emilykmscott.bsky.social, @mironovavera.bsky.social, @emamet.bsky.social, @jholloway.bsky.social, @duncanmcdonnell.com...
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
🧱 🏃♂️ An additional hurdle to overcome neoliberalism (next to ideas and intersts): de-polititization 🔎 @mandelkern.bsky.social compares challenges to neoliberalism in Sweden (2014-2018) and Israel (2011-2019) 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Hi — do any experts or observers of Labour back-bench groups know if there’s a publicly available list of MPs who are members of the Red Wall Caucus (led by Jo White) within the Labour Party? Many thanks!
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
**1/13** Over the past two years, @danielbeland.bsky.social and I have published four pieces exploring how ideas shape social policy — from conceptual foundations to reform and pedagogy. This thread walks through them:
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
What links the recent Israeli government attacks against its Attorney General and the new Leadership Institute Israeli branch? Or Asher and I answer that in a new paper in @PoPpublicsphere on the ideological shift of Israel's Right- a 🧵: doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Diaspora–Local Cooperation as a Driver of Ideological Change: The Ascendance of American Conservatism in Israel | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Diaspora–Local Cooperation as a Driver of Ideological Change: The Ascendance of American Conservatism in Israel
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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Diaspora–Local #Cooperation as a Driver of #Ideological #Change: The #Ascendance of #American #Conservatism in #Israel By Or Asher & @mandelkern.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...
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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
In a new paper, we provide fresh evidence on the macroeconomic effects of public investment in 27 EU member states. We find that public investment has favorable effects on output and unemployment; doesn't crowd out private investment; and doesn't jeopardise debt sustainability.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Today, five Palestinians died in Gaza after being starved to death by Israel. via @nirhasson.bsky.social
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Reut Marciano @reutmar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
1/5Happy to share this from @psjeditor.bsky.social, w Shir Gal (TAU). We study the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power. We find that *how* the state purchases (its acquisition regime) shapes corporations' instit' power onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
What are the conditions under which business corporations expand their institutional power? This paper argues that institutional power is affected by the architecture of the “acquisition regime”—the ....
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 01/07/2025
🚨New article🚨 The consensus is that contestation pushed central banks to talk 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 about inequality & climate. Our theory: At first, CBs seek to ward off politicization by talking 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 about controversial topics. We tested this 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐬.🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Screenshot of the title page of linked article:
"Noisy Politics, Quiet Technocrats: Strategic Silence by Central Banks"
By Benjamin Braun and Maximilian Düsterhöft
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herman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Excellent analysis of far right economic and financial policy by @ingarade.bsky.social 💯 www.postneoliberalism.org/articles/fin...
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Finance and the Far Right
Rademacher challenges the portrayal of far-right economic policies as erratic by systematically analysing their financial strategies across eight advanced economies. Drawing on a new database of far-r...
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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The occupation is destroying Israel from within, and liberals can't ignore it anymore
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I have joined hundreds of other Israeli academics in calling on our academic system to take immediate action against the war in Gaza—for the sake of the lives that can still be saved and for our future here. Full letter (English follows Hebrew & Arabic): docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This was the moment, just over a month ago, when the ADL could've put an end to Republicans doing Nazi salutes. They didn't. They chose instead to provide cover by calling it "an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm." Now the sieg heil salute has been normalized. The ADL literally had ONE JOB.
ADL on X: This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety.

It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.

In this moment, all sides should give one another a bit of grace, perhaps even the benefit of the doubt, and take a breath. This is a new beginning. Let’s hope for healing and work toward unity in the months and years ahead.
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
1/8 New (open access) paper with @assafbondy.bsky.social in NPE explores a puzzling phenomenon: How do mainstream economists become key players in trade unions? We examine the case of Israel's Histadrut, where economists gained pivotal positions in collective bargaining. 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/1356...
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An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions
The doubtful tendencies of neoclassical economics towards labour market intervention put it at odds with trade unions, whose raison d’etre is worker protection through de-linking compensation from ...
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
A new blogpost with Tami Oren on how short-term post-2008 interventions have evolved into long-term changes in macroeconomic policy. The post is based on our recently published article @ripejournal.bsky.social (open access) (link to article in first comment)
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LSE British Politics and Policy @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
💥New! How Quantitative Easing went from temporary crisis-response to permanent policy change, by @mandelkern.bsky.social and Tami Oren. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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How Quantitative Easing went from temporary crisis-response to permanent policy change
Quantitative Easing was supposed to be a temporary tool used to stabilize the UK economy in the aftermath of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. The policy worked, but had several negative unintended…
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Ronen Mandelkern @mandelkern.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I am planning a survey experiment regarding people's attitudes on macroeconomic policy; I want to include a battery of questions regarding macroeconomic literacy. Any recommendations for existing surveys/studies which already did that? Thanks!
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
finally, an FT piece that connects the crisis of liberal democracies to macrofinancial politics - though it misses the elephant in the room: the institutional status-quo put in place by neoliberalism
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Inga Rademacher @ingarade.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
My new article is out!! Capital controls critically shaped the evolution of export/finance-led economies. The Bundesbank used controls on innovative financial products until 1998 and hindered Frankfurt's development into a vibrant financial hub doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
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Amit Ben-Tzur @amitbentzur.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
אז מה זה בעצם אגף התקציבים באוצר? ואיך הוא הפך מגוף שתפקידו לשמור על קופת המדינה לגוף שקובע את המדיניות הכלכלית בישראל? אירחתי בפודקאסט "נותנים עבודה" את @mandelkern.bsky.social מרצה באונ' ת"א ועמית מחקר בכיר בפורום ארלוזורוב על איך עובד אגף התקציבים ועל הדרך לאזן את כוחו מול משרדי הממשלה המקצועיים.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Reminder: The application deadline for our postdoctoral program is coming up next Friday! We welcome applications from postdoctoral researchers in political economy, economic sociology and sociology of low-carbon transitions. s.gwdg.de/2v6csN
Application deadline: December 13, 2024
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Onur Özgöde @ummodern.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Just created this starter pack. Let me know if you would like me to add you! go.bsky.app/ptifSR
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 21/10/2024
A lot of fun to read, this from @bhgreeley.bsky.social (if you're not an economist). www.ft.com/content/1e25...

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The Nobel for Econsplaining

Acemoglu, Johnson and Williams won a prize for applying economics to the very things economics is inherently bad at figuring out

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