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Matthias Kranke

@mattkranke.bsky.social
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Junior Professor of Global Sustainability Governance @College for Social Sciences and Humanities (UA Ruhr) & UDE (IFSO) | IR/IPE scholar | Interested in global governance, IOs, sustainability, (post-)growth & more (he/him)

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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great podcast, great host – thanks to @raumplaner.bsky.social for moderating this podcast episode. Link 👇 Link to the special issue in @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...
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Economy and Society
(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
📣 Here comes a new article that sets out how to systematically investigate growth (in)dependence in a variety of context. I hope it will be useful for many, including @jhasselbalch.bsky.social @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @atrasi.bsky.social & @kzimmermann.bsky.social.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Happy to answer any questions!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📣 Publication alert Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1 👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...
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Economy and Society
(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The conference is organised by the Centre for Global Cooperation Research @unidue.bsky.social & its Fellow Group 'Sustainability and Democracy'. As a member of this group, @mattkranke.bsky.social is a co-organiser.
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The fact that not only is the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing, but the *rate of CO2 increasing* in the atmosphere is still increasing is true nightmare stuff.
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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene – just published by Bruna Bosi-Moreira & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
Sharepicture from the ifso just published series featuring book chapter by Matthias Kranke on "From good to bad? The contested desirability of economic growth"
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
📣 Yet another SI for you, folks! Delighted to announce the publication of a @gepjournal.bsky.social special issue on “Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene”, co-edited with my dear colleague Bruna Bosi-Moreira. 👉 direct.mit.edu/glep/issue/2...
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Volume 25 Issue 3 | Global Environmental Politics | MIT Press
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
📣 Belated publication announcement – I have never really gotten round to properly introducing the @iajournal.bsky.social special section on ‘Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation’, co-edited with the wonderful @marenhofius.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/3
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Volume 101 Issue 3 | International Affairs | Oxford Academic
The official journal of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Publishes content across the entire discipline of international relations and is renowned for its academically rigo...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Wem die Sommer immer noch zu kalt sind, sollte nach dem Verbrennerausaus klimaneutrale Kraftstoffe verbieten, neue Kernkraftwerke bauen und alles Grün in Beton umwandeln lassen – und dann bei Dürren und Fluten die Betroffenen mit viel, viel Steuer💰 entschädigen. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Warum die Politik am Verbrenner-Aus zweifelt
Die kriselnde Autobranche will nicht allein auf E-Mobilität setzen, sie fordert Technologieoffenheit. In der Politik mehren sich die Stimmen, die das Verbrenner-Aus 2035 anzweifeln. Von Lissy Kaufmann...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
📢 Excited to share that this collection has now been published in @gepjournal.bsky.social – thanks to my wonderful co-guest editor Bruna and all our great contributors! ➡️ The introduction is open access: direct.mit.edu/glep/article....
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Global Green Visions and World Order in the Anthropocene
Abstract. This special issue on what we call global green visions offers a vantage point for understanding global environmental governance in the Anthropocene through the lens of world order(s). Speci...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🎉 Nice to see this little contribution out! We briefly discuss the ways in which graphic novels (like ours on the global environmental crisis) can be used in school teaching. Happy to chat about it if anyone is interested! Just send me a DM. 📧
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📢 The volume "Governing Nature and the Making of World Order", edited by the great team of @elanawilsonrowe.bsky.social, @pauldavidbeaumont.bsky.social & @lucasdopaes.bsky.social, is out now. And it's OA. 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
📢 Publication alert – How often have you thought "Oh, that's a bad policy"? Then this is the right book (OA) for you: "Ineffective Policies: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices", co-edited by Roberge, McKeen-Edwards & Campbell-Verduyn. ⬇️ /1 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook-o...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is a nice honour! Thanks, Poppy!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
One month in, we have already had plenty of good exchanges on and surrounding our project. I am looking forward to more. Great to be a part of that PhD journey!
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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain – just published by Maren Hofius & @mattkranke.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
Sharepicture from the ifso just published series featuring Maren Hofius & Matthias Kranke's article "Boundary work and the (un)making of global cooperation: mapping the terrain" published in International Affairs
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Institut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Boundary work against identity stress: atrocity stories among the Bretton Woods twins – just published by @mattkranke.bsky.social in @iajournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/ia/i...
Sharepicture from the ifso just published series featuring Matthias Kranke's article "Boundary work against identity stress: atrocity stories among the Bretton Woods twins" published in International Affairs
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Here's the official version!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
📢 Job announcement – 1 PhD researcher in my "Global Sustainability Governance" research group Please share this opportunity within your networks and encourage suitable candidates to apply (or consider applying yourself)! Happy to answer questions! Deadline: 4 June 👇 www.uni-due.de/karriere/ste...
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Stellenausschreibung
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Wow – this is an unexpected honour. Thank you @globalsociety.bsky.social for selecting my article.
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College for Social Sciences and Humanities | UA Ruhr @college-uaruhr.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Job opportunity for students with a Bachelor's degree in political science, sociology or a similar discipline: The research group 'Global Sustainability Governance' led by @mattkranke.bsky.social is looking for 2 research assistants. www.college-uaruhr.de/news-events/... Please apply by 13 May!
graphic illustration; background: photo of the College's building facade
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📢 Great opportunity at a fantastic place!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I like to tell my students that good titles already hint at or even reflect the main argument of a paper. Massive congrats in this regard to @dandrezner.bsky.social!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
📢 Publication alert – Here's a new edited volume on "ineffective policies", to which I have contributed a chapter on how desirable the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) finds economic growth. Spoiler alert: very desirable even under green leadership.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🎉 First day on the new job – I really look forward to all my new colleagues within the University Alliance Ruhr: at the College for Social Sciences and Humanities, the Institut für Sozioökonomie, the Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden, and beyond.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
📢 I am thrilled to share that from 1 April I will join the College for Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, as "Junior Professor of Global Sustainability Governance". /1
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
📝 Quiz: Wer hat das 2021 gesagt? „Wir sind es unseren Kindern schuldig, dass wir uns nicht aus Angst vor Lobbygruppen, vor Leugnern oder vor Ewiggestrigen vor der Verantwortung drücken“. Richtige Antwort: Es war Markus Söder! www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/klima...
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Bayerisches Klimaziel: „Wie ein Traum vom Hausbau ohne Bauplan“ - harte Kritik
Bayerns Staatsregierung will das Klimaziel 2040 kippen. Nun geht ein Wissenschaftler hart ins Gericht mit Söder, Aiwanger und Co.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Puh, die Argumente im Wahlkampf waren auch schon mal besser: Wer ein Aus des Verbrennermotors fordert, ist gleich ein "Autofeind". Ist wer Ampeln für sinnvoll hält, auch ein "Verkehrsfeind"? Wer Torf in Blumenerde verbieten will, ein "Gartenfeind"? 🥱
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📢 If @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social is calling, you should apply. I was a member of the inaugural YAS (Young Academy for Sustainability Research) and absolutely loved it! Now as the YAS in its second phase, a new YAC is being launched. What are you waiting for? 📝📩 uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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Call for Applications: 10 Memberships “Young Academy for Cultures and Societies Research” (YAC) – Freiburg Institute for Advanced StudiesText icon 'Universität Freiburg'Text icon 'UFR' standing for Un...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Korrektur: ARD & ZDF zusammen haben das TV-Duell verantwortet.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
TV-Debatte – Am schwächsten fand ich die ARD: keine (!) Frage zum Thema Bildung (Kita, Schule, Bildung) & keine Einordnung der ökologischen Kosten des von beiden geforderten Wirtschaftswachstums (z.B. CO2-Emissionen) und des von Merz geforderten Baus zusätzlicher Wohnungen (Stichwort Flächenfraß). 👎
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sounds like a really important – and sad – piece: What if we all regularly publish papers on sustainability in journals whose parent companies are anything but interested in ending the fossil age? #research #publishing #journals journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/...
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Greenwashing at Elsevier: A political ecology of corporate publishing
The largest science publishing corporations, including Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Sage, are key partners for the oil, gas, and coal industries insofar as they distribute scie...
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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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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
So nice to get some physical copies of this piece of creative work (by scholarly standards)!
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Okay, let's test the power of 🦋 (where I have more followers than I have ever had on X). Here is a fantastic graphic novel on a sad topic, the global environmental crisis, produced by the YAS @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social with the help of Ellery Studio. www.waxmann.com/waxmann-buec...
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Waxmann Verlag GmbH: Bücher
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It has aged well ... 😀
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Just wondering: I am currently getting relatively many new followers – more in a day than in a normal month. Is there an eXodus? 😁 Why now?
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
📢 "The Oxford Handbook of the International Monetary Fund", edited by great colleagues Mark Hibben and Bessma Momani, is out. Among many other chapters, it features one by myself on the IMF's relations with other international organisations. 👇 academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Deutschlandticket = klimafreundlichere Mobilität – Heißt: - Preis niedrig halten, damit es viele nutzen (gesamtstaatliche Aufgabe genauso wie Straßenbau) - Mit Ausbau des ÖPNV in ländlichen Regionen verbinden, damit möglichst viele auch ohne Auto mobil sein können Für mehr 🚇&🚍 taz.de/Neue-Studie-...
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Neue Studie zeigt: 49-Euro-Ticket senkt CO2-Ausstoß
Menschen, die das Deutschlandticket haben, fahren weniger mit dem Auto. Seit Mai 2023 ging der CO2-Ausstoß im Autoverkehr um mehrere Tonnen zurück.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
📢 NEW WORKING PAPER OUT – Here is a multi-author effort, led by Anja Janischewski, at coming to grips with the unwieldy concept of "growth dependence". Also here on Bluesky are co-authors @christopher-olk.bsky.social & @mgschmelzer.bsky.social. Feedback welcome! econpapers.repec.org/paper/tchwpa...
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EconPapers: It depends: Varieties of defining growth dependence
By Anja Janischewski, Katharina Bohnenberger, Matthias Kranke, Tobias Vogel, Riwan Driouich, Tobias Froese, Stefanie Gerold, Raphael Kaufmann, Lorenz Keyßer, Jannis Niethammer, Christopher Olk, Matthi...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
📢 NEW PAPER OUT – Rajeswari Raina & @mbhrishabh.bsky.social on post-growth agrifood systems. Now all contributions to an Editors Forum in @risjnl.bsky.social with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social are out, to be connected in issue 50(5) later this year. So nice! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Post-growth agrifood systems: Towards an emancipatory politics
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Ein Plädoyer für die "Menschen von heute" und die "Menschen von morgen" bzw. v.a. eines gegen die "Menschen von gestern", die ein besseres Leben für alle blockieren – scharfzüngig, aber hingebungsvoll verfasst von @janboehm.bsky.social. www.zeit.de/kultur/2024-...
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Gesellschaft im Wandel: Hier spricht Jan Böhmermann
Wir müssen alle Gräben im Land zuschütten. Und dafür einen neuen aufreißen: zwischen den Menschen von heute und morgen – und denen von gestern.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Just sharing this really intriguing call for papers for an online workshop run by Enrike van Wingerden & @charlygehrke.bsky.social. 👇
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
"Technologieoffenheit" ist so eine leere Formel: Politik muss gewisse (Vor-)Entscheidungen treffen. Bei medizinischen Betäubungsmethoden will heute auch niemand komplett "technologieoffen" sein. Dann wäre es, wie früher lange üblich, auch ohne Betäubung okay. www.deutschlandfunk.de/vor-175-jahr...
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Vor 175 Jahren - Die erste Vollnarkose
Bevor es Narkosemittel gab, waren Operationen eine Tortur für die Patienten: Deshalb wurde nur im absoluten Notfall operiert und die Chirurgen mussten vor allem schnell sein. Das änderte sich, als der...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
🤔 Immer wieder spannend zu sehen, wenn einige Politiker*innen, die fossile Subventionen mit Klauen verteidigen, Subventionen für neue Technologien (hier E-Autos) ablehnen. Es wäre ja möglich, das fiskalpolitisch neutral zu gestalten: alte Technologie nicht mehr subventionieren, neue temporär schon.
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Penultimate paper of our Editors Forum in @risjnl.bsky.social out now: @bentleyallan.bsky.social looks at the role of industrial policy from a post-growth perspective. 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Industrial policy and the green state: Forging a world after growth
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 21/09/2024
Wenn es um Arbeitsplätze in der Automobilbranche geht, kann der Rest der Menschheit doch mal bitte ein paar mehr Abgase und noch mehr CO2 in der Atmosphäre hinnehmen – so lese ich die Vorschläge der EVP-Fraktion. www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/u...
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SPD-Politiker schlagen laut Medienbericht Abwrackprämie vor
Die deutschen Autobauer stecken in der Krise - allen voran VW. Vor dem Autogipfel bei Minister Habeck bringt die SPD-Fraktion nun laut einem Medienbericht eine Neuauflage der Abwrackprämie ins Spiel. ...
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
📢 NEW PUBLICATION! The Elgar Companion to the World Bank, co-edited by Antje Vetterlein & Tobias Schmidtke, is out now. I have contributed a chapter entitled "Intricate interactions: the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund". Thanks to the editors for their hard work! 👇
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Matthias Kranke @mattkranke.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
And accidentally, Donald Trump, who is surely one of the world's least humble people, has 5 children. It gets even better: Elon Musk apparently has 12 children. If anything then, the number of children and the degree of humility seem to be inversely related.
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