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Nessa Ní Chasaide

@nessanichasaide.bsky.social
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Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 13h
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Important and fair. From @icrict.bsky.social on the #UNTaxConvention
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 17h
📣 Join us for the first webinar in our second UNFCITC series! ⚖️ Sovereignty, Cooperation and ISDS: Protecting fiscal policy space in a new tax order 📅 26 October ⏰9.00 New York / 13.00 UK / 14.00 CET / 16.00 Nairobi 🔗Register and find out more: tinyurl.com/2zhyk6xe/ #UNTaxConvention #TaxJustice
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 21h
Our Fictions, Frictions & Evictions exhibition is taking shape. Building itself is being turned into an exhibit by artist Conor Burke; displaying images @the_liberties_sos (Abaigeal Meek & Jack Caffrey). Opens Fri, Oct 16, The Bank, D08 C2PR, 18.00-20.30 - all welcome fictions-frictions-evictions.ie
Fictions, Frictions & Evictions exhibition at The Bank, Dublin 8
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All set for the picket lines on Wednesday. IFUT members don't forget to sign up on www.picket.ie
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/10/2026
The definitive piece on this “debate”. Major public service contribution to global GDP by @newlefteviews.bsky.social. tl;dr: As anyone who’s spent time in both places knows, Europe has not fallen behind in any way that matters for actual welfare.
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Dominik Leusder | Eurosclerosis or US Decline?
The debate about US and European competitiveness illustrates how narratives of economic decline and triumphalism tend to outrun their evidence
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Small victories and lots of remaining questions about the future of support for artists in Ireland, in the context of the Basic Income for the Arts scheme. By our excellent colleague @jennyldagg.bsky.social @musociology.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie. @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social
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ideaireland.bsky.social @ideaireland.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Meet our speakers! 👋  ✅ Oisín Gilmore  Senior Economist at TASC and author of its Inequality in Ireland Report 2026 Join us this Wednesday, 14 October | 9.30am–4.30pm for IDEA’s Autumn Training. 📍 Carmelite Centre, Dublin 2  👉 Find out more and book: f.mtr.cool/f012ls6nyj
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Dr Maha @maharafiatal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
WHEN COMPANIES RULE: BOOK TOUR Corporate power is scary, but not new. I'll be talking about my new book, tracing its history from the East India Company to Amazon, and what we can do about it today. Sign up here: www.maha-rafi-atal.com/when-compani... Want me to come to your city? Get in touch!
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Colleagues in Maynooth, please join on Monday 13:00 at TSI for this rally in support of the Palestinian students whose visas have been denied. We have two fully funded students from Gaza due to come to Maynooth as well as many more at other institutions across Ireland who have been refused visas.
Solidarity Rally, Monday October 12th, 13.00 outside TSI building
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@foeireland.bsky.social have been doing great work for years now to stop the toxic expansion of data centres in Ireland. November 7th is the first national demo calling for a moratorium. Remember, data centres don't bring long term jobs, development or 'digital innovation'.
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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚩We are urgently looking for a skipper with SAR experience to join Oyvon crew from 20th October to 17th November A valid work permit to work in Italy is necessary. To apply for this role see the link below 👇 searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/skipper...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 07/10/2026
Serious fiscal state capacity is when it’s shock and awe among offshore wealth holders. (“They” are the Communist Party.)
FT: One Chinese tech investor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says he and friends of similar high net worth were shocked by the precision with which the tax reforms target key offshore holdings and historic income, and the tight deadline set to pay.

“They have the system, they know your investments overseas . . . they can actually break open those trusts,” he says. “I think they’ve been thinking about this for a long time.”
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Important. "Whereas 13% of long-stay study visa applications from Palestine were refused last year, this year’s refusal rate has skyrocketed to a shocking 83%." by Sarah Sartori and others
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Except R&D tax credits should support innovation that wouldn't happen otherwise, that is not the case with the large firms in question here #budget2027
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Further liberalisation of Ireland's R&D tax credit in todays budget. Critical question is which companies these policy measures benefit. The credit already disproportionately benefits large US companies (it cost the State close to €1bn in 2023, with the majority going to US companies) #budget2026
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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Members @ifut.bsky.social staged a 1-hour walkout today at Maynooth as part of the Irish public sector pay dispute. Grateful also to the Postgraduate Workers' Organisation for their support. Solidarity with our colleagues in other unions who have begun working to contract. Power to the people! ✊️
Members of Maynooth University Postgraduate Workers' Organisation supporting the 1-hour walkout by the Irish Federation of University Teachers. A crowd of IFUT members and supporters gather while staging a one-hour work stoppage as part of the Irish public sector pay dispute. IFUT members and supporters gather during a one-hour work stoppage. A flag from the Climate Justice University Union is prominent in the bottom half of the photo.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
The unplucked goose
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
📢 Join our next #LunchSeminar with @valentin-marchal.bsky.social ( @sciencespo.bsky.social ) to discuss wealth accumulation, asset-price bubbles and the role of taxation. 🗓️ 9 October | 12:00–13:00 CET 📍 @pse.bsky.social & Zoom 🔗 More information: taxobservatory.world/event/lunch-...
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“There is an unignorable irony in the fact that Ireland intervened in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, but cannot recognise the issues that a genocide would pose for students providing original documents in a visa application.” www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-st...
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Gaza students take Ireland to court over visa refusals
A legal team says the justice minister's decision is irrational and discriminatory, with 26 more cases in the pipeline
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow by Timothy Mitchell www.versobooks.com/products/345...
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The Alibi of Capital
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capital­ism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of c...
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Huge congratulations to our colleagues at @iccl.bsky.social on this win! In a landmark ruling on 25 Sep, the ICCL secured a precedent that will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in GDPR class actions that impact their operations across the entire EU enforce.ie/digital-data...
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ICCL secures landmark precedent against Big Tech - Enforce
Landmark ruling will reshape how Big Tech companies defend themselves in court for EU-wide GDPR class actions
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POP @populismblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New book out 🔥 The Fascist Zeitgeist. Authoritarian Legacies and the Iberian Far Right. (Elements in the History and Politics of Fascism @universitypress.cambridge.org) How is the success of the Iberian far right linked to the memory of Franco and Salazar? doi.org/10.1017/9781009588072
The image shows, on the right half, the book's cover, with fascist architecture from Rome, which is the signature image used by the series on "The History and Politics of Fascism". The left half of the image shows the book's back, that includes the following summary: 
The far right is achieving unprecedented electoral success, even in countries once considered immune such as Spain and Portugal. For decades, the stigma surrounding the long dictatorships of António Salazar and Francisco Franco seemed to inoculate the Iberian Peninsula against far-right mobilisation, yet Chega and VOX have shown that collective memory evolves – and stigma fades. This Element argues that understanding the far right's global rise requires attention to authoritarian nostalgia: a longing for an idealised authoritarian past. When activated by credible political actors with sufficient media visibility, this sentiment can generate support for far-right movements even in societies with a collective memory firmly condemning their authoritarian past. Using original survey data, the Element shows how contemporary far-right forces mobilise the ghosts of authoritarianism to erode democratic norms, revealing the enduring power of collective memory in shaping political behaviour.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 30/09/2026
#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - What Would It Mean to Democratize Finance? An Evaluation of Divergent Conceptions of Democracy and Finance - cup.org/4hT2SwM - LEAH DOWNEY & @stefeich.bsky.social #FirstView
A graphic with a green and blue background. The top green section displays the text "#OpenAccess" in white. The bottom blue section shows the text "American Political Science Review" in white.
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/4 What can Country-by-Country Reporting (#CbCR) tell us about multinational companies? 🔎 A lot. But there’s a catch: before firm-level CbCR data can be used for research or tax analysis, it needs to be carefully cleaned. 📄 New research note: taxobservatory.world/publication/...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How academia resembles a drug gang (though different types of drug gangs in different countries) Interesting 'insider-outsider' comparative set ups outlined by Alexandre Afonso @lseblogs.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang - LSE Impact
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of “outsiders” ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interesting. "Policymakers are .. ignoring the politics of their nation’s macroeconomic structure.... decarbonization is not a market puzzle to be solved but a new political economy yet to be built." New book by @danieldrisc.com Why Carbon Taxes Failed academic.oup.com/book/62984
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 CfP: "Offshore Capitalism: Climate and Crisis", mini-conference at 2027 SASE in Glasgow 🚨 With @joseatiles.bsky.social, @andreabinder.bsky.social & Sabine Dörry, we welcome papers on 'the offshore' from a range of perspectives. DEADLINE: 1 Nov. Apply here: sase.org/conference-s...
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great selection of papers on technofinance just out in @finandsoc.bsky.social
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‘What is behind slowdown in Ireland’s property prices? ..demand must be softening’ housing need ≠ market demand There’s a deeply flawed assumption that everyone who needs a home is in the market for a home, regardless of price It’s throwing off so much of policy www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
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What is behind the slowdown in Ireland’s property prices?
New home supply outside Dublin is up but there is also a definite cooling on the demand side of the equation
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Twelve poets walk into a bookshop... unfortunately, I can’t remember the punchline because I stopped to read Seamus Heaney. Come for Heaney, Walcott, Sassoon and Rupi Kaur. Stay to see who else is on the Secondhand shelves ... there seems to be a great need for poetry right now
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Tax Justice Network @taxjustice.net · 28/09/2026
🇪🇺 Europe has a tax haven problem much closer to home than many might think. Our new illicit financial flows tracker reveals that an estimated US$673 billion in wealth and finance illicitly crosses European countries’ borders every year for the purpose of cheating on tax. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4j754s86
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 23/09/2026
Timely, given the strong Minsky moment vibes these days. Just out in Politics & Society. "The more Minsky rose to the challenge of explaining the economics of his [wage-led growth] proposal ... the more Democrats grew concerned about its politics." journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own." by By Timnit Gebruarchive Emily M. Benderarchive via @chriswrightau.bsky.social
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Lukas Bogner @lbogner.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026
New Paper out in Socio-Economic Review! Part of a coming special issue on the socio-economics of loss and decline. About the 4D chess of using blended finance for the coal exit in the Global South. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... (or ask me for a copy if you don't have access)!)
 The spectre of de-assetization: legal infrastructures and fragile fixes in fossil decommissioning - Lukas Bogner. Abstract: Efforts to decommission coal power plants in the Global South are constrained by the legal infrastructures that create and protect them as assets. This article examines the Asian Development Bank’s Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM) as a case of managing these constraints via a series of increasingly complex and fragile spatio-temporal fixes: First, power purchase agreements and investment treaties require compensation of investors at business-as-usual asset valuations; second, for lack of public funding, this compensation is to be generated via a blended finance mechanism; third, its inability to stem these costs necessitates further legal-financial engineering, including a novel guarantee mechanism and ‘coal-to-clean’ credits. The ETM and its successive fixes are haunted by the power relations inscribed in asset creation and protection in the Global South. This renders ‘de-risked’ transition finance dubious as a blueprint for fossil decommissioning and highlights the troubled nature of climate-related asset stranding in transnational, hierarchical legal space.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Berlin election shows robust support for assets as class boundary thesis proposed by Adkins, @melindacooper.bsky.social, @mkonings.bsky.social: - Significantly higher Left vote share in areas with higher % of renters. - Higher AfD/CDU & surprisingly SPD share in areas with higher asset ownership.
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
‘Housing Minister wants €20,000 tax refund hike for first-time buyers of new homes in Budget 2027’ .. this is like giving people money to bid for concert tickets*, instead of putting on extra shows** *limited homes **building homes www.independent.ie/irish-news/p...
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Housing Minister wants €20,000 tax refund hike for first-time buyers of new homes in Budget 2027
James Browne pushing for massive increase to bridge affordability gap
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Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I imagine if one single Irish footballer stands up and says he won't play, the rest will follow. Will only take one. Where's the one?
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Why not share tax on corporate profits based on an international agreement for fairer allocation of taxing rights? The UN Tax Convention under negotiation now is an opportunity to just that @financialjustice.bsky.social @eurodadnews.bsky.social @taxjustice.net www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...
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French minister wants Ireland to share its technology tax billions
French finance minister calls for large tax revenues from tech multinationals to be more fairly distributed across EU
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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 14/09/2026
Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making. People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
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Social Justice Ireland @socialjusticeire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Budget that is serious about addressing child and family poverty, and supporting the most vulnerable households in a cost of living crisis must prioritise benchmarking social welfare rates to average earnings and increasing child payments in #Budget2027. www.socialjustice.ie/article/budg...
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Budget 2027 and Child Poverty | Social Justice Ireland
A Budget that is serious about addressing child and family poverty, and supporting the most vulnerable households in a cost of living crisis must…
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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to TG4 for this powerful report on the massive protests held on Saturday in Dublin, Shannon, and Doonbeg against Trump’s visit to Ireland. #FreePalestine #StopFundingGenocide
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Martin Gelin @martingelin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My latest piece for The Guardian: In Sweden, previously unthinkable far-right ideas are now comfortably embedded in the mainstream. The past four years were characterised by an astonishing acceptance of ethnonationalist views, xenophobic rhetoric and authoritarian policies often targeting children.
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How Sweden lost its soul – and stopped being Sweden | Martin Gelin
In 2022 my country entered a new era of cruelty. It will take more than one election to get the old, tolerant Sweden back, writes Swedish journalist Martin Gelin
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
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Lawyers urge Government to tell Trump Ireland opposes his ‘illegal war policies’
US president risks causing ‘global catastrophe’, warns lawyers’ group
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Dr Jennifer Redmond @jenniferredmond.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a great episode featuring a wonderful scholar. Thanks to all involved helping to highlight the wonderful work we've convened as the HIDDEN COST Action CA21120 @hiddencostaction.bsky.social
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 It's gratifying to see this paper with wonderful friends and co-authors @savannahcox.bsky.social & @zacjtaylor.bsky.social in print at @jcultecon.bsky.social.Thanks again to guest editors @vapunkt.bsky.social & @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social for sticking with us. Link below!
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Norwegian oil fund may cut US Treasury holdings by $80 billion, the FT reports.
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