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Olli Tiikkainen

@ollitiik.bsky.social
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Postdoc @ Aalto University. STS, social studies of finance & economy, political economy, sustainability transitions research, social theory. They/them.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It's still a case of "More & More & More" of everything. The clean energy transition requires complete substitution, not simply addition!
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
How does rampant #assetisation and variation in #assetmanagement affect social conflicts? Our special issue co-edited with @theobourgeron.bsky.social in New Political Economy proposes a framework to analyse such asset struggles and brings together 7 papers with key empirical studies. 🧵
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Green Central Banking @greencb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The latest Banking on Climate Chaos report finds that financing of fossil fuels has increased.  But financing varies largely by region. The US and Japan have invested the most, while Europe has declined.
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Fossil fuel financing by big banks jumped 8% in 2025, analysis finds
More than a third of banks, particularly in Europe, cut fossil fuel financing due to regulation.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 05/05/2026
In a world of fossil price shocks and Chinese cleantech dominance, carbon shock therapy emerges as the default stance of states unwilling, or unable, to support their industries through a green transformation. New with @danielagabor.bsky.social on green macrofinancial regimes in the Hormuz crisis.
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Against Carbon Shock Therapy | Daniela Gabor & Benjamin Braun
The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
'Jyrähdimme' tänään vieraskynässä. Itse asia on aika yksinkertainen, mutta elintärkeä. Jo nyt saatu paljon kysymyksiä siitä, mitä nyt sitten pitäisi konkreettisesti tehdä. En osaa vastata (vielä) tarkalleen, mutta kokonaisvaltaista vihreän teollisuuspolitiikan ohjaamista se joka tapauksessa vaatii.
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Vieraskynä | Vihreä siirtymä on kestämätön ratkaisu, jos se vain lisää kulutusta
Historiasta nähdään, että puhtaampi ja tehokkaampi teknologia on usein lisännyt tuotantoa.
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Don’t stream, buy music and listen to what you own multiple times. Tidal and Quboz won’t be online forever and you will kick yourself for not having a hard copy MP3 on your harddrive or a physical media collection. Invest in yourself.
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Economic Sociology & Political Economy @econsociology.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How does #ImpactInvesting take on different meanings and reinforces financial power? Varieties of Impact Investing: Creating and Translating a Label in Local Contexts, by Philip Balsiger, Daniel Burnier & @noekabouche.bsky.social. @brisunipress.bsky.social economicsociology.org/2026/03/26/v...
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Varieties of Impact Investing: Context, Institutions, and Translation
by Noé Kabouche* Over the last few decades, initiatives involving ‘sustainable’, ‘ethical’ and ‘responsible’ finance have been thriving. Among this flourishing renewal of morality in the financial …
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Defending my dissertation 'Financial sustainability governance: An inquiry into the politics of Finnish impact finance' next friday, the 20th of March! ⚔️ More info and streamlink: tapahtumat.helsinki.fi/en-FI/page/6.... Download the dissertation: urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978....
A cover of the PhD dissertation. White text on a blue surface, giving out the title of the PhD (Financial sustainability governance: An inquiry into the politics of Finnish impact finance), author (Olli Tiikkainen), and the series of the dissertation (Dissertationes Universitatis Helsingiensis 122/2026). Additionally, a relatively abstract figure that represents the plurality of politics in impact finance is on the cover.
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Aalto University - Aalto-yliopisto @aalto.fi · 16/02/2026
Toivoa ei vain odoteta – sitä tutkitaan, kyseenalaistetaan ja luodaan Aallossa. Tutkijat Ali Salloum ja Johanna Ahola-Launonen, kertovat, miltä toivo näyttää, kun työn kohteena on ilmiöitä, jotka voivat näyttäytyä pelottavina tai lamaannuttavina: www.aalto.fi/fi/uutiset/t...
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Dr Zahira Jaser @zahira.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We need to educate the world one person at time, about Palestine. Here is what £1,200 of research funds buy in books on Palestine. Grateful to the University of Sussex Business School summer of research grant.
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Poliittisen talouden tutkimuksen seura @poliittinentalous.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Varallisuuden keskittyminen ja ilmastokriisin eteneminen kytkeytyvät yhteen, ja siksi ne on ratkaistava yhdessä. Puheenvuorossaan VTM Elisa Husu esittelee Pariisin koulun taloustieteilijöiden kehittelemiä malleja, joilla superrikkaita voidaan verottaa ja varat ohjata päästöjen vähentämiseen. 1/3
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Lauri Holappa @lauriholappa.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Commented on the dire state of the Finnish economy for DW. At the moment, Finland is the only OECD country whose economy is not expected to grow in 2025, and the outlook for 2026 is also very bleak. 1/5 www.dw.com/en/finland-r...
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Russian threats push Finland past EU budget deficit limit – DW – 12/01/2025
Finland cut Russian energy imports and closed the shared border after the Ukraine war, erasing €12 billion in trade. The shocks deepened the Nordic nation's deficit, already strained by defense and we...
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Poliittisen talouden tutkimuksen seura @poliittinentalous.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Lue katsausartikkeli kokonaisuudessaan Poliittinen talous -lehden verkkosivulla: doi.org/10.51810/pt..... 4/4
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Vihreän rahoituksen tutkimus poliittisessa taloudessa ja kestävyyssiirtymän suunnittelu
Tässä katsausartikkelissa tarkastellaan tuoretta poliittisen talouden tutkimusta vihreästä rahoituksesta. Tavoitteena on valottaa tutkimuksen tilaa ja ekologiseen kestävyyssiirtymään liittyviä rahoitu...
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Poliittisen talouden tutkimuksen seura @poliittinentalous.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Poliittisen talouden vihreän rahoituksen tutkimus on elinvoimainen ja kehittyvä tutkimusala. Katsausartikkelissaan YTM Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social @bios.fi käy läpi alan viimeaikaista tutkimusta ja sen antia politiikalle ja tutkimukselle. 1/4
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄? Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year. First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
More plz eli lisää?? Suomeks kelpaa mikä tahansa hyvä kirja!
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Best books you've read (fairly) recently? Need suggestions. 🤓 Extra points for: - Political economy (of finance) - History of technology - Environmental social science & philosophy - Postcolonial studies - Fiction
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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨ Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments! Read more below 👇 journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
YHYS politiikkadialogi alkaa n. 9 minuutin päästä! Jos et pääse paikalle Aallon Marsioon, voi tapahtumaa seurata myös etänä täältä: www.youtube.com/live/il02imd...
a picture of the YHYS politiikkadialogi youtube
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
The website of our new project SUSTHOPE is out, check it! And let's talk if you have similar interests! www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...
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SUSTHOPE Research Project | Aalto University
Towards Sustainable Hope: Exploring the Harmful and Beneficial Effects of Techno-Optimism.
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Bue Rübner Hansen @buerubner.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It's hard to overstate setback AI is for the energy transition.
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Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published! You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
in 2023, I warned that the derisking state is not a reliable regime of decarbonisation since it relies on tweaking the price signal to mobilise private investment, without considering other macro forces acting on that signal. ahem. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Danish firm shelves huge UK windfarm project over rising costs
Ørsted cancels fourth stage of Hornsea project off Yorkshire coast, which was set to include enough turbines to power 1m homes
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Paul Jonker-Hoffrén @pjonkerhoffren.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Tampereen yliopistolla on tänään lakko, koska ➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin. ➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista. ➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa. #MeOlemmeYliopisto
Me olemme yliopisto
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Acta Sociologica @actasociologica.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
"From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance" by @ollitiik.bsky.social and Mikko J Virtanen out now as part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action' #sociology #finance #socialinvestment doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance - Olli Tiikkainen, Mikko J Virtanen, 2025
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy f...
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Economic Sociology & Political Economy @econsociology.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Benefit from this abundant list of great opportunities: 27 calls for papers (some are funded), 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a grant in Economic #Sociology, Political Economy & related fields. Share and Good luck! economicsociology.org/2025/04/21/g...
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Great academic opportunities: 27 calls for papers, 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a research grant
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 27 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully fund…
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Janne Seppänen @jannesep.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
”Mikä oikeastaan voisi nykyisessä tilanteessa olla merkittävämpi talouden ja politiikan uutinen kuin se, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikan tutkimuksellinen pohja ja sitä kautta myös ratkaisut murenevat?” Pääsiäisen Polemis-blogi. www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
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Miksi iso uutinen ei kelpaa?
Kuvitellaanpa tilanne, että toimituksilla olisi saatavilla Elinkeinoelämän tutkimuslaitoksen (ETLA) ekonomistien uunituore raportti siitä, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikka nojautuu vääriin oletuksi...
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Kalevi Sorsa -säätiö @sorsafoundation.fi · 10/04/2025
Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg avaa blogissaan feminististä talousajattelua: 🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta? 🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi tarkastella feministisesti? 🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa? sorsafoundation.fi/sukupuolten-...
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Sukupuolten suhteet ovat osa talouden rakenteita — ja siksi niitä kannattaa ymmärtää  · Kalevi Sorsa -säätiö
Talouspolitiikan valinnat vaikuttavat hyvin eri tavoin eri sukupuoliin. Perinteinen talouskeskustelu on kuitenkin usein sokeaa talouden sukupuolittuneisuudelle. Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg kirjoittaa,...
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 04/04/2025
The EU is in the grip of a radical #deregulation frenzy - while the EU has seen deregulation waves before, it’s very different this time ⚠️ #Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back transform-network.net/blog/working...
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Why Progressives Must Organise to Stop the EU’s Deregulation Wave
Under von der Leyen’s lead, the European Commission is driving a far-reaching deregulatory agenda, threatening social and environmental protections. Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) rev...
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 28/03/2025
Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📣 Our new article now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social as part of the special issue ’Social Investment in Action'! doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete! 🧵on its content: 1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 19/02/2025
Kirjoitin vaihteeksi tämmöisen! Miten epävarmuuksia pitäisi käsitellä parempien päätösten tekemiseksi.
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 12/02/2025
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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BIOS-tutkimusyksikkö @bios.fi · 11/02/2025
Kirjoitimme metsäalan hankalasta tilanteesta ja metsäteollisuuden ääneenlausumattomasta erikoisasemasta: politiikasta.fi/metsateollis... #ilmastonmuutos #metsäteollisuus #LULUCF #hiilinielu /1
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Metsäteollisuuden kestävyyspäivitys – Osa 1: Miksi metsäteollisuudella on ilmastopoliittinen erityisasema? – Politiikasta
Metsistä on tullut päästölähde. Ne eivät enää ole nielu, joka auttaisi kohti hiilineutraaliutta. Nielujen katoa on auttanut metsäteollisuuden erityisasema, joka synnyttää teollisuuden alojen välille e...
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Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Neoliberal Europe in a nutshell: defending itself against foreign tech giants by ... deepening its dependence on foreign asset managers. At this rate, they will need another summit just on that.
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Jens van 't Klooster 💸💸💸 @jvtk.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵
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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.
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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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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.
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In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?
If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
we've never needed a Big Green State more, and we've never been furthest away from it on the terrain of the politically possible.
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Olli Tiikkainen @ollitiik.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Hey/hei Bluesky! 🦋 Will start my presence here with a promo: my second PhD article will be published soon by @actasociologica.bsky.social. Wohoo!
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