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Richard Bärnthaler

@rbaernthaler.bsky.social
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Associate Prof for Ecological Economics & Political Economy | @envleeds.bsky.social, SRI | Co-lead, Research Group: tiny.cc/leeds_econopol | Associate Editor: tiny.cc/s_spp I Webpage: www.richardbarnthaler.com

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Beth Stratford @bethstratford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Well, I for one am an economist who supports rent controls! Here’s why 🧵: Markets only work well if: -buyers & sellers have roughly equal power -producers respond to price signals & expand supply in response to scarcity -buyers can walk away if prices get too high
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New open-access Brief Report: how teaching ecological economics can help students rethink economics & "the economy". Based on reflections from our new MSc module at @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Link in comments. With @mmbuchs.bsky.social, @divanova.bsky.social, @jounipaavola.bsky.social et al.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some thoughts on how research can contribute to transformation in times of eco-social crises & institutional instability. I work through 3 questions: 1. How can we understand the current situation? 2. What can be done to change it? 3. How can we build the power to do so? tinyurl.com/2dsbfcj2
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Energy social science in a critical conjuncture: Toward a framework for strategic transformation research
This Perspective develops a framework for strategic transformation research in energy social science and beyond, grounded in the current conjuncture o…
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Some thoughts on how research can contribute to transformation in times of eco-social crises & institutional instability. I work through 3 questions: 1. How can we understand the current situation? 2. What can be done to change it? 3. How can we build the power to do so? tinyurl.com/2dsbfcj2
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Energy social science in a critical conjuncture: Toward a framework for strategic transformation research
This Perspective develops a framework for strategic transformation research in energy social science and beyond, grounded in the current conjuncture o…
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Re-advertised & open until 30 June: - Fully funded PhD @ University of Leeds (UK students only) - Focus: UK production & consumption transformations (scope to shape your project) - Strong political economy angle - 6-month secondment with Dept for Energy Security & Net Zero tinyurl.com/3d7s9ydx
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Political Economy of Production and Consumption Transformations
Project opportunity - Political Economy of Production and Consumption Transformations at the University of Leeds
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ICTA-UAB @icta-uab.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
🔴⏯️Missed our latest seminar on planning a sufficiency economy with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social? Good news! You can now watch full talk on our YouTube channel 🎥 Catch up on insights from WWII Britain to today’s eco-social transition debate #PostGrowth #Sustainability www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fYn...
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Richard Bärnthaler: Planning for a sufficiency economy: lessons from Britain in World War II
YouTube video by ICTA-UAB
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Luisa Neubauer @luisaneubauer.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Mit Blick auf Katherina Reiches #Energiepolitik, muss man längst keinen Teufel mehr an die Wand malen. Der steht da schon längst und schlürft Biofuels." Warum aus der Abkehr der Energiewende eine Staatskrise wachsen könnte, in meiner @surplusmagazin.de Kolumne. www.surplusmagazin.de/heizungsgese...
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Die Grüngasquote torpediert den Klimaschutz
Das neue Heizungsgesetz sieht auch eine Grüngasquote vor. Das ist energiepolitischer Wahnsinn und könnte sogar zur Staatskrise führen.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Left: FT on March 6, 2026. Right: FT on August 11, 2025. Spot the connection?
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Josh Ryan-Collins @jryancollins.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The @europarl.europa.eu looks set on tuesday to vote through a report on the EU housing crisis that rejects the idea that financialisation has been a key driver. Read my co-authored letter with @danielagabor.bsky.social arguing aginst the report's findings www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
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Letter to the European Parliament's HOUS Committee
Authored by Josh Ryan-Collins and Daniela Gabor
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Vast sums of public & private finance have been allowed – even encouraged – to flow into LNG terminals, AI data centres & military expansion, while the material foundations of energy security – renewable grids and storage capacity – remain deficient. This was not unavoidable but a political choice.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We seem stuck in a loop, but it needs repeating again & again: a progressive European project must (i) clearly oppose ongoing US‑Israeli aggression & (ii) recognise that energy security depends not on shifting fossil suppliers but on rapidly scaling renewables alongside demand‑reduction strategies.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I was never entirely convinced by the TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) thesis. It obscures that, even when the US jumps 10 steps forward & then retreats 8, concrete 'next best steps' are still made that reshape the terrain & create conditions for further shifts that extend US power & dominance. 1/2
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Fully funded PhD in Political Economy of Production and Consumption Transformations @envleeds.bsky.social The PhD is part of the PACT Centre (shorturl.at/XrzOi) & includes an optional secondment of up to six months at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. More info: shorturl.at/5GkEQ
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
you could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza.
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 05/12/2025
What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:
American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations' individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.
Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe.
America is, understandably, sentimentally attached to the European continent— and, of course, to Britain and Ireland. The character of these countries is also strategically important because we count upon creative, capable, confident, democratic allies to establish conditions of stability and security. We want to work with aligned countries that want to restore their former greatness.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Fixing housing means tackling the market shift that made homes tradeable assets tinyurl.com/4resamkz Good comment but profit-driven artificial scarcity isn’t just about too few homes built but also about affordability & use of existing stock. Distribution & use matter as much as quantitative supply
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What happens when housing supply is driven by markets not Main Street
Home prices in America won’t come down without systemic reform
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with Richard Baernthaler (University of Leeds), Chaired by: Chandni Dwarkasing on: 🎤 Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe 🇪🇺 🗓️ 26 November, 5PM 📍 SOAS, B103 info and livestream🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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SUS-POL @suspol.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🛢️We cannot lose sight of phasing out fossil fuels. @freddiedaley.bsky.social and @peternewell.bsky.social have a piece in The National Interest pushing back on the “build now, break later” mantra in the energy transition. nationalinterest.org/blog/energy-... A 🧵 on why that approach is risky👇
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We Cannot Lose Sight of Phasing Out Fossil Fuels
Phasing out the use of fossil fuels, not just simply rebuilding low-carbon systems, should be the goal of COP30.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I really enjoyed this long debate with Andy Haldane on the state of Britain's macrofinancial politics and who are the real bond vigilantes www.podbean.com/media/share/...
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On Politics: Do bond markets and the Bank of England run Britain?
Andy Burnham recently said that the government is ‘in hock to the bond markets’, and the political turbulence of the past few years, not least the downfall of Liz Truss following her ‘mini-budget’, wo...
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Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds @envleeds.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
How do we make progress towards a sustainable future? 🛤️ The SRI@21 research agenda explores questions that still need addressing, such as: ❓ How do we envision sustainable futures? ❓ Who makes decisions about sustainability? ❓ How should we measure our goals? SRI@21 launches 19 November 2025.
Green graphic reading "SRI a celebration of 21 years of sustainability research at Leeds."
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Extraordinary Mamdani speech defending Muslim life in the US. a breath of fresh air to see a politician standing up for principles. Standards in the US have fallen so low lately…
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 25/10/2025
Karl Polanyi identifizierte den Wirtschaftsliberalismus als Wurzel reaktionären Denkens. Seine Theorie der »entbetteten« Märkte ist so aktuell wie nie.
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Karl Polanyi: Der entfesselte Markt führt zum Faschismus
Karl Polanyi identifizierte den Wirtschaftsliberalismus als Wurzel reaktionären Denkens. Seine Theorie der »entbetteten« Märkte ist so aktuell wie nie.
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
BIG launch this week--the book is available, free, online at our @cssn.org website: cssn.org/news-researc...
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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network
Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This is precisely why (a) ESG has always been problematic by turning public policy issues into profit-making ventures & (b) credit guidance is necessary to direct commercial bank and non-bank financial sector finance toward public purpose (Screenshot from R. Armstrong’s FT “Unhedged” newsletter)
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 14/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.
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Öffentlicher Luxus für alle: Mamdani zeigt, wie es geht
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.
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SOAS Economics @soaseconomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
📌 Join us for the @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Seminar Series — bringing together leading scholars to discuss global challenges in political economy, sustainability, and development ‼️ 📅 upcoming events 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Worth watching the Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab’s (@bentleyallan.bsky.social) presentation of “China’s Green Leap Outward” by @70sbachchan.bsky.social, @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social & Xiaokang Xue youtu.be/Pc2eu6YT2O0?... Some key takeaways, and a broader question that deserves more attention: 1/7
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China’s Green Leap Outward: The rapid scale- up of Chinese clean-tech manufacturing FDI
YouTube video by Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 05/10/2025
Nachdem die EU im Juni eine norwegische Kupfermine als »strategisch« wichtig deklariert hat, spitzt sich die Lage für die indigenen Sámi drastisch zu.
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Ein norwegischer Fjord im Zentrum europäischer Rohstoffpolitik
Nachdem die EU im Juni eine norwegische Kupfermine als »strategisch« wichtig deklariert hat, spitzt sich die Lage für die indigenen Sámi drastisch zu.
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Israel attacks the Global Sumud Flotilla, continues to starve Palestinians in Gaza. Escalate peaceful disruptive action now. #DisruptComplicity now!
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 01/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren, schreiben @rbaernthaler.bsky.social und Lukas Warning.
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Öffentlicher Luxus für alle: Mamdani zeigt, wie es geht
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The genocidal state of Israel is intercepting the Global Sumud flotilla - shame on Spain and Italy who abandoned these brave people but grandstand at the UN. Shame!
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
„Öffentlicher Luxus für alle“ – Beitrag von Lukas Warning und mir im @surplusmagazin.bsky.social Was Mamdani vorschlägt, steht für ein neues Verständnis von Daseinsvorsorge. Nicht nur Verteidigung, sondern Weiterentwicklung öffentlicher Infrastruktur. 1/6 www.surplusmagazin.de/offentlicher...
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Öffentlicher Luxus für alle: Mamdani zeigt, wie es geht
Zohran Mamdani will die Daseinsvorsorge in New York neu aufstellen. Die Idee von »Öffentlichem Luxus« könnte auch die Politik in Deutschland inspirieren.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Israel’s colonial planners are dismantling Palestinian political economy through incursions into formerly autonomous areas & targeted economic measures (labour bans, tax revenue restrictions, banking constraints), shrinking the economy by 1/3 & accelerating institutional collapse on.ft.com/3IyhbrF
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How Israel is dismantling the dream of a Palestinian state
While attention has been focused on Gaza, Israel has undermined the delicate architecture of governance in the West Bank built up over three decades
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
What about energy security when phasing out fossil fuels? A recent IEA report suggests “reducing demand” in high-income countries: tinyurl.com/4xtf74ap How? Shifting to collective, non-profit provisioning can cut energy use & improve wellbeing – crucial for strategic autonomy & energy security ⬇️
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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.
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Chartbook 409 Beyond the "Marshall Plan": China's solar boom as world-changing industrial policy.
In the first six months of 2025 China installed more than 250GW of solar power capacity.
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Lukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
📝New publication! Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate: 1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts
Fossil fuel production must be phased out globally to decarbonise human society. Yet some countries should phase out sooner than others. Determining the order in which countries should phase out pr...
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 12/09/2025
1/ New report from @bentleyallan.bsky.social's Net Zero Policy Lab: As the US withdraws from green tech industries and pressures allies to follow suit, China is stepping in to power the developing world's energy transition. The scale is staggering. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...
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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab
A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The idea of a “housing shortage” is misleading. And building more homes won’t help if investors keep buying. You solve the housing crisis when investors quit the market. Two good pieces in the FT: www.ft.com/content/d905... www.ft.com/content/48bd...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Near future academic publishing – a speculative social science fiction experiment
Published in Learning, Media and Technology (Vol. 49, No. 4, 2024)
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Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
So proud of this collaboration led by @cssn.org 110 top experts from around the world 13 chapters on who is blocking or slowing action on climate change A quantum leap in our understanding of why society has failed to solve this Will be free online Oct 14 1/x global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Cover of new book Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment from Oxford University Press. Shows cows, smokestacks, jets, oil refineries, cell phones and a man in a suit talking to an audience
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.
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Melanie Brusseler @brusselermel.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
In the @financialtimes.com today on green planning and decommodification of life's essentials or bust post-IRA and Bidenomics. www.ft.com/content/dda5...
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This, among other things, exemplifies what it means to shield the economy from democracy—a hallmark of a capitalist political economy. www.ftm.eu/articles/fos...
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Record number of corporate lawsuits target climate action in controversial tribunal
Behind closed doors in Washington, D.C., fossil fuel and mining companies are suing governments over lost profits. Follow the Money has analysed how a system built to protect foreign investors poses a...
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Richard Bärnthaler @rbaernthaler.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
'Are we going to retreat to a defense of central bank independence? Isn’t it time to actually define what the appeal of “our democracy” actually is? Isn’t it time to define what a democratic politics of central banking might look like?' by @adamtooze.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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Chartbook 406 Trump v. the Fed: or how history is forcing the question of a democratic politics of central banking.
Donald Trump’s move to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook “for cause”, escalates his long-running battle with America’s central bank.
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
THE most important thing, bar none, you need to understand about Israel bombing hospitals, killing journalists and double-tapping rescue workers is that it's been happening for almost 2 years straight with not a single Western media outlet giving a single fuck.
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Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom: hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647... Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478 Passcode: 800441 registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
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Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 22/08/2025
Deutschland braucht eine europäische Industriestrategie, um krisenfest zu werden. Das erfordert eine starke Daseinsvorsorge, schreiben @rbaernthaler.bsky.social , @sebmang.bsky.social und @jasonhickel.bsky.social
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Ohne Daseinsvorsorge keine stabile Industrie
Deutschland braucht eine europäische Industriestrategie, um krisenfest zu werden. Das erfordert eine starke Daseinsvorsorge.
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