Reposted by Stephan Grubertaz @taz.de · 25/09/2026Berlin kann die Entschädigung für die Vergesellschaftung von Immobilienbeständen ohne Belastung für den Landeshaushalt stemmen. Das sagt eine Studie der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung 👉 taz.de/Neue-Studie-... 29852309
Reposted by Stephan GruberLPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Also hitting the shelves this week: @athenais.bsky.social's new book, *The House That Family Money Built: How Inequality Governs Debt and Wealth Management.*ucpress.eduThe House That Family Money Built by Allison Tait - PaperScholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change. 152
Reposted by Stephan Grubersusannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 11614
Reposted by Stephan GruberKarthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Your periodic reminder story that the US is intermittently (and depending on who’s in the WH, variably) complimentary about South America’s politics, but China is permanently complementary with South America’s economics. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/w...nytimes.comIn Peru, the Trump Administration Sees the Limits of Its Anti-China PushAs Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels this week to Peru, its growing economic ties to China have raised tensions with the U.S., but show no signs of reversing course. 2216
Reposted by Stephan GruberDecolonial Memories @colonial-memories.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Decolonial memories by Bonn University @dependencybonn.de: New professorship & other positions focused on legacies of European colonialism. @he-mel.bsky.social @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social @adamblackler.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @michmo.bsky.social www.uni-bonn.de/en/universit... 04725
Reposted by Stephan GruberFT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com · 20/08/2026www.ft.com/content/bcc9...ft.com140 years of banking crises and bailoutsWe started so we finished 12615
Reposted by Stephan GruberLukas Scholle @lukasscholle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026𝗪𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗳𝘁𝘀𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗮𝗸𝘁𝗲𝘂𝗿, dessen Blick sich auf die Interessen der großen Mehrheit richtet und nicht die der Reichsten. Alle Infos: www.surplusmagazin.de/jobs/ 096
Reposted by Stephan Gruberherman mark schwartz @thunen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026good 🧵⬇️ (& PW article). long since time for dependency theory 2.0 now that the neoliberal & methodologically nationalist "every country can be south korea with proper institutions" arguments have proven wrong. In aggregate, little change in EMDE GDPpc relative to US GDPpc over the long run. 1/2 1104
Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I wrote this for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social on the politics of Peru's growth model in the wake of Fujimori's election. The "Peruvian Model" is praised for resilient macro stability amid political turmoil — but I focus on its downsides: how it blocks structural change and hollows out democracy. 12010
Reposted by Stephan GruberPhilipp Hölzing @philipphoelzing.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum 60. Geburtstag heute, Rahel Jaeggi! Pünktlich zum Fest lotet dieser Band das Spannungsfeld von Materialismus und Emanzipation neu aus: zwischen Freiheit und Notwendigkeit, zwischen Geist und Materie, zwischen Bewahrung und Revolution. Out now! 0164
Reposted by Stephan GruberMax-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Don’t miss next week’s MPIfG Lecture by @kaikodden.bsky.social: “Understanding Germany in Times of Genocide: Franz Neumann and the Ongoing Question of Imperialism“. 🗓️ Wednesday, July 8, 16:30 📍 MPIfG, Cologne 📧 Sign up: info@mpifg.de 🔗 s.gwdg.de/nlm4Mk 052
Reposted by Stephan GruberGrantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event. 7719981152
Reposted by Stephan GruberBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 05/06/2026"What if Odysseus had himself tied to the mast not for 30 min but for 20, 30 years? First, muscles are going to atrophy. Second, he's going to lose control of the ship." – Leah Downey "The monetary system may be both democratically legitimate and corrosive of democracy over time." #financedemocracy 071
Reposted by Stephan GruberSandra W Rodríguez Castañeda @lasandunga.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Next Tuesday 4:30pm (26 May), Lina-María Murillo (UT Austin) discusses her book Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands –uncovering how Mexican-origin women fought to reclaim autonomy across the border. Hybrid event at UCL. Register: sl1nk.com/8l0g54c 131
Reposted by Stephan GruberDaniel Kuehn @dkuehn.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I am not a Hayek scholar but it's still really exciting to see these digitized papers online. Digitized archives are so valuable for broadening the scope of people who do history of economics. www.hoover.org/news/papers-...hoover.orgThe Papers Of Friedrich August Von Hayek Now Accessible Online 02214
Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social · 22/04/20261. As a good complement, earlier this year I published this chapter in the edited volumen Market Economists Beyond the West, edited by Tobias Rupprecht in Routledge. In there, I relate the 1980s story to the longer Peruvian genealogy of neoliberal ideas. www.routledge.com/Market-Econo... 171
Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social · 22/04/20261.NEW ARTICLE. Fresh out of the oven, I want to share my article on “neoliberal populism” just out in out in Global Perspectives. I analyze the ideational origins of Peru's resilient neoliberalism in the 1980s. Here a free access to the article (for a month). online.ucpress.edu/gp/article/d... 12314
Reposted by Stephan GruberIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Economics can either enable the slide toward fascism, or defend affordability, dignity, and democracy. I wrote ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS with my baby by my side—a constant reminder that the future should be livable for all. Out in October with Random House. 19711190
Reposted by Stephan GruberCaptain it’s Wednesday @wednesday.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Captain it's Wednesday 016079
Reposted by Stephan GruberBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 27/03/2026Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)" 26244
Reposted by Stephan Gruberrobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 27/03/2026With Alexander Kluge the other great theorist of the public sphere died, shortly after Habermas. Today we live the effects of the pacification of conflicts through “facades of legitimation” & “pseudo-publics” & the resulting blockages of social hopes, experiences & needs he diagnosed. 1/2 1379
Reposted by Stephan GruberPhilipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 26/03/2026We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️ 19364
Reposted by Stephan GruberSteffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 23/03/2026We are hiring! The Department of Inequality, Transformation and Conflict is looking for Postdoc & Doc Researchers (m/f/d). Find out more & apply via www.ips.mpg.de #MaxPlanck #Postdoc #PhD #Sociology #SocialScience #PoliticalScience #Inequality #Conflict www.ips.mpg.de/13135/stelle...ips.mpg.deStellenangebote 110254
Reposted by Stephan GruberIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation. 7359206
Reposted by Stephan GruberInstitut für Sozioökonomie @ifso.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Keynes Spring School 2026 am Institut für Sozioökonomie @unidue.bsky.social – jetzt letzte Nachrücker:innen-Plätze sichern. Bei Interesse: Schickt uns eine Mail! Alle Infos zur Keynes Spring School 2026: www.uni-due.de/soziooekonom... 063
Reposted by Stephan GruberBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 25/02/2026The first set of postdocs for our ERC project on popular government have just been advertised. These 3 postdocs will be based at UC Louvain with my co-PI Pierre-Etienne Vandamme and focus on contemporary democratic theory. Apply! jobs.uclouvain.be/Personnelsci... 14142
Reposted by Stephan GruberSara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Archive Stories has a new series on archiving and remembering the Tricontinental and Third Worldism, out now! archive-stories.com/Archiving-th...archive-stories.comArchiving the Tricontinental — archive stories︎︎︎ All ︎︎︎ Launching Archive Stories ︎︎︎ Archiving Palestine ︎︎︎ Archiving the... 11916
Reposted by Stephan GruberIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies. So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon. 821761
Reposted by Stephan GruberAaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 14/02/2026On Feb 23, I’ll be debating @katharinapistor.bsky.social on the topic of beyond capitalism at Columbia University. Link to details and registration below. Please share! events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...events.columbia.eduBeyond Capitalism<p> </p> <p>We invite you to join the Center for Political Economy on Monday, February 23 at 6pm for a scholarly discussion of alternative approaches to moving beyond capitalism. The discussion w... 13312
Reposted by Stephan GruberThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/02/2026Rethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taughttheguardian.comRethinking Economics, the movement changing how the subject is taughtBorn of student disquiet after the 2008 crash, the group says it reshaping economists’ education 86923
Reposted by Stephan GruberDaniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 10/02/2026the US is engineering a famine in Cuba, intensifying el bloqueo. some expect the Cuban military to fight regime change, unlike Venezuela. 12711
Reposted by Stephan GruberSandra W Rodríguez Castañeda @lasandunga.bsky.social · 06/02/2026📢 Call for abstracts We’re happy to be organising this one-day workshop on sex, reproduction, and the politics of knowledge at @uclamericas.bsky.social on May 26, 2026. We invite 200-word abstract submissions by March 6. 🔗 Full details here: tinyurl.com/366fxscx 043
Reposted by Stephan GruberPeter Hintz @peterdhintz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Die Universität Leipzig setzt Kürzungen des eigenen Haushalts durch die Nichtverlängerung von laufenden Promotionsstellen um, meine ist auch betroffen. kreuzer-leipzig.de/2026/01/29/l...kreuzer-leipzig.deGenug ist genugLeipzig. Subjektiv. Selektiv. 30354114
Stephan Gruber @stephangruber.bsky.social · 03/02/2026To everyone interested in knowing more about political economy of finance it doesn't get better than this! 030
Reposted by Stephan GruberMark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Applications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn... 04623
Reposted by Stephan GruberPaulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 03/02/2026JOB: Lecturer in International Relations of the Americas www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...ucl.ac.ukUCL – University College LondonUCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021). 042
Reposted by Stephan GruberUCL Institute of the Americas @uclamericas.bsky.social · 02/02/2026PhD Student, Sandra Rodríguez Castañeda, discusses a project of archival recovery in northern Peru Read the blog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/americas-blo... #Peru #archives #research #phd #PhDLife #fieldwork 063
Reposted by Stephan GruberPhilipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Even after two world wars and a century of upheaval, wealth in 🇩🇪 shows strong persistence. About 8% of today’s top fortunes trace back to the early 1900s: 82 of the richest families today were already among the richest in 1913, challenging the idea of a fully meritocratic elite. 46330
Reposted by Stephan GruberLukas Scholle @lukasscholle.bsky.social · 06/12/2025Deutschland ist ein Paradies für Milliardäre: 156 leben jetzt in Deutschland. Das ist ein Drittel mehr als im Vorjahr. Ihr Vermögen wuchs um 21 Prozent auf 691 Milliarden Dollar. 12811
Reposted by Stephan GruberSandra W Rodríguez Castañeda @lasandunga.bsky.social · 04/12/2025The deadline has now been extended to December 15, 2025. Esperamos sus contribuciones! Información detallada aquí: tinyurl.com/3s8ddkt2 022
Reposted by Stephan GruberPer Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025The AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po in Paris invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher who hold a PhD in one of the following areas: Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Economic History, or related fields. Apply by Jan 5th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.com 055
Reposted by Stephan GruberWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This is fascinating and disturbing from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on rise of 'financial nihilism' (cc @aminsamman.bsky.social !) in the asset economy www.ft.com/content/c17a...ft.comThe housing crisis is pushing Gen Z into crypto and economic nihilismLocked out of home ownership, young adults are turning to risky financial behaviour 46723
Reposted by Stephan GruberPaulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Very sorry to hear that Rosemary Thorp has passed away. She was a wonderful mentor and a top scholar. Her economic history of Peru (with Geoffrey Bertram) is one of the most important works of Peruvian history written to date. She will be missed. 041