Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...

Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social

Different CBS. Copenhagen Business School.

Applicants are required to submit a 3-5 page research agenda tackling one of the above themes. Deadline is October 15th. More information here: www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

The two post-docs are both for 36 months, with 24 months of research and 12 months of teaching. The teaching will be in courses like Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, and primarily located in the BSc and MSc International Business and Politics degrees.

One post-doc will investigate the environmental and economic trade-offs present in the corporate expansion of AI. The other post-doc will investigate how international regulatory and reporting standards reflect the actual environmental damage from AI use.

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions:

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Lecturer in Political Economy Job in Bedford Park, Adelaide SA - SEEK Contribute to world-class teaching and research in political economy at a university ranked in the top 2% worldwide.

👁️‍🗨️ Flinders Uni in Adelaide has a Political Economy lecturer post—calling for expertise in IPE, Asia, climate, and geoeconomics—and where you would get to work with the likes of the wonderful Maryanne Kelton and the good folk in the Jeff Bleich Centre. See here: www.seek.com.au/job/85900447

Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior In economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the often-unseen social forces that shape our financial behavior. Drawing on original research and engaging r...

📔My book comes out May 29! Based largely on my own research at the intersection of #EconomicSociology and #BehavioralEconomics, it is intended for an educated general audience.

You can pre-order now on Amazon ($24.00):

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Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington How the politics of investability determine climate financing

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy.

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How are things turned into assets?

We argue that #assetization requires bridging different scales: transnational ideas of asset classes need to be linked to messy local realities.

How is this done? And why does this matter?

We study #impactinvesting in the UK and Geneva to address these Qs.

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Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
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What's that sound? It's DBCFT time *again*?!

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Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation This article proposes a new analytical framework of ‘tax games’ providing fresh insights into the dynamics of global corporate taxation. Tax games are defined as institutionalised configurations of...

Thrilled to see my article w. @seanoriain.bsky.social on Ireland's Corporate Tax Games w. @ripejournal.bsky.social, drawing on global wealth chains @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, coding of capital by Katherina Pistor & infrastructural power @benbraun.bsky.social

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This is super work, congrats Nessa!

PwC exits more than a dozen countries in push to avoid scandals African firms say they lost over a third of their business as global executives forced them to drop risky clients

1/ PwC is trimming its global network, offloading units and exiting countries, to reduce risk after an unprecedented wave of scandals.

Important piece by the magnificent @martesaga.bsky.social and the first empirical publication of our WEB-project ✨ www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/... @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen European Commission president tells FT she wants ‘balanced’ deal but could hit US services in retaliation

The EU threatens new taxes on US Big Tech. Again. This time in response to Trump's tariff tirade.

This is the latest in a decade-long transatlantic spat that has radically transformed the global tax landscape. A quick 🧵

The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets"

The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/

A new who’s who of the global elites They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?

Interesting read www.ft.com/content/ff0a...

Time to update the tracker

A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?

Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
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Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the ....

Full special issue out today: Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991...
See the open access article by GJ and yours truly: "Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

The first episode of my new Radio 4 series, Untaxing, is 1.45pm today; then the same time every day this week. Available on BBC Sounds as soon as each episode airs.

BBC Sounds link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New article with Lucia Quaglia on how EU banks and EU regulators engaged in ‘noisy geopolitics’ by leveraging the digital sovereignty agenda to push for tighter controls on (US) bigtechs. Part of a special issue on ‘Transformation of Banking’ in Competition and Change
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📚✨ New paper alert: How are we doing on turning nature into a source of calculable risk?

We take a critical look at how 1990s risk models and environmental science enable riskification, and study very new regulatory strategies that go beyond it.

#openaccess:
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Martin's The Meddlers shows how an Anglophone & French elite technocratic network replaced colonization with international cooperation to justify sovereign interventions in lockstep with capitalist interests. My review in @historians.org's American Historical Review. academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

4. Lukas Bogner wrote a great piece on the role of law and transnational expertise in shaping the 'asset coding' of green finance that upholds many pillars of conventional finance (and hence limits its effectiveness)

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