Let's fucking go

We have extended the CfP until next week, April 17th

If you considered applying and haven't done so this far, this is your chance!

We hope to use this space to further questions around how and when balance sheets prove useful tools in answering research questions around financing transformations, changing international orders, new forms of money, and many more.

Please reach out if you have questions!

We are hosting a workshop on methodology, bringing together both qualitative and quantitative methods on balance sheets and money hierarchy.

12-13 June at FU.
Applications to verena.gradinger@globalclimateforum.org

I am teaching in 1 hour and my slides are not done wish me luck lol

Put down social media.
Text your 5 best friends/group chats of choice that article you have been reading and get angry of them for not putting down everything and sending you an adequate response within 30 minutes.

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Private credit people going to work on a random Tuesday

I love a good "see this problem is not new my dear pk friends" quote, especially when it concerns the role of the state and financial markets

Currently closely monitoring the gold price based on the line outside of the goldsmith's next to my therapist's office

Me teaching dialectical materialism to the kids

This was never about southern European states being "irresponsible" and fiscal policy.

To understand the Eurocrisis we need to understand the way balance sheets are connected and how banks in the core European banks were exposed to the US Dollar and the GFC.

I highly recommend the online tool!

If you're only going to read one paper about the Eurocrisis in your entire life, it should be this one.

The devil's in the details, but what makes this paper so strong is that it once and for all disproves the way many economists and politicians alike talk about the Eurocrisis

Our website is refurbished, our datasets are online, and you can now see what we've been up to in applying Monetary Architecture to explain financial cycles and balance sheet expansion & contraction.
Very excited to have this out and looking forward to the many more things to come!

📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣

Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊

That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu

Can't believe you're publicly calling me out like this 😭😭

Missing you in the 9:30 state theory session 👀

I totally agree with your point in terms of taxation though
I think it really is a question of what people (feel) they get out of it and there the anglo-saxon needs based social security system does not help making people feel like they benefit from the system the way someone in central Europe would

My econ stats agree, my personal experience somewhat doesn't. I guess the London/rest UK divide in terms of CoL is far above average and there's also a big skewing in income distribution, which is why being "middle class" in London feels a lot worse in quality of living than rest of Europe

I actually think the big problem here is (the lack of) public services and how we account for it. Living in London comes with costs of e.g. public transport which would be around 3× what it costs in most EU countries. Even worse for housing, which is notoriously underrepresented in data such as CPI

Wir schaffen das 💪🏼💪🏼

EQUALFIN @ FU 🥲🫡

POV: the deadline for the PhD proposal is in 52 hours and you are starting to question all your life decisions

Me

SAPE 2 Imperialism: Economics of Re-armament and Militarism with Costas Lapavitsas and Clara Mattei, chaired by Hanin Khawaja is on 📍Wednesday 29 October 6-8pm UK time📍. Supported by @gftuet.org.uk

Please find the discussion topics below.
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Join us at this year's Historical Materialism Conference - to discuss pressing issues such as rising authoritarianism and climate breakdown, the new age of Imperialism and the social foundations of AI.

If you're lucky you might even get to fight some cultural Marxists after a few drinks ;)

Thank you so much for organising this! Not only were the presentations amazing, but also very helpful in finding inspiration for my PhD proposal.
Plus I am now convinced that Leeds has by far one of the coolest PhD cohorts in the field of Economics

On Tuesday, we hosted a workshop on Global Banking and Global Stability (one of my favorite topics and the focus of my PhD) at the University of Leeds with many of my favorite researchers in the field.

Porque los gustos hay que dárselos en vida (y antes que se termine el doctorado).

Definitiv. Man merkt wirklich diese Thiel Techbro Pipeline ganz hart in diesem Interview.

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