I will never get used to the vacuous synchronicity of American leisure alongside wars: the latest bridal fashion, old Kindles dying, best chocolate. Life goes on in wars, always. But this cover is not about life - it is about forgetting, denial, erasure and … consumption.
4/🔎Explore the full report and country chapters: bankwatch.org/wp-content/u...
3/❗At the same time, transition goes beyond the funding cycle, and its impacts will continue well beyond 2027. The experiences of the analysed countries offer significant insight into how the EU can continue supporting regions undergoing transition in the decades to come.
1/🤔To be or not to be continued?
Our new report with Forum Energii explores this question in the context of the Just Transition Fund and its impact in Czechia, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Spain.
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How does this compare to other EU countries? Is this a general trend? Or Hungary specific? Thanks!
Congrats Stuart! Looks great! More excellent research on the @ebrd.bsky.social
The image shows the front page of an article in New Political Economy called The collective organic intellectual strikes back.
This is out in the wild a little sooner than I'd anticipated! If you don't have institutional access - 50 free eprints here www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZFHUM... or just email me.
more than anything this interview dropping days before the election is more informative of what's going on, and what can be expected telex.hu/english/2026...
@politiconomics.bsky.social and Mariano Moszoro wrote a really good paper for the IMF and critically examined Govtech. Thanks!
Accenture, no surprisingly, sees Govtech as nothing but a market opportunity for private enterprises. Not even a "However"
www.accenture.com/content/dam/...
In contrast to the IMF, the OECD highlights mainly positive things about Govtech and then adds a "However" in which it expresses surprise over low adaptation levels..
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I started working on a new paper on Govtech in Ukraine and as I am searching for literature on Govtech I found this interesting paper by the IMF!
The Political Economy of Govtech
"The main innovation of GovTech is more social than technological"
Interesting IMF!
www.imf.org/-/media/file...
The EIB Group Complaints Mechanism (EIB-CM) can and should do better‼️ We’ve been banging the drum for years, and the Corridor Vc case is just one of the reasons why.
With the EIB-CM currently under review, we’re calling for urgent reform.
Functioning grievance mechanisms are key to protecting human rights and promoting climate justice in development projects!
🔎 Read our Corridor Vc case study here: bankwatch.org/publication/...
How can the EU’s Social Climate Fund better support vulnerable households in Estonia?
A new model from the University of Tartu shows how renovation subsidies could be targeted more fairly by combining technical building data with socio-economic indicators.
🏗️ Read more: bankwatch.org/blog/can-the...
How has our understanding of the transition from communism evolved? Korbel Prof @epsteinprof.bsky.social joins @piroskadora.bsky.social on the @viennadialogues.bsky.social podcast to discuss why liberal ideas are in crisis and what researchers should do next.
Right now, the problem is that faculty are being asked to "experiment with AI!!!" on their own, piecemeal, and against the massive bulwark of their universities hyping the tech; requiring time spent in dedicated AI-free learning spaces is the sort of the thing that you can't accomplish individually.
What does a year of German rearmament get you? If you're China, almost decade of cash to change the world's electricity infrastructure. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-china-...
Were we too optimistic about the post-communist turn to liberal markets and democracy?
In conversation with Vienna Dialogues, Professor Rachel Epstein (University of Denver) reflects on 35 years of transition - and what we may have misunderstood.
Link to the episode: bit.ly/3MskEdA
Stack of books: The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi International Political Economy by Ben Cohen The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich The Globalizers by Ngaire Woods The Money Laundry by J.C. Sharman The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor Bankers' Trust by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella Rating Politics by Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston Bucking the Buck by Daniel McDowell The Meddlers by Jamie Martin The Entangled Legacies of Empire (eds. Gilbert, Bourne, Haiven, and Montgomerie) Depletion by Shirin Rai Chip War by Chris Miller
This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
I’ve seen a lot of breathless praise of Moltbook but I can’t imagine anything less interesting than a Reddit clone where all of the posts and comments are generated by chatbots.
It’s impressive to have invented a social network that’s more off putting than Sora, TikTok for AI slop.
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
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