There's a global race to secure EV battery gigafactories & reduce reliance on China.
But not all clean-tech projects are created equal. Some generate good jobs & domestic capacities, others produce ecological harm & low value-added enclaves.
New paper & thread 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles.
That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org.
(All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
I come out of this convinced that we know much abt European structural blindspots & strategic weaknesses (some US-caused); we know less how to handle the East politically. We get China's economic downstream impacts; now we need to learn how politicians & voters want to treat China’s economic might.
Enjoyed the conversations in Hannover at the political economy of European industrial policy event organized this week by Hellen Callaghan, @trgn.bsky.social & Bob Hancké.
The presence, clear-eyedness and energy of the EC speaker, Maive Rute (DG Grow) were a highlight.
I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period.
Apply by 04 May 2026.
If you have questions about the position, send me an email!
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026!
Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields
📅Apply by 29 April 2026
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Wir befinden uns in der größten fossilen Energiekrise. Die Ölproduktion is so stark gefallen wie die Nachfrage 2020 mit COVID.
Die Bundesregierung sollte schleunigst darauf reagieren statt die Zeit mit Debatten über Mehrwertsteuererhöhung & Fracking zu vergeuden.
Mein Beitrag im @freitag.de heute.
1/9
Reuters: "China said that Mexico's trade measures against it, including tariff increases, constitute trade and investment barriers and that it had the right to take countermeasures."
rld/china/china-says-it-has-right-retaliate-against-mexicos-tariff-hikes-2026-03-25/
We 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 ⬇️
Tenure Track Position: Senior Researcher, Political Economy. Application Deadline. April 20, 2026
📢 Call: Tenure Track Position
The MPIfG Political Economy Research Area led by Lucio Baccaro is seeking a Senior Researcher. Open to candidates with at least two years’ postdoc experience.
Please share widely!
🗓️ Apply by April 20, 2026
s.gwdg.de/WPMPp1
Das Kolloquium des Fachgebiets Soziologie in der Sozialökonomie an der @uni-hamburg.de zeigt im SoSe 2026, wie die historische Soziologie der Wirtschaft sozialökonomische Transformationen analysiert @dgswisoz.bsky.social. Mit @ueberdruss.bsky.social, Virginia Kimey Pflücke und @trgn.bsky.social.
The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new
@newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/
screenshot of the article heading at https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/03/the-world-energy-shock-is-coming
The economic fallout from the Strait of Hormuz isn't a hypothetical — it's already there. Most people in Europe and the US just can't feel it yet. A threat on our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social article: what's heading our way, and why the burden won't be shared equally. 1/
I'm Europe. This is my energy strategy.
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Australia....on DAY 19
@katemac.bsky.social
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PDF of book proofs: SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN The Hidden Life of Logistics MIRIAM POSNER Yale University Press New Haven and London
*breathing into a paper bag*
And the Germans going for internal devaluation again …
🚨 Just published in Socio-Economic Review! 🚨
@sasemeeting.bsky.social
The "power to pollute" and "post-neoliberal" climate finance
By Benjamin H. Bradlow and Aishwarya Swamidurai
The article is available open access at the following link.
doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
As states weaponize supply chains, warnings of deglobalization and aggregate welfare losses have proliferated. But neither has materialized: trade volumes remain high and supply chains continue to span the globe. This paper argues that the surprising resilience of aggregate trade obscures a large-scale redistribution creating K-shaped divergence among firms navigating geoeconomic reordering. Who wins and who loses depends on two dimensions of corporate power: the strategic indispensability of what firms produce and their organizational capacity to reconfigure operations around geopolitical constraints. Because strategic designation attaches to specific outputs rather than broad industry categories, these capacities vary sharply among firms nominally facing identical pressures. Drawing on an original dataset of over 21,000 corporate earnings calls annotated using large language models alongside firm-level financial data, I demonstrate that sector membership explains remarkably little outcome variance. Adaptation operates hierarchically within industries, not between them. Firms controlling chokepoints or possessing reconfiguration capacity capture concentrated gains; those lacking strategic position bear recurring adjustment costs. As these costs cluster in regions previously affected by deindustrialization, supply chain restructuring risks intensifying the geographic polarization that fueled political demand for economic statecraft in the first place.
War is reshaping global markets. I have a paper under review that asks: who wins or loses when supply chains meet geopolitics, and what are the political implications?
Since the world is changing faster than our overburdened peer-review system can handle, here's the 📃 + a🧵
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Noch kürzlich unterhielte ich mich mit KollegInnen über das Auseinanderfallen von gesellschaftlicher Entwicklung auf der einen, seines – im Grundgedanken demokratisch-antiautoritären – Werkes auf der anderen Seite und, wie schmerzlich diese Erfahrung sein muss.
Fossil fuels have "a disproportionate capacity to increase inequality when their prices rise" -- very pleased to be quoted on the impacts of high oil and gas price on profits and inflation inequality in @theguardian.com
Thank you, @guardianheather.bsky.social for covering our research!
2 wars in 4 years. This war will dramatically accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security.
"The rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels and the whims of idiots"
bsky.app/profile/just...
Doing Industrial Policy in a Geotech World: Challenges and Opportunities.
New Special Issue eds Salih Işık Bora, @fbulfone.bsky.social & Timo Seidl
www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
What a day to cover this topic.
Short version: Financial hegemony is when you don't need to start wars to get what you want; and also when, if you 𝘥𝘰 start a war*, your borrowing cost goes down and your currency goes up.
* Which you'll be tempted to start one regularly.
amazing Merz came back from China peddling neoliberal 'we dont work hard enough' nonsense instead of ' the Chinese State can do industrial policy like no one else'
He's the Keir Starmer of Germany, learning nothing, doubling down on the same disastrous strategy
📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
