🚨 Picking through the Fed's enhanced finl a/cs to work out who owes what, and to whom.
www.ft.com/content/4021...

BlackRock said it was “incredibly excited” to “partner with GMPF to accelerate the availability of private capital for these essential assets”.

Okay but I’m *not* excited to accelerate the availability of essential public assets to private capital.

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Wie sich sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung besser nachrechnen lässt Eine LMU-Studie unter der Leitung von Soziologin Katrin Auspurg zeigt, warum Ergebnisse oft schwer reproduzierbar sind und welche Maßnahmen helfen, die Zuverlässigkeit zu verbessern.

Wie verlässlich sind sozialwissenschaftliche Ergebnisse? 📊 Eine LMU-Studie unter Leitung von @kauspurg.bsky.social zeigt: Oft fehlen Code und Dokumentation, sodass viele Befunde nur schwer reproduzierbar sind. Mehr #Transparenz und #OpenScience sollen das ändern. #LMU www.lmu.de/de/newsroom/...

"Our study’s policy recommendation is straightforward: a permanent excess profit tax on oil and gas, defined as returns above a specified threshold. ... taxing only the 2022 incremental US profits would have yielded $225bn ... enough to nearly double American clean energy investment that year."

Ich weiß ja nicht

Strong Intellectual Property and Weak Antitrust: How the End of Vertical Restraints Fissured the US Political Economy Abstract. What explains rising inequality after 1980? Explanations describing immediate causes, like skill-biased technological change, financialization, o

pleased to announce the merger of @erikpeinert.bsky.social (antitrust) and my (corporate organization / franchise) interests in a paper on what the end of regulation banning vertical restraints meant for the US political economy = not good !
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New piece on Chinese tech investment in Europe — fittingly out the day the Commission publishes the Industrial Accelerator Act, kicking off months of legislative wrangling.

A look at the data and recent cases shows Europe has learned to block Chinese takeovers of tech & semiconductor assets.

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sketch of my fiancé

Scam stage of capitalism

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

2025 war ein Wahnsinnsjahr für die deutschen Milliardäre:

Ihr Vermögen wuchs mit 30 % fast doppelt (!) so schnell, wie das Vermögen des Globalen Durchschnittsmilliardärs mit 16 %.

Dieses Wachstum ist absurd gefährlich, weil es die Ungleichheitskrise weiter verschärft.

This week I had a welcome excuse to be in Venice during the semester while visiting the Analytical Sociology seminar at VIU. I especially enjoyed the conversations during the poster sessions.

I spent the last two days at the ISI Wealth Conference. All the talks I attended were super insightful and it was great to hear so many different perspectives and see the exciting new research on wealth inequality! @isi-munich.bsky.social

Day 1. #isiwealthconference2025 #isimunich

Had a great time at my first summer school at the LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social. I learned a lot of new things that I hope to implement in my master's thesis and beyond. And of course I hope to see more Open Science in Sociology :)

Two female organisers of the Open Science Summer School, Dr. Sarah von Grebmer in a dark green top and black pants and Dr. Malika Ihle in a white top and dark blue pants, stand in front of the green and white Open Science Center sign. Behind the sign is a brown wall to its right and a black door to its left.

Male speaker, Prof. Dr. Felix Schoenbrodt, wearing glasses, a dark blue shirt, and brown pants stands behind a laptop near a mic at the front of the room with a projected screen behind him explaining data as forking paths. Items such as name tags are seen on the table at the front of the room and the backs of participants’ heads are seen at the bottom of the picture.

First day of the Open Science Summer School 2025 complete ✅

Participants learned a lot today but there’s still a lot more in store, you can join in for the public lectures by registering here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

#OpenScience #OSSS25 #LMUOSC

July 4th, 2025

Huge congrats on the award, well deserved! Your talk in Munich last year was one of the reasons I want to pursue inequality research. 🙂

Deutschlandkarte mit Punkten in Ampelfarben: "Wo die Kita-Versorgung gut ist - und wo nicht". Städte in Süddeutschland schneiden besser ab, NRW und östlichen Bundesländer schlechter.

Bildungschancen hängen in Deutschland vom Wohnort ab.

Eine neue Studie von @iwkoeln.bsky.social und MPIfG zeigt: In wohlhabenden Stadtteilen gibt es ein Drittel mehr Kitas als in ärmeren Vierteln – ausgerechnet dort, wo frühkindliche Bildung am dringendsten gebraucht wird.

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Photo of Thomas PIketty speaking at the Taxing Billionaires Conference

"A 2% tax on billionaires is a first step – but it’s important not to stop there. Building public confidence in the idea that it's truly possible to target the ultra-wealthy - billionaires in particular - is essential.", said @thomaspiketty.bsky.social at #TaxingBillionaires conference [1/2]

@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social urged us to grasp today’s wealth concentration by converting the fortune of the world’s richest person into the number of homes it could buy.

In Chicago, that is approx. 1.3 million homes – more than all the homes in the city.

Watch: bit.ly/3DFoATQ
Read: bit.ly/3DJntTa

Not a level playing field LMU sociologist Fabian Pfeffer explains why the extreme wealth gap harms society and democracy and leads to a distinctly uneven spread of opportunities for coming generations. From the research magazi...

About 3 months ago, the print version of this article had this lead:

"Elon Musk has 240 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"

Today, the same article came online with a small update:

"Elon Musk has 400 billion in wealth [...] is there no upper limit?"

www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Yes! Taxing the super-rich is possible. 💪

🌍 Some governments are already doing it.
📜 The G20 has made a historic commitment.
🇺🇳 Most countries support new global tax rules at the UN.

Let’s make it happen: https://buff.ly/42uqfp8
#TaxTheSuperRich

I'll help.

📉Since 1980, global inequality between countries has dropped👉The income gap between the richest 10% of countries & the poorest 50% shrank from 20x to 9x.

📈 But within countries, inequality soared👉The gap between the top 10% & bottom 50% nearly doubled from 10x to 18x.

wid.world #inequalitydata

An incentivized redistribution experiment with university students in China and France reveals differences in the way merit- and luck-based inequalities are perceived. Read the WP by Margot Belguise, @yuchenhuang.bsky.social & GC Stone Center postdoc @zhexunmo.bsky.social.
#econsky
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