Wer es noch nicht mitbekommen hat: "Grundfragen der Ökonomie" ist ab sofort erhältlich.
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Viele junge Forschende, größtenteils aus dem Mittelbau & nahe dran an der plural-ökonomischen Forschung, haben dort verschiedene Kapitel zu Grundlagen der VWL verfasst!
➡️ We extended the deadline to 17 April, which means today is the last day to send an abstract for our workshop!
HSBC CEO “The highest I’ve seen, and I’m hoping we don’t see more of that, but the highest I’ve seen is $286 for a barrel of oil that reached Sri Lanka”
That’s a delivered barrel so includes shipping, insurance, etc.
But it’s still an eye-watering price to pay.
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🚨Publication and event alert:
Over the past year, @ueberdruss.bsky.social and I have been writing a study on the history of ownership and power struggles in the European energy sector for @communiade.bsky.social (in German)
On 29 April at 7pm, we will be presenting it in Berlin!
👇details below
A diagram, describing how banks manufacture brand-new dollars when they make a loan
My main challenge writing about money is dealing with theories of endogenous money, which comes from banks, and exogenous money, which comes from, you know, somewhere but it doesn't really matter. It's a ridiculous distinction. The Fed is a bank. It's all bank money, endogenous all the way down.
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this is going in the lecture slides for our course on the political economy of the global dollar system 🫡
writing "figure out how to show this in interactive dynamic balance sheet figures" on my to do list
🚨 Picking through the Fed's enhanced finl a/cs to work out who owes what, and to whom.
www.ft.com/content/4021...
Wohnen ist teuer. Die Wohnungspolitik auch: 30 Mrd. € in diesem Jahr. Besserung ist trotzdem nicht absehbar. @maxkrahe.bsky.social und ich analysieren in unserem neuen Papier, wie die Fiskalpolitik in diese Lage geraten ist. (1/8)
Das neue Buch von Isabella M. Weber auf grünem Hintergrund und mit dem Button "Buch des Monats". Daneben der Erscheinungstermin 13.10.2026.
»Können wir jetzt endlich eine ernsthafte Diskussion über eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik führen?«
Unser Buch des Monats kommt erst im Oktober – kann aber jetzt schon vorgemerkt werden: »Antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik« (shrk.vg/Wirtschaftsp...) von @isabellamweber.bsky.social.
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Young Economists Conference 2026: call for papers is now online, keynotes confirmed!
📆 #yec2026 in Vienna on September 17 and 18, 2026
📣 Keynotes by @ceciliarikap.bsky.social and @izaskunzuazu.bsky.social
✉️ Submit your work until May 10: wien.arbeiterkammer.at/yec2026
This is just an appreciation post for @70sbachchan.bsky.social and his threads. If there's one account that you need to follow on Bsky, it’s this one.
If we face another 2022-2023 style energy crisis, we should expect a different central bank response this time around. Current consensus in CB circles is that, following a large supply shock, they need to tighten forcefully to keep inflation expectations anchored. See 2025 ECB strategy review:
be like Olan, post more interesting threads with memes on bluesky!
The Trump administration's plans to use the Development Finance Corporation to insure oil tankers in the Gulf to the tune of 350bn dollars has again drawn attention to how states try to respond to emergencies when they are subject to fiscal constraints. A 🧵
www.ft.com/content/6dde...
>>Mein Bürgergeld wurde gekürzt, weil meine Mutter mir mit Lebensmitteln aushilft. << M.s Leistung wurde um 193 Euro gekürzt, weil ihre Familie gelegentlich für sie einkaufen geht. Ein Skandal!
Im Nov. stand ein Sachbearbeiter bereits das dritte Mal vor M.s Haustür. Er behauptete, auf ihren Kontoauszügen seien keine Abbuchungen für Lebensmittel zu sehen. M. erklärte, dass sie ab und zu Lebensmittel von ihrer Mutter & Schwester erhält. Kurz darauf wurde ihr Regelsatz um 193 Euro gekürzt.
Shoutout to Fanny Chaltiel for producing and editing a beautiful video that I only had to self-cringe at a little bit, Olan for being a great interviewer and @steffenmurau.bsky.social for the production assistance 🙏
see behind the scenes below!
Timely now that even the Bundesbank is coming out in favor of joint EU debt: www.politico.eu/article/bund...
At the OBFA-TRANSFORM group, we sometimes do videos on our publications - now it was my turn, with @olanmcevoy.bsky.social interviewing me on our paper on the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the limits to incremental fiscal integration in Europe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT7P...
“Those who want to translate their nativist politics into monetary precepts have failed to reckon with the credit-based, offshore, nature of money today.”
@steffenmurau.bsky.social on year one of Trump’s economic policy and the future of the world dollar
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
Insider/outsider? Rogoff was at Harvard, in IMF circles, in the top journals... Yet here is a narrative that postures towards being an outsider arguing against the consensus it helped build. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
anecdotal evidence from my masters cohort being that people are starting to apply to phds because they can't find jobs elsewhere🫡
i don't wanna be on X but on those days I do miss it
nothing like a good tooze portrait to give me energy on a friday
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
📝 Our report on the transformation of South Africa’s monetary architecture (1983-2024) co-authored with Mark Swilling for the National Planning Commission of South Africa has been launched last week! 📝
Find the full report here: www.nationalplanningcommission.org.za/assets/Docum...
The study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The online tool: monetary-architecture.com
Internally we always joked that this is the "balance sheet monster" paper, and many devils were definitely hiding in the details! Happy to have been part of this long journey 🥰
Diving in is very worth it for everything you ever wanted to know (and more) about the GFC and Eurocrisis ⬇️