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
The Center for Political Economy at Columbia University will be holding a discussion on how to move beyond capitalism between @abenanav.bsky.social and Professor Katharina Pistor on Monday 23rd February from 6PM UTC-5 at Jerome Greene Hall. More info here: www.indep.network/event/discus...
𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺, 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?
In this incisive new article, @cominsitu.bsky.social argues that liberal property rights don’t just allocate resources but that they prime societies - both owners and non-owners - with authoritarian desire
👉but there is a remedy
New piece for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social, written with @jacktaggart.bsky.social and @tomchodor.bsky.social! It's an attempt at grasping the dismantling of multilateral global governance, in light of intensifying geopolitical rivalries, resurgent state capitalism, and hegemonic crisis. Link below:
🚀Our research project launched its new website! check it out here:
socializationproject.de
Organizing this workshop with @solveigdegen.bsky.social and @cominsitu.bsky.social, in case you'd like to join via zoom:
hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/6969547647...
Meeting ID: 696 9547 6478
Passcode: 800441
registration here: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/democr...
New review article out in @climate-policy.bsky.social
@envleeds.bsky.social
- with @ernestaigner.bsky.social (@leuphana.bsky.social), Nathan Barlow (@degrowthvienna.bsky.social) & Andreas Novy (@wuvienna.bsky.social, @kpolanyisociety.bsky.social)
doi.org/10.1080/1469...
Key messages below
Titel des Standpunkts von Cecilia Rikap (University College London) und Aline Blankertz (Rebalance Now): "Demokratisch kontrollierte Alternativen gegen technologische Abhängigkeit" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Digitalisierung & KI.
Europa & Deutschland müssen ihre Abhängigkeit von US-amerikanischen #Big-Tech-Unternehmen brechen, so lautet das Credo der Stunde. Doch #BuyEuropean & nationale Champions sind nicht die Lösung, schreiben @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & Aline Blankertz 👉 is.gd/TVEGyN
A new episode of Future Histories!
This time I talk to @ceciliarikap.bsky.social (@iipp-ucl.bsky.social) about how today’s big tech hegemons build intellectual monopolies and use their power for corporate planning beyond ownership. Recorded at the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social!
tinyurl.com/FH-Rikap
Were you unable to attend our expert workshop on democratic economic planning last November? No problem! The full recordings of all three public events are now online! ▶️View them here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... #DEP #planning #transformation #WUVienna (1/3)
The recordings of our expert workshop on democratic economic planning #DEP from last November are now online! If you missed it, check them out below👇
Cover der englischen Studie „Race2Paris: Shifting Gears for Climate Action: Transforming Europe’s Transportation“, veröffentlicht vom Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network (SET-NET).
Cover der Studie „Race2Paris Österreich: Wirksame Klimapolitik bleibt in Österreich auf der Strecke“, veröffentlicht vom Momentum Institut.
Europa hat ein neues progressives Netzwerk: SET-NET (Socio-Ecological Think Tank Network). Der Zusammenschluss europäischer Thinktanks fokussiert sich auf Klimapolitik & präsentiert eine neue Studie über den Verkehrssektor: Race2Paris – Shifting Gears for Climate Action. Ein 🧵 1/
Goodbye David Lynch and thanks for the beautiful weirdness 🖤🖤🖤🖤
As twenty-second-century Wilf Netherton explains to twenty-first-century Flynne Fisher, the jackpot was “no one thing”: “multicausal, with no particular beginning and no end. More a climate than an event, so not the way apocalypse stories liked to have a big event, after which everybody ran around with guns . . . or else were eaten alive by something caused by the big event. Not like that.” Triggered mainly by climate change, the jackpot included: nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves. Over forty years, 80 percent of the human population died; the surviving 20 percent, meanwhile, benefited from the technologies that developed as the slaughterhouse of history unfolded: “cleaner, cheaper energy sources, more effective ways to get carbon out of the air, new drugs that did what antibiotics had done before, nanotechnology that was more than just car paint that healed itself or camo crawling on a ball cap.” Also, of course, the rich got richer, “there being fewer to own whatever there was.”
Remembering how William Gibson described the "jackpot":
It's here! The Competition & Change special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg.bsky.social and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full!
Find it here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccha/29/1
Please share and spread the word! Thx!
Important new white paper on how to fight back against big tech and democratize the internet!
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...
After the election of Donald Trump, the power of Silicon Valley needs to be challenged now more than ever — and that requires countries to take control of their technological destinies.
I’m thrilled to share a new white paper I helped co-author called “Reclaiming Digital Sovereignty.”
The case for a public digital stack NOW !
I am very happy to have worked on this policy paper titled “Reclaiming digital sovereignty: a roadmap to build a digital stack for people and the planet” with such great colleagues as Cecilia Rikap, Cedric Durand, Paris Marx and Edemilson Paraná!
Excited to share a few highlights from our expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning” (DEP) in Vienna last weekend! Over 2 days, we explored how democratic economic planning can reshape our economy. Here is a short summary of what we discussed 🧵👇(1/9) #DemocraticPlanning #DEP
Let's talk about "Ecological Planning And the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"on Friday, 29th November, 6-7:30pm.
Thanks to the Institut für Räumliche und Sozial-Ökologische Transformationen at Vienna University for the invitation!
We are co-organising an expert workshop on “Democratic Economic Planning in Times of Planetary Crises” WU November 29-30, 2024! Join us for three public events at WU Vienna Nov 29-30th! Register here!👉 wu.ac.at/institut-fue... @cedricdurand.bsky.social @wu.ac.at.web.brid.gy #democraticplanning
co-organizers:
WU Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations
Arbeiterkammer Wien
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)
Kompetenzzentrum Alltagsökonomie
local organization:
@solveigdegen.bsky.social Andreas Novy and myself
Panel discussion will be on "How to democratically plan social metabolism and technology"
with Cecilia Rikap @abenanav.bsky.social @cedricdurand.bsky.social and Christoph Sorg
Attila Melegh will give second keynote on "Non-capitalist Mixed Economies: A Polanyian Approach"
@cedricdurand.bsky.social will give the first keynote on "Ecological Planning and the Problem of Knowledge in the Anthropocene"
