@abieler.bsky.social and I wrote a piece for @ppesydney.bsky.social summarising the main arguments of our edited volume Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
www.ppesydney.net/critical-pol...
๐ฃNew #BJIR article!
๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐ด: ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ช๐ฆ๐จ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ถ๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ถ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด
@bigmacca.bsky.social shows how the neoliberalisation & Europeanisation of IR are both intertwined & variegated.
Read here๐[open access]
doi.org/10.1111/bjir...
The Twin Cities strike began in solidarity with immigrant workers and pushed a political demand: ICE OUT OF MN! Itโs estimated 75,000 to 100,000 people marched through downtown Minneapolis. The conditions were ripe for an upsurge. labornotes.org/2026/01/twin...
I'm happy to share this article, which is now out in open access in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, and seeks to contribute to the debate on neoliberalisation & europeanisation of industrial relations
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Next week there will be the online launch of the volume 'Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis', which I co-edited with @abieler.bsky.social
Join us on February 9 at 6 pm London Time/ 7 pm UK time!
Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
On the 22nd of January (incidentally, the date of Gramsci's birthday) my article came out in @gpejournal.bsky.social
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
Next Monday and Tuesday at @sns.it in Florence we will host the final workshop of my Marie Curie project 'Global Labour Governance: an integrated approach', funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social
The full programme is available here, with possibility of joining online: www.sns.it/it/evento/gl...
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on
Berlusconism and its afterlives"
Thanks Ian!
Thanks to @graceblakeley.substack.com for the endorsment!
Our introduction is open to read here: www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration
The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...
Today is publication day!
EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online๐๐ wwnorton.com/books/978132...
if anything, the EU has been very active in using the Draghi's report as a justification to undermine the little corporate sustainability legislation that it had just introduced
Online workshop: Urban social movements as extended class actors
Join us on 25 September to discuss Sarah Uhlmann's article about struggles over social reproduction!
With discussants @miria-gam.bsky.social and @bonfert.bsky.social
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
See you there!
Looking at the history of neoliberalism, this is not a novelty: โReaganomicsโ combined cuts to the welfare state with an augmented military budget (3)
![Ola Kรคllenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, which has plants in the US, said on Monday that he was not concerned about broader impact from the arrests: "You have to respect rules and regulations. We do that and we will continue to invest [in the US]."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ri3ciinceco5himlcykqomh7/bafkreig6vfia5xooxi42ygfdzwxs5vm7rnrvqa6lkpd6xfv2knvbp3v4t4)
Ola Kรคllenius, chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, which has plants in the US, said on Monday that he was not concerned about broader impact from the arrests: "You have to respect rules and regulations. We do that and we will continue to invest [in the US]."
German carmaker when Korean carmaker gets raided by secret police: โNot concerned at all. Actually hell yes! Gotta follow the rules!!โ
on.ft.com/4gzdDlT
This is visible also in the most recent developments, with the renewed obsession with competitiveness that is leading to a new wave of deregulation, and the increase in EU-backed military spending (2)
With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)
anyone remember skill-biased technical change?
check it out!
The new issue of the Global Labour Journal
is out, and it includes an article I wrote with Francesco Massimo and Angelo Moro on tariffs and the US labor movement
ttps://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour/article/view/6728
June 4, "EU Industrial Policy. Crowding in Financial Capital, Crowding Out Democratic Oversight". Angela Wigger, Radboud University
In our next MAX CPE workshop @angelawigger.bsky.socialโฌ will present her paper on "Delegating Decarbonization: How InvestEU Empowers Financial Capital at the Expense of a Democratic Governance of EU Industrial Policy".
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Wednesday June 4, 13:00 CEST
๐ online
Sign up: s.gwdg.de/rXs4Xn
Without Water, We Have Nothing
Blue Community Ambassador Gemma Gasseau is organizing an online workshop with Blue Community Ambassador Caitling Schroering.
Online workshop on the 29th May at 18.00 CEST
blue-community.net/2...
At @sns.it in Florence we are hosting a debate between Wolfgang Streeck and Beverly Silver on Monday 19 at 16.00 CET. There will be also the possibility to join online!
www.sns.it/en/node/768394
"Markets are crashing because today, markets are based on the stock value of companies who today embedded are embedded in modes of production that are bad for the United States."
If you're surprised by Rubio sounding like a Marxist-theory-of-financialization guy, you forget that in 2019... 1/2
