Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.
Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.
Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.
Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran.
Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich.
Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.
Here we go again and our paper with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social shows likely result - fat profits for the rich and increasing #inequality
01.03.2026 23:15 — 👍 25 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0Did the petrostate’s trigger-happy oligarchy read our paper and conclude “Oil price shocks are good and easy to engineer”? We’ll never know. But we know where the profits go. 👇
01.03.2026 17:55 — 👍 78 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 2bsky.app/profile/greg...
01.03.2026 17:37 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
Imperial war: wealth for the plutocrats, death for the people
From @isabellamweber.bsky.social on the hellsite
Wo soll eigentlich die Nachfrage herkommen wenn Deutschland spart und die Exportmärkte wegbrechen?
26.02.2026 13:34 — 👍 201 🔁 60 💬 14 📌 6
Join us for this talk that will examine the financial interests opposing decarbonization with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social
📅 3 March, 6.30pm
📍In-person and online
Register at: www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
We’re very lucky to have @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social give a public lecture on
“Fossil fuels profits and the low-carbon transition: who stands to lose?”
Tuesday, March 3 at 6.30pm. Hosted by @lse-ei.bsky.social. Registration via the linked page. Pls share!
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
Many thanks to the European Institute at the LSE for inviting me to give a public lecture about stranded assets, who owns them and implications for the low-carbon energy transition!
Next Tuesday at 6:30pm London time, at the European Institute at the LSE.
Event coordinates in the link below 👇
Now that tariffs are officially illegal, will corporations bring prices back down or keep them once more where they are despite falling costs? That's the affordability question of the moment.
23.02.2026 12:49 — 👍 71 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1So happy to see this!
16.02.2026 21:11 — 👍 37 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Ein Traum von einem Bild!
♥️♥️♥️♥️
Eine bessere Welt ist möglich.
@aoc.bsky.social @inesschwerdtner.bsky.social @eliferalp.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social
A foreign policy for the working class is one where states collaborate to discipline capital instead of working with capital to discipline our democracies.
Kitchen table conversation about anti-fascist economics with the one and only @aoc.bsky.social in Berlin.
Vielen Dank!!
13.02.2026 15:29 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Wir brauchen in der Tat eine antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik. Ich warte sehr gespannt auf @isabellamweber.bsky.social neues Buch (Oktober 2026).
13.02.2026 15:09 — 👍 208 🔁 42 💬 14 📌 3We do indeed need anti-fascist economics. And anti-fascist economists. Can’t wait for this book.
13.02.2026 11:00 — 👍 72 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2Thanks so much, Ben!
13.02.2026 11:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you!
13.02.2026 10:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For sure!
13.02.2026 10:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For a preview of ANTI-FASCIST ECONOMICS: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175...
13.02.2026 10:25 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies.
So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.
Capitalism became more exploitative in the wake of sellers' inflation and Trump made sure it stayed that way.
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Another Guardian story on Substack hosting Nazi newsletters.
Here's something I wish more academics knew: There's a Cambrian explosion happening in atproto world. Where your data is yours. New apps every week. Including @leaflet.pub, a blogging platform, newsletter functionality coming soon. 1/3
Trump has made China great again.
The question of the economics of China's success is back.
The key is China's mastery of managing change. For How China Escaped Shock Therapy I interviewed key intellectuals & officials who shaped China's approach to economic system reform.
Court filing: Tech companies used large-scale shadow libraries of pirated book downloads to teach their AI models "how to write well." wapo.st/4rjXAMQ (🎁 link via Washington Post)
27.01.2026 11:37 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
new paper so fresh it doesn't have an issue # yet!
Noya Kohavi and I looked at a crowdsourced AI testing suite and analyzed how contributors’ ideas about language, intelligence & cognition play a surprisingly big role in shaping how LLMs are tested, and what we think AI is. doi.org/10.1111/jola...
Ganz lieben Dank!
03.02.2026 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Große Freude, dass Isabella Weber die Karl Polanyi Gastprofessur in Wien antritt. Die international renommierte Ökonomin wird die wirtschaftswissenschaftliche und -politische Debatte in 🇦🇹 bereichern. Öffentlicher Vortrag am 24.6. in der VHS Praterstern!
Herzlich Willkommen in Wien, liebe Isabella!