River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
π¨NEW PAPERπ¨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. Aπ§΅ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
08.10.2025 16:50 β π 348 π 195 π¬ 9 π 19
this is fascinating!
18.09.2025 08:02 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social βΊοΈ
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! π doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short π§΅ ...
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 48 π 19 π¬ 2 π 3
A highly recommended read, and folllow. Congrats, @maxwillems.bsky.social!
10.09.2025 12:58 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0
Thanks, Dan
11.09.2025 07:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks, Philipp :)
10.09.2025 20:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks, Mark!
(&: not as much as one might think, in this case)
10.09.2025 19:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thanks, Ben!
10.09.2025 19:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Indebted to many colleagues for great help - special thanks to issue/lead editor @danmertens.bsky.social and to @benbraun.bsky.social for early advice [5/5]
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
From states to markets and back? The European Unionβs decades-long struggle over renewable energy derisking
Since the 1990s, policymakers have been grappling with the challenge of financing the transition to renewable energy, which requires much higher upfront capital investments than fossil fuel-based e...
I attribute this to the ongoing coalition building of the Commission and key energy incumbents, whose evolving preferences and resources reflect a rapidly changing and increasingly geopoliticized energy policy environment.
More here π - happy about any feedback! [4/5]
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Then asks why the European regime shifted - first (post-GFC) from a robust (though politically contested) technology-development to a market-based approach, and later (since ~2017) partly reverted to a hybrid model [3/5]
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The article introduces a simple typology of RE derisking instruments, drawing on @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @brettchristophers.bsky.social and others, to make sense of policy support of renewable energy investments in Europe [2/5]
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social βΊοΈ
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! π doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short π§΅ ...
10.09.2025 09:58 β π 48 π 19 π¬ 2 π 3
Indebted to many colleagues for great help - special thanks to issue/lead editor @danmertens.bsky.social and to @benbraun.bsky.social for early advice [5/5]
10.09.2025 09:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
From states to markets and back? The European Unionβs decades-long struggle over renewable energy derisking
Since the 1990s, policymakers have been grappling with the challenge of financing the transition to renewable energy, which requires much higher upfront capital investments than fossil fuel-based e...
I attribute this to the ongoing coalition-building of the Commission and key energy incumbents, whose evolving preferences and resources reflect a rapidly changing and increasingly geopoliticized energy policy environment.
More here π - happy about any feedback! [4/5]
10.09.2025 09:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Then asks why the European regime shifted - first (post-GFC) from a robust (though politically contested) technology-development to a market-based approach, and later (since ~2017) partly reverted to a hybrid model [3/5]
10.09.2025 09:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The article introduces a simple typology of RE derisking instruments, drawing on @danielagabor.bsky.social/@benbraun.bsky.social and others, to make sense of policy support of renewable energy investments in Europe [2/5]
10.09.2025 09:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry βwoke upβ to the EU Taxonomy. π§΅ #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinanceπ 1/10
01.09.2025 14:48 β π 29 π 16 π¬ 1 π 2
Americaβs Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & CΓ©dric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
30.05.2025 12:07 β π 130 π 55 π¬ 4 π 15
The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.
20.03.2025 15:53 β π 102 π 34 π¬ 5 π 7
βNo one should simply blame the current regime. They announced their intentions. Rather, itβs the rapid capitulation that we have to confront.β
-Jodi Dean
22.03.2025 21:00 β π 4 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
Unfortunately cancelled due to (very) bad weather/potential flooding! π¬
21.03.2025 11:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Looking forward to presenting some of my dissertation research at ICEIβs Comparative Political Economy seminar tomorrow. Swing by!
20.03.2025 18:31 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Weβre beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
If youβre a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered commentsβ join us & share!
ποΈ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
π¨ Apply by 25 Apr, 2025
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
14.03.2025 11:37 β π 67 π 54 π¬ 1 π 5
Planning the green transition is not only about creating new industries, but also about phasing-out old ones.
If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a lookπ
06.03.2025 17:31 β π 28 π 9 π¬ 2 π 0
I'm so happy for my friend @pgolka.bsky.social for winning the @ripejournal.bsky.social Best Article Award 2024 for his absolutely brilliant paper on 'Epistemic gerrymandering'! Congratulations Philipp!
05.03.2025 11:48 β π 24 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
Screenshot of the abstract of the linked paper.
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a π§΅ on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
12.02.2025 12:28 β π 177 π 69 π¬ 6 π 11
Brett Christophers Β· So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot
All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...
I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.
Please give it a read!
30.01.2025 07:39 β π 181 π 83 π¬ 7 π 12
Professor of Political Science, University of Muenster | passionate about researching democracy, political conflict, radical right parties, EU politics, public policy - and about baking bread
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Political Economist; Sciences Po; previously UAlbany; Author of "In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt" (Michigan 2018) and "Rating Politics" (OUP 2023)
Alternately Defiant, Dispirited, and Despondent. Without illusions but not disillusioned. Focus on Climate, Inequality and Development.
I co-edit the Polycrisis project and newsletter https://www.phenomenalworld.org/series/the-polycrisis/
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The Sussex Energy Group undertakes rigorous, inter-disciplinary research on transitions to sustainable, low carbon energy systems.
All things industrial policy.
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History macro, inflation, econ policy & energy since the 70s
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