Max Willems

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric 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.

Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
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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.

“No one should simply blame the current regime. They announced their intentions. Rather, it’s the rapid capitulation that we have to confront.”

-Jodi Dean

Unfortunately cancelled due to (very) bad weather/potential flooding! 😬

Looking forward to presenting some of my dissertation research at ICEI’s Comparative Political Economy seminar tomorrow. Swing by!

We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy

If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!

🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025

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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 look👇

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!

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 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
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Brett Christophers · 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!

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FINANCE SUMMER SCHOOL AT THE WATSON INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORMAT June 5th to 7th Open to PhD candidates and early career scholars Travel and accommodation covered for all participants JUNE 5TH TO 7TH, 2025

INSTRUCTORS: Milan Babic Cornel Ban Benjamin Braun Madison Condon Kevin Gallagher Charlotte Robertson Tim Sahay Mark Schwartz Gregor Semieniuk Chloe Thurston Yingyao Wang TOPICS INCLUDE: Dollar Hegemony Debt & Debt Relief in the U.S. History of Financing Regimes Institutional Capital Pools Debt & Finance in the Global South Rise of State Capital Global Finance in the New Cold War Finance & Decarbonization Insurance & Climate Change State Capital & Green Finance in China

🚨📣 We are so back:

ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘

- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎

Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!

Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality" is finally out! 📙

In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.

Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...

"So far, this looks like standard practice for the convergence of corporate and political power in the US that we saw in the 20th century. But at the edges, there are hints of something more radical. [...] a basic antagonism towards the state as such."

Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis Special issue for Socio-Economic Review Guest Editors: Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, (valentina.ausserladscheider@univie.ac.at), Timur Er

📣 DEADLINE NEXT WEEK

Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers?

Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵

Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...

Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Everyone who wants to understand the French budgetary crisis (of sorts) should read this 👇

Coming January 2025 🚀

New paper with @nilskupzok.bsky.social out in Perspectives today! We show how decarbonizable industries are reshaping climate politics through what we call "the decarbonization bargain." 1/

1/ 📢 How Manufacturing Interests Dominated the German Response to the Energy Crisis

Check out our new article with Anke Hassel and Martin Höpner, now open access in Politics and Society!

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