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@thomas77.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University https://thomaspaster.wordpress.com/

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🚨New publication out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

@danielk24.bsky.social & I show that the support for green subsidies by unions & business interest groups in the 🇺🇸 & in 🇩🇪 goes hand in hand with the support for eco-social policies.

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/rego...

A summary below 👇

07.10.2025 08:49 — 👍 19    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0

If you would like to get an overview of international regulatory initiatives against corporate tax avoidance, take a look at my entry to the Elgar Encyclopedia of Business and Government, which was just published:

www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

27.01.2026 07:49 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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"Choose Europe" | DI | 09 12 2025 | 19:05 Amerikanische Wissenschaft willkommen!

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10.12.2025 06:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Die Nobelpreise 2025: Wirtschaft | DO | 04 12 2025 | 19:05 Wachstum zwischen Schöpfung und Zerstörung

Ein Radiopodcast über die Träger des Wirtschaftsnobelpreises 2025. Deren Grundthese: Nachhaltiges Wachstum beruht immer auf technologischer Innovation.
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

08.12.2025 18:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Was zählt, das liegt dazwischen. Zur Person: Hannah Arendt | SA | 29 11 2025 | 17:05 50 Jahre Jahre nach ihrem Tod am 4. Dezember 1975 besteht kaum Gefahr, dass die melancholische Denkerin der Moderne und Totalitarismus-Forscherin in Vergessenheit geraten könnte: Dafür bürgen Hanna...

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30.11.2025 15:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Denmark currently holds the rotating presiency in the Council of the EU. Here we are in the Justus Lipsius Building.

Denmark currently holds the rotating presiency in the Council of the EU. Here we are in the Justus Lipsius Building.

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Together with our outstanding MA International Politics and Governance students, I was in Brussels this week visiting the EU institutions.
I am energized seeing our students connect theory with practice, and witnessing European institutions up close.

30.11.2025 07:01 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wissenschaftsjournalismus unter Druck (1) | MO | 17 11 2025 | 9:05 Aus der Nische ins Rampenlicht

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19.11.2025 11:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kammerflimmern bei der WKO vom 17.11. "Frischer Wind für verstaubte Wirtschaftskammer" - titelte die Tageszeitung "Der Standard" zum Amtsantritt von Harald Mahrer als Wirtschaftskammerpräsident im Mai 2018. Dem "Mann mit dem modernen Imag...

I discussed the crisis of the Austrian Chambers of Business on Austrian Public Radio. If you are interested, you can listen to the program for 30 days here. Broadcast time: 17.11., 1 PM.

oe1.orf.at/player/20251...

17.11.2025 14:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wirtschaftskammerflimmern | MO | 17 11 2025 | 13:00 WKO nach Mahrer: Personalrochade oder Neuaufstellung? Gast: Thomas Paster, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Moderation: Xaver Forthuber. Anrufe ...

Am Montag 17.11. bin ich in der Ö1-Sendung "Punkt Eins" zu Gast. Wir werden über die Krise der Wirtschaftskammer in Österreich diskutieren. Ihr könnt auch in die Sendung anrufen und mir live Fragen stellen. Wenn es Euch interessiert, schaltet Euch ein!

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14.11.2025 08:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

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01.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 47    🔁 64    💬 0    📌 10
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Wie Arbeitserfahrungen Vorstellungen »guten« politischen Entscheidens prägen – MERKUR Ein Essay von Nils C. Kumkar und Uwe Schimank. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.

In der aktuellen Ausgabe des @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social haben Uwe Schimank und ich einen kleinen Essay zum Zusammenhang von Arbeitslogik und den Bildern "guter" Politik in verschiedenen Klassen veröffentlicht:
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wie-...

01.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 22    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Looking for a post-doc opportunity? Consider applying for this years's Kohli Fellowship and work at the vibrant WZB in Berlin - Deadline November 16:

20.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 15    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Important Mark Lilla review essay on John Ganz & Laura K. Fields books, Sam T. Francis, James Burnham, the Claremont Institute, Michael Anton, and secessionism/longing for civil war.

19.10.2025 11:01 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Career Opportunity: Dancap Private Equity Chair in Corporate Governance, Western University | SASE Opportunities for Members Western University invites applications for the DANCAP Chair in Corporate Governance, a full-time endowed position jointly held between the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies and…

🎓 Western University is hiring a Dancap Chair in Corporate Governance at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, shared between the DAN Department and Faculty of Law.

🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada

Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor...

#SASE #AcademicJobs

12.09.2025 10:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History!

If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

12.09.2025 09:51 — 👍 12    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 1
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Herfried Münkler, Politologe | FR | 05 09 2025 | 16:05 "Es zeichnet sich ein Machtkampf zwischen demokratischen und autokratischen Systemen ab." Andreas Obrecht im Gespräch mit dem Politologen Herfried Münkler.

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07.09.2025 06:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
What we don't know about corporate ownership. A study of ownership chains in 500 multinationals | Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft

What do we know about corporate ownership? This study finds that the real owners of MNC shares can be identified in only 5.8 % of all cases. Over 80 % of the top ten shareholders of 500 large MNCs are institutional investors.

journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...

28.08.2025 10:48 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The article ignores the impact of automation and AI, which many expect to deflate the demand for labor. We might see a simultanous decline of both, supply and demand of labor. Demography shrinks the number of workers, automation and AI the number of jobs.

24.08.2025 17:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Viktor Frankl: "Zeiten der Entscheidung" | FR | 22 08 2025 | 11:05 Es liest Christian Nickel.

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22.08.2025 17:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered While not without costs, such a move solves some deep economic problems

Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered https://on.ft.com/44ZCSrS | opinion

22.07.2025 04:31 — 👍 25    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’

Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union:

SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers

www.ft.com/content/052e...

02.07.2025 05:51 — 👍 76    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 7
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EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’

The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) aims to get EU citizens to invest more of their savings on capital markets, a goal to be achieved in part by further privatizing pensions. Daniela Gabor in the FT on why the SIU is based on false assumptions:

www.ft.com/content/052e...

02.07.2025 10:00 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia The long read: Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Petersburg. The scandal revealed a dark tr...

This interesting portrait of Karin Kneissl, the former Austrian FM, shows how an ambitious career diplomat turned into a far-right outcast
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

01.07.2025 17:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The three rules of conference panels One unfiltered moderator, three panellists and a universal experience

Chairing conference panels has its pitfalls. The Economist proposes three rules:
www.economist.com/business/202...

29.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Kulturkampf, Kanon, Karikaturenstreit – MERKUR Ein Essay von David Kuchenbuch. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.

Wirklich wichtig, dass in der Entwicklung rechter Parteien einer der frühesten Formen des neuen Typs gewürdigt wird, Mogens Glistrups Fortschrittspartei in Dänemark, in der Kritik am Steuerstaat und die Ablehnung von Arbeitsmigration amalgamierte.

www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...

03.04.2025 11:08 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Europa-Kolumne – MERKUR Ein Essay von Martin Höpner. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.

Der EuGH hat soeben Maltas Goldene Pässe für rechtswidrig erklärt. In seiner EU-Kolumne hatte Martin Höpner (in Übereinstimmung mit vielen Juristen) mit einem anderen Urteil gerechnet. Hier - jetzt frei lesbar - die Kolumne und seine Argumente: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/euro...

29.04.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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For whom does Trump govern? The Big Beautiful Bill Act is a classic example of pluto-populism

Martin Wolf in the FT on the fiscal and distributive effects of Trump's tariffs and of the OBBBA. Their combined net effect on the income distribution is regressive. The rich benefit most from the tax cuts, while the tariffs will affect the poor more:
www.ft.com/content/31f4...

17.06.2025 17:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fokus Ungarn: Die Orbán-Jahre - Besichtigung einer Epoche | SA | 14 06 2025 | 17:05 Wie wurde der EU-Musterschüler zum illiberalen Rabauken? Nach dem Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs hatte man in Ungarn demokratische Hoffnungen. Doch die durchaus positive Wendepolitik wich immer mehr ei...

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15.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile

As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...

08.06.2025 15:07 — 👍 31    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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How Denmark's left (not the far right) got tough on immigration - BBC News Denmark has come under international attention for its tough approach. And its Social Democrat prime minister is leading the charge

How Europe’s left got radical on immigration - in dramatically different ways. Denmark and Spain - let’s take a look👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

05.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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