The absolute bloody vandalism of austerity in one chart. Good analysis of the overall picture here.
15.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 279 🔁 187 💬 12 📌 28
📣 Submit your abstract for the British Journal of Sociology Conference by Monday 20 October.
There is no predetermined theme, and we invite scholars of all ranks and affiliations to submit abstracts on any aspect of sociology.
Submit your abstract ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/br...
15.10.2025 11:02 — 👍 9 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades”
The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.
14.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
13.10.2025 17:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Großer Sieg für die Klimabewegung beim Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid: Große Zustimmung findet das „Gesetz für besseren Klimaschutz“ vor allem in zentrumsnahen Gegenden und Stadtteilen mit einer jüngeren Bevölkerung. Deutlich niedriger ist die Zustimmung in Gegenden mit höherem Eigentümeranteil. (1/2)
13.10.2025 07:09 — 👍 66 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 4
Während Politikwissenschaftler*innen unter Höchstanstrengung den Wählerwillen zum Thema Vermögensbesteuerung vermessen, Evidenz zur undemokratischen Willensbildung:
09.10.2025 09:48 — 👍 80 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 1
Wirtschaftsministerium: Reiche berät Reiche
Bei Treffen mit der Stiftung Familienunternehmen gaben Ministerin Reiche und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps, wie die Superreichen-Lobby Steuersenkungen erreichen könne. Das zeigen interne Unterlagen.
NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin persönlich hat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen Lobby-Tipps gegeben. Ihr Ministerium könne das Vorhaben dann "flankieren". Und ihr Staatssekretär hat die Milliardärslobby gebeten, Druck auf die SPD auszuüben.
@fragdenstaat.de: fragdenstaat.de/artikel/exkl...
09.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 1796 🔁 912 💬 71 📌 116
Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
08.10.2025 21:44 — 👍 119 🔁 37 💬 6 📌 8
Application Deadline: December 15, 2025
📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
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02.10.2025 10:05 — 👍 14 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!
23.09.2025 18:43 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Herzlichen Glückwunsch – eine tolle Bereicherung für die MPG und unsere Sektion!
01.10.2025 07:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bank deposits allow banks to leverage. Bank leverage is money creation that flows into whatever receives the debt - some of it commercial lending but completely agree it's not all.
If you buy a share, you hand money to its previous owner. Outside of an IPO, companies receive almost nothing.
30.09.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Ahem, the meek European derisking state
30.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
*believes
30.09.2025 12:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brussels seeks to convert Europe’s savers into investors
Commission wants countries to offer tax incentives to EU households who put their cash into stocks
Kind of crazy the EU Commission actually beliefs such nonsense!
Creating tax incentives to push bank deposits into equities actually *reduces* the capital available to the economy as it shifts money from bank balance sheets (ie corporate lending) to pure speculation.
30.09.2025 12:25 — 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 3
Genau. Und was jeder einzelne Pensionsfonds an Gebühren an Finanzintermediäre abführt ist per Gesetz öffentlich.
30.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To be fair, die meisten Pensionsfonds sind weniger evil als Techkonzerne und viel besser reguliert. In NL zum Beispiel sind Pensionsfonds non-Profit was sehr sinnvoll ist. Aber bei Finanzialisierung mitmachen tun sie natürlich trotzdem – können nicht anders.
30.09.2025 11:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Für alle Fans kapitalfinanzierter Rente: wenn die marktvariablen Zinsen nicht so hoch sind wie erwartet gibt es schon mal Pilot:innenstreiks. Kann man sich ja überlegen ob man das deutsche Umlagesystem wirklich dahingehend verändern möchte.
30.09.2025 11:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
More and Less: Mutable Economies of Nitrogen I
An open-access grant application in German and English
Some of you will know that I recently got funding for a project on Nitrogen in society. I am here making my application accessible for others who are thinking about applying for funding—plus some background on the funding programme and a few tips.
wondrousmachine.substack.com/p/more-and-l...
27.09.2025 13:38 — 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1
A chilling reminder that catastrophes often feel distant until they happen.
"Thank you Mother Mary for saving us from war. 1938."
Marienthal Monastery, Hesse
28.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A chilling reminder that catastrophes often feel distant until they happen.
"Thank you Mother Mary for saving us from war. 1938."
Marienthal Monastery, Hesse
28.09.2025 10:44 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Funktionale Differenzierung zum anfassen!
28.09.2025 07:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sagt eigentlich alles über unsere Disziplin, dass hier fast jedes Fach vertreten ist – außer die #Soziologie.
28.09.2025 06:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sagt eigentlich alles über unsere Disziplin, dass hier fast jedes Fach vertreten ist – außer die #Soziologie.
28.09.2025 06:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Applications for our visiting researchers program are now open!
It’s a great opportunity, especially also for ECRs, to spend some time working on your research projects in-depth, with great and welcoming atmosphere and tiny Kölsch beers.
Lmk if you have questions & pls share widely!
26.09.2025 06:03 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Applications for our visiting researchers program are now open!
It’s a great opportunity, especially also for ECRs, to spend some time working on your research projects in-depth, with great and welcoming atmosphere and tiny Kölsch beers.
Lmk if you have questions & pls share widely!
26.09.2025 06:03 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
📣 We're welcoming applications for our Visiting Researchers Program (summer semester 2026). If your work focuses on political economy or economic sociology, apply for a research stay (2-12 months). Open to researchers at all career levels!
Apply by October 31, 2025: career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...
22.09.2025 14:18 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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24.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 40 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 5
Teach & research international political economy at Durham University.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/ykvf98wn
Please buy my book GILDED RAGE: ELON MUSK AND THE RADICALIZATION OF SILICON VALLEY
Signal: jacobsilverman.99
www.jacobsilverman.com
https://linktr.ee/gildedrage
STS researcher at TUM. PhD in social sciences.
Anticipatory governance, responsible tech, climate, digitization.
#climatejustice #responsibility #noafd
Doctoral Researcher in Political Science @dynamics.bsky.social & Research Associate @hertieschool.bsky.social | Sometimes working at Zeit Online | Interested in political geography, inequality and elections.
We investigate how resources are distributed and transformed across generations and societies. As part of a global network, we seek to generate knowledge that fosters dialogue and shapes solutions that contribute to a more equitable and flourishing future.
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity is one of the foremost centers for the multi-disciplinary study of diversity, in its multiple forms, in today’s globalizing world. https://www.mmg.mpg.de/home
Sociologist | Postdoc at Humboldt University Berlin | researching immigration attitudes and social change | quantitative data analysis | cohort analyses | PhD
https://www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/makro/mitarbeiter/dr-katja-schmidt
Die Sektion Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung
@dgsoziologie.bsky.social. Es postet der Vorstand @annekkrueger.bsky.social, @cschbrt.bsky.social, @juliaschubert.bsky.social und Jan-Felix Schrape.
Chair of Science, Technology and Society, University of Twente. Explores ways to transform science & create better knowledge. Posts about #Nature #Conservation #STS #Politics of Knowledge #IPBES #Biodiversity #TransformativeChange #Justice
Political ecology of asset manager capitalism | Biodiversity metric contestations in green finance | Performativity of nature-related financial risk modelling by central banks
papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6mUi94AAAAJ&hl=en
Sociology | Paderborn University
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
PhD student in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics and historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Sociology Graduate Student at Cornell University. Currently researching insurance and climate change.
theoryculturesociety.org
Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Climate change social scientist. Collaborator, determined dreamer, dad. Director, @ClimateSSN.bsky.social And @climatedevlab.bsky.social
www.climatedevlab.brown.edu CSSN.org personal account; reskeets NE endorsement
Ecological political economist | @envleeds.bsky.social, SRI | Co-lead, Research Group: https://tiny.cc/leeds_econopol | Associate Editor: https://tiny.cc/s_spp | European Society for Ecological Economics I Webpage: www.richardbarnthaler.com
Forschungszentrum Normative Ordnungen der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Research Centre Normative Orders at Goethe University Frankfurt
https://www.normativeorders.net/
