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That's right, the finance summer school is coming to Europe! June 4-5 at the LSE – applications are open until March 1.

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New article out in Politics & Society with @danieldrisc.com and @maxkiefel.bsky.social : "Internationalizing Industrial Policy: How China and the United States Use State Capacity to Secure Critical Minerals for Electric Vehicles"

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🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
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𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

They should at least be honest and change the motto to "Democracy Dies in Darkness (hehe)"

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Bringing ownership in: a conjunctural approach to venture capital valuations Abstract. High startup valuations are commonly perceived as expressions of venture capitalists’ (VCs) power. This study complicates this view and argues th

New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...

Veit "Nitro" Braun – I‘d hire him!

Yeah I agree, but unfortunately we’re much gravitating to the latter I’m afraid

Either, depending on what you do. I mean the narrative you have to develop for yourself and others are constructing about you – your "profile“

My point was rather the pressure to build a consistent profile rather than what some call being a "portfolio researcher". The former then strongly informing what you should or should not be studying to enhance your job prospects and impact.

Imagine we had to navigate the world like we’re expected to form research interests:

"Can’t tell & don't care if this was a good lasagna, I’m only interested in semifreddos with charred beets"

PS: on that semifreddo, I‘d see an olive oil soft serve with dusted slow-dried beets and sea salt. Yums!

I think it would also be helpful for departments if they hired not in silos, but in a matrix structure: complementary expertise but also complementary skills. This could help foster engagement with one another and strengthen departments as teams.

This creates incentives to follow academic trends rather than foundational social problems, and it massively increases stress on junior academics who are forced to distance themselves even more from nonac opportunities if they want to stand a chance in academia.

It not only reproduces inequalities by favoring those who’ve learned the drill in elite institutions early on, worse, it needlessly reinforces academic self-commodification as it favors marketable packages of knowledge over academia as a mode of engagement.

There is of course absolutely nothing wrong with specialized expertise, and indeed academia must also be the home for it. My point is rather that we‘re not doing us a service if this is our main assessment criterion.

The comparison is a bit off, of course, but I really think the increasing pressure to build super specialized research profiles is problematic for a discipline whose big strength is reflexivity. Like where in the world would be a place for generalists if not in social science?

Imagine we had to navigate the world like we’re expected to form research interests:

"Can’t tell & don't care if this was a good lasagna, I’m only interested in semifreddos with charred beets"

graph tracking democratic backsliding is occuring more quickly in the US than elsewhere.

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.

This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...

Looks like we’ve entered the "over the past year you would have made double the profit by selling dollars than buying tesla stocks"-stage of US financial power

Awesome, thank you!

Last Minute Economic Sociology Part 1 – Things written before most of you were born and that are rediscovered every other year Week 1. Say ‘embedded’ one more time… Week 2. Not really what Polanyi meant by ‘instituted process’: of politics and institutions Week 3. Get your dirty hands off my clean money! Of relations Part 2 – Things that are relevant for making sense of, well, everything around us today Week 4. Markets: The good, the bad, and the plain fugly Week 5. Talking about fugly: financialization Week 6. Inequalities and why you shouldn’t hold your breath Week 7. Data economies without all that crypto stuff Part 3 – Ah, yes. Things that came from Europe much after all the first wave of things that came from Europe. Week 8. Performativity, but not Butler’s Week 9. So many valuation studies! Week 10. How your electricity and Prime deliveries work and fail: on logistics and infrastructure

Bored beyond imagination, which is the perfect time to work on the grad seminar syllabus in Economic Sociology. General outline here:

Would love to see the full syllabus once it’s completed – will be teaching econ soc for our PhDs for the first time this spring.

We‘d also like to upload it on our @dgswisoz.bsky.social econ soc syllabus collection if you’re interested

‼️If you are an early career researcher interested in CPE and related field and focus on Eastern Europe, the great team around @dorobohle.bsky.social at the Department of Political Science @univie.ac.at is looking for a postdoc 📣 Deadline 27.02. 📯Details here👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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