@pgolka.bsky.social
Senior researcher @mpifg.bsky.social, studying private wealth, finance & the state in the climate crisis. #privatewealth | #impinv | #greenfinance | #strandedassets
scatterplot of trend over time
Political polarization on confidence in the scientific community accelerated in the 2024 General Social Survey, with moderates now showing a significant downturn.
(Apologies if I missed this updated with 2024 data already)
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On the upside: great opportunity to listen to the ManuscriptCentral Serenade 🎶
tomusic.ai/music/71e84f...
Just realized we've already sent out 131 reviewer requests for our SER special issue with @vapunkt.bsky.social & @trgn.bsky.social.
Have to admit I totally underestimated the time and effort it takes just to secure reviewers. So a big thanks to everyone who agreed to our request!
“This is, quite straightforwardly, a program for regime change in Europe, aimed at turning it into an illiberal polity. Accomplishing this transformation would involve undermining existing liberal governments in cahoots with Europe’s own far right”
06.12.2025 11:33 — 👍 40 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 0Ah that satisfying feeling when you re-read a book after some years and get something entirely different out of it than when you read it earlier. I wonder if it ever stops?
05.12.2025 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
Katherina Reiche und Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg: Bundeswirtschaftsministerium fördert Firma mit Guttenberg-Beteiligung: Das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium hat ein Unternehmen mit einer sechsstelligen Summe gefördert. Unter den Gesellschaftern: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Lebensgefährte von Ministerin…
03.12.2025 15:17 — 👍 248 🔁 144 💬 50 📌 51(Obviously not against these programs: they are great and important. But they are not a solution to a deep structural crisis.)
01.12.2025 17:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One more postdoc mental health program will fix it
01.12.2025 17:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Alright alright alright post-Thanksgiving full November #polisky eJobs update (11/1-11/30):
November 2024: 99 total positions (50 open to assistant TT)
November 2025: 69 total positions (22 open to assistant TT)
The AxPo Observatory of Market Society Polarization at Sciences Po in Paris invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher who hold a PhD in one of the following areas: Economic Sociology, Political Economy, Economic History, or related fields.
Apply by Jan 5th
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award
What does adding 100,000 fixed term jobs but only 500 permanent ones do to an academic system, you ask?
Forging misery, stress and hopelessness for all involved. This was free social investment for foreign countries back when they still offered jobs, but now it’s just a highway headed into a wall.
Can we pls cancel separating discussion and conclusion sections?
And while we’re at it: endnotes, too!
Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
Call for Papers: European Legacies of Socio-Economic Transformation #cfp #soziologie
26.11.2025 09:59 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Call for Abstracts!
Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.
🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.
s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
(Obviously this is not to say tulips and AI are the same thing – they are not – but to say that accelerating demand is a key element of bubbles, and to express my surprise that the FT seems not to take this into account, at least not in the title.)
20.11.2025 12:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thrilled to see our latest paper published in @iojournal.bsky.social! 🥳
"Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump" co-authored with Tobias Pforr (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and @fabianpape.bsky.social 🙂
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
Tuilp bulb producer shrugs off "tulip bubble" anxiety with bumper flower bulb demand
20.11.2025 09:47 — 👍 39 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 01/14
Im Wissenschaftssystem entstehen durch Befristungen, Unterbesetzungen, strukturelle Prekarität keine Vakuumsituationen, sondern informelle Verschiebungen von Arbeit, Verantwortung, Macht.
Diese Diffusion stabilisiert das System auf Kosten derer, die am wenigsten abgesichert sind.
#IchBinHanna
Why do global environmental institutions multiply and persist even when they seem unable to address biodiversity loss and environmental governance failures effectively?
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
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Besucht uns heute bis 16 Uhr am Stand des MPIfG auf dem "Basar der Wissenschaften" im Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (Neumarkt) - und entdeckt dort auch die Forschung aller Kölner Hochschulen und wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen!
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🚨You always wondered about how to make sense of the many accounts on Green Finance? We got you covered:
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social @danmertens.bsky.social ky.social Julius Kob and I critically review existing accounts and argue for an integrated analytical approach👇
doi.org/10.1017/fas....
Just realized the Blairite instructions on our office water fountain are gone. Times have changed, friends.
13.11.2025 09:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Job Alert! Professur (Open Rank: W2 oder W1 mit Tenure Track auf W2) ,,Digitale Transformation in Arbeit und Gesellschaft". Gemeinsame Berufung von @tu-dortmund.de und @cais-research.bsky.social nach Jülicher Modell.
Ausschreibung unter:
service.tu-dortmund.de/documents/18...
And as political economists we know the only answer to this will be: 38% profit margin you say? Let’s get pension funds to invest into academic publishing!
13.11.2025 07:50 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0The central argument in this excellent paper & thread is that the open-access turn has neglected profit; indeed, it turbo-charged publishers’ margins. As political economists who know a thing or two about profit and power we should speak up a lot more. As it says below: What we’re doing is crazy.
12.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 64 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 1
🚨 I am delighted to announce that Tom Turnbull’s and my volume with @stanfordpress.bsky.social is out today, featuring Jennifer Eaglin, Victor Seow, Shellen Wu, Antoine Missemer, Giuliano Garavini, Michael Dobson, Laura A. Twagira, Damilola Adebayo, Troy Vettese, Liz Chatterjee, and Rebecca Wright
25.03.2025 14:27 — 👍 120 🔁 39 💬 4 📌 8
Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?
Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.
Here are the key take-aways 🧵
arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417
