Anke Hassel

#TagderArbeit: Folgen des demografischen Wandels für den Arbeitsmarkt erklären @ankehassel.bsky.social, Prof @hertieschool.bsky.social & martinkrz.bsky.social, Direktor @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social. www.einsteinfoundation.de/einblicke/albert/albert-nr-10-sozialdemografie/wir-arbeiten-dran (1/2)

We had a great time at Villa Vigoni discussing geoeconomics with a brilliant group of scholars. Many thanks to @dfg.de and everyone who contributed!

Very grateful for two days of collective thinking on the EU’s geoeconomic challenges

Huge thanks to my fab co-organizers @ankehassel.bsky.social @katemcnamara.bsky.social @donatodc.bsky.social @trgn.bsky.social + to the brilliant scholars who shared their insights about the challenges ahead

Infrastructure is power and DOGE is out to centralize control and then weaponize the plumbing. See a longer explanation of the risks here: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/elon...

Berlin street art

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada Jason Stanley, who says grandmother fled Berlin with his father in 1939, says US may become ‘fascist dictatorship’

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We should strengthen our partnerships with the US and with scholars in difficult places, uphold our standards and realize how fragile our institutions really are.

I do not want to encourage anyone to leave their country to find refuge in Europe for our own gain, even though it is tempting. We need to find ways to maintain academic freedom and freedom of expression wherever we are.

Professors sue Trump administration over Columbia University overhaul Legal challenge reflects concerns over pressure on US academic freedom and freedom of speech

We should be in full solidarity with our colleagues in US universities in these days. It must be incredibly hard to navigate the pressure and protect these institutions that still produce the best research, faculty and students in the world. www.ft.com/content/d95c...

merci!

Bubble Trouble An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Some astonishing numbers in here:
-OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it makes
-OpenAI projects annual losses of $14 billion by 2026
-To break even OpenAI needs to increase revenue 25x in just 5 years
-33% of VC portfolios are committed to AI
-5 AI-heavy stocks account for 29% of the S&P 500's value

📣 New release: The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, edited by @kurtvandaele.bsky.social and @silviarainone.bsky.social of @etui.bsky.social

FREE content: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

#AlgorithmManagement #EmploymentRelationship #FutureofWork

Absolutely right!

Trump is setting the US on a path to educational authoritarianism While we watch students getting handcuffed, vague new guidelines create a culture of fear over teaching our history

It seems that Europe needs to have a response to authoritarianism in US higher education beyond poaching their professors. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Titel: Wir sind nicht allein: Wie Deutschland und Europa die Abkehr der USA für die eigene Stärke und eine neue Form der internationalen Partnerschaftlichkeit nutzen können. Portraits der fünf Autor:innen

Die Abkehr der 🇺🇸 von der regelbasierten Ordnung verlangt von der neuen BuReg eine Neuausrichtung der Partnerschaften – europäisch & international. C. Clüver Ashbrook, @ndeitelhoff.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, A.-K. Hornidge & W. Schroeder dazu: www.progressives-zentrum.org/publication/...

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work ‘Bringing together leading voices, this Companion offers a critical and forward-looking analysis of how to regulate the industry''s impact on work and workers. With insightful case studies and expert ...

The Elgar Companion to Regulating Platform Work, co-edited with @silviarainone.bsky.social, is now available @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @etui.bsky.social
Thanks to the authors for their insights on app-based food delivery!

More info 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

#GigEconomy #FoodForThought

Dass die Grünen eigene Akzente im Finanzpaket setzen wollen, ist verständlich. Es letztlich nicht zu unterstützen, würde ihre Glaubwürdigkeit im Hinblick auf Ukraine aber auch Infrastruktur langfristig beschädigen. Es wäre eine Dummheit. (Auch wenn viele Dummheiten im Sondierungspapier stehen).

Join us for forthcoming British & Comparative Political Economy online seminars with

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@vapunkt.bsky.social
Mark Blyth
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America needs a serious opposition [FREE TO READ] Democrats should spend less time on gimmicks and more on communicating what they actually stand for

My latest, with a brilliant illustration by Ben Hickey:

on.ft.com/3XAhTcc

spot on!

Heavy Industry Is Europe’s Trump Card The continent has an upper hand in its looming security competition with the United States.

I wrote a new piece for foreign policy.

The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over – and may even turn adversarial. But Europe has an overlooked trump card.

When it comes to manufacturing Europe blows the US out of the water.

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foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

plus the suitcase doesn’t fall over!

China could blackmail Germany via wind turbines, report warns A government-backed analysis seen by POLITICO argues Beijing could remotely shut down wind farms unless Germany bans its suppliers.

A report commissioned by the German defense ministry says Beijing could purposefully delay wind projects, harvest sensitive data and remotely shut down turbines if given access to wind farms.

www.politico.eu/article/chin...

🇩🇪 Germany's election ended the traffic-light coalition's chapter w/ a lesson: German Social Democrats must reflect on reasons for their decline & a strategy to turn things around

#EPO by @ankehassel.bsky.social @afscharian.bsky.social Max Brändle & Christian Krell
✍ feps-europe.eu/election/ger...

The SPD's dramatic defeat raises major questions for progressive politics in Germany - Foundation for European Progressive Studies The decline of social-democratic parties in Western Europe is not new, but it often marks […]

I wrote a piece on the German elections for @feps-europe.eu feps-europe.eu/the-spds-dra...

In Berlin, the Linke has the highest vote share and the SPD came fifth. SPD did not win a single district.

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

German public TV just published this poll of first-time voters. A massive lead for socialist Left party on 27%.

Left + SPD + Greens on 54% among first-time-voters. Those voters were also slightly less likely to vote AfD than national average.

So much for the “far-right youth”.

Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy [Farrell, Henry, Newman, Abraham] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy

1. Background to the epochal change in German and European politics after the election. Merz, the presumed next Chancellor has said that Europe is setting out to "achieve its independence from the US, step by step." @abenewman.bsky.social and I explain the background in our book, Underground Empire