Lukas Hirsch

Lukas Hirsch

@lukashirsch.bsky.social

Institutions & Political Economy

24 Followers 59 Following 1 Posts Joined Dec 2023
3 months ago
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The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences by Theo Serlin is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2025/12/11/t...

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4 months ago
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But windfall profits flow upward: in 2022, half of record fossil-fuel profits went to the richest 1%; only 1% reached the bottom half.

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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4 months ago
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Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical in 2025, it speaks to how far we’ve drifted from democracy’s core promise. Markets will not save democracy.

My new piece for @theguardian.com:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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8 months ago
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‼️ Last chance to apply for the UB School of Economics Summer School on The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics, taking place from June 30 to July 4, 2025!

📅 Applications will close on June 26, don't miss the chance!

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10 months ago

Aktivitäten deutscher User im transnationalen Terrorgram-Netzwerk: CeMAS beobachtet seit 2022 gezielt militant akzelerationistische Telegramgruppen. Innerhalb dieser haben wir für unsere jüngste Untersuchung User ausfindig gemacht, die einen lokalen Bezug zu Deutschland aufweisen 🧵

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1 year ago

20% der jungen Wählerinnen werden nach dem geltenden Wahlrecht vermutlich nicht im Bundestag repräsentiert sein.

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1 year ago
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There was an alternative to landing on the graveyard of incumbent governments in the wake of inflation. Mexico and Spain have demonstrated to the world how stabilizing the prices of essentials can pay back - economically and politically.

My first @foreignaffairs.bsky.social

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1 year ago
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Wie der Überfluss an Finanzvermögen globale Abhängigkeiten schafft Die „Internationale Finanzielle Subordination“ zementiert eine hierarchische Weltwirtschaft – die sich in instabilen Kapitalströmen, hohen Finanzierungskosten und der Dominanz des US-Dollars zementier...

💲Die Finanzmärkte im globalen Norden zementieren Abhängigkeiten im globalen Süden. Aber was tun?
@anninak.bsky.social zeigt Auswege auf. 👇
@makronom.bsky.social makronom.de/wie-der-uebe...

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1 year ago
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Energy input and food output: The energy imbalance across regional agrifood systems Abstract. Biomass was the principal energy source in preindustrial societies; their agriculture provided more energy than it required. Thus, the energy ret

1/3 Not long ago, all energy came from the land. The Green Revolution turned our agrifood system into an energy sink, requiring more fossil energy than it provided as nutritional energy. We provide the first global time series analysis in @pnasnexus.org.

doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

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2 years ago

Wer muss die Kosten für Krisen und Herausforderungen unserer Zeit tragen: Steuerzahler, Bürgergeldempfänger, künftige Generationen? Was sind überhaupt die realen Kosten dieser Herausforderungen? In einer Replik auf Mark Schieritz beantworte ich diese Fragen.
politischeoekonomie.com/die-debatte-...

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