Zsofi Barta

What an honor to be included in such great company! I would love to take this course. (And thank you for making grad students read and discuss books, not just articles! We should all do it more.)

Yes, please! (Would be super interesting for a book chapter I am writing.)

Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of dozens of organizations Trump plans to pull the U.S. out of dozens of organizations. Brian Greenhill discusses the impact of this move – and how Americans see international organizations.

Happy to listen and learn from Brian Greenhill on Trump's withdrawal from dozens of international organizations last week, @goodauth.bsky.social . Part of what Brian calls the liberal international order's "moment of crisis."
goodauthority.org/news/trump-p...

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

The independence of the Bank of England was supposed to facilitate the application of economic reasoning to public policy. But if independence=taboo on discussing the interactions btw fiscal & monetary policy, then not even technocrats deliberate on one of the biggest economic policy issues!

I am immensely grateful to all who helped me think this issue through and commented on the various drafts, especially @mkblyth.bsky.social and @thunen.bsky.social.

This article has had a long and winding road to publication and it elaborates on the argument that I first made in this piece written for the Phenomenal World. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/sov...

Instead, it should be understood as a reflection of the systemic role that ratings play as a coordination mechanism providing an anchor for market participants’ expectations about ‘safe assets’.

In it, I argue that the recurrent failures and the resilient authority of the ‘Big Three’ rating agencies should not be understood in terms of credit assessment failure and regulatory permissiveness.

I am very happy to report that my article on the strange non-death of credit rating agencies has been published in New Political Economy.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes Abstract. Motivated by the contemporary extremes of monopoly power in the United States and globally, this book uses an in-depth comparison of the United S

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l...
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

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We highlight three own goals of failed internationalization:
1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports
2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive)
3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”

Fantastic piece on one of (the many) ways in which the EU has been punching well below its weight.

Yes, please! Thank you!

I will come to your talk tomorrow! (I hope I get in :-)

📣 Roundtable
Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals

w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs

📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm
📍Sciences Po

Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

🚨 Tax evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice.

Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade.

📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...

“Perché la Francia è la Francia”: l’Ue e i conti pubblici di Parigi - Il Fatto Quotidiano Negli ultimi giorni, il governo francese ha sorprendentemente ottenuto l’approvazione dei propri piani di spesa da parte di Bruxelles. L’esecutivo, recentemente insediato e guidato dal primo ministro ...

Stamattina è uscito sul Fatto Quotidiano questo mio pezzo in cui commento l'approvazione della Commissione Europea del budget francese. La Commissione sembra sempre soprassedere sulle violazioni francesi dei target, anche grazie alla capacità dei tecnici francesi nel dialogo con la Commissione

Taxes on top incomes and financialisation Financialisation is one of the most prominent economic developments of the past half century in the advanced democracies. While the existing literature focuses on financial deregulation and liberal...

Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...

Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective - Martin Höpner, Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, 2024 We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and re...

Just published, open access, another paper with @donatodc.bsky.social and Martin Höpner @mpifg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

(R)IPE rocks! 🎉
No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social

Very cool project!!

Recruitment 'Assistant Professor (tenure track)' Recruitment 2024 /2025 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in political science / Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union

🚨Job Alert🚨

We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)

Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

#AcademicJobs #PolSci

My book, Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, published by @TempleUnivPress is now available for pre-order with a 25% discount.

If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students.

tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...

So MANY trains!

Short and sweet case study of how ill equipped financial markets are to account for climate related risks.

Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...

Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....