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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 23d

I have been sitting in Cologne at a conference on industrial policy we're a lot of economists warned against corporate capture and rent seeking. But recent evidence suggests that we can have rent seeking even without industrial policy.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · 24d

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Berlin (dpo) - Mit Volldampf in die Zukunft! Laut Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche sollen künftig Dampfmaschinen als Energieerzeugungs- un

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 24d

Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche kündigt Förderung für Dampfmaschinen an www.der-postillon.com/2025/09/damp...

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Berlin (dpo) - Mit Volldampf in die Zukunft! Laut Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche sollen künftig Dampfmaschinen als Energieerzeugungs- un

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Aug 29

I am just wondering how much of the cult is personal and how much is ideological? And then I am probably too scared to admit that it probably doesn't matter once they have enough raw power..

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Aug 27

In meinem Kopf entsteht gerade das Bild wie eine große Zahl von Entscheidungen in Schlange ansteht, und darauf wartet, dass der Behördenschalter öffnet... Ich glaube, dieses Bild ist Recht passend für den Zustand des Landes.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Aug 16

Also worked for Putin. Would be a shame to lose such valuable compromat...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jul 26

Indeed. in GER it is quite clear that not all primary steelmaking capacity will prevail. At the same time massive reinvestments are necessary. We need a mechanism to coordinate this and perhaps compensate between winners and losers. Is we leave it to the invisible hand, everyone loses.

Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jul 22

Let them calculate how much 1 million seconds are Vs. 1 billion seconds.

Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Jul 13

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

Far-right challenges to liberal democratic press norms: “indexing by proxy” in a German immigration debate

Abstract. This study examines the mechanisms by which illiberal politics make the news by disrupting democratic systems. During the late 20th century, a li

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 30

I think they need ICE to secure "safe" mid-term elections. Are you ready for ICE squads at every polling station making sure everyone votes right?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 24

Not sure they have that distinction clearly in their heads... Interestingly, the phase-out of free allocation was what they mentioned first. But that does not necessarily mean it was the more relevant "trigger". In any case, I do not think that there was one "trigger" anyway. Its always multicausal.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 23

Absolutely. The same people were talking about the "effective carbon price" they are facing. They were clearly not considering opportunity costs...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 23

It may depend on the design, though. I recently interviewed GER steelmakers who clearly said that the outlook of zero free allocation in 2034 and zero new allowances in 39 was the main prompt to investigate alternative steel tech...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

...Panagiotis Fragkos, Ioannis Charalampidis, Eeva Kesküla and Annela Anger-Kraavi

Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

And 4️⃣ we need to start acknowledging that social and economic stress caused by the energy transition requires emotional labour from, and support for, those affected.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

3️⃣ We need to promote inclusivity and representation of local community actors identified as particularly exposed to compounding injustices based on a robust empirical foundation.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

2️⃣ We need to establish a robust monitoring system to systematically map existing and prospective injustices and inequalities.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

1️⃣ We need to acknowledge and better address these compounding injustices by focusing more on energy transition processes that also meaningfully address procedural and recognition injustices.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

And particularly problematic are instances in which new transformation injustices overlap and intersect with old legacy injustices. This is what we call COMPOUNDING INJUSTICES
From this insight we draw four main policy recommendations:

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

When we talk about Just Transition we all too often focus on newly emerging injustices that originate from the transformation. However, in CINTRAN we found that more often than not old injustices originating from fossil fuel legacies of those regions are jeopardizing a genuinely just transition.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

We have a new comment out in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Energy in which we synthesise key findings of our 4-year CINTRAN project on structural change in coal and carbon-intensive regions across Europe.
A free read-only version is available here: rdcu.be/epxGW
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Compounding injustices can impede a just energy transition

Nature Energy - Coal and carbon-intensive regions have lagged behind in socioeconomic development, long before any transition-related structural changes were foreseeable. Acknowledging and tackling...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Jun 5

I think this study by @jonasalgers.bsky.social and @chrisbataille.bsky.social is about a week old: lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · May 19

@11freunde.de do you do books?

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · May 16

Puh. An neuen Politiken kann es kaum liegen. Das Versprechen der Bundesregierung auf niedrige Strompreise würde mich sehr überraschen. Ich tippe auf geopolitische Unsicherheit, die die Deutschen zum Sparen treibt.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · May 14

Gibt es eigentlich ein TRL für pipe dream?

Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Apr 15

Es gibt ein schönes Paper von Yazar und Haarstadt, dass sich das anschaut, auch mit Bezug zu Deutschland und Eike: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=d...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Apr 15

"light" Version eines Angriffs: Scholz hat nach der Russischen Invasion ziemlich aggressiv/dünnheutig gegen Ökonomen geholzt, die am Ende Recht behalten haben: www.handelsblatt.com/meinung/komm...

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Apr 11

Ich nehme das aber nicht nur bei Personalia wahr. Ich hatte vor ein paar Wochen jede Menge Anfragen, den geleakten Clean Industrial Deal Entwurf zu kommentieren. 1,5 Wochen später wurde er offiziell vorgestellt, aber sowohl Anfragen als auch Berichterstattung waren viel geringer.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Apr 3

A lot of people are trying to make sense of Trump's tariffs. The only pattern I see is chaos. And it is not a bug but a feature: Chaos is a policy objective. Trump thrives on chaos.

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Lukas Hermwille @lukashermwille.bsky.social · Apr 2

We have been selling computer hardware and software separately forever. Can't EU Automakers do the same? Just reduce prices (and tariffs) of car hardware and charge costumers extra for the software to rub the car. Separate product, separate tariffs...

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