Klaudia Prodani
@kprodani.bsky.social
Political ecology of asset manager capitalism | Biodiversity metric contestations in green finance | Performativity of nature-related financial risk modelling by central banks
papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6mUi94AAAAJ&hl=en
papers: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6mUi94AAAAJ&hl=en
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Klaudia Prodani
@kprodani.bsky.social
· Sep 24
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42.
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
Adolescence lasts to 32, say brain scientists
www.thetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
That’s nothing: Where I’m from, “junior scholar” lasts to 42.
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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
Our new OA article with @jacquelinebest.bsky.social in @risjnl.bsky.social tries to answer this question. 1/7
cup.org/4hZNlcX
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Failure-proof or failure-prone? The paradoxes of global biodiversity institutions
cup.org
November 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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
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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Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see
Like the US economy
Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.
Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Late stage capitalism meets the misguidedness of GDP accounting: when one big chunk of growth is a technology bubble responsible for huge greenhouse gas emissions and another big chunk is cleaning up the mess caused by those emissions
Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
US jury finds French bank BNP Paribas complicit in Sudan atrocities
The French banking giant said the ruling by a jury in New York was 'clearly wrong' and that it plans to appeal.
www.aljazeera.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Looking for readings — what scholarship historicizes and theorizes financiers’ legal responsibility for financing harm, how have conceptions of their responsibility changed over time, and how are these perhaps very different in different countries?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
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New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...
Naming It Is Not Enough: An Orienting Map for Understanding Conservation's Entanglement With Power
Power is frequently acknowledged in conservation as a limiting factor, something to be cited, problematized, or managed, less frequently is it engaged with as a lived, situated, and multidimensional ....
doi.org
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New in Conservation Letters: a guide to understanding power relations in conservation science. "A cross-cutting matrix enables users to trace how their own position shapes what they see, do, and make possible in conservation contexts" doi.org/10.1111/conl...
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Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
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"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze
YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
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Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets!
Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br...
open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...
Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br...
open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...
Questions on My Mind
open.spotify.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Palestinian artist Faraj Suleiman is on tour (recently Utrecht, next Paris, Dusseldorf and London). Book your tickets!
Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br...
open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...
Questions on my mind is a beautiful song about longing for home - English lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/fy-syl-br...
open.spotify.com/track/24yw67...
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“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags
Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:27 PM
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,”
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📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p
October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📣 New call for postdoctoral researchers!
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p
We are seeking candidates with a doctorate in the social sciences for our research areas Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) and Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert).
Please share widely!
s.gwdg.de/ySJx5p
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The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering:
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
The Long Heat
Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later...
www.versobooks.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering:
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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As the revision of the #SFDR comes to an end, I am joining @reclaimfinance.org and +120 experts in calling on the @ec.europa.eu exclude companies developing new fossil fuel projects a minimum criterion across all #SFDR product categories.
There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!
There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
As the revision of the #SFDR comes to an end, I am joining @reclaimfinance.org and +120 experts in calling on the @ec.europa.eu exclude companies developing new fossil fuel projects a minimum criterion across all #SFDR product categories.
There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!
There's no room for new fossil fuels in sustainable funds!
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Ahem, the meek European derisking state
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ahem, the meek European derisking state
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Really important article with a razor-sharp argument: Contra the notion of universal ownership, @kprodani.bsky.social et al. show that Big-3 portfolios "largely exclude the very parts of the global economy where environmental harms will be most severe."
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Really important article with a razor-sharp argument: Contra the notion of universal ownership, @kprodani.bsky.social et al. show that Big-3 portfolios "largely exclude the very parts of the global economy where environmental harms will be most severe."
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
November 27, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🤩
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work!
Still 50 spots open! 🙋
go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
🧵
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⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent
🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 5:32 PM
⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent
🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social
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"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september,
UNIGE
Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA
@dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social
UNIGE
Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA
@dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september,
UNIGE
Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA
@dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social
UNIGE
Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA
@dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social
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September 12, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.
New article with @james7jackson.bsky.social out in Competition & Change: The green versus environmental state: Reviewing two decades of conceptualizing state-led approaches
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
NEW PUBLICATION - The Great Dane @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social Larsen and I review the differing concepts of state-led approaches to the green transition over the past two decades. We attempt to provide some conceptual coherence to the debate. The article is Open Access.
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numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.
BOOK THREAD
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
in february, i published my book UNSUSTAINABLE: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING, AND THE LIMITS OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY with #NYUPress @capacademicbooks.bsky.social
#greensky #anthrosky #geosky #newbook #sustainability #politicalecology
nyupress.org/978147982201...
Unsustainable
A behind-the-scenes look at how corporate and financial actors enforce a business-friendly approach to global sustainabilityIn recent years, companies have f...
nyupress.org
August 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
numerous companies and banks have reversed course on #sustainability over the last few months. will it make a difference? probably not, because their “sustainability” programs weren’t doing anything in the first place. read my book to find out why.
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First time a minister resigns over Gaza. That genocide support by most European governments had triggered zero ministerial resignations until now: To my mind the single most damning statistic about European political elites.
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
First time a minister resigns over Gaza. That genocide support by most European governments had triggered zero ministerial resignations until now: To my mind the single most damning statistic about European political elites.