Max Willems
@maxwillems.bsky.social
PhD researcher @mpifg.bsky.social | Political economy of growth, decarbonisation, energy/climate policy
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Max Willems
@maxwillems.bsky.social
· Sep 10
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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this is fascinating!
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
September 18, 2025 at 8:02 AM
this is fascinating!
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Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
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A highly recommended read, and folllow. Congrats, @maxwillems.bsky.social!
September 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A highly recommended read, and folllow. Congrats, @maxwillems.bsky.social!
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
September 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades...
It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Short 🧵 ...
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Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10
September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Since the start of von der Leyen's second mandate, EU sustainable finance norms face intense dismantling pressures. My new @JEPP article shows this started years ago when the fossil fuel industry “woke up” to the EU Taxonomy. 🧵 #EUTaxonomy #SustainableFinance👇 1/10
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Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Playing the capital market? Sustainable finance and the discursive construction of the Capital Markets Union as a common good
The Capital Markets Union (CMU) project aims to create more integrated capital markets in Europe. However, the project faces resistance, and despite ongoing efforts EU capital markets remain fragme...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Happy to share a new open-access article from the SuFi project at Witten/Herdecke University, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social @naguila.bsky.social @janina urban @paulahaufe.bsky.social @simonschairer.bsky.social @jwullweber.bsky.social
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
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Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier
This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...
www.tandfonline.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.
March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The fiscal breakthrough in Germany is setting a clear direction: Military deficit spending has priority above everything else, the only budget with no limit. The defence spending goal dwarfs the deficit spending available for climate.
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“No one should simply blame the current regime. They announced their intentions. Rather, it’s the rapid capitulation that we have to confront.”
-Jodi Dean
-Jodi Dean
March 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“No one should simply blame the current regime. They announced their intentions. Rather, it’s the rapid capitulation that we have to confront.”
-Jodi Dean
-Jodi Dean
Looking forward to presenting some of my dissertation research at ICEI’s Comparative Political Economy seminar tomorrow. Swing by!
En la próxima sesión del Foro EPC en el ICEI-UCM. Presentará
@maxwillems.bsky.social, PhD researcher en
@mpifg.bsky.social, su trabajo "Decarbonising Growth: The Comparative Political Economy of Renewable Energy Transitions in Europe”:
⏰ 21/03/2025 16:00
📌 ICEI: acortar.link/3HF8auEl
@maxwillems.bsky.social, PhD researcher en
@mpifg.bsky.social, su trabajo "Decarbonising Growth: The Comparative Political Economy of Renewable Energy Transitions in Europe”:
⏰ 21/03/2025 16:00
📌 ICEI: acortar.link/3HF8auEl
March 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Looking forward to presenting some of my dissertation research at ICEI’s Comparative Political Economy seminar tomorrow. Swing by!
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We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!
🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!
🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
*Call for Applications*
We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy!
Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
Please share widely!
@mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social
We’re excited to announce the Second Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy!
Link to the conference website: www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
Please share widely!
@mpifg.bsky.social @palmapolyak.bsky.social
Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
www.mpifg.de
March 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy
If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!
🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share!
🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne
🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025
www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
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Planning the green transition is not only about creating new industries, but also about phasing-out old ones.
If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇
If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇
#Earlyview #Openaccess
'Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union'
by @trgn.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social
#Climatechange #industrialpolicy #RegGov #EU
Abstract below 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
'Picking Losers: Climate Change and Managed Decline in the European Union'
by @trgn.bsky.social & @luukschmitz.bsky.social
#Climatechange #industrialpolicy #RegGov #EU
Abstract below 👇
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Planning the green transition is not only about creating new industries, but also about phasing-out old ones.
If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇
If you want to know how political backlash against impending economic decline and regional inequalities led to new policies and institutions for transition planning in the EU, have a look👇
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I'm so happy for my friend @pgolka.bsky.social for winning the @ripejournal.bsky.social Best Article Award 2024 for his absolutely brilliant paper on 'Epistemic gerrymandering'! Congratulations Philipp!
March 5, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I'm so happy for my friend @pgolka.bsky.social for winning the @ripejournal.bsky.social Best Article Award 2024 for his absolutely brilliant paper on 'Epistemic gerrymandering'! Congratulations Philipp!
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As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.
Please give it a read!
Please give it a read!
Brett Christophers · So much for Paris: Climate Overshoot
All fossil fuel projects are politically constituted. Either they are state projects, controlled and administered by...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
I did a piece about the political economy of climate breakdown for @londonreview.bsky.social, pivoting off the essential new book by Andreas Malm and @wimcarton.bsky.social.
Please give it a read!
Please give it a read!
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🚨📣 We are so back:
ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘
- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎
Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!
ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘
- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎
Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!
January 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🚨📣 We are so back:
ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘
- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎
Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!
ℙ𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘
- 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence
- PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs
- All expenses covered (🙏 sponsors)
- A-team of instructors 🙏💪
- Mark Blyth 😎
Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝟏. Link below. Please share!
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Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality" is finally out! 📙
In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.
Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.
Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
January 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our new book "Understanding Political Economy: Capitalism, Democracy and Inequality" is finally out! 📙
In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.
Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
In it, we unpack what political economy is and does through an investigation of the relation between the state, the economy and society.
Hardcover: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...
"So far, this looks like standard practice for the convergence of corporate and political power in the US that we saw in the 20th century. But at the edges, there are hints of something more radical. [...] a basic antagonism towards the state as such."
January 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"So far, this looks like standard practice for the convergence of corporate and political power in the US that we saw in the 20th century. But at the edges, there are hints of something more radical. [...] a basic antagonism towards the state as such."
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📣 DEADLINE NEXT WEEK
Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers?
Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!
Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers?
Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!
Call for Papers: The socio-economics of loss and decline in the climate crisis
Special issue for Socio-Economic Review
Guest Editors:
Valentina Ausserladscheider, University of Vienna, ([email protected]),
Timur Er
academic.oup.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:41 AM
📣 DEADLINE NEXT WEEK
Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers?
Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!
Are you studying questions of loss and decline in the #climate crisis and would enjoy a paid trip to Cologne to discuss these issues over tiny Cologne beers?
Then apply for our @mpifg.bsky.social paper-development workshop for our SER SI!
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NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧵
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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....
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...
www.tandfonline.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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....
Everyone who wants to understand the French budgetary crisis (of sorts) should read this 👇
In case you are also following the French situation minute by minute, here is my take on its implications for EU fiscal governance for the @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit
A no-confidence vote triggered by a dispute over the French budget has led to the collapse of the country’s government. Camilla Locatelli writes that France’s fiscal challenges offer important less…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Everyone who wants to understand the French budgetary crisis (of sorts) should read this 👇
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Coming January 2025 🚀
November 29, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Coming January 2025 🚀