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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting.
From tax games (see myself and @seanoriain.bsky.social's paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....)

.... to tariff games, see @pkrugman.bsky.social here:

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechaun...

Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation

Yes, tariffs are hurting us. No, Trump wasn’t right.

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 2d

Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan...The flotilla was illegally intercepted last night and seized by armed Israeli forces in international waters.
irishpen.com/2025/10/08/t...

Thousand Madleens flotilla Statement - Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

8 October 2025 Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is gravely concerned about the detention of writer Naoise Dolan, one of several Irish citizens taking part in the Thousand Madleens f...

irishpen.com

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic paper. Data by sector, geography, investor entity & distributional impact (in terms of wealth, race, education).
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social's conclusion below: "taxing incremental 2022 US profits as excess could've doubled clean energy investments or paid each US household $1,715".

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 3d

🚨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...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 4d

New Special Issue on 'Cleavage Politics' @wepsocial.bsky.social. Lots of interesting articles, with helpful summary thread below by @davidattewell6.bsky.social

David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 4d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 4d

Post budget analysis tomorrow: online 8 October 14:30 - 15:30 hosted by @neriresearch.bsky.social. Presenter @michael-taft.bsky.social
#budget2026

www.nerinstitute.net/events/2025/...

NERI Post Budget Analysis online Seminar

The NERI seminar titled 'NERI Post Budget Analysis' will be presented by Mr. Michael Taft, Research Officer, SIPTU. It will take place on Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 14.30 as an online Zoom event.Semi...

www.nerinstitute.net

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Michael Taft @michael-taft.bsky.social · 8d

There is always a lot of noise and numbers in the run-up to the budget. Here are a few facts that might help you survive the tsunami of assertions and assumptions on Tuesday: spending, poverty, profits, VAT cuts, multi-national bail-outs and much more: tinyurl.com/2ze7kcxh

Some Facts to Help You Survive the Budget

There is always a lot of noise and numbers in the run-up to the budget. Here are a few facts that might help you wade through this forest of assertions, assumptions and anecdotes. 1. &nb…

tinyurl.com

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 4d

Relieved that our activists are home safe. @sarahmaintains.bsky.social keeps our focus, as ever, where it should be, on Gaza. #gazaflotilla

www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Irish activists criticise treatment in Israeli detention

Three of 15 Irish citizens held by Israel after it intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, who returned home last night, say they were badly treated during their detention.

www.rte.ie

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 9d

For our expert report for the Spanish government on Democracy at Work, I looked up the numbers on employee participation in employee share ownership schemes.

Spain looks good; Poland and UK have made big leaps.

What's striking: Those in the lead in 2005 (BE, IE, LU) regressed, except France.

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 5d

Mock precision and the politics of knowledge

Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 5d

Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations, by Lukas Linsi, Seiki Tanaka, Francesco Giumelli, & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social

Governing through guesstimates: mock precision in international organisations

International organisations (IOs) collect and disseminate a wide array of statistics. In many cases, the phenomena these statistics seek to quantify defy precise measurement. Hard-to-measure statis...

www.tandfonline.com

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Future Economy Scotland @futureeconscot.bsky.social · 7d

“Absurdly, Ireland’s government owns more Scottish offshore wind than the Scottish Government does.”

Our new ‘Who Owns ScotWind?’ data with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social is covered by @dailyrecord.co.uk.web.brid.gy

Scotland 'squandering' profits made by wind farms as foreign developers cash-in

EXCLUSIVE: Only four of the 29 parent companies involved in ScotWind are headquartered in the UK.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 5d

Open access

Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 15d

Just arrived:

The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social

Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...

#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

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Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social · Jan 10

I’m so happy to announce that my book is now published and available open-access! (🧵coming soon, too :)

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Jan 10

"A beautifully written and insightful take on the evolution of mental healthcare in advanced democracies, and one that opens a new lens on one of the most central, and largely unexamined, parts of the modern state."

The Welfare Workforce by Isabel M. Perera

Out now in #OpenAccess cup.org/3DQJizT

The Welfare Workforce

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - The Welfare Workforce

cup.org

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent and close to the bone. Benicio del Toro steals the show. Nice touch with Gil Scott-Heron 'hold music' on a crucial telephone call

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper

Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction

www.theguardian.com

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Inga Rademacher @ingarade.bsky.social · 12d

Reminder to sign up for our hybrid workshop on the Economic Project of the Far Right which will take place next Monday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cityperc-w...

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John Reynolds @seanmacr.bsky.social · 8d

📣 Documenting & Challenging EU Border Violence

Thurs 9 Oct 2025, 1pm
MUSSI Seminar Room (+ online)
@mu-ssi.bsky.social

with
Charles Heller @borderforensics.bsky.social
Niamh Keady-Tabbal @maynoothlaw.bsky.social
Hanaa Hakiki @ecchr.bsky.social

Register: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

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TaraNicRóibín @tararoonies.bsky.social · 9d

Contact your elected reps to demand a diplomatic intervention to keep humanitarians safe.

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Ruben Kremers @kremers.bsky.social · 10d

IPE workshop in Brussels!!!

Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 10d

📢 Call for Papers — 5th Political Economy Working Group Workshop
🗓️ 30 Jan 2026, Université Saint-Louis Bruxelles

The workshop is divided into two parts:
Morning: PhD research presentations.
Afternoon: open to all, concluding with @benbraun.bsky.social.

Abstracts due 1 Dec 2025

All details below:

The Political Economy working group is pleased to invite you to a workshop on Friday, 30 January, 2026, at the Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles. Founded during the ABSP Congress in February 2024, this group aims to contribute to the advancement and growth of the field of political economy in Belgium.

The workshop will be divided into two parts:
The morning session is open to all PhD students wishing to present the progress of their research, whether in the form of a thesis project, an article or a chapter. Each PhD student will have 40 to 50 minutes for discussion with attending researchers.
The afternoon session is open to all researchers interested in presenting a publication or work-in progress related to the various key themes driving our Political Economy Working Group: European governance, financial regulation, central banks policies and communication, the political economy of the green transition, the role of States in a globalized and financialized world, among others.
Contributions are welcome in either French or English. Presentations should generally be delivered in English.
Next steps:
To propose a presentation for the morning or afternoon sessions, send a title and abstract of no more than 400 words to aurelien.goutsmedt[at]uclouvain.be and zsuzsanna.szeredi[at]uclouvain.be by December 1, 2025. If you wish to present in the PhD morning session, please indicate this clearly in your submission.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 19, 2025.
Manuscripts (working papers, chapters or drafts) will be requested by January 16, 2025, in order to give discussants and other participants sufficient time to prepare. We recommend manuscripts of between 5,000 to 10,000 words.

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 10d

Useful overview of methodology tracking online Far Right narratives by @porcelinad.bsky.social & Raphael Hernandes @theguardian.com:

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages

Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · Jan 30

🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social

Channels of influence in sustainable finance:
A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A 🧵 on our main arguments:

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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4).
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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Financial Justice Ireland @financialjustice.bsky.social · 10d

We'll continue to support @ipsc.bsky.social in its tireless work for Palestinian freedom and dignity.

See you on the streets this Saturday!

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 10d

🇵🇸 That's solidarity! 175 great civil society groups have endorsed our National Demonstration for Palestine Saturday. See you at the Garden of Remembrance at 12.30pm, all out for Palestine! #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide 🇵🇸

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 10d

Would love to join this list. Thank you Palma for the initiative

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · Nov 27

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

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 10d

Important and troubling questions raised by @matpaterson.bsky.social

"The legacy of the miners’ strike remains a troubling case of a successful, but highly unjust transition. "

Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social · 10d

The UK's last coal-fired power station shut a year ago yesterday. Always worth remembering this was anything but a just transition ... theecologist.org/2024/feb/12/...

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you @sarahmaintains.bsky.social for, as usual, representing the best of us. Hope against hope for safe passage and justice for people of Gaza. Our government must ensure the protection of the flotilla #LiftTheSiege @freedomflotilla.bsky.social

Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 16d

Our friend, poet and activist Sarah Clancy, is on the Spectre, one of the boats on the Flotilla which was attacked last night. Contact the Taoiseach and Tánaiste to demand protection, there must be safe passage for all trying to break apartheid Israel's illegal siege of Gaza. #LiftTheSiege

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