Olli Tiikkainen
@ollitiik.bsky.social
PhDer University of Helsinki / Aalto University. Into STS, social studies of finance & economy, political economy, sustainability transitions research, social theory. They/them.
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✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
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November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!
Read more below 👇
journals.sagepub.com/toc/asja/68/4
YHYS politiikkadialogi alkaa n. 9 minuutin päästä! Jos et pääse paikalle Aallon Marsioon, voi tapahtumaa seurata myös etänä täältä: www.youtube.com/live/il02imd...
June 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
YHYS politiikkadialogi alkaa n. 9 minuutin päästä! Jos et pääse paikalle Aallon Marsioon, voi tapahtumaa seurata myös etänä täältä: www.youtube.com/live/il02imd...
The website of our new project SUSTHOPE is out, check it! And let's talk if you have similar interests! www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...
SUSTHOPE Research Project | Aalto University
Towards Sustainable Hope: Exploring the Harmful and Beneficial Effects of Techno-Optimism.
www.aalto.fi
May 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The website of our new project SUSTHOPE is out, check it! And let's talk if you have similar interests! www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...
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It's hard to overstate setback AI is for the energy transition.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the largest energy hog within worldwide digital infrastructure.
By the end of 2025, AI systems could be responsible for half of total data center power demand - up from about 20% per the end of last year.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
By the end of 2025, AI systems could be responsible for half of total data center power demand - up from about 20% per the end of last year.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’
Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
It's hard to overstate setback AI is for the energy transition.
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!
You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
doi.org
May 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!
You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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in 2023, I warned that the derisking state is not a reliable regime of decarbonisation since it relies on tweaking the price signal to mobilise private investment, without considering other macro forces acting on that signal.
ahem.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ahem.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Danish firm shelves huge UK windfarm project over rising costs
Ørsted cancels fourth stage of Hornsea project off Yorkshire coast, which was set to include enough turbines to power 1m homes
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
in 2023, I warned that the derisking state is not a reliable regime of decarbonisation since it relies on tweaking the price signal to mobilise private investment, without considering other macro forces acting on that signal.
ahem.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
ahem.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Tampereen yliopistolla on tänään lakko, koska
➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin.
➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista.
➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa.
#MeOlemmeYliopisto
➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin.
➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista.
➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa.
#MeOlemmeYliopisto
May 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Tampereen yliopistolla on tänään lakko, koska
➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin.
➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista.
➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa.
#MeOlemmeYliopisto
➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin.
➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista.
➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa.
#MeOlemmeYliopisto
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"From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance" by @ollitiik.bsky.social and Mikko J Virtanen out now as part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action'
#sociology #finance #socialinvestment
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
#sociology #finance #socialinvestment
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance - Olli Tiikkainen, Mikko J Virtanen, 2025
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy f...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance" by @ollitiik.bsky.social and Mikko J Virtanen out now as part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action'
#sociology #finance #socialinvestment
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
#sociology #finance #socialinvestment
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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Benefit from this abundant list of great opportunities: 27 calls for papers (some are funded), 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a grant in Economic #Sociology, Political Economy & related fields. Share and Good luck! economicsociology.org/2025/04/21/g...
Great academic opportunities: 27 calls for papers, 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a research grant
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 27 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully fund…
economicsociology.org
April 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Benefit from this abundant list of great opportunities: 27 calls for papers (some are funded), 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a grant in Economic #Sociology, Political Economy & related fields. Share and Good luck! economicsociology.org/2025/04/21/g...
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”Mikä oikeastaan voisi nykyisessä tilanteessa olla merkittävämpi talouden ja politiikan uutinen kuin se, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikan tutkimuksellinen pohja ja sitä kautta myös ratkaisut murenevat?” Pääsiäisen Polemis-blogi.
www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
Miksi iso uutinen ei kelpaa?
Kuvitellaanpa tilanne, että toimituksilla olisi saatavilla Elinkeinoelämän tutkimuslaitoksen (ETLA) ekonomistien uunituore raportti siitä, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikka nojautuu vääriin oletuksi...
www.polemis.fi
April 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
”Mikä oikeastaan voisi nykyisessä tilanteessa olla merkittävämpi talouden ja politiikan uutinen kuin se, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikan tutkimuksellinen pohja ja sitä kautta myös ratkaisut murenevat?” Pääsiäisen Polemis-blogi.
www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
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Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg avaa blogissaan feminististä talousajattelua:
🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta?
🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi
tarkastella feministisesti?
🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa?
sorsafoundation.fi/sukupuolten-...
🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta?
🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi
tarkastella feministisesti?
🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa?
sorsafoundation.fi/sukupuolten-...
Sukupuolten suhteet ovat osa talouden rakenteita — ja siksi niitä kannattaa ymmärtää · Kalevi Sorsa -säätiö
Talouspolitiikan valinnat vaikuttavat hyvin eri tavoin eri sukupuoliin. Perinteinen talouskeskustelu on kuitenkin usein sokeaa talouden sukupuolittuneisuudelle. Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg kirjoittaa,...
sorsafoundation.fi
April 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg avaa blogissaan feminististä talousajattelua:
🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta?
🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi
tarkastella feministisesti?
🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa?
sorsafoundation.fi/sukupuolten-...
🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta?
🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi
tarkastella feministisesti?
🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa?
sorsafoundation.fi/sukupuolten-...
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The EU is in the grip of a radical #deregulation frenzy - while the EU has seen deregulation waves before, it’s very different this time ⚠️
#Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back
transform-network.net/blog/working...
#Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back
transform-network.net/blog/working...
Why Progressives Must Organise to Stop the EU’s Deregulation Wave
Under von der Leyen’s lead, the European Commission is driving a far-reaching deregulatory agenda, threatening social and environmental protections. Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) rev...
transform-network.net
April 4, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The EU is in the grip of a radical #deregulation frenzy - while the EU has seen deregulation waves before, it’s very different this time ⚠️
#Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back
transform-network.net/blog/working...
#Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back
transform-network.net/blog/working...
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Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
March 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
📣 Our new article now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social as part of the special issue ’Social Investment in Action'!
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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March 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📣 Our new article now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social as part of the special issue ’Social Investment in Action'!
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete!
🧵on its content:
1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🧵on its content:
1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete!
🧵on its content:
1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🧵on its content:
1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Kirjoitin vaihteeksi tämmöisen! Miten epävarmuuksia pitäisi käsitellä parempien päätösten tekemiseksi.
Politiikan vaikutusarviot ohjaavat päätöksentekoa, mutta niiden epävarmuuksia käsitellään liian harvoin avoimesti. Blogissaan @jmkorhonen.fi pohtii, miten ennusteiden epävarmuuksia voisi viestiä selkeämmin ja miten se voisi parantaa päätöksentekoa.
sorsafoundation.fi/epavarmuudet...
sorsafoundation.fi/epavarmuudet...
Epävarmuudet esiin: miten politiikan vaikutusarviointeja voisi kehittää? · Kalevi Sorsa -säätiö
Ennusteet tulevasta ja arviot päätösten vaikutuksista ovat hyvän päätöksenteon välttämätön ehto. Niiden epävarmuuksia tulisi käsitellä avoimesti, jotta arviot eivät ohjaa päätöksentekoa haitallisella ...
sorsafoundation.fi
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Kirjoitin vaihteeksi tämmöisen! Miten epävarmuuksia pitäisi käsitellä parempien päätösten tekemiseksi.
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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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Kirjoitimme metsäalan hankalasta tilanteesta ja metsäteollisuuden ääneenlausumattomasta erikoisasemasta:
politiikasta.fi/metsateollis...
#ilmastonmuutos #metsäteollisuus #LULUCF #hiilinielu
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#ilmastonmuutos #metsäteollisuus #LULUCF #hiilinielu
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Metsäteollisuuden kestävyyspäivitys – Osa 1: Miksi metsäteollisuudella on ilmastopoliittinen erityisasema? – Politiikasta
Metsistä on tullut päästölähde. Ne eivät enää ole nielu, joka auttaisi kohti hiilineutraaliutta. Nielujen katoa on auttanut metsäteollisuuden erityisasema, joka synnyttää teollisuuden alojen välille e...
politiikasta.fi
February 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Kirjoitimme metsäalan hankalasta tilanteesta ja metsäteollisuuden ääneenlausumattomasta erikoisasemasta:
politiikasta.fi/metsateollis...
#ilmastonmuutos #metsäteollisuus #LULUCF #hiilinielu
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politiikasta.fi/metsateollis...
#ilmastonmuutos #metsäteollisuus #LULUCF #hiilinielu
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Neoliberal Europe in a nutshell: defending itself against foreign tech giants by ... deepening its dependence on foreign asset managers. At this rate, they will need another summit just on that.
February 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Neoliberal Europe in a nutshell: defending itself against foreign tech giants by ... deepening its dependence on foreign asset managers. At this rate, they will need another summit just on that.
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Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this.
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this.
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
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ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.
February 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.
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We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...
January 31, 2025 at 10:31 AM
We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...
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Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.
In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?
If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
lpeproject.org
January 28, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thanks to @lpeblog.bsky.social for the invitation to write about what policy scholars should do if "policy" is permanently broken. There are lots of good answers, but we can't afford to ignore the question.
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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we've never needed a Big Green State more, and we've never been furthest away from it on the terrain of the politically possible.
New report from @gsiexeter.bsky.social, covered by @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Economic growth could fall 50% over 20 years from climate shocks, say actuaries
Exclusive: Report by risk experts says previous assessments ignored severe effects of climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
we've never needed a Big Green State more, and we've never been furthest away from it on the terrain of the politically possible.