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Pauline Grosjean

@paulinegrosjean.bsky.social

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Professor of Economics at UNSW. Studies roles of culture and institutions in economic development. Organising SIOE 2025 at UNSW. Author of Patriarcapitalisme. https://sites.google.com/site/paulinegrosjeanperso/home

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Mar 20

I canceled a seminar at Berkeley 2 weeks ago. I thought perhaps I was paranoid but probably right. I now think I was more right than paranoid. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found

France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 16

About 1/6 of the total population of Serbia protested government malfeasance today. In the US that would be more than fifty million people.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Mar 15

The White House stated that USAID’s elimination would cause no deaths.

A top official said (verbatim), “I give zero f*cks” about widespread credible reports of deaths already occurring.

That official is incompetent. He did no analysis whatsoever of the death toll. Here is a serious analysis:

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Mar 14

And always falls on the same side

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Mar 14

And so the political “center” continues on with its tradition of gutlessness

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Mar 1

And beyond the failures, what we saw was clearly the tone, the tactics, the demeanor of abusers. Two of them. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 28

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Feb 16

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Ivan Jablonka, historian: 'Trump's agenda is driving a masculinist counter-revolution'

OP-ED. Donald Trump's second term ushers in a new era associating aggressive masculinity with nationalism and violence, driven by a spirit of revenge against the feminist achievements of the past 50 y...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Feb 14

"Appeasement at Munich: World Wars, Past and Possible"
The symmetry between Germany-Czechoslovakia in 1938 and Russia-Ukraine in 2022 is uncanny, and pausing for a moment on the resemblances might help us to take a broader view of today.
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Appeasement at Munich

World Wars, Past and Possible

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · Dec 14

Time for my regular gripe about how “traditional” gender ideologies are not really traditional at all 👆 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biologic...

The importance of social support for parental and child health and wellbeing is not yet sufficiently widely recognized. The widespread myth in Western contexts that the male breadwinner–female homemak...

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Nov 26

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Nov 25

In today's #econjmp, @iedamatavelli.bsky.social of UBC/post-doc at UNSW shows boys in Brazil overestimate how peers view masculinity norms, and in 2 RCTs, fostering discussions around masculinity reduces these misperceptions blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli

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Reposted by Ralph De Haas, World Bank, Pauline Grosjean

David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Nov 25

School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli

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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · Nov 23

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Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) @sioecon.bsky.social · Nov 16

SIOE 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS

Join us in Sydney, at UNSW, from 24-26 of August 2025!

🚨Submission deadline: January 15, 2025

Looking for individual papers or panel submissions. Call for papers / instructions here:
call.sioe.org/call

Questions? Email [email protected]

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Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE) @sioecon.bsky.social · Nov 16

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