Rasmus Corlin Christensen
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Associate Professor @ Copenhagen Business School | International political economy, international tax, global governance, professionals.
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New year, new paper! 🎉⭐
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
January 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
New year, new paper! 🎉⭐
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
1. This is insane (goes without saying).
2. The length serves a reminder of the breadth and depth and importance of international cooperation in every aspect of our lives today.
3. Note what's *not* on this list: WTO, World Bank, OECD, G7/G20, lots of big UN bodies (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP), etc.
2. The length serves a reminder of the breadth and depth and importance of international cooperation in every aspect of our lives today.
3. Note what's *not* on this list: WTO, World Bank, OECD, G7/G20, lots of big UN bodies (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP), etc.
Here's a vicious attempt to destroy the rules-based international order since US funding is crucial to many of these institutions. The US wants to go it alone not realizing how much these international organizations do for us. Insanity amplified by arrogance. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 8:14 AM
1. This is insane (goes without saying).
2. The length serves a reminder of the breadth and depth and importance of international cooperation in every aspect of our lives today.
3. Note what's *not* on this list: WTO, World Bank, OECD, G7/G20, lots of big UN bodies (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP), etc.
2. The length serves a reminder of the breadth and depth and importance of international cooperation in every aspect of our lives today.
3. Note what's *not* on this list: WTO, World Bank, OECD, G7/G20, lots of big UN bodies (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP), etc.
Doctorow comes for academia
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
theconversation.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Doctorow comes for academia
New year, new paper! 🎉⭐
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
January 6, 2026 at 12:32 PM
New year, new paper! 🎉⭐
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
How do elite corporate professionals become... elite? In this paper, I conceptualize and study "trajectories to the top" as a series of status trade-offs across organizations (not just the climbing of an in-house career ladder).
Fully open access: doi.org/10.1093/jpo/...
Reposted by Rasmus Corlin Christensen
Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Since the hegemon's eye is now focussing on Greenland, I recommend revisting our research note in @bjsociology.bsky.social on the Power elite in Greenland
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
FT reports China (the last holdout) lifted its objections to the minimum tax deal in the last few days.
It’s not immediately clear what they got in return, but the deal does open the door for other countries to get similar treatment as the US, which we know China (and India) had sought.
It’s not immediately clear what they got in return, but the deal does open the door for other countries to get similar treatment as the US, which we know China (and India) had sought.
US wins exemptions from global minimum tax rules
Agreement weakens 2021 deal brokered by OECD
www.ft.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
FT reports China (the last holdout) lifted its objections to the minimum tax deal in the last few days.
It’s not immediately clear what they got in return, but the deal does open the door for other countries to get similar treatment as the US, which we know China (and India) had sought.
It’s not immediately clear what they got in return, but the deal does open the door for other countries to get similar treatment as the US, which we know China (and India) had sought.
White smoke! The US finally gets its businesses a long-desired "exemption" from the 15% global minimum tax, agreed by all 147 members of the OECD Inclusive Framework. This is a big one.
International community agrees way forward on global minimum tax package
Over 145 countries and jurisdictions working together within the Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) have agreed on key elements of a package that charts a course forward fo...
www.oecd.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
White smoke! The US finally gets its businesses a long-desired "exemption" from the 15% global minimum tax, agreed by all 147 members of the OECD Inclusive Framework. This is a big one.
Student snowball fight outside my office window and the uni library just launched free faculty subscriptions to the FT. Today is a good day.
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Student snowball fight outside my office window and the uni library just launched free faculty subscriptions to the FT. Today is a good day.
I continue to think @chrislhayes.bsky.social's point that our world is now over-engineered for the empty calories of social attention rather than the healthy meal of human recognition explains a lot about, well, everything.
I am trying to find the right term for the idea that governing decisions are disproportionately shaped by perceptions based from online bubbles, or aimed to please an imagined online audience.
What would be a good term?
*poster brain?
*podcast brain?
What else?
What would be a good term?
*poster brain?
*podcast brain?
What else?
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I continue to think @chrislhayes.bsky.social's point that our world is now over-engineered for the empty calories of social attention rather than the healthy meal of human recognition explains a lot about, well, everything.
If you have to expressly stress that you are allies, then you probably aren't.
January 5, 2026 at 9:37 AM
If you have to expressly stress that you are allies, then you probably aren't.
There's this assumption that, sure, of course PwC and the Big Four can simply and succesfully extend into crypto services, policy allowing. Not so, as recent research shows: the cultural and organizational reform required is a substantial barrier.
January 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
There's this assumption that, sure, of course PwC and the Big Four can simply and succesfully extend into crypto services, policy allowing. Not so, as recent research shows: the cultural and organizational reform required is a substantial barrier.
There’s a line here whereby carving out techno-libertarian ‘zones’ in your jurisdiction (ala Honduras) becomes a viable territorial self-defence strategy against Trump’s global ambitions.
3/In case of Honduras, drug kingpin president pardoned. Why? Because tech interests in libertarian city.
www.wired.com/story/startu...
www.wired.com/story/startu...
‘Startup City’ Groups Say They’re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ‘Freedom Cities’
The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations.
www.wired.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
There’s a line here whereby carving out techno-libertarian ‘zones’ in your jurisdiction (ala Honduras) becomes a viable territorial self-defence strategy against Trump’s global ambitions.
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Damn there’s some bleak shit happening out there
February 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Damn there’s some bleak shit happening out there
I am late to the party (it launched a year ago) but just realized there’s now a Zotero app! And it’s nice!
Much preferable to PaperShip that I had been rolling with for years. Tip hereby passed on.
Much preferable to PaperShip that I had been rolling with for years. Tip hereby passed on.
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 AM
I am late to the party (it launched a year ago) but just realized there’s now a Zotero app! And it’s nice!
Much preferable to PaperShip that I had been rolling with for years. Tip hereby passed on.
Much preferable to PaperShip that I had been rolling with for years. Tip hereby passed on.
Enjoyed reading this @maharafiatal.bsky.social-organized forum on modern tech oligarch's claims to sovereignty (and its implications). Refreshing new lines of theoretical questions on the entanglement of states and corporations.
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order
www.cambridge.org
January 2, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Enjoyed reading this @maharafiatal.bsky.social-organized forum on modern tech oligarch's claims to sovereignty (and its implications). Refreshing new lines of theoretical questions on the entanglement of states and corporations.
A news day of juxtaposition:
January 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
A news day of juxtaposition:
Reading @quinnslobodian.com's Crack-Up chapter on Liechtenstein as a market radical fetish, fun to revisit Katrin Eggenberger's piece - she did fieldwork in the principality, interviewing two Prime Ministers - arguing they basically DGAF'ed being blacklisted a tax haven (but not a money launderer)
December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Reading @quinnslobodian.com's Crack-Up chapter on Liechtenstein as a market radical fetish, fun to revisit Katrin Eggenberger's piece - she did fieldwork in the principality, interviewing two Prime Ministers - arguing they basically DGAF'ed being blacklisted a tax haven (but not a money launderer)
Writing up notes for a presentation for a bunch of lawyers: "1) I am not a lawyer, 2) I am not a lawyer, 3) I am not a lawyer..."
December 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Writing up notes for a presentation for a bunch of lawyers: "1) I am not a lawyer, 2) I am not a lawyer, 3) I am not a lawyer..."
Er “parti-isme” ved at tegne sig som den centrale diagnose/løsning på Socialdemokratiets problemer?
December 27, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Er “parti-isme” ved at tegne sig som den centrale diagnose/løsning på Socialdemokratiets problemer?
Santa found time to deliver my paper at 6pm on Christmas Eve. Solid work tbh.
December 25, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Santa found time to deliver my paper at 6pm on Christmas Eve. Solid work tbh.
En særlig lille julegave her til scient.pol’erne: Statskundskab har overhalet økonomi som den mest udbredte uddannelse i den danske magtelite
Godt vintersolhverv. Som særlig julegave til dig har vi analyseret magteliten anno 2024 og lavet denne rapport
magtelite.dk/magtens-netv...
magtelite.dk/magtens-netv...
Magtens netværk 2024
magtelite.dk
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
En særlig lille julegave her til scient.pol’erne: Statskundskab har overhalet økonomi som den mest udbredte uddannelse i den danske magtelite
Scholars citing 35 year old papers as “recent”:
December 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Scholars citing 35 year old papers as “recent”:
Well, here’s a fun fact: I personally had about as many cases of AI-related academic misconduct (5) in my course exams this year as the country’s largest university did in total (7).
Så meget AI-snyd er afsløret på danske universiteter
På Copenhagen Business School (CBS) har man haft 77 sager med AI-snyd i år, mens det registrerede antal sager på Københavns Universitet (KU) er syv.
politiken.dk
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Well, here’s a fun fact: I personally had about as many cases of AI-related academic misconduct (5) in my course exams this year as the country’s largest university did in total (7).
"Anders Hviid, who leads research on vaccine safety and effectiveness at [Denmark’s equivalent of the US CDC] said he was struck by the irony of Kennedy holding Denmark up as an ideal because many of the studies that disproved Kennedy’s theories of vaccine harm were led by Danish health officials"
R.F.K. Jr. Likely to Swap U.S. Childhood Vaccine Schedule for Denmark’s
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Anders Hviid, who leads research on vaccine safety and effectiveness at [Denmark’s equivalent of the US CDC] said he was struck by the irony of Kennedy holding Denmark up as an ideal because many of the studies that disproved Kennedy’s theories of vaccine harm were led by Danish health officials"
We’ll see - probably in the next few days - exact where the deal lands. It’ll likely mean only the US (not EU countries) can tax any low-taxed (sub-15%) profits of US firms, which are in any case limited because of US rules (GILTI/NCTI etc.)…
I remember you posting that the exemption wouldn't affect US multinationals' subsidiaries. Does that mean the potential tax take for EU countries is basically the same as before the side deal? And if yes, why did the US agree to it? Appreciate if you could recommend a good article about this!
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We’ll see - probably in the next few days - exact where the deal lands. It’ll likely mean only the US (not EU countries) can tax any low-taxed (sub-15%) profits of US firms, which are in any case limited because of US rules (GILTI/NCTI etc.)…