Dóra Piroska
@piroskadora.bsky.social
International Political Economy, banking and finance, Eastern Europe, Vienna
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Dóra Piroska
@piroskadora.bsky.social
· Aug 12
♨️Hot off the press
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/1024...
Interested in how authoritarian leaders use banks within their inherited neoliberal polity on the global semi-periphery?
To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks?
check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.
To get clues what might Trump be tempted to do with the FED and the banks?
check out our latest article on Hungary and Turkey.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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📢 New issue, including the Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, a debate on EU & NATO enlargement after 2022 and JEPP news 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
📢 New issue, including the Special Issue on "Wartime Europe: EU Integration, Reform and Enlargement" edited by @vanghel.bsky.social, a debate on EU & NATO enlargement after 2022 and JEPP news 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...
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🏦 Matthias Thiemann, Dan Mocanu & @piroskadora.bsky.social : The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🏦 Matthias Thiemann, Dan Mocanu & @piroskadora.bsky.social : The rise of the European Enlargement State: blended finance, development banks and the new modalities of EU accession 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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What's the state of play around #AI sovereignty in Latin America? Natan Amado picks it apart in this RegulAite working paper. Spoiler alert: without push-back, AI dependency will only entrench LA's peripheral position in the global economy. www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/A...
September 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
What's the state of play around #AI sovereignty in Latin America? Natan Amado picks it apart in this RegulAite working paper. Spoiler alert: without push-back, AI dependency will only entrench LA's peripheral position in the global economy. www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/A...
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Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)
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Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
📣 Call for Abstracts!
Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.
🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.
s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
Join the 4th Doctoral Conference on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, March 19 -20, 2026 at the MPIfG in Cologne.
🎓 We welcome abstracts by doctoral researchers in economic sociology, political economy and related fields by Dec 8, 2025.
s.gwdg.de/U27NQb
November 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field.
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social
Send them your abstracts!
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And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc...
In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
The extraction industry powering the green transition
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
player.captivate.fm
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
And now..in our regular discussion of how climate change is really geopolitics...I give you @triofrancos.bsky.social and her fabby new book: player.captivate.fm/episode/16cc...
In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
In other words - The new Rhodes Center Podcast is up...
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Hoo boy. Feral emeritus prof here (possibly an idiot).
1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵.
Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n
1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵.
Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n
Feral idiot grad student question: is the difference between "political economy" and "critical political economy" basically whether you think capitalism is good or bad? Sorry to be glib but sometimes academics seem to label something "critical" when they mean "has a spicy take" and it's confusing
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Hoo boy. Feral emeritus prof here (possibly an idiot).
1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵.
Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n
1st, h/t @70sbachchan.bsky.social 2nd, possibly a long 🧵.
Political economy used to be ”critical” (of capitalism) bc most folks in that space came out of Marx or american institutionalist like T. Veblen and J. Commons, less so F. Knight 1/n
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“With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.”
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
“With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.”
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Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Coming soon in RIPE Series in Global Political Economy - War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital, co-edited with Jacqui True. More at: www.routledge.com/War-Economy-...
Just finished discussing this book with our pol. econ PhD students. We all liked it, some more other less, for its attention on consumption as institutionally defined, historical findings, and the general argument about the similarities of business strategies of US retailers digital or otherwise.
November 11, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just finished discussing this book with our pol. econ PhD students. We all liked it, some more other less, for its attention on consumption as institutionally defined, historical findings, and the general argument about the similarities of business strategies of US retailers digital or otherwise.
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Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.
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Béla Greskovits. An absolute mensch. As decent and considerate a man as he is accomplished a scholar, and he’s a very accomplished scholar.
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Béla Greskovits. An absolute mensch. As decent and considerate a man as he is accomplished a scholar, and he’s a very accomplished scholar.
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But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
poets.org/poem/student...
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
poets.org/poem/student...
For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper
Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of ...
poets.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
But what are you trying
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
poets.org/poem/student...
to be free of?
The living? The miraculous
task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.
poets.org/poem/student...
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“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” — Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” — Joseph Fasano
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
Now I let it fall back
in the grasses.
I hear you. I know
this life is hard now.
I know your days are precious
on this earth.
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Feeling *extreme* FOMO to be missing this event happening at Columbia today and featuring a packed roster of GOATs including @veenadubal.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others!!
iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...
iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...
New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace | Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)
iserp.columbia.edu
November 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Feeling *extreme* FOMO to be missing this event happening at Columbia today and featuring a packed roster of GOATs including @veenadubal.bsky.social @jathansadowski.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others!!
iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...
iserp.columbia.edu/events/new-l...
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The young age profile fully offset population losses from negative migration in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2020. Population Council just featured my Population and Development Review paper in a short summary!
#demography #migration #Poland
popcouncil.org/insight/driver…
#demography #migration #Poland
popcouncil.org/insight/driver…
November 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The young age profile fully offset population losses from negative migration in Central and Eastern Europe between 1990 and 2020. Population Council just featured my Population and Development Review paper in a short summary!
#demography #migration #Poland
popcouncil.org/insight/driver…
#demography #migration #Poland
popcouncil.org/insight/driver…
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Driving myself slightly mental thinking about pension fund capital and spatial metaphors. It can’t be ‘unlocked’ or ‘deployed’ because that (wrongly) suggests it has a *location* - it is *here* and could/should be *there*.
Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*
Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*
a cartoon character sitting on a couch with his legs crossed
ALT: a cartoon character sitting on a couch with his legs crossed
media.tenor.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Driving myself slightly mental thinking about pension fund capital and spatial metaphors. It can’t be ‘unlocked’ or ‘deployed’ because that (wrongly) suggests it has a *location* - it is *here* and could/should be *there*.
Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*
Pension capital is a store of value that is turned into claims in *time*
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To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...
Spare a State Subsidy for the Chainsaw Libertarian
How the American State Keeps Milei’s Libertarian Revolution Solvent
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
To survive in the bond market, libertarianism needs subsidies. My latest geoeconomic.substack.com/p/spare-a-st...
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🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨New publication with Kristijan Kotarski:
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
Enduring Structural Power? Assessing the Dominance of the Anglosphere in Global Finance Before the Trump Turn
Includes novel visualizations of global finance (banking, portfolio inv & FDI) showing persistent US centrality
hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/487488
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This afternoon!
I'm speaking at Warwick and online next week about Fictions of Financialization with brilliant discussants in Chris Clarke and Marieke Beck, who will hopefully mostly talk about their own work.
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sch...
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sch...
Research Seminar: 'Fictions of Financialization: Rethinking Speculation, Exploitation and Twenty-First-Century Capitalism'
warwick.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This afternoon!
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When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
Central Banking for the End of Times
Frankfurt measured the risk, Beijing moved the money, and Washington looked away.
geoeconomic.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
When central banks were asked to "do smth" about climate, the Fed sat it out, the ECB experimented then retreated but the PBOC planned green and brown money at scale. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/central-ba...
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Obviously a self-serving recommendation, but I've found this chapter useful for structuring + historicizing discussions about sovereign debt in my IPE classes. Students often find sovereign debt intimidating, so breaking down how these contracts are written/enforced/restructured can be helpful.
Our chapter looks at how foreign creditors have impacted sovereign borrowers' sovereignty through four historical periods. While loan conditionality is a familiar way, private creditors have exerted power over borrowing states in other ways as well, many of which predate the conditional lending era.
Beyond Conditionality: How Contracts, Credit Ratings, and Credit Default Swaps Influence State Sovereignty
Abstract. This chapter examines the direct and indirect means through which foreign lenders have influenced borrowing states’ autonomy, beyond the conventi
academic.oup.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Obviously a self-serving recommendation, but I've found this chapter useful for structuring + historicizing discussions about sovereign debt in my IPE classes. Students often find sovereign debt intimidating, so breaking down how these contracts are written/enforced/restructured can be helpful.
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already 10+ years ago wade jacoby said that europe was a trade dependent status quo power in a world in which the status quo was disintegrating and trade was stagnating and this (car industry lobbying) is one big reason why the EU is not up to the challenge
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
@lucien-mathieu.bsky.social: "Part 2️⃣ - Analysis of the leaked car industry paper: carmakers’ demands would let EV sales stagnate for the rest of the decade❗
T&E analysed and leaked a paper by the European car industry lobby ACEA and found a Christmas list of loopholes (more than 10!)."
T&E analysed and leaked a paper by the European car industry lobby ACEA and found a Christmas list of loopholes (more than 10!)."
October 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
already 10+ years ago wade jacoby said that europe was a trade dependent status quo power in a world in which the status quo was disintegrating and trade was stagnating and this (car industry lobbying) is one big reason why the EU is not up to the challenge
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
h/t @palmapolyak.bsky.social
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Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card
October 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card