Pavlos Roufos
@proufos.bsky.social
Dr.rer.pol | Political Economy | Ordo-Neoliberalism | Central Banks | Constitutional Law | European Integration | Author of: “A Happy Future is a Thing of the Past” https://t.co/b2V9WrgpFT | Berlin.
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Pavlos Roufos
@proufos.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Just published. You can find it here: pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/a-weimar-m...
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“The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.” -
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
Global Boiling | The Polycrisis
Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse
phenomenalworld.org
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 PM
“The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now.” -
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
@katemac.bsky.social & I:
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
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#OtD 25 Nov 1941 three Schlurfs were arrested by Gestapo in Austria for destroying a Hitler Youth noticeboard. Schlurfs were working-class youth who rejected Nazism, militarism and the work ethic, and listened to jazz music. More on WWII anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
#OtD 25 Nov 1941 three Schlurfs were arrested by Gestapo in Austria for destroying a Hitler Youth noticeboard. Schlurfs were working-class youth who rejected Nazism, militarism and the work ethic, and listened to jazz music. More on WWII anti-Nazi youth: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/72-e...
What a remarkable idiot.
Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro placed in preventive detention following an astonishing escape attempt
Brazil's ex-president Bolsonaro placed in preventive detention following an astonishing escape attempt
Under house arrest as he pursues his final appeals against a conviction for attempting a coup, the far-right former president tried to burn through his electronic ankle monitor. He has since been placed in isolation.
www.lemonde.fr
November 23, 2025 at 1:34 PM
What a remarkable idiot.
Quite surprisingly, I cannot find a pdf of the following online:
"Central Bank Independence and Accountability: A Literature Review" (Bandura et al, 2006).
Any kind soul that can help out?
Thanks 🙏
"Central Bank Independence and Accountability: A Literature Review" (Bandura et al, 2006).
Any kind soul that can help out?
Thanks 🙏
November 23, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Quite surprisingly, I cannot find a pdf of the following online:
"Central Bank Independence and Accountability: A Literature Review" (Bandura et al, 2006).
Any kind soul that can help out?
Thanks 🙏
"Central Bank Independence and Accountability: A Literature Review" (Bandura et al, 2006).
Any kind soul that can help out?
Thanks 🙏
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AfD is out there cooking up new kinds of racism like they're working on the cure for cancer.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
AfD is out there cooking up new kinds of racism like they're working on the cure for cancer.
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I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.
You can read it here:
You can read it here:
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I got to write about our global waste problem for @lrb.co.uk, in dialogue with 3 really good books, by @alexclapp.bsky.social, Oliver Franklin-Wallis and John Scanlan.
You can read it here:
You can read it here:
Reposting this, day that it is. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/the-1973-u...
The 1973 uprising against the Greek dictatorship
November 14th and 15th, 1973.
pavlosroufos.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Reposting this, day that it is. pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/the-1973-u...
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Reading on Robert Michels’ critique of popular democracy and its roots in French syndicalism. Quite a fascinating yet alarming world with socialists supporting Mussolini, anarchists championing Malthusianism, and trade-unionists calling for eugenics to enhance the class warfare potential of workers.
November 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Reading on Robert Michels’ critique of popular democracy and its roots in French syndicalism. Quite a fascinating yet alarming world with socialists supporting Mussolini, anarchists championing Malthusianism, and trade-unionists calling for eugenics to enhance the class warfare potential of workers.
A wonderful presentation of her brilliant new book "The New Fascist Body" by Dagmar Herzog last night in Berlin.
November 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A wonderful presentation of her brilliant new book "The New Fascist Body" by Dagmar Herzog last night in Berlin.
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🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
Wadham College invites applications for a fixed-term Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History, named the David Richards Fellowship, September 2026 – August 2029.
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨We’re hiring a Junior Research Fellow in Economic History (Sept 2026–Aug 2029) at Wadham College, University of Oxford. It’s a genuinely supportive place to work. Happy to answer any questions. Spread the word!
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
www.wadham.ox.ac.uk/about/the-da...
My paper on ordoliberal influence on early EU integration has just been published by @conteurohistory.bsky.social. A ton of gratitude to @manumourlon.bsky.social for organising the @eui-eu.bsky.social conference where this was first presented and for his help since www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 12, 2025 at 7:31 AM
My paper on ordoliberal influence on early EU integration has just been published by @conteurohistory.bsky.social. A ton of gratitude to @manumourlon.bsky.social for organising the @eui-eu.bsky.social conference where this was first presented and for his help since www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Damn, I remember the good old days when they were “enthusiastic” about abandoning a system based on profit maximization and their eagerness to give up their short-term goal of excessive wealth built on the back of workers and an arrogant disregard for the environment. What happened?
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Damn, I remember the good old days when they were “enthusiastic” about abandoning a system based on profit maximization and their eagerness to give up their short-term goal of excessive wealth built on the back of workers and an arrogant disregard for the environment. What happened?
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Cette séquence est folle ! 🤦🏾♂️
En plus de défendre son programme, Manuel Bompard doit faire du fact-checking ce midi, car cette journaliste est soit incompétente, soit malhonnête à propos de Mamdani !
RIP le journalisme !
En plus de défendre son programme, Manuel Bompard doit faire du fact-checking ce midi, car cette journaliste est soit incompétente, soit malhonnête à propos de Mamdani !
RIP le journalisme !
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Cette séquence est folle ! 🤦🏾♂️
En plus de défendre son programme, Manuel Bompard doit faire du fact-checking ce midi, car cette journaliste est soit incompétente, soit malhonnête à propos de Mamdani !
RIP le journalisme !
En plus de défendre son programme, Manuel Bompard doit faire du fact-checking ce midi, car cette journaliste est soit incompétente, soit malhonnête à propos de Mamdani !
RIP le journalisme !
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“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we ran deficit-neutral budgets.”
NEW: @kmac and @70sBachchan on financing constraints, the European fiscal rules debate, and more.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/carbon-budget-versus-fiscal-budget/
NEW: @kmac and @70sBachchan on financing constraints, the European fiscal rules debate, and more.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/carbon-budget-versus-fiscal-budget/
Carbon Budget vs Fiscal Budget | The Polycrisis
The world’s third biggest economy can’t let itself invest...
www.phenomenalworld.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:47 AM
“Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we ran deficit-neutral budgets.”
NEW: @kmac and @70sBachchan on financing constraints, the European fiscal rules debate, and more.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/carbon-budget-versus-fiscal-budget/
NEW: @kmac and @70sBachchan on financing constraints, the European fiscal rules debate, and more.
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/carbon-budget-versus-fiscal-budget/
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Everyone talks about the Religious Right + white supremacy when it comes to fascism - but what about the billionaire-funded libertarian right quietly reshaping politics?
That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social !
📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...
That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social !
📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...
August 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Everyone talks about the Religious Right + white supremacy when it comes to fascism - but what about the billionaire-funded libertarian right quietly reshaping politics?
That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social !
📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...
That’s the focus of our new f&l blog entry by @nancymaclean.bsky.social !
📖here: www.karlpolanyisociety.com/2025/08/21/f...
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The truth is not "more nuanced," the truth is that none of these people are narco terrorists.
GÜIRIA, Venezuela (AP) — One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet. And a fourth was a down-on-his-luck bus driver.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump has accused boat crews of being narco-terrorists. The truth, AP found, is more nuanced
One was a fisherman struggling to eke out a living on $100 a month. Another was a career criminal. A third was a former military cadet.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The truth is not "more nuanced," the truth is that none of these people are narco terrorists.
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“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...
The Paradox of Political Thrift
By Will BeamanDemocratic endorsement politics around Zohran Mamdani continue to bend in ways that feel at once familiar and strange. A spokesman for House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries brushed off Senato…
moneyontheleft.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:50 PM
“Public investment, viewed as deficit spending from the standpoint of the cautious investor, was in fact surplus creation for the public as a whole.
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...
From the macro perspective, savings were not depleted but provisioned by spending.”
@greenbackbetter.bsky.social
moneyontheleft.org/2025/10/13/t...
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NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I continue my deep dive into the intellectual origins of my "conventional wisdom processor". Here I examine the role of economists at Google, Amazon, Uber etc. in propagating an entirely different notion of markets.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
What Connects Conventional Wisdom Processors, AI and The Second Trump Administration’s Constitutional Crisis? Part Two
This is Part Two of a three part series. Find Part one here.
Subscribe Today!
One of the most important microeconomics textbook writers ever is a man named Hal Varian. Generations o...
www.crisesnotes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
NEW @crisesnotes.bsky.social: I continue my deep dive into the intellectual origins of my "conventional wisdom processor". Here I examine the role of economists at Google, Amazon, Uber etc. in propagating an entirely different notion of markets.
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
www.crisesnotes.com/what-connect...
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PORTUGAL: Largest union calls general strike over labour reforms thesun.my/news/world-n...
Portugal's largest union calls general strike over labour reforms
Portugal's CGTP union announces December 11 general strike against government labour reforms, including easier dismissals and reduced bereavement leave.
thesun.my
November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
PORTUGAL: Largest union calls general strike over labour reforms thesun.my/news/world-n...
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"Being surrounded by sychophants 24/7” is actually not a bad summary of the experience of talking to LLMs, and the results seem similar.
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Being surrounded by sychophants 24/7” is actually not a bad summary of the experience of talking to LLMs, and the results seem similar.
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In the aftermath of the 1970 Kent State shooting, "his conservative family and neighbors pressured him to say nothing critical about the guardsmen who had shot him and 12 others."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
John Cleary, Wounded in Kent State Shooting, Dies at 74
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In the aftermath of the 1970 Kent State shooting, "his conservative family and neighbors pressured him to say nothing critical about the guardsmen who had shot him and 12 others."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...
Always love to teach the Weimar Republic 😊
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Always love to teach the Weimar Republic 😊
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This bizarre 'nostalgia' towards things that never existed by petty tyrants and fascists was already there before AI came and gave expression to their picture-thinking. Here is Paolo Virno from 2002:
September 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This bizarre 'nostalgia' towards things that never existed by petty tyrants and fascists was already there before AI came and gave expression to their picture-thinking. Here is Paolo Virno from 2002:
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‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun · American Berserk: Serial Killers in Seattle
For a period beginning in the 1960s and ending around the turn of this century, the preferred form of the homicidally...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
‘An executive decided the extra liability for running the Idaho plant filterless would be worth it: “200 children” at “$5 to 10,000 [per] kid” was a small price compared to the money to be made from uninterrupted smelting.’
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Lasdun on pollution and murder.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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✊ From the late 19th century, socialist movements adopted the raised fist as a symbol of unity and strength.
One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.
One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.
November 7, 2025 at 11:47 AM
✊ From the late 19th century, socialist movements adopted the raised fist as a symbol of unity and strength.
One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.
One of the first depictions was by Hungarian artist Mihály Biró in 1912. His image of a fist emerging from factories toward parliament in Budapest visualised the power of collective action.