Rosie Collington
@rosiecollington.bsky.social
political economist | IPE post-doc @ CBS | PhD from UCL IIPP | co-author 'THE BIG CON' | views own etc etc | www.rosiecollington.work
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How the politics of investability determine climate financing
www.phenomenalworld.org
Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.
For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...
My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳
It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
www.tandfonline.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
My article in @ripejournal.bsky.social now has an issue number! 🥳
It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It shows how derisked decarbonization leads governments to build state capacity where transitions create bankable growth opportunities while leaving other crucial sectors (forestry, mining) behind
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The paper looks at decades of council expenditure data from London councils: how far as Big Con deepened our local authorities' dependencies on their services, and how much does it cost us all?
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The paper looks at decades of council expenditure data from London councils: how far as Big Con deepened our local authorities' dependencies on their services, and how much does it cost us all?
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This report is coming out very soon.
It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners.
It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by
@rosiecollington.bsky.social &
@mazzucatom.bsky.social.
It's a fantastic piece of work!
It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners.
It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by
@rosiecollington.bsky.social &
@mazzucatom.bsky.social.
It's a fantastic piece of work!
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This report is coming out very soon.
It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners.
It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by
@rosiecollington.bsky.social &
@mazzucatom.bsky.social.
It's a fantastic piece of work!
It was pursued and led by our CADA Network of scientists, tech workers and other STEM-related practitioners.
It was inspired by 'The Big Con' book by
@rosiecollington.bsky.social &
@mazzucatom.bsky.social.
It's a fantastic piece of work!
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Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - the videos and slides of the 25-27 sept 2025 Geneva conference are available here. Enjoy !
www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
@jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
@jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
- Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - UNIGE
www.unige.ch
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Economic Planning in the Anthropocene - the videos and slides of the 25-27 sept 2025 Geneva conference are available here. Enjoy !
www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
@jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
@jksteinberger.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social
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Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!
In a new piece for the JHI Forum on political economy, Lotte Liste critically situates Reinhart Koselleck's concept of the Sattelzeit with Adam Smith's philosophy of history. @lottelist.bsky.social
Economy and History in the Sattelzeit: On Adam Smith’s Alleged Sobriety
by Lotte List
This think piece is part of a JHI Blog forum: “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History.”
web.sas.upenn.edu
December 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Very happy to have contributed this little think piece for the wonderful JHI forum on political economy in intellectual history!
Reposted by Rosie Collington
If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
Latest issue | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
Finance and Society
www.cambridge.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
Reposted by Rosie Collington
I love to catch up with the avant garde of Tory opinion
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I love to catch up with the avant garde of Tory opinion
Reposted by Rosie Collington
Reposted by Rosie Collington
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved.
Don't look up!
Don't look up!
what on earth
(current banner on the US Treasury website)
(current banner on the US Treasury website)
November 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
what on earth
(current banner on the US Treasury website)
(current banner on the US Treasury website)
🤯 Between 2011-2016, Appalachia lost more than half of its coal mining jobs (32,000 out of 60,000) 🤯
@nicolasschmid.bsky.social & co link this to an increase in Republican vote share by ~4% in 2012 elections & the effect persisted into 2016 (& I guess beyond)
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
@nicolasschmid.bsky.social & co link this to an increase in Republican vote share by ~4% in 2012 elections & the effect persisted into 2016 (& I guess beyond)
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🤯 Between 2011-2016, Appalachia lost more than half of its coal mining jobs (32,000 out of 60,000) 🤯
@nicolasschmid.bsky.social & co link this to an increase in Republican vote share by ~4% in 2012 elections & the effect persisted into 2016 (& I guess beyond)
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
@nicolasschmid.bsky.social & co link this to an increase in Republican vote share by ~4% in 2012 elections & the effect persisted into 2016 (& I guess beyond)
doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Really excellent research from @tillhilmar.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social: How the far right exploits (real) inequality and economic anxiety to not only weaken climate policy but also legitimise a broader anti-immigration agenda
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Cassandra from the far right: how the German and Austrian populist radical right links climate skepticism with economic issues
This article asks how two populist radical right parties, the German AfD and the Austrian FPÖ, communicate about climate on Twitter/X. Analyzing a corpus of 6,254 tweets, it pays special attention ...
www.tandfonline.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Really excellent research from @tillhilmar.bsky.social in @environmentalpol.bsky.social: How the far right exploits (real) inequality and economic anxiety to not only weaken climate policy but also legitimise a broader anti-immigration agenda
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I cannot even begin to explain how hard the Instagram algorithm pushed this stuff throughout my pregnancy
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I cannot even begin to explain how hard the Instagram algorithm pushed this stuff throughout my pregnancy
At the moment I'm thinking a lot about my brilliant (& offline) colleague Oddný Helgadóttir's suggestion that our intellectual priors (read: rationalist assumptions about political behaviour) may not be very helpful for making sense of the world rn
you’ll never believe the newest meme pair for “Find someone who looks at you like…”
November 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
At the moment I'm thinking a lot about my brilliant (& offline) colleague Oddný Helgadóttir's suggestion that our intellectual priors (read: rationalist assumptions about political behaviour) may not be very helpful for making sense of the world rn
In Chile, fossil fuel & petrochemical firms are becoming the only private investors willing/able to shoulder risks of green hydrogen. Infrastructure buildout is effectively a new frontier in fossil capital hedging (as @jptilsted.bsky.social & Oliver predicted!)
energynews.biz/chile-scales...
energynews.biz/chile-scales...
Chile Scales Back Green Hydrogen Targets Amid Cooling Global Market - Energy News
Chile’s government has announced a recalibration of its green-hydrogen ambitions, signaling a shift in strategy as international demand softens. Speaking at
energynews.biz
November 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
In Chile, fossil fuel & petrochemical firms are becoming the only private investors willing/able to shoulder risks of green hydrogen. Infrastructure buildout is effectively a new frontier in fossil capital hedging (as @jptilsted.bsky.social & Oliver predicted!)
energynews.biz/chile-scales...
energynews.biz/chile-scales...
I sense that Copenhagen increasingly votes left not just bc of how awful private rental sector is but bc renters can see irl how good alternatives are & know what the centre is withholding from expansion (social housing & coops = big % of housing stock). a good case for small housing wins everywhere
November 19, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I sense that Copenhagen increasingly votes left not just bc of how awful private rental sector is but bc renters can see irl how good alternatives are & know what the centre is withholding from expansion (social housing & coops = big % of housing stock). a good case for small housing wins everywhere
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Martijn Konings, Fiscal Dominance? — Sidecar
Trump and the Federal Reserve.
newleftreview.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Writing this book has been a completely different ball game (🤱👶)
I no longer have entire days where I can dunk my head into the process. I'm writing in 3-5hr blocks, twice a week. Sometimes I feel like Im getting nowhere, but look! Slowly chipping away (now at 45k words) & enjoying the time so much
I no longer have entire days where I can dunk my head into the process. I'm writing in 3-5hr blocks, twice a week. Sometimes I feel like Im getting nowhere, but look! Slowly chipping away (now at 45k words) & enjoying the time so much
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Writing this book has been a completely different ball game (🤱👶)
I no longer have entire days where I can dunk my head into the process. I'm writing in 3-5hr blocks, twice a week. Sometimes I feel like Im getting nowhere, but look! Slowly chipping away (now at 45k words) & enjoying the time so much
I no longer have entire days where I can dunk my head into the process. I'm writing in 3-5hr blocks, twice a week. Sometimes I feel like Im getting nowhere, but look! Slowly chipping away (now at 45k words) & enjoying the time so much
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Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...
The Wartburg Syndrome
How the Old Continent Risks Becoming the New East Germany
geoeconomic.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Forget derisking. 2025 is about the the quiet MAGA-fication of the European mainstream, one green regulation rollback and green subsidy cut at a time. geoeconomic.substack.com/p/the-wartbu...
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Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Not everyone is unhappy about the Government's descent into anti-refugee politics
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Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
Extraction w/ Thea Riofrancos
Featuring Thea Riofrancos on Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. The green energy transition requires a vast array of inputs: copper, cobalt, rare earth elements, and the focus of this disc...
www.thedigradio.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Pleased to post this new Dig ep w/ my partner in all things @triofrancos.bsky.social on her beautiful book Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism. We go from Chile to Nevada, from dawn of colonialism to geoeconomic conflict between the US and China—and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/extr...
East Coast pals/colleagues - I'm heading your way!
Will be visiting Georgetown & World Bank Group Archives in Feb & March 🕵️♀️
Then heading to Providence & onto ISA in Ohio with tiny assistant baby R & husband in tow (shout out to Denmark's paternity leave system). Let me know if you'll be around 🙏
Will be visiting Georgetown & World Bank Group Archives in Feb & March 🕵️♀️
Then heading to Providence & onto ISA in Ohio with tiny assistant baby R & husband in tow (shout out to Denmark's paternity leave system). Let me know if you'll be around 🙏
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
East Coast pals/colleagues - I'm heading your way!
Will be visiting Georgetown & World Bank Group Archives in Feb & March 🕵️♀️
Then heading to Providence & onto ISA in Ohio with tiny assistant baby R & husband in tow (shout out to Denmark's paternity leave system). Let me know if you'll be around 🙏
Will be visiting Georgetown & World Bank Group Archives in Feb & March 🕵️♀️
Then heading to Providence & onto ISA in Ohio with tiny assistant baby R & husband in tow (shout out to Denmark's paternity leave system). Let me know if you'll be around 🙏
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I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I'm very happy that my dissertation about legal expertise in climate finance was accepted for defense, which will be on November 24th, 14:00 CET. For those interested in listening in online, there's more info here: ruc.dk/en/events/lu... :)
Reposted by Rosie Collington
For more on IRS: The agency is run by people who personally benefit from reversing IRS positions on tax enforcement, and have fired a huge chunk of its tax enforcement staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For more on IRS: The agency is run by people who personally benefit from reversing IRS positions on tax enforcement, and have fired a huge chunk of its tax enforcement staff. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Reposted by Rosie Collington
“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
November 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“It's a boon for shareholders. It's a boon for militarism. It's a clear negative for ecological & climate goals.” — @triofrancos.bsky.social
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
Listen back to the recording of our launch event via @macrodosepod.bsky.social!
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...