Thomas Paster
@thomas77.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University
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Thomas Paster
@thomas77.bsky.social
· Apr 23
Why do some unions support the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, while others oppose it? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate this question in a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy.
doi.org/10.1177/0143...
doi.org/10.1177/0143...
I discussed the crisis of the Austrian Chambers of Business on Austrian Public Radio. If you are interested, you can listen to the program for 30 days here. Broadcast time: 17.11., 1 PM.
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
Kammerflimmern bei der WKO vom 17.11.
"Frischer Wind für verstaubte Wirtschaftskammer" - titelte die Tageszeitung "Der Standard" zum Amtsantritt von Harald Mahrer als Wirtschaftskammerpräsident im Mai 2018. Dem "Mann mit dem modernen Imag...
oe1.orf.at
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I discussed the crisis of the Austrian Chambers of Business on Austrian Public Radio. If you are interested, you can listen to the program for 30 days here. Broadcast time: 17.11., 1 PM.
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
oe1.orf.at/player/20251...
Am Montag 17.11. bin ich in der Ö1-Sendung "Punkt Eins" zu Gast. Wir werden über die Krise der Wirtschaftskammer in Österreich diskutieren. Ihr könnt auch in die Sendung anrufen und mir live Fragen stellen. Wenn es Euch interessiert, schaltet Euch ein!
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Wirtschaftskammerflimmern | MO | 17 11 2025 | 13:00
WKO nach Mahrer: Personalrochade oder Neuaufstellung? Gast: Thomas Paster, Associate Professor, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University. Moderation: Xaver Forthuber. Anrufe ...
oe1.orf.at
November 14, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Am Montag 17.11. bin ich in der Ö1-Sendung "Punkt Eins" zu Gast. Wir werden über die Krise der Wirtschaftskammer in Österreich diskutieren. Ihr könnt auch in die Sendung anrufen und mir live Fragen stellen. Wenn es Euch interessiert, schaltet Euch ein!
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences
Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!
Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd
#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
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In der aktuellen Ausgabe des @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social haben Uwe Schimank und ich einen kleinen Essay zum Zusammenhang von Arbeitslogik und den Bildern "guter" Politik in verschiedenen Klassen veröffentlicht:
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wie-...
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wie-...
Wie Arbeitserfahrungen Vorstellungen »guten« politischen Entscheidens prägen – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Nils C. Kumkar und Uwe Schimank. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In der aktuellen Ausgabe des @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social haben Uwe Schimank und ich einen kleinen Essay zum Zusammenhang von Arbeitslogik und den Bildern "guter" Politik in verschiedenen Klassen veröffentlicht:
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wie-...
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wie-...
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Looking for a post-doc opportunity? Consider applying for this years's Kohli Fellowship and work at the vibrant WZB in Berlin - Deadline November 16:
October 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Looking for a post-doc opportunity? Consider applying for this years's Kohli Fellowship and work at the vibrant WZB in Berlin - Deadline November 16:
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Important Mark Lilla review essay on John Ganz & Laura K. Fields books, Sam T. Francis, James Burnham, the Claremont Institute, Michael Anton, and secessionism/longing for civil war.
“The MAGA right is fed not by conservative ideas but by chthonic forces in human nature that at different points in history gather like a hurricane and can level any decent political order.” —Mark Lilla
Storm Warnings | Mark Lilla
The MAGA movement is not fed by conservative ideas but by a nihilistic, apocalyptic determination to stage a counterrevolution against the Sixties, against liberalism, against even democracy itself.
buff.ly
October 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Important Mark Lilla review essay on John Ganz & Laura K. Fields books, Sam T. Francis, James Burnham, the Claremont Institute, Michael Anton, and secessionism/longing for civil war.
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🎓 Western University is hiring a Dancap Chair in Corporate Governance at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, shared between the DAN Department and Faculty of Law.
🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada
Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor...
#SASE #AcademicJobs
🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada
Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor...
#SASE #AcademicJobs
Career Opportunity: Dancap Private Equity Chair in Corporate Governance, Western University | SASE Opportunities for Members
Western University invites applications for the DANCAP Chair in Corporate Governance, a full-time endowed position jointly held between the DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies and…
sase.org
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎓 Western University is hiring a Dancap Chair in Corporate Governance at the rank of Professor or Associate Professor, shared between the DAN Department and Faculty of Law.
🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada
Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor...
#SASE #AcademicJobs
🗓 Review begins September 15, 2025 | 📍 Ontario, Canada
Learn more: sase.org/career-oppor...
#SASE #AcademicJobs
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We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History!
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University
Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!
www.ru.nl
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History!
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call!
www.ru.nl/en/working-a...
What do we know about corporate ownership? This study finds that the real owners of MNC shares can be identified in only 5.8 % of all cases. Over 80 % of the top ten shareholders of 500 large MNCs are institutional investors.
journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...
journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...
What we don't know about corporate ownership. A study of ownership chains in 500 multinationals
| Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft
journals.akwien.at
August 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
What do we know about corporate ownership? This study finds that the real owners of MNC shares can be identified in only 5.8 % of all cases. Over 80 % of the top ten shareholders of 500 large MNCs are institutional investors.
journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...
journals.akwien.at/index.php/wu...
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Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered https://on.ft.com/44ZCSrS | opinion
Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered
While not without costs, such a move solves some deep economic problems
on.ft.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Why restrictions on capital flows should be considered https://on.ft.com/44ZCSrS | opinion
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Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union:
SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers
www.ft.com/content/052e...
SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers
www.ft.com/content/052e...
EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract
Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union:
SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers
www.ft.com/content/052e...
SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers
www.ft.com/content/052e...
The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) aims to get EU citizens to invest more of their savings on capital markets, a goal to be achieved in part by further privatizing pensions. Daniela Gabor in the FT on why the SIU is based on false assumptions:
www.ft.com/content/052e...
www.ft.com/content/052e...
EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract
Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’
www.ft.com
July 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The EU’s Savings and Investments Union (SIU) aims to get EU citizens to invest more of their savings on capital markets, a goal to be achieved in part by further privatizing pensions. Daniela Gabor in the FT on why the SIU is based on false assumptions:
www.ft.com/content/052e...
www.ft.com/content/052e...
This interesting portrait of Karin Kneissl, the former Austrian FM, shows how an ambitious career diplomat turned into a far-right outcast
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia
The long read: Karin Kneissl made headlines around the world when she invited the Russian president to her wedding in 2018. Five years later, she moved to St Petersburg. The scandal revealed a dark tr...
www.theguardian.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This interesting portrait of Karin Kneissl, the former Austrian FM, shows how an ambitious career diplomat turned into a far-right outcast
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Chairing conference panels has its pitfalls. The Economist proposes three rules:
www.economist.com/business/202...
www.economist.com/business/202...
The three rules of conference panels
One unfiltered moderator, three panellists and a universal experience
www.economist.com
June 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Chairing conference panels has its pitfalls. The Economist proposes three rules:
www.economist.com/business/202...
www.economist.com/business/202...
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Wirklich wichtig, dass in der Entwicklung rechter Parteien einer der frühesten Formen des neuen Typs gewürdigt wird, Mogens Glistrups Fortschrittspartei in Dänemark, in der Kritik am Steuerstaat und die Ablehnung von Arbeitsmigration amalgamierte.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...
Kulturkampf, Kanon, Karikaturenstreit – MERKUR
Ein Essay von David Kuchenbuch. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de
April 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Wirklich wichtig, dass in der Entwicklung rechter Parteien einer der frühesten Formen des neuen Typs gewürdigt wird, Mogens Glistrups Fortschrittspartei in Dänemark, in der Kritik am Steuerstaat und die Ablehnung von Arbeitsmigration amalgamierte.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/kult...
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Der EuGH hat soeben Maltas Goldene Pässe für rechtswidrig erklärt. In seiner EU-Kolumne hatte Martin Höpner (in Übereinstimmung mit vielen Juristen) mit einem anderen Urteil gerechnet. Hier - jetzt frei lesbar - die Kolumne und seine Argumente: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/euro...
Europa-Kolumne – MERKUR
Ein Essay von Martin Höpner. Jetzt lesen in der Kulturzeitschrift MERKUR — Gegründet 1947 als Deutsche Zeitschrift für europäisches Denken.
www.merkur-zeitschrift.de
April 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Der EuGH hat soeben Maltas Goldene Pässe für rechtswidrig erklärt. In seiner EU-Kolumne hatte Martin Höpner (in Übereinstimmung mit vielen Juristen) mit einem anderen Urteil gerechnet. Hier - jetzt frei lesbar - die Kolumne und seine Argumente: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/euro...
Martin Wolf in the FT on the fiscal and distributive effects of Trump's tariffs and of the OBBBA. Their combined net effect on the income distribution is regressive. The rich benefit most from the tax cuts, while the tariffs will affect the poor more:
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
For whom does Trump govern?
The Big Beautiful Bill Act is a classic example of pluto-populism
www.ft.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Martin Wolf in the FT on the fiscal and distributive effects of Trump's tariffs and of the OBBBA. Their combined net effect on the income distribution is regressive. The rich benefit most from the tax cuts, while the tariffs will affect the poor more:
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
www.ft.com/content/31f4...
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As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
Harvard’s Battle Is Familiar to a University the Right Forced into Exile
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
As we said in 2017: if academic freedom is under attack in Hungary and we don’t fight back, it will be under attack sooner than later in other countries, too. #CEU #Harvard
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/u...
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How Europe’s left got radical on immigration - in dramatically different ways. Denmark and Spain - let’s take a look👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...
How Denmark's left (not the far right) got tough on immigration - BBC News
Denmark has come under international attention for its tough approach. And its Social Democrat prime minister is leading the charge
www.bbc.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
How Europe’s left got radical on immigration - in dramatically different ways. Denmark and Spain - let’s take a look👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bauernsuizide: Die Suizidrate unter Männern in der Landwirtschaft ist um 48 % höher als im Durchschnitt aller Männer. Diese Sendung beleuchtet mögliche Ursachen: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
Ausweglosigkeit am Bauernhof | MO | 26 05 2025 | 18:25
Wenn Arbeitsdruck und Zukunftssorgen Landwirte in den Suizid treiben
oe1.orf.at
May 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Bauernsuizide: Die Suizidrate unter Männern in der Landwirtschaft ist um 48 % höher als im Durchschnitt aller Männer. Diese Sendung beleuchtet mögliche Ursachen: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...
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Viel ist von Trumps „Mar-a-Lago” die Rede. Oft fehlt der Hinweis, dass dieses hübsch-hässliche Anwesen einst vom Wiener Architekten Josef Urban (1872-1933) ausgestattet wurde. In Österreich war er davor ein Mitbegründer der progressiven Künstlervereinigung Hagenbund.
May 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Viel ist von Trumps „Mar-a-Lago” die Rede. Oft fehlt der Hinweis, dass dieses hübsch-hässliche Anwesen einst vom Wiener Architekten Josef Urban (1872-1933) ausgestattet wurde. In Österreich war er davor ein Mitbegründer der progressiven Künstlervereinigung Hagenbund.