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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?

The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?

Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Frederik Appel Olsen @frederikappelolsen.bsky.social · 8d

I really feel this. The whole point of reading a book - or an op-ed, or a SoMe post, etc. - is that I know that there is *someone*, another human, who wants to say something to me.

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Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno @vchengm.bsky.social · 13d

Are you a woman who has recently started a TT position in politics or a politics related field? Then @katharinalawall.bsky.social and me would like to warmly invite you to join a new network for early career women: WIPS: Women in Political Science.

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Milan Thies @milanthies.bsky.social · 14d

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social

1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training

2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations for this fantastic publication Milan 🎉

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28d

📖 New Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Why AI Won’t Save Your Writing

The Brown University political economist talks irritation, PowerPoint & why the page is still the only place where real thinking happens.

Read → catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/etched-in-...

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Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Anna Wilson @awilson1.bsky.social · Sep 2

🚨New article alert in @jvetjournal.bsky.social 🚨 Together with Scherwin Bajka
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system

Political economy scholars have long studied the (pre-)conditions conducive to the collective provision of private goods, such as in-firm training. Previous research has established the importance ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jul 24

Humanity in the midst of inhumanity. We are letting history repeats itself

Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · Jul 24

Primo Levi

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Isabel M. Perera @isabelmperera.bsky.social · Jul 2

The @ces-europe.bsky.social Political Economy and Welfare Network was thrilled to inaugurate its Early Career Workshop at our meeting last week 🎉🙌

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · Jun 30

Yeah let's burn the planet with ChatGPT and cool ourselves with smart bottles cause you won't need to breathe in their fucking tech future

Sky News @news.sky.com · Jun 30

Jackets laced with water pipes and smart bottles - the tech solutions to the heatwave

Heatwaves and hot days may often be described as "good weather", but heat can have a dangerous effect on the human body.

news.sky.com

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 25

We've written a blog post about our recently published article on transnational growth regimes - check it out here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de.... @ecpr.bsky.social @ideasoneurope.bsky.social

Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes by Cecilia Ivardi and Linda Wanklin

European Consortium for Political Research

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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · Jun 12

Today is the second anniversary of Silvio Berlusconi's death & right-wing media in Italy are singing his praises & holding out about how he'd magically resolve all the world's problems if he were still alive & in power.
Time to remind everyone of the murky & violent background of his rise to power.

Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · Jan 18

18 January 1994, Democrazia Cristiana, the governing party in Italy for 50 years, is dissolved, Berlusconi founds his party Forza Italia & 'ndrangheta murders two Carabinieri on the A3 motorway, near Scilla in Calabria. Here we look at how these 3 events may be closely linked [Thread] >> 1

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 12

They will flood the zone, they will spin things, they will spoil evidence, everything to minimize opponents and obfuscate the public. I came of age during the peak of Berlusconi - been there, done that. This is just an enhanced, more 1930s nostalgia version of all of that.

Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Jun 12

Every day the US political news gets darker. Do not normalize it though. That’s what the MAGA and its international equivalents want, but a fascist is a fascist is a fascist.

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

👉 We call on scholars of political economy and growth to pay greater attention to the cross-border dynamics of skill formation in promoting growth.

Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

These efforts are driven by a “dominant growth coalition” of state actors and employers with a shared interest in sustaining the competitiveness of the economy.

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Using Germany as a case, we demonstrate how national skill formation systems adapt by:
1️⃣ Exporting vocational education and training (VET) abroad
2️⃣ Managing labor migration strategically

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Skill needs are increasingly shaped by international pressures.
🔹 Companies need a skilled workforce in the abroad locations where production increasingly takes place
🔹 At home, countries face skill shortages and try and attract the workers that they need from abroad

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our key argument: Skill formation is no longer a purely national endeavor but is increasingly transnational.

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Cecilia IG @ceciliaivardi.bsky.social · Jun 5

Our article “Growing through skills: The integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes” with Linda Wanklin has been published in Socio-Economic Review! 🎉

📄 Read the full article here:
academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

Growing through skills: the integration of transnational dimensions into growth regimes

Abstract. This article proposes a new conceptualisation of skill formation within growth regimes that integrates a transnational dimension. Drawing on insi

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Andrew Elrod @andrewelrod.bsky.social · May 29

This great piece from Benjamin Braun and Cedric Durand, on the factions competing over the White House through the mess of US decline, has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand

Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · May 28

It so happens that Italians *can* send a signal against the plight of minorities (at this round, immigrants and vulnerable workers) at a referendum in just about a week.

The president of the Senate says people should stay home. Trade unions say go. You choose.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · May 27

“Reuters examined the data from the Gaza Health Ministry to look more closely at those who have died.

It found that more than one-fifth of those killed in the territory were children under the age of 12. More than 1,200 families were completely wiped out”

The lives lost in Gaza: A closer look at those killed in the conflict so far

The death toll from the war already dwarfs the numbers killed in previous bouts of fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza over many decades.

www.reuters.com

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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · May 20

it seriously is an AI/tech-brain thing to think of reading as a sort of decontextualized, totally purposeless activity that can be abstracted from the audience (even abstracted from the author) to the point that the text can be repeatably summarized with no intention or purpose associated with it

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · May 14

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right.

It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · May 10

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

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