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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · 14d

Looking forward to joining this exciting workshop tomorrow!

Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 22d

"Economic Planning in the Anthropocene" 24-26 september,
UNIGE
Program : => shorturl.at/fuFbA
@dehes.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @louisoncf.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @rosiecollington.bsky.social @cornelban.bsky.social @edouardmorena.bsky.social

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Fred Heussner @fredheussner.bsky.social · Aug 31

Merz will den wirtschaftspolitischen #Epochenbruch. Das darf nicht unwidersprochen bleiben!

Damit der Widerspruch gehört wird, brauchen "Kritische Stimmen zu Wirtschaft und Krise" Reichweite.

go.bsky.app/EgVmLkA

Helft mit und verbreitet das Starter Pack.

Mit dabei sind... (🧵)

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taz @taz.de · Aug 28

Europa und die USA haben sich mit dem Klimakollaps abgefunden oder driften in Richtung fossilen Autoritarismus. Es ist Zeit, dass Klimabewegte und Linke eine gemeinsame Erzählung entwickeln, erzählt @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social im Dissens Podcast @lukasondreka.bsky.social

Ökologische Planung als kollektive Rückeroberung der Zukunft

Dissens ist ein Gesprächs-Podcast über Politik, Kapitalismus und Gesellschaft

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Aug 27

Interesting: @brusselermel.bsky.social calling for "a new era of green economic planning" @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/dda5... Important addition: let's make sure planning is democratic and relinquishes reliance on green growth. h/t @danielagabor.bsky.social

Bidenomics wasn’t ambitious enough

Rapid decarbonisation will require an overhaul of local energy authorities and better macroeconomic planning

www.ft.com

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Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) @divdececon.bsky.social · Aug 18

Our new Alternative Reading List is out!

Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.

Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!

d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1

It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Aug 19

A great selection of resources for decolonising the various dimensions of economics (theories, methods, pedagogy. etc) by @divdececon.bsky.social

Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) @divdececon.bsky.social · Aug 19

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics.
d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

The D-Econ Padlet

Welcome to the D-Econ padlet! This padlet is an effort to make resources related to decolonizing economics available to a wider audience. We have chosen to start with a few select themes, but…

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Aug 15

🥳🚨🤩 Job opportunity with me at Uni Lausanne working on the REAL project!

2 year Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use

Link here for details and application. Deadline 15 Sept!
tinyurl.com/33rfw3xz

Opportunités de carrière : Postdoctoral position in postgrowth climate mitigation modelling focused on food, biomass, land-use (22432)

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Aug 11

As if Big Oil was merely reacting to the green transition not actively preventing it. This is very bad news www.ft.com/content/8675...

Big Oil heeds call to ‘drill, baby, drill’ as green transition slows

Energy groups are refocusing on exploration in anticipation of the world remaining hooked on fossil fuels for decades

www.ft.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jun 24

No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Jun 13

We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries - Nature Communications

Using subnational Demographic and Health Survey data from 75 low and middle-income countries, the authors show that many households lack access to decent living standards as basic prerequisites for hu...

www.nature.com

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Jun 3

Morgen! Ich freue mich schon :-) #postwachstum #degrowth #planning

PluraleSiegen @pluralesiegen.bsky.social · Jun 2

Du wolltest schon immer mehr über Postwachstum wissen? Dann komm zum nächsten online Vortrag!

Wann? 04.06. I 10 Uhr
Wo? Online, uni-siegen.webex.com/meet/lange (keine Anmeldung nötig)
Für wen? Für alle Interessierten

Wir freuen uns auf Euch!

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Andrew Fanning @andrewlfanning.bsky.social · May 17

🧐 Are you wondering where to study and learn post-growth approaches in Europe?

🗺️ I'm glad to share the first version of an interactive map - currently with 110+ diverse initiatives spanning 26 countries - that aims to help with that!

🤗 Dive in here: ecolecon.eu/ecological-e...

🙏 Feedback welcome

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Sebastian Mang @sebmang.bsky.social · May 14

New article with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social

EU industrial policy aims for resilience, autonomy & sustainability — but internal contradictions make these goals structurally unrealisable

We outline a post-growth alternative: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Toward a post-growth industrial policy for Europe: navigating emerging tensions and long-term goals

Amid mounting geopolitical, socio-economic, and ecological crises, industrial policy has returned to the forefront of policy debates. However, the EU’s industrial policy framework – centerd on Sing...

www.tandfonline.com

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · May 26

Heute Start der Aktionswoche "Gemeinsam aus der Einsamkeit" in Deutschland. Neben der Rolle von Social Media vielleicht auch die des Kapitalismus diskutieren, wenn das Fehlen sozialer Verbundenheit und gesellschaftlichen Miteinanders beklagt wird?! www.bundestag.de/resource/blo...

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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · May 21

Check out the new, indispensable book on Decolonising Economics by @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, and @ingridhk.bsky.social

www.wiley.com/en-be/Decolo...

Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction

<p>Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.<br /><br />...

www.wiley.com

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Ulrich Brand @ulrichbrand.bsky.social · May 6

Morgen, 7. Mai, Ringvorlesung an der Uni Siegen: “Von Tech-Oligarchie bis antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik”.

10:00–11:15 Uhr – online via Webex.

ℹ️ www.wiwi.uni-siegen.de/wiwi/plurale...

Mit @ehofferberth.bsky.social, @lobbycontrol.bsky.social, @dezernatzukunft.bsky.social, @social.verdi.de...

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Mar 5

For guidance doi.org/10.1016/S254... by Jefim Vogel @jasonhickel.bsky.social + doi.org/10.1016/S254... by Giorgos Kallis @jasonhickel.bsky.social Dan O'Neill, @proftimjackson.bsky.social Peter Victor @kateraworth.bsky.social @julietschor.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social @dianaurge.bsky.social

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ehofferberth.bsky.social @ehofferberth.bsky.social · Mar 5

In the German debate over special funding for defence and infrastructure, can we please make sure these are in line with fair shares in resource use, emission targets etc.

www.ft.com/content/1996...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz plans ‘double bazooka’ for defence and infrastructure

Economists’ proposal for up to €800bn of funding under review as part of coalition talks

www.ft.com

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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · Feb 25

Statement from the Lausanne Universities Collective for Academic Freedom, Solidarity and Democracy (CLADS) on the danger facing US research and researchers. What Trump is doing looks like a coup d'état and endangers democracy.
clads.ch/en/us-resear...

US research in danger: solidarity with our colleagues

The Swiss and international scientific community is observing with consternation and horror the unprecedented and systematic attacks on research in the United States by the new Trump administration. In recent weeks, tens of thousands of scientists have been fired, essential funding brutally cut, and whole swathes of research brought to a standstill by the new regime, which seeks to inflict as much suffering as possible, by accompanying this destruction with vindictive rhetoric and deliberate cruelty. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which funds biomedical research, abruptly suspended the payment of grants, leaving many colleagues without pay and leading to the dismissal of over 1,000 employees. The National Science Foundation (NSF), for its part, has seen its budgets slashed by over 60%, and vital scientific projects from the study of ecosystems to the prevention of pandemics are now threatened or suspended altogether. Major demographic, epidemiological and climate change databases, used by thousands of researchers for their scientific work, have been taken offline and are now inaccessible.

In Switzerland, although these unprecedented events may seem remote, they should not be perceived as an abstract threat. The current global climate bears witness to an upsurge in similar attacks, fuelled by misinformation and a growing desire for political control over scientific production. In the face of this, silence or indifference are tantamount to condoning a worrisome drift towards widespread authoritarian obscurantism.

The Collective for Academic Freedom, Democracy and Solidarity (CLADS) expresses its full and unconditional solidarity with all researchers in the United States affected by this campaign of scientific annihilation and mass layoffs. CLADS fully associates itself with Stand Up for Science Day, organized on March 7 in the United States and around the world to defend academic freedom, and calls for a broad mobilization in support of our American colleagues and free research. We call on all Swiss academic and scientific institutions, as well as our European and international colleagues, to take a clear stand against this unprecedented offensive. It is imperative that our voices, united and firm, recall that without academic freedom, there can be no democracy.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · Feb 23

Learn from Germany.

When the left panders to anti-migrant sentiment, like the BSW, it just strengthens the far right.

When the left fights solid, populist, grassroots campaigns, like Die Linke, it wins.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Feb 23

Once upon a time, the social democrats were the workers’ party in Germany.

In the election today the extreme right AfD gained 3x more support from workers than the SPD.

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · Feb 23

In Germany, a far right party has the best result since WWII.

75% of AfD voters say they are very worried that prices are rising so much that they can’t pay their bills.

Inflation once more fueled the extreme right.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · Feb 23

The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · Feb 23

Voilà:

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · Feb 21

How popular are post-growth and post-capitalist ideas? Here is a list of studies, surveys and polls with some striking results. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/how-popula...

Some recent data

jasonhickel.substack.com

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