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Guillermo Alonso Simón

@galonsosimon.bsky.social

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PhD Candidate, @PAISWarwick | AFHEA, Advance HE | Comparative and European Political Economy | Fiscal Policy and Economic Governance in the EU

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Guillermo Alonso Simón @galonsosimon.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨Publication alert! 🚨

Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.

doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis

‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (...

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Unlearning Economics @unlearnecon.bsky.social · 15d

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! My actual book launch event - which is only 6 months late - is at LSE October 13th, you can sign up here:

www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-w...

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

Palantir has pulled out of involvement with the UK Digital ID card, according to an interview with their UK CEO on Times Radio. They’re concerned about the reputational damage of being involved with an unpopular Starmer policy.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Kiko Llaneras @kikollan.llaneras.es · 8d

¿Quién vota a Aliança Catalana y Vox? 🗳️

Dos fuerzas crecen muy por la derecha en CAT: suman casi 1 de cada 4 votos jóvenes. Uno catalanista, otro españolista.

Les une el rechazo a la inmigración.

¿Quién les apoya? Hilo con datos 👇

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Instituto Meridiano @institutomeridiano.org · 8d

🔆 CONSTRUIR EL FUTURO 🔆

LOS LÍMITES PLANETARIOS DEL LIBERALISMO
7 de noviembre, 17.00 h

Inauguramos la conferencia con una conversación entre @agarzon.substack.com y @xanlopez.xyz sobre los posibles escenarios futuros en un mundo en transición hacia un nuevo sistema de gobernanza y acumulación.

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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

Pauline Kohlhase speaking in a group setting

Audience member speaking at a panel session

participant speaking in group discussion

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Jan Fichtner @janfichtner.bsky.social · 17d

Kind of important finding.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 19d

Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 19d

That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency

by Will Beaman A common refrain keeps surfacing among prominent journalists- and commentators-in-digital-exile on BlueSky. Commenting on the emergence of yet another shadowy centrist think tank, Ne…

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Benjamin Wilson @wilbenjamin.bsky.social · 19d

That is all that endogenous money really is: the courage to issue it, met by a public capacity that has already rehearsed its legitimacy.

moneyontheleft.org/2025/09/18/t...

The Case for Fiscal Insurgency

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 21d

⏳Beyond thrilled to co-launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy next week — with this *incredible* lineup of female talent

🙌 @dustinvoss.bsky.social @mpifg.bsky.social

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 20d

🚨New First View Article🚨

"Susan Strange meets the everyday: The mundane sources of structural power" by Kasper Arabi is now available #OpenAccess!

Check it out here 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/JhgVo3k

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨

I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.

Time for a short thread! 🧵👇

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 27d

📖 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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Journal of Cultural Economy @jcultecon.bsky.social · Sep 7

Thread 🎯

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

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Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Inmigración y crimen: lo que dice la evidencia nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Inmigración y crimen: lo que dice la evidencia

Entre otros temas, este verano ha estado marcado por la agitación del fantasma de la inmigración por parte de los partidos de ultraderecha. Primero alentando los progromos en Torre Pacheco, después ve...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today in the casual media normalization of lawless personalist authoritarianism

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · Aug 31

President Trump has created an ad hoc, centralized approach to national security decisions that is a departure from previous U.S. administrations.

Trump Turns to Small Group of Advisers, Shrinks National Security Council

The NSC’s role in overseeing national security decisions has been curtailed

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here, @lewisgoodall.com really describes the essence of how Labour (like other social democrats in Europe) contributes to the normalization of the far right and to shaping public opinion against immigration. Because they have given up on challenging far-right narratives...

The News Agents @newsagents.bsky.social · Aug 29

"There have been no counter narratives from Labour. There have been no attempts to fact check some of this stuff."

Rylan's TV rant about migrant hotels was packed full of right-wing misinformation – and our government have done nothing to stop its spread

Rylan’s migrant rant: Why Labour’s failures led us here | The News Agents

TV host Rylan Clark is facing criticism for sharing misinformation about migrants, and echoing right-wing lies, on ITV’s This Morning. Does this prove how far this dangerous rhetoric has spread?

www.thenewsagents.co.uk

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · Aug 25

1/New in @financialtimes.com w/ @himself.bsky.social on the Brussels Defect. Europe's longstanding path to power -- market regulation -- now a source of vulnerabilities. Europe's national security and democracy are at risk. Defection might be the only escape.

www.ft.com/content/5820...

Europe urgently needs a remedy for the ‘Brussels defect’

The EU must stop thinking it can turn thorny political controversies into solvable technical issues

www.ft.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · Aug 22

Let's keep focused on the broader pattern here. I've outlined it in six bullet points below. Viewed all in one place, it's quite ominous:

newrepublic.com/article/1994...

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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · Aug 15

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load

📄 European Sociological Review
doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
@europeansocreview.bsky.social

What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

The political consequences of the mental load

Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

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El Orden Mundial @elordenmundial.bsky.social · Aug 13

🧑‍🚒Estas son las generaciones de incendios en España.

Los fuegos forestales siempre han existido, pero la intervención humana y el cambio climático están provocando que estos incendios se descontrolen. En España ya se han clasificado seis generaciones.

Una infografía de @alvaromerino.bsky.social