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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 13d

Now open access on @tandfresearch.bsky.social!

Ní Chasaide, N., & Ó Riain, S. (2025). Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation. Review of International Political Economy
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Tax games: the case of Ireland in the global dynamics of corporate taxation

This article proposes a new analytical framework of ‘tax games’ providing fresh insights into the dynamics of global corporate taxation. Tax games are defined as institutionalised configurations of...

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Aug 22

Tesla has a clean energy arm and applied in July for a licence to supply power to British homes.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Block Elon Musk’s bid to supply UK home energy, Ed Davey urges

Exclusive: Lib Dem leader says giving Tesla a foothold in Britain’s energy market could be national security risk

www.theguardian.com

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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · Aug 22

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...

The UK’s year of climate U-turns exposes a deeper failure

Breaking free of the dangerous pretence that current efforts suffice demands a fundamental rethink of the UK’s climate policy consensus.

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Aug 12

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments. Placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence. David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

David Lammy faces possible legal action over Foreign Office secondments

Campaigners say placing staff from Shell and BAE Systems in ministries creates potential for improper influence

www.theguardian.com

hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Aug 11

British state, stripped of resources by 14 years of reckless rightwing government [is] contorting itself to maintain relations with ever more extreme regimes abroad... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4).
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...

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M. Kerem Coban @mkeremcoban.bsky.social · Aug 6

♨️Hot off the press

The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online

Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Aug 6

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream.

Macquarie controlled company loses 91m litres of water per day to leaks.

No new reservoirs built since 1989.

Dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers.

Customer bills up 47% this year.

End fleecing. Nationalise water.

Southern Water applies for permission to draw water from rare chalk stream

Environment secretary urged to stop drought order that could damage the ecology of River Test in Hampshire

www.theguardian.com

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter

Letter: The government is wrong on the cost of bringing water back into public ownership, write Prof Becky Malby, Dr Kate Bayliss, Prof Frances Cleaver and Prof Ewan McGaughey

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · Jul 21

Interesting handbook on Degrowth here. Open access www.taylorfrancis.com/reader/downl...

e-Reader | Taylor & Francis Group eBooks, Reference Works and Collections

www.taylorfrancis.com

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Anissa Bougrea @anissabougrea.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨New article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization"
We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇
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Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization - Anissa Bougrea, Mattias Vermeiren, 2025

This article offers the first comprehensive account of the challenges Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) face in implementing the Wall Street Consensus, a fi...

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Philipp Köncke @philippkoencke.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025)

How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?

We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
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@sfb294.bsky.social

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · Jul 27

Are you ready to hand more than £1,000bn to England's privatised water companies by 2050?

Shareholders don't invest. Money will be extracted from customers, shareholders will own the resulting assets and income streams and collect dividends.

Public ownership is the only sane way.

Public ownership is the only way to save the water industry

Public ownership is the only viable alternative but is opposed by the government

leftfootforward.org

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Jul 26

📢New book on the block📢 curious and looking forward to checking this out. www.routledge.com/Realizing-an...

Realizing an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability: The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics

Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability – both as a concept and as a poli...

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Jul 25

Zack Polanski ‘open to’ working with new Corbyn party

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Zack Polanski ‘open to’ working with new Corbyn and Sultana party

Green leadership candidate says any decision on alliance would be one for party members

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Johannes Petry @johannespetry.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are very happy to announce the publication of our edited volume ‘State, Capitalism & Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft’ (/w Andreas Nölke) with @brisunipress.bsky.social! 🥳

Check out the book here:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/b...

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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm very happy to be joining the editorial board of Competition & Change, a journal which has become home to some of the best and most stimulating interdisciplinary research in political economy and socioeconomics. Give us a follow and stay tuned for updates!

compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jun 19

Look who's here, and doing very well 👇

compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Jun 19

Forget about the improved impact factor: The best news for @compchange.bsky.social is that @aritassinari.bsky.social has joined as associate editor!

Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · Jun 19

I'm very happy to be joining the editorial board of Competition & Change, a journal which has become home to some of the best and most stimulating interdisciplinary research in political economy and socioeconomics. Give us a follow and stay tuned for updates!

compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Jun 19

🚨@compchange.bsky.social is now on Bsky!🚨If you’re not following it yet, now’s the time — stay connected for updates on cutting-edge research and calls for papers

@benbraun.bsky.social @aritassinari.bsky.social @johannespetry.bsky.social @antonioandreoni.bsky.social @emilyrosenman.bsky.social

compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social · Jun 11

If you are around London tomorrow join this great workshop at SOAS organised by post Keynesian Society.

Post-Keynesian Economics Society @pkes.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our Annual Workshop is tomorrow, 12 June, at SOAS with Hannah Hasenberger, @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social,
@lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, @leilagautham.bsky.social @jomichell.bsky.social and Peter Skott.

13:30 - 18:30 UK time. No registration required.

postkeynesian.net/event/2025-a...

13:30 – 16:00 Panel 1
Yannis Dafermos, SOAS University of London, PKES Annual Report
Hannah Hasenberger, University of Cambridge, From austerity to bankruptcy:
Tracing the impact of Coalition Government cuts on English local government
(with Hulya Dagdeviren and Mia Gray)
Hulya Dagdeviren, University of Hertfordshire, The political economy of financing net zero at local level (with Christina Wolf)
Lorena Lombardozzi, SOAS University of London, Energy transition, industrial policy and the new geo-economic governance in Central Asia
Chair: Christina Wolf, University of Hertfordshire
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 18:30 Panel 2
Leila Gautham, University of Leeds, Extended income poverty and time poverty: New estimates for the U.S.
Jo Michell, University of the West of England, An analytical heterogeneous agent macro model of concentration, markups, and falling labour shares (with Ayoze Alfageme and Karsten Kohler)
Peter Skott, Aalborg University Business School and University of Massachusetts Amherst, The recent wage compression: Tightness, turbulence, and power-biased economic policy (with Adam Aboobaker)
Chair: Maria Nikolaidi, University of Greenwich
18:30 – 20:00 Drinks reception

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Post-Keynesian Economics Society @pkes.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our Annual Workshop is tomorrow, 12 June, at SOAS with Hannah Hasenberger, @hulya-dagdeviren.bsky.social,
@lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, @leilagautham.bsky.social @jomichell.bsky.social and Peter Skott.

13:30 - 18:30 UK time. No registration required.

postkeynesian.net/event/2025-a...

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database

In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.

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