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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

Different CBS. Copenhagen Business School.

Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

Applicants are required to submit a 3-5 page research agenda tackling one of the above themes. Deadline is October 15th. More information here: www.cbs.dk/cbs/jobs-paa...

Copenhagen Business School invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy / Economic Sociology at the Department of Organization. | CBS - Copenhagen Business School

This post is partly funded by the ‘ADD – Algoritmer, Data & Demokrati’ project funded by the Velux and Villum Foundations. This project is led by Professor Nørholm Sine Just at Roskilde University and the co-PI at CBS is Professor Leonard Seabrooke in the Department of Organization. Seabrooke is

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

The two post-docs are both for 36 months, with 24 months of research and 12 months of teaching. The teaching will be in courses like Comparative Political Economy, International Political Economy, and primarily located in the BSc and MSc International Business and Politics degrees.

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

One post-doc will investigate the environmental and economic trade-offs present in the corporate expansion of AI. The other post-doc will investigate how international regulatory and reporting standards reflect the actual environmental damage from AI use.

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm hiring two Post-Doctoral Fellows in International Political Economy/Economic Sociology as part of the ADD project funded by the Velux Foundation. The posts are linked to an AI Sustainability package led by Christina Lioma at KU and me at CBS, drawing insights from comp sci & political economy.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Sep 2

Great to see this out from Saila Stausholm, @richardjmurphy.bsky.social & @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, a continuation of the broader work from our group on the Big Four. Read if you want to understand how these firms manage conflicting market demands across jurisidctions:

doi.org/10.1111/1911...

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Jul 21

👁️‍🗨️ Flinders Uni in Adelaide has a Political Economy lecturer post—calling for expertise in IPE, Asia, climate, and geoeconomics—and where you would get to work with the likes of the wonderful Maryanne Kelton and the good folk in the Jeff Bleich Centre. See here: www.seek.com.au/job/85900447

Lecturer in Political Economy Job in Bedford Park, Adelaide SA - SEEK

Contribute to world-class teaching and research in political economy at a university ranked in the top 2% worldwide.

www.seek.com.au

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Adam Hayes @adam-hayes.bsky.social · May 18

📔My book comes out May 29! Based largely on my own research at the intersection of #EconomicSociology and #BehavioralEconomics, it is intended for an educated general audience.

You can pre-order now on Amazon ($24.00):

amazon.com/dp/0226839311

Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior

In economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the often-unseen social forces that shape our financial behavior. Drawing on original research and engaging r...

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · May 9

Wall Street won’t rewild the planet. Or decarbonize mining. Or defossilize agriculture.

For @phenomenalworld.bsky.social I unpack why chasing investability harms climate goals in sectors beyond energy & transport - & what states can do with derisking failures www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/unb...

Unbankable Transitions | Rosie Collington

How the politics of investability determine climate financing

www.phenomenalworld.org

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · May 10

Lads, they’ve renamed International Political Economy.

www.ft.com/content/daf5...

Welcome to the new age of geoeconomics

Tech, trade, finance and military policies are mingling in a manner not seen during the neoliberal era

www.ft.com

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · May 5

How are things turned into assets?

We argue that #assetization requires bridging different scales: transnational ideas of asset classes need to be linked to messy local realities.

How is this done? And why does this matter?

We study #impactinvesting in the UK and Geneva to address these Qs.

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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · Apr 24

Mark Blyth and I sang a duet. It’s about how a country’s growth model shapes its state capacity to decarbonize - both the advantages and disadvantages. Enjoy! @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Decarbonising national growth models: derisking, ‘hobbled states’, and the decarbonisation possibility frontier

This article brings together Growth Model Theory and climate change under the assumption that economic growth will remain a policy priority during the green transition. The relevant research questi...

www.tandfonline.com

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Apr 29

What's that sound? It's DBCFT time *again*?!

www.ft.com/content/2ba5...

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thrilled to see my article w. @seanoriain.bsky.social on Ireland's Corporate Tax Games w. @ripejournal.bsky.social, drawing on global wealth chains @lenseabrooke.bsky.social, coding of capital by Katherina Pistor & infrastructural power @benbraun.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Len Seabrooke @lenseabrooke.bsky.social · Apr 24

This is super work, congrats Nessa!

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Apr 21

1/ PwC is trimming its global network, offloading units and exiting countries, to reduce risk after an unprecedented wave of scandals.

PwC exits more than a dozen countries in push to avoid scandals

African firms say they lost over a third of their business as global executives forced them to drop risky clients

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Maren Toft @marentoft.bsky.social · Apr 12

Important piece by the magnificent @martesaga.bsky.social and the first empirical publication of our WEB-project ✨ www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/... @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Marte Lund Saga @martesaga.bsky.social · Apr 11

My article about the political activity of the inner circle and wealthy owners is out in @sfjournal.bsky.social! You can read it here: academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...
Some highlights in the thread.

The politics of the Norwegian capitalist class: the inner circle and wealthy owners

Abstract. This paper investigates the political activities of different segments within the capitalist class, comparing an inner circle of interlocked dire

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Apr 11

The EU threatens new taxes on US Big Tech. Again. This time in response to Trump's tariff tirade.

This is the latest in a decade-long transatlantic spat that has radically transformed the global tax landscape. A quick 🧵

EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen

European Commission president tells FT she wants ‘balanced’ deal but could hit US services in retaliation

www.ft.com

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Daniel McDowell @danielmcdowell.bsky.social · Apr 11

The🌎economy is in a crisis, & yet the dollar is falling. Investors are turning up their noses at US debt, instead snapping up gold & German bunds as "safe assets"

The Trump admin's policies are, to borrow from Bob Gilpin, tarnishing the "prestige" of the US economy & the 💵🧵1/

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · Apr 11

Interesting read www.ft.com/content/ff0a...

A new who’s who of the global elites

They dominate the countries that account for more than half of global GDP — but who are they?

www.ft.com

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · Apr 11

Time to update the tracker

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Christopher Olk @christopher-olk.bsky.social · Apr 9

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?

Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system

Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...

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Basak Kus @basakkus.bsky.social · Apr 8

Full special issue out today: Greening the Economy: Toward a New Political Economy: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17485991...
See the open access article by GJ and yours truly: "Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change": onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Green Transitions: Rethinking Political Economy in the Context of Climate Change

Although political economy (PE) has long engaged with environmental issues, climate change has remained at the margins of the field until very recently. This article argues that fully addressing the ....

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Kate McNamara @katemcnamara.bsky.social · Apr 1

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · Mar 31

The first episode of my new Radio 4 series, Untaxing, is 1.45pm today; then the same time every day this week. Available on BBC Sounds as soon as each episode airs.

BBC Sounds link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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