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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 15h

Jahrelang werfen sie Veganern vor, die würden ihnen "das Schnitzel" wegnehmen und jetzt nehmen sie Veganern das Schnitzel weg.

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Die Junge Akademie @jungeakademie.bsky.social · 29d

Die Junge Akademie hat einen neuen Rat ernannt. "Wir freuen uns auf die konstruktive und kritische Begleitung durch die Ratsmitglieder und danken den ausscheidenden Ratsmitgliedern für ihre Expertise", erklärt Philipp Rothemund, Sprecher der Jungen Akademie.

🔗https://t1p.de/avcez

#Wissenschaft

Bild: AbsolutVision auf Unsplash
Auf einem gelben Post-it ist eine Glühbirne gezeichnet. Der Zettel ist an eine Pinnwand aus Kork gepinnt.

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Bastian Obermayer @bastianobermayer.bsky.social · Sep 6

Genau, was Zollfahnder Buckenhofer sagt: Wer ein rätselhaftes Vermögen nicht erklären kann, sollte es nicht haben…

www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/s...

Klingbeil: Steuererhöhungen statt Einziehung krimineller Vermögen

Die Bundesregierung muss entscheiden, ob sie Steuererhöhungen vorschlägt oder kriminelle Gelder effektiver einzieht. Experten fordern ein Umdenken, um das Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat zu stärken.

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Klimafakten. Die Plattform für Klimakommunikation @klimafakten.bsky.social · Sep 4

1️⃣Elena Dilger und @linusmattauch.bsky.social befassen sich mit dem "Klimaschutzparadoxon" - also mit der Frage, warum die starke Zustimmung der Bevölkerung bisher nicht zu entsprechender Politik führt.
www.klimafakten.de/kommunikatio...

Das Klimaschutzparadoxon: Warum öffentliche Zustimmung bisher nicht zu wirksamer Politik führt | klimafakten.de

www.klimafakten.de

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · Jul 24

"New civil rights violations will be imagined, new vistas of anti-Americanism on campus will be discovered, and the attacks will continue." My colleague Suresh Naidu nails it.

The deal might as well say, "souls will be searched."

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

Opinion | Columbia’s Administrators Are Fooling Themselves

www.nytimes.com

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · Jul 25

Is decarbonization dead? @janeaflegal.bsky.social & I join Ezra Klein to talk through how Trump just shredded America's most ambitious climate policy, what survived, and where we go from here. Listen @nytimes.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...

Screenshot of Jesse Jenkins on The Ezra Klein Show with headline "Is Decarbonization Dead?"

Screenshot of Jane Flegal on The Ezra Klein Show with headline "Is Decarbonization Dead?"

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Jul 21

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · Jul 14

This fall, I'll join the University of Oxford as Professor of Social Policy, Inequality & Opportunity. I'll also become the Director of the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Program at INET Oxford, and will join @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social as a Professorial Fellow.

Zach Parolin Appointed Oxford Professor of Social Policy, Inequality…

Zach Parolin will direct the Economics, Inequality and Opportunity Programme at INET Oxford, which seeks to understand the drivers and implications of…

www.inet.ox.ac.uk

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · Jul 2

1/5 Today, we propose a 90% cut in emissions by 2040

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EU\'s Climate Law presents a new way to get to 2040

The European Commission today proposed an amendment to the EU Climate Law, setting a 2040 EU climate target of 90% reduction in net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, compared to 1990 levels, as requeste...

ec.europa.eu

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Christopher Leisinger @cleisinger.bsky.social · Jul 2

🧵 Sündenbock Klimapolitik? Klimaschutz wird zuletzt oft für Wettbewerbsverluste, Deindustrialisierung & Wohlstandseinbußen verantwortlich gemacht.

In @politischemeinung.bsky.social argumentieren wir: Das ist irreführend. Aus mindestens 3 Gründen führt an einem ehrgeizigen Klimakurs kein Weg vorbei.

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EAERE @eaere.bsky.social · Jun 18

🏆𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝘃𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘆🏆

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 European Award for Researchers in Environmental Economics under the Age of Forty: Linus Mattauch (TU Berlin & Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)

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Jan Christoph Steckel @jansteckel.bsky.social · Jun 16

#EAERE2025 is here! This morning, we already had an excellent pre-EAERE workshop on Climate Policy in Low-and Middle Income countries. Now, I am looking forward to an interesting conference and meeting many old friends and making new ones @eaere.bsky.social

https://eaere-conferences.org/index.php?p=515

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

Or the national focus of media is restricting the options discussed by societies. Perhaps also vested interests explain the lack of policy supply if there is policy demand. In any case, the real reason why we see not more global climate action is not the view of the people. (6/6)

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

All methods suggest that the support is either completely sincere, or the share of insincere answers is limited. Perhaps, then, politicians who wish to advance climate action underestimate the support in the population.

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

We found that surprising and hence used several methods to assess the sincerity of the support: a list experiment, a real-stake petition, conjoint analyses and an exercise involving the prioritization of policies.

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

Why do we not see more global climate change mitigation policy then? We hypothesized “pluralistic ignorance” (that is people underestimate that other people also like policies) – but only found a bit of that in Europe and essentially none of it in the US.

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

We document majority support of Global North populations for global emissions trading with equal-per-capita refund.

That’s right: Even if the Global North populations would pay and the Global South would benefit, Global North citizens still strongly support it. @tuberlin.bsky.social ky.social

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Jun 7

Some good news about climate change for the weekend: For mitigation, the people are not the problem – at least not for global approaches with redistribution. See our new paper, led by @adrien-fabre.bsky.social , www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nathumbehav.nature.com @pik-potsdam.bsky.social (1/6)

Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jun 7

This new research shows majority support for global redistributive policies in 20 countries. Follow-up experiments show the support is sincere. @adrien-fabre.bsky.social @linusmattauch.bsky.social @cired.bsky.social
#EconTwitter #EconSky #Climate #GreenSky
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Majority support for global redistributive and climate policies - Nature Human Behaviour

Fabre et al. demonstrate widespread support for global redistributive and climate policies through surveys across 20 countries. This support is shown to be sincere, as confirmed by follow-up survey ex...

www.nature.com

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · Jun 4

Reposting with correct handle this time...With
@nacho2g.bsky.social and Juan Montecino, our latest in European Economic Review on optimal corporate tax policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Equity prices, market power, and optimal corporate tax policy

We study the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a textbook life-cycle model featuring two key deviations: (i) firms are imperfectly competitive…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Tagesspiegel Background @tspbackground.bsky.social · Jun 6

#Klimaschutz hat es politisch derzeit schwer. Andere Krisen beschäftigen die Gesellschaft, und die globale Kooperation zur Einhaltung planetarer Grenzen erscheint beschädigt, so @linusmattauch.bsky.social vom @pik-potsdam.bsky.social 👉 is.gd/g4mMKa

Titel des Standpunkts von Linus Mattauch, Arbeitgsgruppenleiter am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) und Juniorprofessor an der TU Berlin: "Ökonomischer Klimaschutz ist populärer als gedacht – solange er global vereinbart wird" aus dem aktuellen Briefing Energie & Klima.

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PIK_climate @pik-potsdam.bsky.social · Jun 5

Keine Angst vor Bürgerinnen und Bürgern: @linusmattauch.bsky.social im ausführlichen Interview über die Ergebnisse der heute veröffentlichten Studie zur Akzeptanz globaler #Klimapolitik 👇
www.deutschlandfunk.de/klimaschutz-...

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Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · May 16

Coming up on Thursday 29 May 2025 @14:00 BST, @linusmattauch.bsky.social on 'New thinking on climate change policy and endogenous preferences' 🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/events/inet-...

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Apr 26

Looking forward to an insightful discussion on the future of EU climate policy for
@jungeakademie.bsky.social

and with the Young Academies of Ireland, Italy and Sweden and the Global Young Academy, on May 27 (register under link 👇)

www.diejungeakademie.de/en/events/kl...

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Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · Mar 27

Now out, a compilation of my writing on inequality and what we can do about it. Published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Available to order and will ship on April 6: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Linus Mattauch @linusmattauch.bsky.social · Apr 26

@niallfarrell.bsky.social @sverigesungaakademi.se @yai.ie

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