Michael Delaney
@michaeldelaney.bsky.social
Postgraduate student in Ecological Economics @ University of Leeds. Interested in financialisation, monetary economics, and ecological macro SFC models to explore how we achieve sustainable monetary and financial systems within planetary boundaries.
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📢 I've written the @financialtimes.com Free Lunch newsletter today on the rise of populism & its economic implications 📢
No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety
Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31
No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety
Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31
August 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
📢 I've written the @financialtimes.com Free Lunch newsletter today on the rise of populism & its economic implications 📢
No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety
Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31
No surprise: populism makes for very bad economics, with clear negative impacts regardless of whether it is left-wing or right wing variety
Free-to-read link👉 on.ft.com/4fViP31
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In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
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@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In the age of asset manager capitalism, do asset owners still matter? And what does this mean for the green transition?
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
@nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social and I investigate this through an in-depth study of how some of the most important asset owners - pension funds - invest.
Now out in SER!
🧵
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Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
Sierra Club Foundation Leads by Example in Move from BlackRock to More Responsible Asset Managers
Move follows 3+ years of engagement between foundation, asset manager
www.sierraclub.org
June 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Asset owners have enormous leverage to get their asset managers to implement effective strategies to reduce systemic climate risk. If persuasion doesn't work, replace them, as Sierra Club Foundation has done with Blackrock/ Aperio. www.sierraclub.org/press-releas...
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1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵
February 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
1. European and UK ministers are still talking as if their biggest potential security problem is a withdrawal of US support. But that is not their biggest potential security problem. It’s that, under Trump, the US will back Putin not just diplomatically but also militarily. 🧵
This great blog highlights the paralysing effects widening inequality is having on democracy. This is giving rise to populism as people see no real alternatives in light of the precarity they face.
It's been a big year for democracy but I am worried that inequality is eroding our political system at both ends, leaving too many with too little money and power and a few with too much influence. Some reflections for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...
The rest is not just politics: how inequality is trumping democracy
Rising inequality, falling social mobility and a growing sense of disempowerment are causing deep social and political divisions. These, in turn, are undermining the foundations of trust on which d…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 11, 2024 at 11:06 AM
This great blog highlights the paralysing effects widening inequality is having on democracy. This is giving rise to populism as people see no real alternatives in light of the precarity they face.
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I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲
It’s incomplete - who else is on here?
go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
It’s incomplete - who else is on here?
go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
November 16, 2024 at 10:13 PM
I made a political economy & climate crisis starter pack! 💸🏝️⛽️🌲
It’s incomplete - who else is on here?
go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
It’s incomplete - who else is on here?
go.bsky.app/GJLn7zk
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Starter pack of heterodox economists, researchers, journalists, and other professionals (with an ecological economics focus)
November 16, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Starter pack of heterodox economists, researchers, journalists, and other professionals (with an ecological economics focus)