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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 13h

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 16h

Sadly, I find myself missing ‘14-‘16 Twitter

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 17h

Never forget

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Mathias Larsen @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social · 20h

New article out in Ecological Economics with @jhasselbalch.bsky.social: 'Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth'

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reimagining growth futures: Overcoming the false binary between green growth and degrowth

When imagining how a green transition can take place, the relationship between economic growth and environmental sustainability is commonly viewed in …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Louison Cahen-Fourot @louisoncf.bsky.social · 21h

#Denmark politicians wage a #culture #war on #academia —with @roskildeuni.bsky.social as their go-to target.

These attacks are assaults on #freedom, #rights and #democracy. We spoke out:

@berlingske.bsky.social : www.berlingske.dk/synspunkter/...

@politiken.dk : politiken.dk/debat/debati...

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 1d

An observation: Let's just say it's not exactly an advantage to come from a culture associated with the Law of Jante when you have to write expansive, self-praising narrative biosketches.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 2d

Efter sidste uges engelske dom i udbyttesagen, er jeg (igen) blevet spurgt en del gange om, hvordan vi overhovedet endte her. Og det bedste svar er fortsat: læs Jesper Tynells forrygende "Af Hensyn til Erhvervslivet".

@chellersgaard.bsky.social's og min anmeldelse af bogen kan i øvrigt læses her:

6 A'er: Bog om udbytteskandalen giver på forbilledlig vis et unikt indblik i statens virke - Altinget

Cavling-vinder Jesper Tynells 'Af Hensyn til Erhvervslivet' viser ned til mindste detalje, at årsagen til udbytteskandalen ikke var inkompetence, men erhvervslivets store indflydelse, der flyver under...

www.altinget.dk

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Tore Keller @torekeller.bsky.social · 3d

Cheføkonom advarer mod at glemme velfærden i Europas jagt på vækst
www.information.dk/udland/2025/...
#eudk #dkbiz #dkøko

Cheføkonom advarer mod at glemme velfærden i Europas jagt på vækst

Europas sløve bnp-vækst er et stort problem, siger Draghi og toppolitikere. Men cheføkonom påpeger, at de fleste europæere har højere levestandard og advarer mod at ofre styrkepositioner på lighed og ...

www.information.dk

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 6d

For the geoeconomics fans (or, indeed, discontents), my brilliant colleague Cornel Ban has just launched a substack on that very topic:

Geoeconomic | Substack

Cornel Ban, associate prof at Copenhagen Business School and fellow at Boston University's China Initiative at the Global Development Program. Click to read Geoeconomic, a Substack publication. Launch...

geoeconomic.substack.com

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 7d

So many folks to thank for help along the way, academic friends at CBS and around the world. I know I've been fortunate - luckier than most - to have such a supportive cast of mentors and colleagues around me, who all made this happen. I'll be spending some time to make sure all of them know it too!

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 7d

Some personal news: As of today, I am appointed Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School.

With apologies to my colleagues - and possibly all of you - who'll now have to endure my tax ramblings for years to come.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 8d

I was just reminded by my esteemed co-author, so worth recalling this banger, just past its sixth anniversary, has 20,000 views over at @ripejournal.bsky.social:

The new politics of global tax governance: taking stock a decade after the financial crisis

The financial crisis of 2007–2009 is now broadly recognised as a once-in-a-generation inflection point in the history of global economic governance. It has also prompted a reconsideration of establ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 13d

Yes, that is, well, pretty much exactly the success story

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Kimberly Clausing @kclausing.bsky.social · 13d

🧵 (1/7) With @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social, happy to announce our new paper on “Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?”, just posted for BPEA @brookings.edu.

We find large climate cost impacts that vary by both geography and income.

www.brookings.edu/articles/who...

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 13d

This is good and more people need to recognize how important the particularities of the Danish parliamentary system are to explaining the Danish Social Democrats' "success" on immigration when comparing it to other national political contexts.

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13d

'drawing lessons should be done with caution and involves pitfalls for British politicians'. We hear a lot about how the Social Democrats succeeded on immigration in Denmark?
But is it a model we should emulate? @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social explains. ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...

Denmark’s migration policy – an example to follow? - UK in a changing Europe

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen explains why countries feel they have something to learn from Denmark's strict migration policy, but argues that there are many key pitfalls.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 14d

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 14d

You simply can't have an effective global system with integrity and also give significant special treatment to US-based firms. That was the case before the G7 summer "deal" and remains the case today.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 14d

"We need to be sure that one/two/three years down the road, the United States will not come with a much different rate, which would be much lower, because that would change completely the picture."

EU direct tax chief Benjamin Angel on possible US special treatment in the global minimum tax system.

Pillar 2 Side-by-Side System Needs Safeguards, EU Official Says | Tax Notes

Tax Notes is the first source of essential daily news, analysis, and commentary for tax professionals whose success depends on being trusted for their expertise.

www.taxnotes.com

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 19d

“På Socialdemokratiets årsmøde fik RUC mere opmærksomhed end Putin, houthierne og klimakrisen.”

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · Aug 31

Very interesting work by @dlangenmayr.bsky.social et al!
www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 20d

But of course the institutions that in the past made wealth taxes (and other taxes on capital) seem undesirable are political and man-made, and so can be changed - in fact, have been changed, are being changed (radically so). Too rarely does that enter the debate (although Zucman tries his best).

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 20d

Or, in Rixen's terms, tax competition is a "natural force", "exogenously given" and thus un-changeable. At least to make experts and decision-makers.

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 20d

I always liked Lynne Latulippe's idea of tax competition (i.e. you try to tax wealth more, it just moves) as an *internalized* policy goal - it becomes an almost psychological notion, deeply ingrained in people's beliefs about how the world works

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Rasmus Corlin Christensen @phdskat.org · 20d

Pretty balanced piece on wealth taxes but still striking how 90s-globalization-pilled a lot of policy-makers and experts are on this (whether strategically or incidentally)

The problem with taxing the rich

Fiscal systems designed around income and consumption struggle to capture wealth, and billionaires are highly mobile

www.ft.com

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 23d

Big thanks to @chathamhouse.org and Mike Higgins for publishing this interview about my forthcoming book, Existential Politics.
www.chathamhouse.org/publications...

COP30 won’t tackle fossil fuel companies – but global tax reform might

Jessica Green, author of a new book, says climate diplomacy focuses too much on technical goals such as net zero and offsetting instead of redirecting the flow of dollars to accelerate decarbonization...

www.chathamhouse.org

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