I think that it is a strange situation that two among the most influential social scientists of the past half-millennium are almost never read. Econ has in many ways become business economics, that is what it originally was. Cameralism w/ better numbers.

NEW by Kate Mackenzie & I Phenomenal World: With money being drained out of developing countries by a ramshackle dollar financial order, there's a development & climate finance crisis "COUNTRY PLATFORMS" is the latest trick. The contest to shape them is underway. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-c…

Warum Wagenknecht mit #BSW so erfolgreich ist. Mein Versuch einer Einordnung: zeitung.faz.net/faz/feuilleton…

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What is extra depressing about current politics in Germany, and recently in Sweden, is that these politicians could have looked across the border (Netherlands and Denmark, respectively) to see that it doesn’t even work!

Weder NSU, Halle, Hanau noch der Lübcke-Mord haben zu einer gesellschaftlichen Debatte über Rechtsextremismus geführt. Im Gegenteil: heute wählen mehr denn je die AfD. Aber ein Mörder in Solingen ist Anlass alle Werte über den Haufen zu werfen. Dieses Land ist am rechten Abgrund.

Wenn sich sogar die FAS fragt, wo die Antifa geblieben ist

Huh.

Immer mehr junge Menschen wählen die AfD. Je krisenhafter die Gegenwart werde, so Sebastian Friedrich und Nils Schniederjann, desto mehr rüsten sich Teile der Jugend für den Konkurrenzkampf – und wenden sich einem völkisch-sozialen Modell zu: blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024/s…

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"Socio-ecological transformation" and its violent underbelly. More evidence from Serbia.

The most obvious feature of global imbalances (see right graph) is that the US consistently drives the story. Yet the prevailing US policy view is that other parties (China today) must reduce their trade surpluses. Less appreciated is that the international monetary hierarchy

In der Niederlage der Linkspartei in Sachsen ist auch etwas neues entstanden, über das in den nächsten Jahren noch viel geredet werden wird.

As you read the many “hot takes” about the special roots of “fascism” in “East Germany”, remember that far-right parties get similar levels of support in (whole) countries like 🇳🇱🇫🇷🇮🇹🇨🇭🇦🇹

As a political scientist, I see how this election outcome could have even been worse, how regional particularities matter. As a German citizen, a queer person of color it is simply devastating and frightening that at very high turnout over 30% support extreme right fascists.

CFP "Neoliberals and the Capitalists" What tensions and conflicts exist between these two groups often considered synonymous? Conference organized by Janick Marina Schaufelbuehl, Quinn Slobodian and myself, please RT news.unil.ch/display/172501…

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Based on the careful and ongoing archival work led by Arghiri Emmanuel Association, which you can learn more about at unequalexchange.org. x.com/ROAPEjournal/s…

Why don´t we see more political competition in economic policy? Re wages, we (Lucio Baccaro) show that the more dependent countries are on exports, the more the preferences of center-left and center-right voters converge. 1/2 doi.org/10.1080/135017… JEPP MPIfG