A thread on "Borgen". I just finished the first series (10 episodes, I think) of "Borgen". It was way above my expectations which indeed were low, based on the idea that a political drama in a country as orderly as Denmark cannot be very interesting.

"Af alle regeringens højresvingsulykker er fiskeriudspillet det mest usolidariske. Det forgylder kvotekonger og storfiskere på bekostning af skatteyderne og skånsomme fiskere." Det skriver SF-kandidat, Emil Nielsen. #dkpol piopio.dk/regeringen-svi…

Så er der gaver til Løkkes venner igen-igen

This is why the liberal elites fight so bitterly the new Trumpist elite: b/c dropping from the top 0.1% to the top 10% means a huge loss of income. If inequality were less, it would not have mattered as much. The liberal elite would have taken it easy.

German youth is extremely polarized. The Left party has become the strongest party among young voters (under 25). The extreme right AfD is #2.

RIP American shareholder capitalism ft.com/content/85ecce… via @ft

New article out in Review of International Political Economy 📑 Thread with some of the main points below 👇

Years studying sophisticated theories which explain how capitalist interests subtlety shape professional norms. And then a billionaire owner just tweets this out.

🚨 New Paper Out! 🚨 🔍 Forms of Capital, Social Change and the Weight of the Past: The Effective Agents of the Swiss Field of Power 1910–2015 w/ Jacob Aagaard Lunding in open access in Sociology 📄 Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… To know more, see my thread on BS

The 1st paper presenting results from the World Elite Database is out British Journal of Sociology. Lots of coordination allow us to systematically compare economic elites across 16 very different national contexts. If interested, just unroll the following thread... ⬇️🧵onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

📣 New paper: This research note introduces the World Elite Database (WED), its construction principles, and presents preliminary findings on how economic elites differ across countries. buff.ly/Laa6ejw

¿Qué sabemos de las elites económicas? Salió publicado el primer artículo de nuestro proyecto: World Elite Database. Tras mucho trabajo podemos comparar las élites en contextos nacionales muy disímiles. Sale hilo con los principales resultados. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Trending in #Sociology: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Varieties of Economic Elites? (@bjsociology) 2) Breathing unequal air: immigrant minorities (@sf_journal) 3) Beyond Thriving Cities & Declining Rural Areas 4) Rising inequality: is the public response really lacking?

Så er sær-rabatten på arveskatten til virksomhedsarvinger vedtaget. Fremover skal lønmodtageren betale 15% i arveskat, mens virksomhedsarvinger slipper med 10%.🤯 Det giver en skattelettelse til fx Legofamiliens arvinger på små 13 milliarder kroner. Velbekommen (Og til dem der

How do countries select their economic elite? The World Elite Database provides comparative data from 16 countries that account for one-third of the world's population and 54% of global GDP. Read the British Journal of Sociology research note ➡️ buff.ly/aTWoCwW buff.ly/ioibcrE

Elites in the USA and USSR in the mid-1960s (at the peak of the idea of the social "convergence" of the two systems).

Offentligt foredrag med den fremragende Sam Friedman i København 2. juni om hans nye bog, der kortlægger den britiske elite over de sidste 150 år fb.me/e/9o6BitAZQ

At det her ikke er ulovligt understreger bare, hvor håbløst vores regulering af Folketinget og dets medlemmer er. Tænk hvis det havde været en virksomhed, der ville købe en irriterende politiker ud... dr.dk/nyheder/politi…

Det er fedt at det er Britt Bager fra Britt-Bager-finten, der skal forsvare den stærke demokratiske ånd og moralske kompas i Moderaterne berlingske.dk/www.berlingske…

The sort of comprador behaviour you'd usually find among Third World elites. Welcome to the global periphery, EU.