Supporting Brazil in their struggle for digital sovereignty against Big Tech

❗️The second article examining monopoly capitalism is out: Taking Stock: 50 Years of prioritising shareholders Monopoly Power and the cost of shareholder compensation 🧵 somo.nl/taking-stock-5…

Just out, my piece for Phenomenal World on why Google's antitrust cases fail to tackle the heart of its power: #Google is a natural monopoly and an intellectual monopoly phenomenalworld.org/analysis/break…

My first paper is out in Socio-Economic Review! doi.org/10.1093/ser/mw… Using firm-level data on all listed firms in the world I show that it is not the growth of dividends or buybacks that causes rising payout ratios, but rather their inability to fall, their downward rigidity.

Les systèmes de retraite et de santé publique n’ont pas été créés pour exacerber les cycles du capitalisme, mais pour nous en protéger. Pourtant, leur santé financière dépend aujourd’hui de la volatilité des marchés internationaux. Le fil =>🧵

Our new paper (co-authored with Sabri Öncü T. Sabri Öncü and Joel Rabinovich) on Argentina has been published in Economic and Political Weekly (EPW). epw.in/journal/2025/7… Open-source Turkish and English versions of the paper, featuring updated data, will also be available

We’re still buzzing from last week’s conference, but you can already save the date for next year: hetecon AHE’s annual 2026 conference will take place at Universidade de Coimbra 🇵🇹 on the 1st-3rd July