For those who missed it: the debate @roapejournal.bsky.social between Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven
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#econsky @abotebuno.bsky.social @jsecon.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @heterodoxnews.bsky.social
My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
In a debate on radical political economy, economics and economists working on Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom and Morten Jerven look at the use of statistics, mainstream economics, power, imperialism, pa...
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Phenomenal World Issue 1 is here: AMERICAN POWER
With writing on ‘declinism,’ the dollar, the Donroe Doctrine, Iran, Cuba, Brazil, Venezuela, China, the Gulf, and more.
Now all online—
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📣 We've published a new special issue on Insurance and Social Theory!
The issue, guest edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Elena Esposito and Alberto Cevolini, examines the evolving landscape of insurance and how society navigates future uncertainty.
Read the #BJS special issue ⬇️
How and why do some countries restrict their fossil fuel production?
We explore this in @ripejournal.bsky.social, based on fieldwork in 🇩🇰Denmark, 🇬🇧the UK, 🇨🇴Colombia & 🇨🇷Costa Rica.
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Co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social, @freddiedaley.bsky.social, and Dani Soto.
Out now - The Housing Question, a special themed issue of Rundale that @kathleenstokes.bsky.social and I edited. Featuring 5 really excellent pieces on #housing in Ireland from all across the artist <-> scholar <-> activist spectrum 🌈
www.rundale.org/2026/06/03/t...
Solar. Very interesting by @janrosenow.bsky.social
People in Pakistan "ran ahead on deployment and left the institutions trailing. The result is a boom and a crisis happening at the same time, in the same place."
It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds.
Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation
Critically important points raised by @robkitchin.bsky.social regarding the importance of external, independent, curiosity-led and coherent decision-making on the awarding of research grants to early career researchers.
Ambitious goals to limit global heating cannot be achieved without significant efforts to cut fossil fuel production. Yet, comparative analysis of the international political economy dynamics that ...
JUST DROPPED: Pakistan's solar boom is one of the energy transition's wildest stories, and nobody planned it.
World's #2 panel importer in 2025, mostly on rooftops. No subsidy, no scheme.
But it also has a dark side.
More in my latest newsletter 👇
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The fastest distributed-solar rollout in the world happened almost entirely by accident.
Good to see this important contribution. Universities in Ireland must coordinate to resist this change
Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing.
See more: www.politybooks.com/...
The recent history of the Chinese financial system on a single slide? @mathiaslarsen.bsky.social has that, and so much more. Absolutely incredible talk on "Finance and the Chinese state" at #financedemocracy.
My letter to Minister Lawless about Research Ireland's decision to devolve the awarding of doctoral scholarships & postdoctoral fellowships to universities. A disastrous move. Please consider raising this issue in your own institutions and with elected representatives and the media.
