Political economist, Postdoc @ University of Amsterdam (https://amsterdamschoolofplanning.eu/ruben-vezzoni/) | (attempts of) green transitions, EU weeds, low-carbon energy, post-growth planning, agroecology, and all that jazz.
Rubén Vezzoni
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Great editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social
drawing a parallel between the Strait of Tsushima (1905), the beginning of the end of the Russian and other European Empires, and the Strait of Hormuz (2026) for the US Empire.
www.equator.org/articles/gho...
“The Trump administration is currently involved in an expansive project to reposition the US national economy and the US state within global critical minerals networks.”
@iliasalami.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump’s state capitalist turn.
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...
Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism
Save the date! Nov 12-14, HU Berlin, part of the Socialization research project at @ktbberlin.bsky.social
socializationproject.de
Rubén Vezzoni
Phenomenal World
Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction
Excited to share a study I co-authored, together with Tom Ackers, Conrad Kunze, Paulina Orozco, and Nils Urbanus, published by the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social
www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
geopolitics of grid synchronization, 1992-2026
This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.
an excellent outlook on the macro-political economy of inflation
Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦
We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others
Jessica Whyte
Rubén Vezzoni
Cominsitu
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
daniela russ
Matthias Schmelzer
Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others
What happens to global environmental governance when the liberal world economy underpinning it fragments? New piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social, w/ Peter Dauvergne, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @policyrelevant.bsky.social. We ask what comes after ‘liberal environmentalism’.
doi.org/10.1080/0969...
The Guardian
Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...
Really looking forward to this! Thanks to @solveigdegen.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @rabeaber.bsky.social & Clara Weinmann for organising 🤩🛢️💸
“Throughout the North and the South, oil shocks lead to upward redistribution of income and wealth”
This month’s Meridional column: @rugitsky.bsky.social on Hormuz, the 2022 energy shock, monetary tightening, and the economic consequences of the war on Iran.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.
