Exciting news!! We have a fully-funded PhD place for a UK home student available 🚨 including a £21k+ a year stipend 🚨. Come and do a PhD with me as your supervisor! Critical tax law, value theory, global production and the legal form, that kind of thing ... fancy it? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX657/l...
Working on a paper on the Bank of Canada's Contingent Term Repo Facility. Using Access to Information requests to fill in some blanks (underused research method imo), I found my paper title.
A 'juicy, interesting policy question' is one way to describe bringing asset managers under CB protection
Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social
"This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...
We have a new paper out in EPA! 📊 @jhasselbalch.bsky.social
Epistemic Derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance
Beyond financial & regulatory tools, we show how states wield energy models to mobilise private capital for renewables & energy security journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Not fully done with the podcast yet but I second this recommendation!
New open access article on @antipodeonline.bsky.social with @nickbernards.bsky.social and Laura Quinteros. We look at green fintech to show how green finance works as fictitious capital. Builds on @cedricdurand.bsky.social
Got one of those as well! Masters thesis on structural power in datacentre investments outside the US. - ‚digital sovereignty’ brought to Europe by Microsoft et al.
would love to hear your thoughts!
New article out in International Political Sociology, "Making Finance Legible: Speculative Fiction & the Sociology of Futures". It explores how finance builds invisible systems - debt, derivatives, algorithms - that shape the future, & how speculative fiction makes them visible. Link + thread below.
Sure! Can you send me the link by mail? lukasb[at]ruc.dk