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johanneslundb.bsky.social
Intellectual history, economic sociology, philosophy. Concerned about the climate crisis & finance capitalism. Researching their interrelation
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Warren Buffett's annual shareholder letter is out: "Someday, *any day*, a truly staggering insurance loss will occur – and there is no guarantee that there will be only one per annum."

Germany’s SPD just had their worst results since 1887. But why are social democratic parties struggling? This study, covering 336 elections in 22 advanced democracies from 1965 to 2019, especially in the context of income inequality, offers some key insights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dream jobs for docs and postdocs! Get to work with the brilliant Ute Tellmann and have your office in the beautiful palace in Darmstadt 🏰 I can strongly recommend from my own experience.

Slagmark #85: "The People, Democracy, and Populism," which I co-edited, is now available open access (tidsskrift.dk/slagmark/iss...). It contains an introduction, 10 articles, and an enquete, exploring these three concepts, their historical development, and contemporary relevance. 1/7

Tuesday next week! Not sure the subtitle points to the most promising area to find disagreement among the panelists, but in any case, excited for this discussion with @brettchristophers.bsky.social, @danielagabor.bsky.social & @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social. In person (first come, first serve) & online

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧡 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/ Har fiskeriet det sΓ₯ svΓ¦rt 1 mΓ₯ned efter COβ‚‚-afgiftens indfΓΈrsel som de siger, sΓ₯ du i stedet skal betale for deres forurening? Efter jeg dykkede ned i dataen for at finde ud af det, sΓ₯ tvivler jeg pΓ₯ det! πŸ‘€ TRΓ…D🧡

We are delighted to announce that our conference this year will take place at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, September 11-12. Keynotes speakers have been confirmed (Christian Borch, Fabian Muniesa, Vanessa Ogle) and the call for papers is now open! financeandsocietynetwork.org/finandsoc-co...

🚨New paper by the Uni Witten SuFi Project in @finandsoc.bsky.social Channels of influence in sustainable finance: A framework for conceptualizing how private actors shape the green transition www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A 🧡 on our main arguments:

πŸš¨πŸ“£ We are so back: β„™π• π•π•šπ•₯π•šπ•”π•’π• π•–π•”π• π•Ÿπ• π•žπ•ͺ 𝕠𝕗 π•—π•šπ•Ÿπ•’π•Ÿπ•”π•– π•€π•¦π•žπ•žπ•–π•£ 𝕀𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝟚.𝟘 - 3 days @ Watson Institute, Providence - PhD candidates (2nd year+), post-docs & assistant profs - All expenses covered (πŸ™ sponsors) - A-team of instructors πŸ™πŸ’ͺ - Mark Blyth 😎 Apply by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐑 𝟏. Link below. Please share!

Is ESG finished? If you are researching investment and ownership as a political tool, consider joining our discussion at the Nordic STS conference in Stockholm this year! CfA now open for our panel 'Agency in owning: The politics of investment, in and out of markets' www.nordicsts.se/call-for-abs...

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It is publication day! The Master's Tools shows how finance destroyed democracy and argues for "democratic ruptures" in the economy, which empower the demos to make investment decisions via sortition. Out with @versobooks.bsky.social now. Please read, engage, criticize, build and share!

The Veganuary campaign, which encourages a plant-based diet in January, has successfully reduced meat consumption over the long term, with over 80% of participants reducing their intake to half or even more after six months. .

Fabulous special issue

We assume that highly paid professionals consistently beat the market. Yet research shows that active funds often underperform passive funds, and analysts’ recommendations can be unreliable. Why does this system persist? Inertia, our new book: tinyurl.com/4rjcpc9h

The field of "ultra-processed" food research & its media coverage are littered with poor definitions & comparisons, w misleading conclusions. This creates an illusion that UPFs provide new insights, but it's all slight-of-hand. @mbolotnikova.bsky.social takes a deep dive www.vox.com/future-perfe...

🎁 A little holiday treat 🎁 We have a new paper on climate action communication on #Twitter 🌍 We analyzed over 6.4 million tweets from 2021, including tweets from the general public and tweets from 'climate' scientists on @katharinehayhoe.com's "Scientists who do climate" list🧡 osf.io/preprints/os...

The project of green capitalism is collapsing. Even in Denmark, the frontrunner in wind energy, it has proven impossible to find private investors for new off shore wind park For the Danish speakers (or google translate users) i have posted the text below.

Together with @ineteconomics.bsky.social, @lupemoreno.bsky.social, @kremers.bsky.social & I are organising a conference on "Methodological Pluralism in Critical Finance Research" at GU Frankfurt on 3–4 July 2025 aimed at exploring methods for studying finance. Check out the CfP: tinyurl.com/3jbshp49

NEW PAPER: The 2022 fossil fuel price jumps caused an oil and gas profit explosion. We show the US reaped the largest profit increase (USD 275bn) of any country. Big Oil claims this benefits the American people. In fact, 51% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A 🧡

'Paranoid Finance' now out also in the U.S. of A. @politybooks.bsky.social www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

The new carbon tax on Danish agriculture has been widely celebrated. However, the deal behind favors big landowning industrial-animal farmers and risks locking Danish farming into unsustainable practices. Here’s my take on the deal and the political dynamics behind it jacobin.com/2024/12/gree...

job opening in copenhagen:

I began reading @brettchristophers.bsky.social's book around the US election. Realizing just how much the wind/solar sectors still depend on various types of government support is truly devastating with the incoming deregulation agenda. Highly recommended 🧡 by @proufos.bsky.social below #climatesky

Update: this list has now 100 (!) women political economists to follow! 🀩 Thanks so much for the (self-)recommendations, I'm thrilled to connect and reconnect with you all here & so looking forward to learning more about your work! Still 50 spots open! πŸ™‹ go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

Dear Bsky friends, our @cambridgeup.bsky.social book (w/ Andreas NΓΆlke) was recently published! Here we explore whether/how the #BRICS contest liberal #finance through a systematic empirical analysis across 7 countries, 11 issue areas & 3 dimensions. Check it out 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Yes, we're hiring at Durham Geography in the UK. Yes, two posts in human geography. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

πŸŒπŸ“Š Publication Alert! Thrilled to share my latest article with Thomas Mayer in Regulation & Governance about input legitimacy of occupational pensions (OP) in Europe. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/rego... 🧡

Swedish edition out Saturday! verbalforlag.se/bocker/halvj...

We used to have a division of labour - we do value, you do wealth sort of thing (reminds me of a Soul Coughing song …) Then we put our heads together. We struggled to agree on things but eventually did - so you should read this stuff (-;

In 2017, central bankers devised a brilliant strategy to sidestep the Trump administration's obstruction of global climate policy. Inspirational reading for everyone wondering what to do until 2028!

Starter pack of people and organisations who do work on policies to promote economic democracy, primarily through social ownership and democratisation of finance. I'm sure there's a lot missing here so please give suggested additions

πŸ“’ CfP: The #climate crisis leads to unprecedented losses & damages to real and financial #assets. But the dynamics and consequences of asset stranding are poorly understood. ThatΒ΄s why @trgn.bsky.social, @pgolka.bsky.social and I put together a special issue with SER academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'. The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org

I've seen the new Danish agricultural reform hailed by many abroad. Here's a great list of some main cautions. #greensky

KEY MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF DANISH MARXISM 🧡

Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join. go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9

As the US goes all in on fossil fuels, our only planetary hope is that other countries don't buy and burn our dirty products. Looks like the Biden admin is going to try to soften up the EU to agree to buy our dirty products that the Trump regime will produce. Teamwork.

So, what's the status of Danish pension funds' fossil fuel #divestment decisions? New survey from AnsvarligFremtid ranking Danish pension funds' policies regarding investments in fossil fuel energy (in Danish). www.ansvarligfremtid.dk/en/danish-pe... #dkgreen