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The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @ElsaMassoc) on the Transformation of Banking @CompChange is online
Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇
doi.org/10.1177/102452942513…
🚨New article out with Mattias Vermeiren in @CompChange: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization"
We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇
Here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
What can India’s emerging gig worker unions teach us about labour organising & welfare in the digital age?
Thrilled about this new open-access paper with @islandexpress in @compchange
Read: doi.org/10.1177/102452942513…
It's packed with ideas. A thread of it's key interventions:
BREAKING
Cambridge University is trying to BAN PROTESTS from their campuses...
Today, we’re in court intervening on this infringement on students' fundamental rights
🧵 (1/6)
libertyhumanrights.org.uk/is…
bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpkm… Good to see senior staff speaking out about the dire situation at Cardiff University. Leadership has to do better - take redundancies off the table immediately.
📢Competition&Change is now classified as a Fascia A" / Top Tier journal for the fields of political science and economic sociology by the Italian Agency for Research Quality Evaluation. 🥳🎉
Many thanks to @Ari_Tassinari for her efforts to make it possible.
The contested IPE of green finance - just out my open access article with Callum Bray in @CompChange part of the special issue by @mbabic_1 @SarahESharma journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
"This is not an isolated problem. It is a nationwide crisis."
Thank you for taking the initiative on this letter, @NewcastleUniUCU!! And an excellent letter it is too, clear and referenced.
Please everyone who cares about higher education and research, co-sign. #UKHE
Trending in #Geography:
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1) Left-behindness in the EU15 (@regionalstudies)
2) Sustainability & New Zealand's dairy sector
3) House price, income, homeownership & electoral democracy (@CompChange)
4) Dietary diversification of an insect predator
…@MattWThompson's and Yousaf Nishat-Botero's (@yousafnibo) ’Postcapitalist Planning and Urban Revolution’ in which they argue that postcapitalist planning will arrive through an urban revolution.
Open Access:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Followed by... 7/8
...‘An international interface: Democratic planning in a global context’ by Sophie Elias-Pinsonnault, Mathieu Dufour and Simon Tremblay-Pepin in which they discuss the implications of an international perspective on economic planning.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
Followed by... 6/8
...Christoph's fantastic article ‘Finance as a form of economic planning’, in which he argues that finance’s capacity for economic coordination makes it a potential tool for transformation.
Open access here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Followed by… 3/8
It's here! The @CompChange special issue ‘Rethinking Economic Planning’, edited by @christophsorg and me (Jan Groos), is officially out in full!
Find it here:
journals.sagepub.com/toc/cch…
Please share and spread the word! Thx!
The SI starts off with… 1/8
Great new paper from Ian Bruff: 'The Big Society’s success in England: Neoliberalism as recomposition of public-institutional spaces' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
It’s been a week full of reviews, and I couldn’t be more grateful! In addition to Adam Triggs’ thoughtful engagement, @deyris_j has written another fascinating piece in @CompChange based on the book: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…
I’m deeply honored to see my work inspiring such thoughtful discussions in diverse forums. Thank you, Jerome, for your insightful engagement!
The intro to the special issue Rethinking Economic Planing of @CompChange Jan Groos from @FutureHpodcast and I are co-editing has now been published. It's a stand-alone article the provides context, history and overview for recent debates on economic planning. 1/2