Zsofi Barta
@bartazsofi.bsky.social
Political Economist; Sciences Po; previously UAlbany; Author of "In the Red: The Politics of Public Debt" (Michigan 2018) and "Rating Politics" (OUP 2023)
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Zsofi Barta
@bartazsofi.bsky.social
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I recently gave a talk on sovereign credit ratings at the Max Planck Institute (@mpifg.bsky.social). It is now available in podcast form: www.mpifg.de/1254284/2024... Check it out if you are interested in why credit rating agencies rival the IMF in the power they exercise within global governance!
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My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l...
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.
Monopoly Politics: Competition and Learning in the Evolution of Policy Regimes
Abstract. Motivated by the contemporary extremes of monopoly power in the United States and globally, this book uses an in-depth comparison of the United S
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August 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l...
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.
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The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.
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OK, I finally gave in. I'm here. Now to migrate a bunch of users.
June 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
OK, I finally gave in. I'm here. Now to migrate a bunch of users.
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We highlight three own goals of failed internationalization:
1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports
2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive)
3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”
1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports
2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive)
3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”
February 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We highlight three own goals of failed internationalization:
1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports
2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive)
3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”
1. Non-existent euro value chains locked the EU into disastrous dollar denominated fossil fuel imports
2. Wavering and weak ECB swap line policies (limited, conditional, unattractive)
3. That rare beast “a euro denominated safe asset”
Fantastic piece on one of (the many) ways in which the EU has been punching well below its weight.
Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this.
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money.
A thread 🧵
February 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Fantastic piece on one of (the many) ways in which the EU has been punching well below its weight.
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📣 Roundtable
Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals
w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs
📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm
📍Sciences Po
Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals
w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs
📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm
📍Sciences Po
Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Roundtable - Book Presentation of Jan Rovny (Sciences Po, CEE)
Presentation of Jan Rovny's new book - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals in France
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January 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
📣 Roundtable
Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals
w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs
📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm
📍Sciences Po
Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
Book Presentation of @jrovny.bsky.social - Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy: Circumstantial Liberals
w/@sciencespo.bsky.social School of Public Affairs
📅 5 Feb. 5-7 pm
📍Sciences Po
Registration & Information⤵️ www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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🚨 Tax evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice.
Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade.
📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade.
📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
November 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
🚨 Tax evasion is not a law of nature. It is a policy choice.
Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade.
📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
Last year, we published our first Global #TaxEvasionReport, an unprecedented research collaboration investigating the successes and failures of the fight against tax evasion over the last decade.
📄 www.taxobservatory.eu/publication/...
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Stamattina è uscito sul Fatto Quotidiano questo mio pezzo in cui commento l'approvazione della Commissione Europea del budget francese. La Commissione sembra sempre soprassedere sulle violazioni francesi dei target, anche grazie alla capacità dei tecnici francesi nel dialogo con la Commissione
“Perché la Francia è la Francia”: l’Ue e i conti pubblici di Parigi - Il Fatto Quotidiano
Negli ultimi giorni, il governo francese ha sorprendentemente ottenuto l’approvazione dei propri piani di spesa da parte di Bruxelles. L’esecutivo, recentemente insediato e guidato dal primo ministro ...
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it
January 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stamattina è uscito sul Fatto Quotidiano questo mio pezzo in cui commento l'approvazione della Commissione Europea del budget francese. La Commissione sembra sempre soprassedere sulle violazioni francesi dei target, anche grazie alla capacità dei tecnici francesi nel dialogo con la Commissione
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Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
Taxes on top incomes and financialisation
Financialisation is one of the most prominent economic developments of the past half century in the advanced democracies. While the existing literature focuses on financial deregulation and liberal...
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January 13, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Since the 1970s, advanced economies have reduced top income tax rates a lot. In the same period, these economies have become more financialized. In a new paper @ripejournal.bsky.social, David Hope, @julianlimberg.bsky.social and I argue that these developments may be related: doi.org/10.1080/0969...
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Just published, open access, another paper with @donatodc.bsky.social and Martin Höpner @mpifg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Shielding competitiveness: Germany’s wage policy during the inflation shock years in comparative perspective - Martin Höpner, Donato Di Carlo, Anke Hassel, 2024
We analyse wage developments in Germany during the inflation shock years of 2021–2023 from three perspectives: cost of living, supply-side cost pressure, and re...
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December 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Just published, open access, another paper with @donatodc.bsky.social and Martin Höpner @mpifg.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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(R)IPE rocks! 🎉
No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social
No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social
As we enter the New Year, RIPE editors have some good news to report!!! Our editors are:
@juanitamarieelias.bsky.social
@hozic.bsky.social Alison Johnston
@skostem.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @stefanoponte.bsky.social @kevinyoung.bsky.social and Hongying Wang
doi.org/10.1080/0969...
@juanitamarieelias.bsky.social
@hozic.bsky.social Alison Johnston
@skostem.bsky.social @manuelamoschella.bsky.social @stefanoponte.bsky.social @kevinyoung.bsky.social and Hongying Wang
doi.org/10.1080/0969...
RIPE 2024 diversity statement
Published in Review of International Political Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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January 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
(R)IPE rocks! 🎉
No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social
No time for complacency, but thrilled to share these promising updates as we kick off the New Year! Huge thanks to all past and present editorial boards, reviewers, and the incredible IPE community for making this possible @ripejournal.bsky.social
Very cool project!!
When states are not good at industrial policy it is municipalities that can develop that muscle. And not just city states, but cities of 500k as well if they have what it takes. New article in Competition and Change with @Medve-Balint and @Clara Volintiru journals.sagepub.com/eprint/T56CA...
January 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Very cool project!!
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🚨Job Alert🚨
We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)
Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
#AcademicJobs #PolSci
We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)
Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
#AcademicJobs #PolSci
Recruitment 'Assistant Professor (tenure track)'
Recruitment 2024 /2025 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in political science / Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union
sciencespo.fr
December 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
🚨Job Alert🚨
We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)
Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
#AcademicJobs #PolSci
We are seeking to recruit not only 1, but 2⃣ tenure-track Assistant Professors in political science (Politics and policy in/of Europe and the European Union)
Description and application guidelines: sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
#AcademicJobs #PolSci
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My book, Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, published by @TempleUnivPress is now available for pre-order with a 25% discount.
If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students.
tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...
If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students.
tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...
December 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
My book, Inequality, Crime, and Resistance in New York City, published by @TempleUnivPress is now available for pre-order with a 25% discount.
If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students.
tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...
If you’re interested in using it for a course, I’d be very happy to pop into a class to discuss with students.
tupress.temple.edu/books/inequa...
Short and sweet case study of how ill equipped financial markets are to account for climate related risks.
It's been a while since you've seen a picture of a Lehman employee carrying a box of office supplies out into the street - wait no more! susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/why-rising...
Why rising home insurance costs have consequences for the trillion dollar structured credit world
Physical climate risk isn't just the insurance industry's problem. The rest of us will end up paying the bill. The question is when.
susanpcrawford.substack.com
December 18, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Short and sweet case study of how ill equipped financial markets are to account for climate related risks.
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Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Green economic planning for rapid decarbonisation
Sustainable futures require deep social and economic transformations to address climate change adequately. The current landscape of intergovernmental and market-based coordination is not delivering...
www.tandfonline.com
December 9, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Indicative planning can mitigate the climate crisis. But under capitalism it only happens when the stakes are sky-high: wars, energy crises, post-war rubble. Jacob Hasselbalch and I took a dive in the topic. #GreenState #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 8, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Interesting new paper from @cornelban.bsky.social and @jhasselbalch.bsky.social in New Political Economy. Happy to see more work on indicative planning and to see the planning research agenda develop in general. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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💥 New: Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit
✍️ Camilla Locatelli @mpifg.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍️ Camilla Locatelli @mpifg.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit
A no-confidence vote triggered by a dispute over the French budget has led to the collapse of the country’s government. Camilla Locatelli writes that France’s fiscal challenges offer important less…
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December 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
💥 New: Chaos in the numbers – the strange case of France’s budget deficit
✍️ Camilla Locatelli @mpifg.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
✍️ Camilla Locatelli @mpifg.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
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Great read on the rise of lightly-regulated insurers.
As more traditional insurance companies exit markets like Florida and California, some others are stepping in.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
As more traditional insurance companies exit markets like Florida and California, some others are stepping in.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
Florida, California Home Insurance Market Infused by Riskier Carriers
A lightly regulated insurance market is offering coverage to homeowners in states that saw withdrawals of major insurers.
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Great read on the rise of lightly-regulated insurers.
As more traditional insurance companies exit markets like Florida and California, some others are stepping in.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
As more traditional insurance companies exit markets like Florida and California, some others are stepping in.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
December 5, 2024 at 5:22 PM
New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹
Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?
We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out
shorturl.at/zQ8bJ
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Why I am not predicting another financial crisis? My latest - the second of the three big challenges facing the global economy... annpettifor.substack.com/publish/post...
Why am I not predicting another Great Financial Crisis?
The answer can be found in the 'Bailout State'
annpettifor.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 7:27 PM
Why I am not predicting another financial crisis? My latest - the second of the three big challenges facing the global economy... annpettifor.substack.com/publish/post...
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The French Parliament has just brought down Michel Barnier’s government via a vote of no confidence – a first since 1962. A 🧵 on what is happening, what to expect next - and how the far right is capitalizing on the crisis.
December 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM
The French Parliament has just brought down Michel Barnier’s government via a vote of no confidence – a first since 1962. A 🧵 on what is happening, what to expect next - and how the far right is capitalizing on the crisis.
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In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels.
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
The answer: learning curves.
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
The answer: learning curves.
December 4, 2024 at 12:32 PM
In most places in the world, power from new renewables is now cheaper than power from new fossil fuels.
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
The answer: learning curves.
Why did renewables become so cheap so fast?
The answer: learning curves.
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IMF style troika but for Germany where experts from Ireland, Spain and Greece teach them how to borrow and spend.
December 2, 2024 at 11:23 PM
IMF style troika but for Germany where experts from Ireland, Spain and Greece teach them how to borrow and spend.
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When the Bundesbanker once known for his sharp suits looks this crumpled you know something’s not in ordo.
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December 4, 2024 at 8:29 AM
When the Bundesbanker once known for his sharp suits looks this crumpled you know something’s not in ordo.
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American economic dynamism and the American oligarch problem in two graphs by Martin Wolf in today’s FT.
December 4, 2024 at 8:33 AM
American economic dynamism and the American oligarch problem in two graphs by Martin Wolf in today’s FT.