Jakob
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Jakob
@jakobkubin.bsky.social
Researching public banks in sustainable finance and post-growth
also interested in geoeconomics
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📢 New article in Finance and Space
“Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy”

Lisa Knoll, Ulrich Klüh, Ilias Naji & Felix Rossmann examines how EU sustainable finance rules ‘land’ in Germany’s regional banking and SME networks.

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2833...
Sustainable finance down-to-earth? Insights from the German regional economy
The standard sustainable finance agenda portrays the investment world as a change agent for the green transformation of the economy. It does so by demanding more transparency and information for a ...
doi.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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#marxengelswerke 📘 Beziehungsstatus MEW 3: kompliziert. Der Band ist ein harter Brocken. Warum erklären wir unten. Erstmal die gute Nachricht: Zur Feier der Tatsache, dass Band 3 als Paperback wieder verfügbar ist, verlosen wir heute 1 Exemplar. Die Teilnahme am Gewinnspiel… /1
July 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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NEW | Solar power was the EU’s biggest power source in June 2025 ☀️

For the first time, solar ranked first among all power sources, producing 22.1% of the EU’s power ahead of nuclear at 21.8%.

Coal power fell to a record low 6.1% in sixth place.
July 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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still my heart, Larry Fink of BlackRock is peddling the Wall Street Consensus globalisation under a 'national goals - and workers' banner.

www.ft.com/content/a348...
It’s time for the second draft of globalisation
Capital markets need to be better attuned to individual countries’ goals and the interests of workers
www.ft.com
June 3, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Great piece about the interests of the US capital factions and Trump 2.0
Reminds me to read more Marxist state theory
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 31, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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A translation (by Fred Gao) of a very interesting recent speech by Liu Shijin, a former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council. Liu begins by acknowledging how astonishingly low China's consumption share of GDP is.
www.fredgao.com/p/liu-shijin...
Liu Shijin's Advice on Reforming Rural Pension System
Former Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council Calls for Tripling Rural Pensions in Three Years
www.fredgao.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Gütiger Schreibgott, wirf mal wieder einen Bloch vom Himmel
April 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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I've been studying China's RMB internationalization efforts for 16 years. This is the most forceful statement I've ever seen from PBOC when it comes to encouraging Chinese firms to use the RMB in x-border payments. This feels like a meaningful policy shift to me.

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April 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Look at these dismal charts in the Empire Fed survey.

And this is a survey of regional *manufacturers*
April 15, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Fitting amidst all the geopolitical turmoil of the last days, my article on global finance in China in an age of geopolitics was just published in @ripejournal.bsky.social 🥳

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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The FT now churning out some great material for IPE exam/essay questions
April 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Mitglieder der Jungen Akademie veröffentlichen Maßnahmen zum Schutz der #Wissenschaftsfreiheit.
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Autor*innen:
@andreabinder.bsky.social, Radin Dardashti, Racha Kirakosian, Kornelia Kończal, @hannapfeifer.bsky.social, Doris Segets

Hier lesen: rb.gy/4hy0kc
#AcademicFreedom #StandUpForScience
April 10, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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»Schmeicheln wir uns indes nicht zu sehr mit unsern menschlichen Siegen über die #Natur. Für jeden solchen Sieg rächt sie sich an uns.« (Friedrich Engels, MEW, Bd. 20, S. 453)
April 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Today’s Chartbook features one of Stuart Hall’s most famous lectures on the responsibilities of intellectuals and educators in the face of undemocratic structures of power, injustice, racism, and inequality. If you have 15 minutes to spare, I highly recommend watching!

youtu.be/36FaTpOOwB0?...
Caribbean Formation - STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE
YouTube video by Media Education Foundation
youtu.be
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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🚨 Not an April Fools' joke! 🚨 OBFA-TRANSFORM is now on YouTube!

Our first video? A deep dive into Steffen Murau’s PhD thesis on private money with Gerhardt Kaltenherberg—serious content, no pranks.

As DoP & Editor, I made sure it looks as good as the theory sounds.

🎥 youtu.be/YaMGfMB2FMc
Steffen Murau & Gerhardt Kalterherberg | The Political Economy of Private Credit Money Accommodation
YouTube video by The OBFA Transform project
youtu.be
April 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Insane!
Germany's Allianz Global Investors dropped two exclusions blocking its sustainable funds from investing in defense, becoming one of the first major European asset managers to change their policies to help finance the region's rearmament reut.rs/4hY3r5n
Allianz scraps nuclear, military exclusions to back Europe's rearmament drive
Germany's Allianz Global Investors has dropped two exclusions blocking its sustainable funds from investing in defence, becoming one of the first major European asset managers to change their policies to help finance the region's rearmament.
reut.rs
March 31, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We're living through a natural experiment. Can econ/monetary orders built atop particular political orders survive when the latter are dismantled?

Markets may very well be grossly underestimating the kind of economic changes heading our way if we continue on this course.
March 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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This is a great list. As someone who has also been teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, a few additional resources I've found useful 🧵:
Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
March 29, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.
March 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Clean energy is unequivocally cheaper for consumers — and a money-maker for society overall, just from the macroeconomic health-care savings of eliminating most air pollution, let alone from the benefits of halting global heating.

But is it profitable for capital? Discuss.
March 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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"Geoeconomics"
HSBC: Residual value of Teslas in Europe are “an ongoing concern” — and “has created strained relations with leasing companies. .. For example, the rental company Sixt removed $TSLA vehicles from its fleet in December 2023, citing Tesla’s price cuts lowering the value of used cars.”
March 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Geopolitischer Umbruch - Wie geht es weiter mit dem Staat der Industriegesellschaft?

Dialog zwischen Mathias Greffrath und Wolfang Streeck im Deutschlandfunk

09.03.2025

www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-staat-de...
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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"Some officials have been gaming out whether they can find alternatives to the U.S. central bank ... The takeaway from these discussions: there is no good substitute to the Fed."

Same conclusion we reached discussing this scenario in class two weeks ago. #eu469
www.reuters.com/markets/some...
March 24, 2025 at 9:50 AM