Mark Hallerberg
@mhallerberg.bsky.social
Professor, Hertie School in Berlin.
Many congrats to Joel Mokyr for being selected as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work on technology and economic growth inspired me some years ago as a grad student. He is one of the shining lights working in Economic History.
October 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Many congrats to Joel Mokyr for being selected as one of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work on technology and economic growth inspired me some years ago as a grad student. He is one of the shining lights working in Economic History.
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These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.
Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.
German Finance Minister Klingbeil speaks at the Jacques Delors Centre at Hertie concerning Germany‘s role in Europe. He said the right things about the need for what would amount to a capital markets union.
September 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
German Finance Minister Klingbeil speaks at the Jacques Delors Centre at Hertie concerning Germany‘s role in Europe. He said the right things about the need for what would amount to a capital markets union.
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The U.S. has enjoyed a decades-long economic advantage thanks to its reputation as the safest place in the world for investors to put their money and for entrepreneurs to build their businesses.
President Trump may be chipping away at that advantage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b... #EconSky
President Trump may be chipping away at that advantage.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b... #EconSky
Trump’s Attacks on Institutions Threaten a Bulwark of Economic Strength
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Interesting article, but something is missing here. German breads are more complex, often having little to no wheat in them. A bakery near us replaced all wheat with spelt. More generally white bread is rare. This may also explain the difference with the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Is the Bread in Europe Better for You?
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Interesting article, but something is missing here. German breads are more complex, often having little to no wheat in them. A bakery near us replaced all wheat with spelt. More generally white bread is rare. This may also explain the difference with the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/w...
Welcome @epssnet.bsky.social ! I plan to be in Belfast at the first conference next year.
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
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We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Welcome @epssnet.bsky.social ! I plan to be in Belfast at the first conference next year.
The DFG Excellence Cluster @scripts-berlin.eu is hiring a key member of staff, our Managing Director. This person will work with a great group of academics across Berlin, including with me. Note that one needs both German and English. More here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
PS-SCRIPTS_GF_2025
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June 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The DFG Excellence Cluster @scripts-berlin.eu is hiring a key member of staff, our Managing Director. This person will work with a great group of academics across Berlin, including with me. Note that one needs both German and English. More here: www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
Berlusconi appointed himself as Treasury Minister. He even attended an ECOFIN meeting in this role. Why not an American President as Fed Chair? Especially one who has a lot of parallels to Berlusconi? (Just to be clear—I do NOT think this is a good idea. But Trump‘s comment does not surprise me.)
Folks are rightly cracking lots of jokes about this. I'll simply note, again, that a more polite & elitist version of this was precisely the critique wrongly leveled at Jay Powell for 3 long years by several of the most prominent economists in the National Conversation™️:
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Trump: "Maybe I should go to the Fed. Am I allowed to appoint myself? Am I allowed to appoint myself at the Fed? I'd do a much better job."
June 18, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Berlusconi appointed himself as Treasury Minister. He even attended an ECOFIN meeting in this role. Why not an American President as Fed Chair? Especially one who has a lot of parallels to Berlusconi? (Just to be clear—I do NOT think this is a good idea. But Trump‘s comment does not surprise me.)
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We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
June 6, 2025 at 6:18 AM
We are opening three full professor positions in beautiful Innsbruck!
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Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
June 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Absolutely grotesque abuse of government power. Lying to educators in order to entrap children. No wonder they want to hide their identity.
This makes me so angry. You don’t call in the National Guard on a peaceful protest. A protest the THE POLICE say is a peaceful protest.
June 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This makes me so angry. You don’t call in the National Guard on a peaceful protest. A protest the THE POLICE say is a peaceful protest.
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#Vorgestellt: Erforschen, wie die liberale Gesellschaftsordnung 🗽 als Grundlage der #Demokratie global und regional herausgefordert wird – dem widmet sich @scripts-berlin.eu : einer der fünf Berliner #Exzellenzcluster, die ab 2026 durch die @dfg.de gefördert werden. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
May 30, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#Vorgestellt: Erforschen, wie die liberale Gesellschaftsordnung 🗽 als Grundlage der #Demokratie global und regional herausgefordert wird – dem widmet sich @scripts-berlin.eu : einer der fünf Berliner #Exzellenzcluster, die ab 2026 durch die @dfg.de gefördert werden. @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Great speech at the #HertieSchool from Christine Lagarde on what it would take for the euro to overtake the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency
May 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great speech at the #HertieSchool from Christine Lagarde on what it would take for the euro to overtake the dollar as the world’s main reserve currency
Good news!
SCRIPTS is celebrating! 🎉
We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy!
We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0!
#Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy
We have been awarded a second round of funding through the DFG’s Excellence Strategy!
We're excited to continue exploring how democracies adapt under pressure—our new focus: democratic resilience. More to come as we prepare for SCRIPTS 2.0!
#Democracy #ExcellenceStrategy
May 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Good news!
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Japan and the EU are holding out for a fair, balanced deal with Trump even if it takes months. First to the finish line doesn’t always mean victory, as the UK showed by sealing a quick deal in which it caved to many US demands.
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Japan to hold out for better trade deal with US
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s unpopular government fears concessions could prompt electoral backlash
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May 16, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Japan and the EU are holding out for a fair, balanced deal with Trump even if it takes months. First to the finish line doesn’t always mean victory, as the UK showed by sealing a quick deal in which it caved to many US demands.
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Noch immer kommen Menschen zur Skalitzer Straße 32 in #Kreuzberg, legen Blumen nieder, zünden Kerzen an - und erinnern an Margot #Friedländer, die hier mit ihrer Familie lebte, bis am 20. Januar 1943 die Gestapo kam und sie sich im Untergrund verstecken musste.
May 15, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Noch immer kommen Menschen zur Skalitzer Straße 32 in #Kreuzberg, legen Blumen nieder, zünden Kerzen an - und erinnern an Margot #Friedländer, die hier mit ihrer Familie lebte, bis am 20. Januar 1943 die Gestapo kam und sie sich im Untergrund verstecken musste.
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So per @georgeeaton.bsky.social's useful insider account, it seems Labour's theory of growth is the Swedish export model of the late 20th century, which relied on squeezing low productivity manufacturing firms out of business so as to keep exports competitive. Quite bold for a service-led economy.
May 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
So per @georgeeaton.bsky.social's useful insider account, it seems Labour's theory of growth is the Swedish export model of the late 20th century, which relied on squeezing low productivity manufacturing firms out of business so as to keep exports competitive. Quite bold for a service-led economy.
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Don't miss out on this! We are very delighted to welcome Christine Lagarde at @delorsberlin.bsky.social on Monday, 26 May for a keynote speech on Europe's role and economic leadership in a fragmented world.
Seats are limited, link for registration here: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
Seats are limited, link for registration here: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Don't miss out on this! We are very delighted to welcome Christine Lagarde at @delorsberlin.bsky.social on Monday, 26 May for a keynote speech on Europe's role and economic leadership in a fragmented world.
Seats are limited, link for registration here: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
Seats are limited, link for registration here: www.delorscentre.eu/en/events-at...
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To start off our new event series “Remaking America?” with @scripts-berlin.eu, we will welcome Mark DiPlacido on 15 May to discuss Donald Trump's tariffs & 🇺🇸 #trade policy. His remarks will be further discussed with @mhallerberg.bsky.social & the event moderated by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.
Remaking America
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May 9, 2025 at 12:32 PM
To start off our new event series “Remaking America?” with @scripts-berlin.eu, we will welcome Mark DiPlacido on 15 May to discuss Donald Trump's tariffs & 🇺🇸 #trade policy. His remarks will be further discussed with @mhallerberg.bsky.social & the event moderated by @thousandfriend.bsky.social.
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"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
Tech is where Europe is most vulnerable. Initiatives like this one are a good start.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
www.techspot.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Tech is where Europe is most vulnerable. Initiatives like this one are a good start.
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57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
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April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)
yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
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A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe
Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.
www.bostonglobe.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...
This is very cool. I hope others copy this excellent work, and that we all learn from greater data transparency
Rather than doom-scrolling/trying to desperately learn what a ‘Treasury basis trade’ is, why not play with our new tool instead?
Allows you to see, in lots of detail, how much the government spends on different things in each region (£, £ per person, % GDP). I’ll post some nice examples later.
Allows you to see, in lots of detail, how much the government spends on different things in each region (£, £ per person, % GDP). I’ll post some nice examples later.
April 10, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is very cool. I hope others copy this excellent work, and that we all learn from greater data transparency
This agreement on the citizenship laws is a big deal, and the right decision. It is also against what Merz said on the campaign.
Good to see the new CDU/CSU and SPD coalition 🇩🇪 keeps the main elements of the 2024 modernisation of German citizenship law in place. Incl dual citizenship and 5 yrs residence req. 👏
Only element that is cancelled is the fast-track naturalisation (after 3 yrs) or 'Turbo-Einbürgerung'.
Only element that is cancelled is the fast-track naturalisation (after 3 yrs) or 'Turbo-Einbürgerung'.
April 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
This agreement on the citizenship laws is a big deal, and the right decision. It is also against what Merz said on the campaign.