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Olli Tiikkainen
@ollitiik.bsky.social
PhDer @ University of Helsinki & Aalto University. Into STS, social studies of finance & economy, political economy, sustainability transitions research, social theory. They/them.
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Commented on the dire state of the Finnish economy for DW. At the moment, Finland is the only OECD country whose economy is not expected to grow in 2025, and the outlook for 2026 is also very bleak. 1/5

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Russian threats push Finland past EU budget deficit limit – DW – 12/01/2025
Finland cut Russian energy imports and closed the shared border after the Ukraine war, erasing €12 billion in trade. The shocks deepened the Nordic nation's deficit, already strained by defense and we...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Poliittisen talouden vihreän rahoituksen tutkimus on elinvoimainen ja kehittyvä tutkimusala. Katsausartikkelissaan YTM Jussi Ahokas @ahokasjaj.bsky.social @bios.fi käy läpi alan viimeaikaista tutkimusta ja sen antia politiikalle ja tutkimukselle. 1/4
December 4, 2025 at 6:33 AM
who would've guessed slobodian stepping up as late contender for hardest rap lyric of 2025 😮‍💨 might steal this...
japanese jacket looking like the matrix
December 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Looking for books to get for #climate curious friends & family this Christmas🎄?

Here are 6 of my favourites reads this year.

First up, Yale University historian Sunil Amrith's relentlessly edifying 'The Burning Earth'. A staggeringly comprehensive account of how we got to where we are! 🧵
December 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
More plz eli lisää?? Suomeks kelpaa mikä tahansa hyvä kirja!
Best books you've read (fairly) recently? Need suggestions. 🤓

Extra points for:
- Political economy (of finance)
- History of technology
- Environmental social science & philosophy
- Postcolonial studies
- Fiction
November 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Best books you've read (fairly) recently? Need suggestions. 🤓

Extra points for:
- Political economy (of finance)
- History of technology
- Environmental social science & philosophy
- Postcolonial studies
- Fiction
November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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✨ NEW SPECIAL ISSUE ✨

Our new special issue, 'Social Investment in Action', edited by @ditteandersen.bsky.social and Magnus Paulsen Hansen, is now out featuring an editors' introduction, 9 original articles, an interview, and two comments!

Read more below 👇

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November 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
YHYS politiikkadialogi alkaa n. 9 minuutin päästä! Jos et pääse paikalle Aallon Marsioon, voi tapahtumaa seurata myös etänä täältä: www.youtube.com/live/il02imd...
June 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The website of our new project SUSTHOPE is out, check it! And let's talk if you have similar interests! www.aalto.fi/en/departmen...
SUSTHOPE Research Project | Aalto University
Towards Sustainable Hope: Exploring the Harmful and Beneficial Effects of Techno-Optimism.
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May 26, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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It's hard to overstate setback AI is for the energy transition.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the largest energy hog within worldwide digital infrastructure.

By the end of 2025, AI systems could be responsible for half of total data center power demand - up from about 20% per the end of last year.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’
Analysis comes as energy agency predicts systems will need as much energy by end of decade as Japan uses today
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Thrilled to share that the Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure, co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, has been published!

You can find all chapters open access: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
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May 22, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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in 2023, I warned that the derisking state is not a reliable regime of decarbonisation since it relies on tweaking the price signal to mobilise private investment, without considering other macro forces acting on that signal.

ahem.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Danish firm shelves huge UK windfarm project over rising costs
Ørsted cancels fourth stage of Hornsea project off Yorkshire coast, which was set to include enough turbines to power 1m homes
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May 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Tampereen yliopistolla on tänään lakko, koska
➡️Työnantaja ei tarjonnut yleisen linjan mukaisia yleiskorotuksia palkkoihin.
➡️Työnantaja ajaa opetustuntikattojen poistamista.
➡️Työnantaja ei halunnut edistää yliopistolaisten irtisanomissuojaa.
#MeOlemmeYliopisto
May 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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"From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance" by @ollitiik.bsky.social and Mikko J Virtanen out now as part of upcoming special issue on 'Social Investment in Action'

#sociology #finance #socialinvestment

doi.org/10.1177/0001...
From social democracy towards social neoliberalism: Agencing social investment in Finnish impact finance - Olli Tiikkainen, Mikko J Virtanen, 2025
In recent years, impact finance has sought to integrate financial rationales, actors, and novel policy instruments and impact assessment practices into policy f...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Benefit from this abundant list of great opportunities: 27 calls for papers (some are funded), 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a grant in Economic #Sociology, Political Economy & related fields. Share and Good luck! economicsociology.org/2025/04/21/g...
Great academic opportunities: 27 calls for papers, 6 summer schools, 5 postdocs, 5 jobs, 3 PhD scholarships, 2 visiting posts, a research grant
Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant and excellent list of great academic opportunities: 27 (!) calls for papers for conferences (some are partly or even fully fund…
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April 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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”Mikä oikeastaan voisi nykyisessä tilanteessa olla merkittävämpi talouden ja politiikan uutinen kuin se, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikan tutkimuksellinen pohja ja sitä kautta myös ratkaisut murenevat?” Pääsiäisen Polemis-blogi.
www.polemis.fi/post/miksi-i...
Miksi iso uutinen ei kelpaa?
Kuvitellaanpa tilanne, että toimituksilla olisi saatavilla Elinkeinoelämän tutkimuslaitoksen (ETLA) ekonomistien uunituore raportti siitä, että hallituksen finanssipolitiikka nojautuu vääriin oletuksi...
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April 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg avaa blogissaan feminististä talousajattelua:
🔹 Miten se laajentaa ymmärrystä taloudesta?
🔹 Miten talouspolitiikan vallitsevia ideoita voi
tarkastella feministisesti?
🔹 Miten sitä on tuotu osaksi talouspolitiikkaa?

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Sukupuolten suhteet ovat osa talouden rakenteita — ja siksi niitä kannattaa ymmärtää  · Kalevi Sorsa -säätiö
Talouspolitiikan valinnat vaikuttavat hyvin eri tavoin eri sukupuoliin. Perinteinen talouskeskustelu on kuitenkin usein sokeaa talouden sukupuolittuneisuudelle. Tutkijatohtori Emma Lamberg kirjoittaa,...
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April 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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The EU is in the grip of a radical #deregulation frenzy - while the EU has seen deregulation waves before, it’s very different this time ⚠️

#Longread about the multi-dimensional deregulation attack, what's at stake, and how progressive movements can fight back
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Why Progressives Must Organise to Stop the EU’s Deregulation Wave
Under von der Leyen’s lead, the European Commission is driving a far-reaching deregulatory agenda, threatening social and environmental protections. Olivier Hoedeman (Corporate Europe Observatory) rev...
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April 4, 2025 at 7:45 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
📣 Our new article now out in @actasociologica.bsky.social as part of the special issue ’Social Investment in Action'!

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March 18, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete!

🧵on its content:

1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇

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March 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Kirjoitin vaihteeksi tämmöisen! Miten epävarmuuksia pitäisi käsitellä parempien päätösten tekemiseksi.
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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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.
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February 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM