Just finished discussing this book with our pol. econ PhD students. We all liked it, some more other less, for its attention on consumption as institutionally defined, historical findings, and the general argument about the similarities of business strategies of US retailers digital or otherwise.

I am glad to present our "paper in the making" with Edgars Eihmanis on the interlinkages of Capital Markets Union and Fintech and Crypto developments in the Baltics.

Participation is free of charge, but requires registration here:
lnkd.in/dKUxwzfV

It is a first for me, but I am surely looking forward to it. I find this concept super useful for teaching assetization.

We had our last class on finance at the IPE course at the CEU. We discussed this great paper by Natascha van der Zwan @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social on different approaches to financialization.

The CEU students liked it a lot and were happy that it combined finance with a lot of social theory.

Such a rare opportunity to be a proud Hungarian. Congratulations to Katalin Karikó's Nobel prize!

Slovak elections results are very disappointing with Fico's populist party in the lead. But not all is lost as a lot depends on coalition negotiations.