Big thanks to my great friends and co-authors @toonvano.bsky.social and Bob Hancké, and to my intellectual home, the @mpifg.bsky.social.

Thanks a lot to my brilliant friends and colleagues @dustinvoss.bsky.social and Bob Hancké. It has always been a lot of fun working together, and this time was no different!

The new book is aimed at advanced undergraduates, masters, starting PhD students and those who teach them. We unpack the key questions, approaches and answers political economy has developed with the aim of giving a broad and historically grounded intro to the world of PE.

that there is scope for a scenario where we combine technology-driven productivity growth with a stable labour markets and thriving democracies. The silver bullet? Inclusive technological change anchored around institutionalised cooperation and trust between capital and labour. 6/6

This has important implications for how we think about structural changes in our labour markets. And put into dialogue with my prior work on the pace of automation across different economies (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...), it suggests (...) 5/6

It seems workers equipped with strong resources to adapt to technological change, demonstrate much less antipathy with the status-quo, compared to their peers in similarly exposed occupations. 4/6

I find that automation risk strongly predicts anti-incumbent positions across Europe. BUT, this effect is mediated by various labour market resources citizens have at their disposal such as a) permanent contracts, b) strong co-determination rights or c) have extensive education 3/6

We already know a lot about how automation risks affect voting behaviour, but how do citizens facing similar occupational risks react when they hold very different resources to deal with such occupational changes?
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