Postdoc @PA_UniLeiden, studying the link between states and financial markets. #pensionfunds | #impinv & #socinv | #sustainablefinance | #publicfinance
Dec 19, 2022 • 13 tweets • 10 min read
Just as twitter crumbles, I'm beyond happy that my 1st PhD paper just got published @EconSocJournal, studying emergence of impact investing in UK.
Main argument: financial agency involves creating social conditions for the exercise of financial power 1/11 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
Creating new financial assets is key to the expansion of financialized capitalism. #Assetization enables rent extraction and thus creates economic winners and losers. Losers include gov de-risking, or non financial firms. Why do they participate nevertheless? 2/11
Jul 17, 2022 • 15 tweets • 7 min read
Germany is when the government announces >10% budget cuts and there is no critical debate, let alone real resistance. The extent to which austerity is depoliticized in 🇩🇪 is equally singular and dangerous. #stopthecuts
If you look at the press release, it’s truly awful.
👉 cuts described as a way to ensure „fiscal capacity“ - even though they are the exact opposite.
👉 cuts as „clear signal“ in fight against inflation. As if unemployed scientists reduce gas prices.
1/ With financial innovations such as #sustainablefinance and #impactinvesting increasingly viewed as key to the solution of current social and environmental crises, let’s take a look at how we got here, what might be problematic about that and what to do about it. 👇
2/ This is a thread about the empirical part of my book that traces the history of #socinv in the UK. I’ll leave the theoretical argument based on Fligstein & McAdam’s strategic action field theory & pragmatist action theory for another time. springer.com/gp/book/978303…
Oct 27, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A week ago, I left my job with the in-house consulting firm of the German gov/ public sector. I am deeply grateful for privileged insights and manifold opportunities to learn over the past ~2 years. Some of the things I learned 👇 1/ #twitterverwaltung#organization#mgmttwitter
Public authorities are over-individualized and “under-cultured”. Personal opinions, position and portrayed performance matter a lot. In fact, public authorities put in surprisingly large efforts into consensus-building. I’ve spent at least 30-50% of my work time doing that. 2/
