Rubén Vezzoni
Political economist, Postdoc @ University of Amsterdam / low-carbon energy, (attempts of) green transitions, post-growth planning, agroecology, and all that jazz
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniApplications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniSpain's constitution promises democracy at work. Last year, @yolandadiaz.bsky.social convened an expert group to study how to make good on that promise. Lead by @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, we have delivered what is, we think, the highest-level 400-page report on economic democracy out there. 1/2
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniCoal power in China: most new coal plants in a decade went online in 2025; plans for new projects reached a record high, with the equivalent of >150 large coal plants proposed. Thankfully permitting slowed so the government is limiting the expansion to a degree. What's going on?
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniDear friends, We at the Center for European Studies @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social are opening a position of Assistant Professor in political science, with a focus on climate transition policies. Please apply if you're super good (and not afraid to work with me ;). www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
- Reposted by Rubén Vezzoni¿Veis lo rojo? Es el empleo creado en España respecto a otros países de la UE. Hacer políticas que protegen los derechos de los y las trabajadoras tiene resultados visibles.
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniAccording to ECB data, Germany has the highest wealth inequality of all EU countries. The top 10% own 67% of total wealth, while the bottom half own 1.3%. The countries ranking next in wealth inequality are Spain, Ireland, Estonia, France, and Austria.
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniEU Commission asked about comments on loss of life by ICE. “No comment” Follow-up: You condemned killing of Floyd, what is it now? “No comment. We condemn all loss of lives”. Follow-up: clarify “innocent lives.. you see these as innocent lives?” “We didn’t say innocent, it’s for US Gov to decide.”
- In case the Olympic hockey rink isn't ready on time... the US is sending its own ICE to Milan.
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- Reposted by Rubén Vezzoniwikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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- 1/ Is it about oil, the Nobel peace prize, Bidenomics, the hysterical whims of an old geezer, or what?
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniSorry to keep everyone waiting. Here it is. @thepolycrisis.bsky.social take on venezuela. Ofc it’s about oil. No, not like that @katemac.bsky.social buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...
- Just started a postdoc at the University of Amsterdam with a writing retreat. The hotel dedicates each room to a thinker. I got... good ol' Karl. No pressure.
- Not sure what's more embarrassing: the gesture itself or the mention of Bolívar and Lafayette.
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- Welcome to the age of sustainable nuclear warfare!
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniSomething in the latest LRB. It's not the cheeriest of pieces but I hope some find it worthwhile. Thanks for reading.
- ‘Politics and political life require not only a future, but a future in which what we do today can matter. Questions of meaning and mattering are unavoidable in a life lived in the shadow of end times.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social on how we think about the end of the world: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- The EU has found the worthy successor of J C Juncker.
- 👇🏼100%. In the EU, this represents a critical pivot, from re-power to re-arm: www.intereconomics.eu/contents/yea...
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniWhile the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty. Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵 transitionsecurity.org
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniPlacing the power to set the rates of interest & unemployment in the hands of an independent body whose regional branches are run by bankers and whose top job is held by exceptionally conservative and Wall Street-friendly technocrats has been a 𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘺 in the United States. 1/2
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Our special issue of Labor and Society on the ecomodernist features of imperialism is now online in full. The issue makes a stronger contribution to theorising contemporary imperialist dynamics than I could have ever hoped for. Here's a thread introducing each contribution. 🧵 - Reposted by Rubén Vezzoni[Not loaded yet]
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniMerz eyes India business, defence deals in first Asia trip Merz and Modi expected to sign about 10 agreements spanning areas from critical minerals to traditional medicines before issuing press statements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniInvestors anxious over make-or-break fight for the Fed reut.rs/3Z5d0bx
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniGreat way to start the new year with a new publication in Ecological Economics! "Socio-ecological inequalities in housing consumption: How income, urban form, and tenure drive carbon footprints" >>> doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniSomething I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...
- What happened to the watchdogs of power? Seems more like lapdogs.
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniOn twitter, Macron is pretending that a popular uprising finally removed Maduro, what shameful gaslighting, and a joke of European strategic autonomy
- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniHumanity emitted more Greenhouse Gases in 2025 than any year ever
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- A carbon tax on wealth? It'd shift the onus from consumption to ownership. @eurcorrespond.bsky.social:
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniThe idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*
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- What drives the green transition in the EU - and is it delivering on the promised “win-win” outcomes? Here’s a snapshot of the main findings from my doctoral dissertation, by @helsinki.fi:
- Who won? Spoiler alert: the trio in the front.
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- Has the EU’s green transition been overtaken by militarisation? 🧵 on the shift from REPowerEU to ReArm Europe:
- "The economics of data centre deals can be compelling for the utilities," so compelling that they are reviving the fossil fuel everyone left for dead: coal. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniIn the 1980s, a monster was assembled in the pharmaceutical world that pitted patients' interests against those of pharmaceutical investors: the neoliberal pharma model. In PEAK PHARMA w/ @susigeiger.bsky.social, out today @academic.oup.com, we show that this monster is entering a crucial phase...
- Impressive news: thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
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- Reposted by Rubén VezzoniMy book 'Finding Lights in a Dark Age' is published in the UK today. I'm looking forward to seeing its travels in the world. Order information here: chrissmaje.com/book/finding... Short blog post here: chrissmaje.com/2025/10/find...
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- The University of Amsterdam showing the way. www.uva.nl/en/content/n...
- Almost half of the 59 MEPs disclosing secondary jobs work on files that appear directly related to their side jobs. "The vast majority of them decided there was no need to declare a conflict of interest" www.ft.com/content/0466...
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- Is this Black Mirror or Monty Python material? The jury is still out on this one.
- 🙏A fashionably (and unduly) late thanks!
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