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🚨 Announcement - Hajnal Lecture 2025 🚨 "The Origins of Constitutional Government" by Mark Koyama May 7, 2025 from 4 to 5:30 pm The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development, University of Manchester And no need to register to come to the lecture! 1/3

There is a long-standing tradition in fascist ideology of subordinating economic policy to what Carl Schmitt called "the political" or the power of the dictatorial leader of the movement to decide what most conduces to national supremacy—be it laissez faire or protectionism.

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated. The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

Economics is fundamentally political. Economics is shaped by ideologies, human values, competing interests, social norms, and political priorities. Be sceptical of economists who tell you that their field is 'objective', free from politics.

My department is advertising for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Global Political Economy. Please share with anyone who may be interested. jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by Political and Social Sciences at EUI, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from CEE can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. Info: eui.eu/en/projects/po… #polsci

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Have said this before but these analyses always exclude tuition fees, which are a de facto income tax for everyone but the richest graduates. My top rate of income tax is 55%, not 40%, and it will continue to be until I turn 55.

👩‍🎓🇪🇺 The European Universities Initiative (EUI): Accomplishments and Challenges, new publication by Andrew Gunn 🇺🇦 link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #HigherEducation #Universities

Economics PhDs really choose to spend the best years of their life being paid almost nothing to work 90 hour weeks in a windowless basement and then assume people exhibit rational behavior

New research on the World Bank. We explore the various ways the WB influences education policy implementation. By applying the 'global-local conditions of possibility' framework, we shed light on the complexities of policy design and the importance of contextual sensitivity.

Something I find super neat is that Singapore has a cooling-off period which is the day before election day until the close of the polls "to give voters some time to reflect rationally on issues raised during the election"

Staffordshire and Shropshire are a great example of two neighbouring formerly-Tory counties protest voting in two VERY different directions A thread on what this means for politics

New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨 High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).

My The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand summary of Labor's higher ed policy agenda. theconversation.com/labor-has-prom…

Newsflash: Most students attend colleges that aren’t “newsy” at all. Wonderful breakdown, James S Murphy. Another great reminder about the most important schools in America that serve most of our students. edreformnow.org/2025/05/06/six…

With great sadness, we have lost Joe Nye, one of the foremost scholars of international relations, academic leaders as visionary Dean of HKS, and dedicated public servants of his generation, as well as a personal friend who first brought me to Harvard. Read his tributes below

The lowest paid UK workers have seen by far this biggest pay rises over the last 25 years: real pay is up by a third for the 10th percentile and up a fifth for the 25th percentile vs. only 12% for the median and 11% for the top 10%

No, (class) size doesn't matter! larrycuban.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/do-… via @CubanLarry