Progress in Political Economy (PPE) @ppesydney.bsky.social ppesydney.net. Political economic research, commentary and events. Blog and book series. Co-editors: @morton.bsky.social and @garethbryant.bsky.social
@notso.bsky.social @notso.bsky.social
Kimberley C @ktcita.bsky.social Just transitions, decarbonisation, and community-led planning researcher. She/her Ph.D.
Politiche Sociali/Social Policies @politichesociali.bsky.social The reference journal for Italian and international scholars interested in Southern European Welfare States. Supported by http://espanet-italia.net
https://www.mulino.it/riviste/issn/2284-2098
David O'Connell @daviduk.bsky.social 🍞⚘️
तत्त्वमसि
PhD | Trade Unionist | Global Labour University Alum | Occasional Jacobin Contributor | Writing on Employee Ownership, Supply Chain Industrial Relations, Philosophy
📍Germany based
https://global-labour-university.org/
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
Research & Degrowth International @r-degrowth.bsky.social Think-and-act-tank dedicated to the radical transformation of our economies & societies ||
Centre de pensament i acció dedicat a la transformació radical de l’economia
https://degrowth.org/
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
🦋 ViaCampesinaBE @bsky.social @viacampesinabe.bsky.social 🛜 #ViaCampesina #LaViaCampesina #UNDROP #PeasantsRightsNOW #FoodSovereigntyNOW #PeasantAgroecologyNOW #PeasantAEachievesCJ #JoinTheFediverse
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@skaratasli.bsky.social @skaratasli.bsky.social
Belén Balanyá @belenbalanya.bsky.social Working with @corporateeurope.org exposing corporate capture, particularly fossil fuel industry #FalseSolutions on #hydrogen and #CCS. #FossilFreePolitics. #RealZeroEurope. 🌱
💜 Views my own. she/her
Stan De Spiegelaere @standespiegelaere.bsky.social Policy and research @uni-europa.bsky.social
Guest professor Ghent University
Active in @denktankminerva.be
Industrial relations, trade unions, collective bargaining.
And waterpolo 🤽
Ursula Huws @ursulahuws.bsky.social Independent writer and researcher. Feminist. Editor of the journal 'Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation'. Retired from academia. Working on a new book. Blogs at ursulahuws.wordpress.com. Please DON'T message me if seeking romance.
Tom Jenkins @tomoljenkins.bsky.social Mainly Unions, Europe
Retired. Former Head EU & International @the-tuc.bsky.social , Head of Staff @etuc-ces.bsky.social , President @eesc.bsky.social
David Peetz @davidpeetz.bsky.social Researcher, FASSA. Employment relations; labour markets; economics; pol science; gender; climate & finance; science; birdies. Carmichael Fellow at Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute, but views mine. Meanjin (Brisbane) & Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland).
Mònica Clua Losada @monicaclua.bsky.social Professor Political Science, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
Editor-in-chief Global Political Economy journal @gpejournal.bsky.social
Opinions my own
Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
Streiks | Globale Arbeitsstudien | Klassen- & Staatstheorie | Konjunkturanalyse Political Scientist @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Audrey Alejandro @audreyalejandro.bsky.social Associate Professor & Methodological Artist
London School of Economics
Discourse, Knowledge, Reflexivity, International Relations
PhD Sciences Po Bx
https://www.audreyalejandro.com/publications.html
Will Daniel @wdaniel127.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. @nottspolitics.bsky.social
I research gender ⚧️ and representation 🏳️🌈, the EU 🇪🇺, careers in legislative and party politics 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇧🇪, and social media 📱
Bio ⏩️ https://shorturl.at/XrwdF
Views own and not those of my employer.
Andreas Kornelakis @andreaskornel.bsky.social Reader/Associate Prof. Kings College London & Alumnus LSE, personal views.
Federico Tadei @federicotadei.bsky.social Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. Economic History | Development | Africa | Colonization | Trade | Inequality
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/federicotadei/home
Ville Kellokumpu @spatialpolitiq.bsky.social Critical geographer currently researching class, climate and labour unions | Postdoc and local labour union chair of @tieteentekijat.bsky.social at University of Oulu |
linktr.ee/spatial_politiq
Soul Park @soulpark.bsky.social Lecturer in IR @politicsuea.bsky.social | previously @National University of Singapore | PhD @University of NotreDame | IR, security and foreign-policy analysis.
Tiziana Torresi (she/her) @tizianatorresi.bsky.social Political philosopher, University of Adelaide
Migration, temporary migration, cities and migration, citizenship, populism. Theories of wellbeing, love, Buddhism, and cyberpolitics!
Mat Paterson @matpaterson.bsky.social Climate politics; political economy. University of Manchester Professor. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=im2kgFUAAAAJ&hl=en. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/matthew.paterson.
Claes Belfrage @cabelfrage.bsky.social Reader in Global Political Economy, University of Liverpool. Interested in financialisation, Green Finance, Post-Growth and Circular Economy. Working with Liverpool City Council to engineer the Green Transition. Enjoys family, fun and tennis.
🇸🇪Living in🇬🇧
Alke Jenss @alkejenss.bsky.social states, infrastructures, violence | sociology & urban & conflict studies | Cluster Contested Governance @ABI freiburg | Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia | author: Selective Security | PI @postcolh22 | mom | find me staring at clouds
@gregorgall.bsky.social @gregorgall.bsky.social Industrial relations prof, Bob Crow & Mick Lynch biographer, authored Strummer's politics book, Redskins' political influence book https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marxism-in-music-9798765140888/ contributor to Herald, National
Gregor.Gall@glasgow.ac.uk
Kirsty Newsome @kirstynewsome.bsky.social Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Decent Work, University of Sheffield
Maureen (She/They) settler @maureeno.bsky.social No DMs No MAGA
Fierce Advocate of Equity-deserving folx
Writer, Educator, Counsellor/Coach.
Partner/Friend/Sister/Aunt/Neighbour
Proud Mom of 2 lovely humans, 1 dog & 3 cats.
#BLM #BIR #2S/LGBTQ+ #PWD #PovertyKills #FreePalestine #IStandWithUkraine
Adam Sneyd 🇨🇦 @adamsneyd.bsky.social Author of Hidden Politics in the UN SDGs & Professor @ Moo U in Guelph - critical thoughts on commodities, sustainability & CSR + check out www.theicsdp.org and https://adamsneyd.com
Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social Human, writer, critic, social researcher, professor, critical communication & social theory, https://fuchsc.net Editor: http://triple-c.at
Tansel Güçlü @tanselguclu.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Finance & Banking, Munzur University | Ph.D. University of Sydney, Political Economy & M.A. UMKC, Economics | Heterodox-Marxian Economics, Money and Finance #URPE #AFIT
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tansel-Gueclue
Francis Sealey @globalnet21.bsky.social I am an ex-BBC producer who is now retired but active in creating channels of engagement around climate change, global conflict, and the challenges to democracy. Originally from Bridgwater in Somerset
Martin Danyluk @martindanyluk.bsky.social Assistant professor, Concordia University. Baker of mediocre bread. I study cities, infrastructure, housing, supply chains, inequality. He/him.
Catherine Gegout @catherinegegout.eurosky.social Researching European foreign policy and the global South. PhD in Politics and International Relations, EUI, Firenze. Author of: Why Europe Intervenes in Africa (Hurst 2017, OUP 2018); European Foreign and Security Policy (University of Toronto Press 2010).
Melanie Simms @melaniesimms.bsky.social Professor of Work and Employment. Specialism in unions and worker voice. Promoter of social sciences. Fascinated by pretty much everything. She/her
Umit Akcay @umitak.bsky.social Political economy of development & growth models | Dependent financialization and central banking | Political economy of new authoritarianisms | Turkey | @ipeberlin.bsky.social | https://www.ipe-berlin.org/en/institute/members/uemit-akcay/
Milan Babic @mbabic.bsky.social climate politics, state & corporate power | author 'The Rise of State Capital': http://t.ly/MfSm & 'Geoökonomie' (2025): https://t.ly/4nUBl | contact: milanbabic.com
Sabina Lawreniuk @sabinalawreniuk.bsky.social 🌏 UKRI Future Leader Fellow
🔎 Women's work & organising in global garment production
🔗 www.invisibleworkers.org.uk
Jacqueline Best @jacquelinebest.bsky.social Political economy Prof at the University of Ottawa. Current research: the politics of inflation and central banks; the early history of neoliberalism; practical ignorance; social theory.
Florian Rabitz @frabitz.bsky.social Environmental politics and emerging technologies at Kaunas University of Technology and Vilnius University.
Peter Newell @peternewell.bsky.social Academic, activist, lover of nature, football, drums & dogs
Stefano Ponte @stefanoponte.bsky.social Power, Inequality & Sustainability in Business & the Economy / Prof. of IPE at Copenhagen Business School /
Co-editor Review of Int. Political Economy / New book out in 2025: “Value struggles: Looking at capitalism through the wine glass.” Born @ 323 ppm
Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social “Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes.”
Tom Barnes @drtombarnes.bsky.social Sociologist of work & economy, Australian Catholic University, researching warehouse logistics, auto manufacturing, precarity, labour regimes, India, Australia
Chris Hesketh @chrishesketh.bsky.social Academic @IRSussex | Author 'Spaces of Capital/Spaces of Resistance: Mexico and the Global Political Economy | Historical Materialism | Mexico | Bolivia | Indigenous resistance
Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography @ University of Manchester. Author of The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea (Michigan: 2024, OA). Co-Editor: Developmentalist Cities? (Brill/Haymarket 2019). North sea surfer
Kristin Makszin 🟥 @kmakszin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Economy at Leiden University College, FGGA | research social policy and housing vulnerability in East Central Europe, teach research design and stats
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kristin-makszin
Grant Buttars @gbuttars.bsky.social Socialist, trade unionist, anti-fascist, archivist | UCU | rs21 | he/him
Marc-André Gagnon @m-a-gagnon.bsky.social Professor in public policy at Carleton University.
Focus on the political economy of the pharmaceutical sector.
Current research project: https://carleton.ca/ghostmanagement/
Also a big fan of craft beers, slap bass, and Japanese death metal.
Roland Erne @rolanderne.bsky.social Professor of European Integration and Employment Relations
University College Dublin
https://www.erc-europeanunions.eu/
Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social Assistant prof political economy
University of Cambridge
Books: Money Power in Emerging Markets (2020);
The Spectre of State Capitalism (now out and free to download!)
Editor Economy and Society
Member Second Cold War Observatory
Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @Scuola Normale Superiore, Firenze, Italy | Political Economy & Ecology | Water Governance
Thomas Sotiriou @thomassotiriou.bsky.social
Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social Sociologist. Interested in (digital) capitalism, work, authoritarianism and social conflicts. Book: „Zerstörungslust. Elemente des demokratischen Faschismus“, Berlin: Suhrkamp.
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Bernd Bonfert @bonfert.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sustainable Development at EM Normandie Business School | Researching sustainable food and energy systems | Vice Chair of @cpern.bsky.social | Associate Editor at @gpejournal.bsky.social
Etienne Schneider @etienneschneider.bsky.social European and Global Political Economy. Industrial and Climate Policy. Carbon Removal. APART-GSK Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences @univie.ac.at
Adam Fishwick @adam-fishwick.bsky.social Research and Writing | International Political Economy | Labour Movement and Trade Unions | Outer Space | Alternatives to Capitalism
Currently in the Arctic https://www.unak.is/english/moya/ugla/staff/adam-daniel-fishwick
Philip Rathgeb @philiprathgeb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Social Policy at University of Edinburgh. PhD from EUI Florence. New book: "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare in Europe and the USA" with Oxford University Press.
Website: www.philiprathgeb.com.
Huw Thomas @huwthomas.bsky.social Assistant Professor University College Dublin (UCD) - global labour governance, international employment relations, future of work.
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social SPERI develops and promotes new analysis and understanding of the major economic and political challenges arising from contemporary capitalism.
Blog: https://speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Podcast: https://sheffield.ac.uk/speri/podcast
Adam Mrozowicki @amrozowicki.bsky.social Sociologist of work, the Head of the Department of the Sociology of Work and Economic Sociology at the University of Wrocław, Poland
Felix Koenig @koenig-felix.bsky.social Labor economist, Assistant Professor Carnegie Mellon University. Interests: labor econ, employment, inequality and 🏊♂️🚴♂️🏖
Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney | political economy, environmental history, energy | PhD, University of Sydney
Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social Dept of Global Labor and Work at Cornell | China in Global Capitalism w/Haymarket https://t.ly/uySU6 | Labor politics in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan | @aaup.org & @jvp.bsky.social
Ian Greer @ianithacagreer.bsky.social Industrial relations academic involved in various labor struggles. Cornell-ILR Ithaca Co-Lab. Marketization book with Charles Umney. Current research on re-entry, electric vehicle transition, living wage, unemployment.
Dr Stephen Hurt @drstephenhurt.bsky.social Associate Professor #InternationalRelations at Oxford Brookes University. Research interests: pol econ of #SouthAfrica; #EU #trade #development policy; Post- #Brexit #UK trade. https://internationalpoliticsfromthemargin.net/
Semra Sevi @semrasevi.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto
www.semrasevi.com
Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Eleni Tsingou @etsingou.bsky.social Prof. International Political Economy and Transnational Governance, Copenhagen Business School
Working on financial governance, AML/CFT, investment in women’s health
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social Environmental political economy, climate repair, green industrial policy. Thinking about the past and future of legacy carbon @USyd
Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social Political Ecologist/Economist at SOAS
Bruno Bonizzi @bbonizzi.bsky.social
Born in Milan, lives in London. Macro-finance: Pension funds, emerging economies, capital flows and financialisation.
Charles Umney @charlesumney.bsky.social Industrial relations, technology, sociology of work. Currently focused on technological change in warehousing work among other things. Co-author "Marketization" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marketization-9781913441463/
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Manfred Elfstrom @manfrede.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science at University of British Columbia. Researching China, social movements, labor, authoritarianism. Author of "Workers and Change in China." He/him. Website: https://manfredelfstrom.com
Kate Bronfenbrenner @klbrenner.bsky.social
matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social Sociologist. Socialist. UCU Branch Rep. I write about capitalism, work, management, and class.
Decent at bike polo. Local croquet champ
www.mattvidal.com
Michele Ford @profmicheleford.bsky.social Labour sociologist and Southeast Asia tragic. Researches industrial relations and the intersection of global and local labour movements in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Timor-Leste. Also interested in gender and disability at work.
Jens Arnholtz @jensarnholtz.bsky.social Associate professor with focus on employment relations, power resources, labour migration and European integration
Sara Meger @sarameger.bsky.social Senior lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne. Interested in critical political economy, security and feminist theory.
Dr. Hannah Bargawi @hannahbargawi.bsky.social Director of Global Learning and Teaching @soas Uni of London- Feminist Econ/ Development Econ/ Pol Econ/ UK HE/ all things Learning and Teaching
Mark Davis @profmarkdavis.bsky.social Economic Sociologist | Co-created Local Climate Bonds - raised +£30M for #netzero projects so far | Now researching social relations of retrofit | Deputy Head of School @sspatleeds.bsky.social | First-Gen | Views mine
Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of International Relations, Thammasat University, Bangkok.
IR, critical theory, political economy, Southeast Asia.
David Fields @profdavidfields.bsky.social Classical-Keynesian Institutionalist Political Economist.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Fields-5
Salvador Santino Regilme @ssregilme.bsky.social Associate Professor and Chair, International Relations Program (Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities, Institute for History)
| #HumanRights #ForeignAid | Working on two new books: #GlobalDrugWars + #AidForDominance
http://santinoregilme.weebly.com
Alejandro Godino @agodino.bsky.social Sociologist. Lecturer at University of Sevilla. Employment relations researcher. Correspondent to Eurofound. Also spending time with comics.
https://alejandrogodino.com/
EPSU @epsu.bsky.social The European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU), organising 8 million public service workers across Europe.
Follow us to stay connected with their fight - and wins!
General Secretary: @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social Industrial relations, political economy and sociology of work.
Christoph Sorg @christophsorg.bsky.social Social scientist at Humboldt University Berlin | research project "capitalist planned economies" | interested in political economy and economic sociology | planning, (post-)capitalism, social movements, social reproduction, digitalization, debt+finance
Jokubas Salyga @jokubassalyga.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Political Science at UT RGV
Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social
Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change.
🌐 jokubassalyga.lt
All views here are personal.- J Juliabeier @julia-beier.bsky.social