PhD candidate @MaxwellSU, MSc @LSEEI; Euro politics & political economy of neoliberalism; chef and sous-chef for @lauradedmon; now also @ dedmon on bsky

Colorado, USA
Joined April 2008
Michael Dedmon retweeted
Counter-take: The logic of international solidarity - that what happens in Brazil (from Amazon protection to viral pandemics) matters for what happens in the United States - has never in history been more plainly important.
Earnest take: I think it’s probably not healthy for the practice of democratic self-government that so many people have developed strong rooting interests in elections in countries they don’t live in.
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The Economist, of all, with the right diagnostic xitter.cf/PedderSophie/status/21…
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In our cover package: The upheaval in France and elsewhere in Europe today is not about migrants, race or religion. But it is about the failures of the state and the chronic weakness of centrist politics economist.com/leaders/2026/1…
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The Verasight APSA 2026 omnibus survey report is out. Here are just a few results from the 155 questions submitted by conference participants to our verified panel: 1. 63% of respondents say democracy in the United States is becoming weaker. 2. 59% of respondents trust neither polls nor prediction markets to predict who will win an election. 3. 69% of respondents say the costs of new data centers to their state's water and energy resources outweigh the economic benefits. 4. 62% of respondents have not used any AI tool to learn about politics for the election. View the full report, findings, and methodology: reports.verasight.io/r/2026-… Thank you to every researcher who contributed a question, including: @busranozguler, @DemocracyM, @emineari_IR, Celeste Beesley, @dburbach, @HayleyCohen, @MatthewDardet, @cantstopkevin, @SLDeMora, @fatiherol_pols, @goyal_tanushree, @RikioInouye, @lanalattu, @DebraLeiter, @wpmarble, @markovitis, @Jair1215_, @jkmucci, @noveyator, @lrpalladino, @haroldpollack, @jacobfhsmith, @decustecu, @DanielWSzabo, @GoszaTarasenko, @ozlem__tuncel, @samvannoort, @CBWlezien
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Really interesting new research on "petit rentiers"
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What a great lineup for the Poznan Winter School, coming in January. All on line. No registration fees. Registration will soon open.
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The R package `scf` has been updated. It now works with 2025 data and has several improvements. Please share with your colleagues who study household finance. Please notify me of bugs via GitHub jncohen.commons.gc.cuny.edu/…
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“The situation has never been so serious; the Fifth Republic is on the verge of collapse. My family has served France for centuries, and if France calls upon me, I will be at its service. The indispensable condition is that France desires the return of the monarchy - a monarchy above parties, unifying.” - Luís de Bourbon, direct descendant of Saint Louis IX
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Mathieu Kassovitz dans le cortège lycéen vers Nation à Paris. #17octobre
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If you've been following the rapid growth of the AI sector, check out the new report @openmarkets and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund released today, “Brace for Impact: Protecting People and the Economy when the AI Bubble Bursts.” ⬇️ buff.ly/UzKdzkD
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If a great Irish writer’s books can no longer be published in the UK because she stands with Palestine, the question isn’t what law might Sally Rooney have broken, it’s what sort of country has Britain become. irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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This was a great one - I had a physical reaction to @MatthewSitman’s line “the organic intellectual is someone that does their own research.”
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Every time you hear the fiscal fundamentalists claim 'successful austerity in Greece' poin them to the economic effects: a low productivity "Café Economy," surviving on tourism share.google/EiZig9wGVfot5lb…
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An accompanying piece to my Odd Lots episode. It's not just about the technicalities of comparing living standards: the obsession with relative decline and 'competitiveness' is a form of declinism: "the unwitting last refuge of great power delusions." 🧵 phenomenalworld.org/analysis…
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Michael Dedmon retweeted
Remember when neoliberal econs told us in the post-Covid period that companies were NOT taking advantage of inflation to raise their own prices in excess of any cost increase? They also told us that industry concentration didn't explain post-Covid price hikes. Well, economists at Northeastern University tested that proposition and found good evidence for this practice--what non-econs might call "gouging" or "profiteering"--in the airline industry. Go give it a read! (link in next tweet)
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Michael Dedmon retweeted
French TikTok is something else at the moment.
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