Benjamin Braun
@benbraun.social
Political economist @ LSE | Finance, central banking & more | benjaminbraun.org
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my theory that “Europe is mostly an old place with an old mindset and most of the policies, good and bad, emanate from that” stands undefeated.
September 17, 2026 at 12:01 PM
my theory that “Europe is mostly an old place with an old mindset and most of the policies, good and bad, emanate from that” stands undefeated.
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For your listening pleasure - The Rhodes Center Podcast is back with Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on Central Bankers, Trust and what actually holds things together in moments of crisis: player.captivate.fm/episode/ad93...
The ties that bind, and the ties that blind: Central bankers in moments of crisis
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
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September 17, 2026 at 7:08 AM
For your listening pleasure - The Rhodes Center Podcast is back with Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on Central Bankers, Trust and what actually holds things together in moments of crisis: player.captivate.fm/episode/ad93...
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Couldnt be more timely! In @jeppjournal.bsky.social (open access), a detailed post mortem of the 2022 inflation shock, and suggestions how to do better this time.
Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
September 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Couldnt be more timely! In @jeppjournal.bsky.social (open access), a detailed post mortem of the 2022 inflation shock, and suggestions how to do better this time.
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Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
September 16, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Just in time for the latest oil price spike, we published our article urging the ECB not to hike rates to fight a supply shock. Europe needs a new inflation governance for shockflation. We need disaster preparedness for essentials instead of increasing investment costs.
Some very instructive data viz in this piece.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
September 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Some very instructive data viz in this piece.
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Looking forward to being in conversation with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social , @nsrnicek.bsky.social , Francisca Moya Marchi and @chakrabortty.bsky.social .
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL | Tue 29 Sep | 17:30 BST
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL | Tue 29 Sep | 17:30 BST
Book launch: The Rulers
Join UCL IIPP for book launch of The Rulers by Cecilia Rikap.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Looking forward to being in conversation with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social , @nsrnicek.bsky.social , Francisca Moya Marchi and @chakrabortty.bsky.social .
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL | Tue 29 Sep | 17:30 BST
Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL | Tue 29 Sep | 17:30 BST
I had forgotten about Shelton but she wants to bring back the gold standard and is now advising … the Treasury Secretary.
Say what you will about the cranks, their bench is deep.
Say what you will about the cranks, their bench is deep.
September 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
I had forgotten about Shelton but she wants to bring back the gold standard and is now advising … the Treasury Secretary.
Say what you will about the cranks, their bench is deep.
Say what you will about the cranks, their bench is deep.
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This Sunday, Die Linke could become Berlin’s strongest party for the first time.
Importantly, its success in urban centers reflects a broader sociostructural transformation: from a party rooted in the support of production workers to one drawing disproportionate support from the new middle class.
Importantly, its success in urban centers reflects a broader sociostructural transformation: from a party rooted in the support of production workers to one drawing disproportionate support from the new middle class.
September 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
This Sunday, Die Linke could become Berlin’s strongest party for the first time.
Importantly, its success in urban centers reflects a broader sociostructural transformation: from a party rooted in the support of production workers to one drawing disproportionate support from the new middle class.
Importantly, its success in urban centers reflects a broader sociostructural transformation: from a party rooted in the support of production workers to one drawing disproportionate support from the new middle class.
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Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
September 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
Ground Control to Major Tom
🎶🎶🎶
Take your steroid pills and put your helmet on
🎶🎶🎶
Take your steroid pills and put your helmet on
September 15, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Ground Control to Major Tom
🎶🎶🎶
Take your steroid pills and put your helmet on
🎶🎶🎶
Take your steroid pills and put your helmet on
Not going to repost the thread but will say that going all 🧵 1/11 to dunk on the book of a young colleague who is widely read and respected for reasons without having a single word to say about the substance of the argument is ... informative.
September 14, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Not going to repost the thread but will say that going all 🧵 1/11 to dunk on the book of a young colleague who is widely read and respected for reasons without having a single word to say about the substance of the argument is ... informative.
Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
Remember when dense networks of strategic cross-shareholdings among firms, native to coordinated market economies, went the way of the dodo?
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
The Rhenish model, Germany, Inc. undone by Anglo institutional investors?
Well, the dodo is back. Say hello to USA, Inc.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
September 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Frontier AI firms are openly calling for competition-reducing coordination. We shouldn't be surprised: The inter-firm infrastructure for this has long been in the making.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
People think varieties of capitalism is no longer cool but Silicon Valley has built a ... privately coordinated market economy.
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The growth of private credit has often been attributed to tighter banking regulation and low policy rates. Such things certainly played a role early on, but they are difficult to reconcile with the rapid growth in private credit since 2020, when rates went up and regulation, if anything, loosened
September 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
The growth of private credit has often been attributed to tighter banking regulation and low policy rates. Such things certainly played a role early on, but they are difficult to reconcile with the rapid growth in private credit since 2020, when rates went up and regulation, if anything, loosened
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This was supposed to be a much longer piece, with more entries on various pieces of German news coverage in the last year; will hopefully have that ready soon. On the CDU and Germany and Israel
10000signs.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/p...
10000signs.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/p...
People would have seen. On Gaza in Germany
On 8 August 2025, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in power for three months, declares: “The decision made by the Israeli Security Cabinet last night in favor of even tougher military action by the…
10000signs.wordpress.com
September 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
This was supposed to be a much longer piece, with more entries on various pieces of German news coverage in the last year; will hopefully have that ready soon. On the CDU and Germany and Israel
10000signs.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/p...
10000signs.wordpress.com/2026/09/13/p...
Three very pale men insisting that they've created a monster of superhuman capabilities that can only be controlled if the public sinks a big stake into it.
This stake, it must be wooden?
This stake, it must be wooden?
September 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Three very pale men insisting that they've created a monster of superhuman capabilities that can only be controlled if the public sinks a big stake into it.
This stake, it must be wooden?
This stake, it must be wooden?
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Subscribe to stuff, buy stuff, then keep it when you change apps.
When's the last time you heard this? Indeed, never.
When's the last time you heard this? Indeed, never.
Totally forgot to tell you about the best feature of AtmoPay: subscriptions work across app boundaries. Here a screenshot from @skeetsapp.com that unlocks the same creator content for the subscriber.
September 11, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Subscribe to stuff, buy stuff, then keep it when you change apps.
When's the last time you heard this? Indeed, never.
When's the last time you heard this? Indeed, never.
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we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098
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September 11, 2026 at 6:42 PM
we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098
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Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The wrong platform for science
Daniel Blumstein recently sat in a Colorado meadow waiting for yellow-bellied marmots to appear, as the ecologist and evolutionary biologist had done many times before, the New York Times reported. Bu...
www.science.org
September 10, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Researchers across the country are turning to side hustles to fund their work. Behind the cuts sits a bigger shift: whether American science can still sustain durable research capacity. @lindseydcameron.bsky.social and I examine the stakes in a new piece @science.org: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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If someone says to you "but isn't DSA all professionals and gentrifiers" feel free to just send them this piece by me dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
The Party of Baristas - Dissent Magazine
Noam Scheiber’s Mutiny shows that the labor organizing of the radicalized PMC is far more than a fit of whimsical proletarian roleplay.
dissentmagazine.org
September 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
If someone says to you "but isn't DSA all professionals and gentrifiers" feel free to just send them this piece by me dissentmagazine.org/article/muti...
