Angela Wigger

Ian Bruff - All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism. YouTube video by CSSGJ

The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!

I’m pleased to announce the article by Scott Lavery and myself: InvestEU: Neoliberal Lineages and Contradictions in the New EU Industrial Policy. You can read and download it for free here: 10.17645/pag.11257 #OpenAccess

June 4, "EU Industrial Policy. Crowding in Financial Capital, Crowding Out Democratic Oversight". Angela Wigger, Radboud University

In our next MAX CPE workshop @angelawigger.bsky.social‬ will present her paper on "Delegating Decarbonization: How InvestEU Empowers Financial Capital at the Expense of a Democratic Governance of EU Industrial Policy".

📅 Wednesday June 4, 13:00 CEST
📍 online

Sign up: s.gwdg.de/rXs4Xn

Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...

Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

Really excellent stuff, as always

Thanks, Ian. I am only reading this now (haven't been on Bluesky for a while).

Guest lecture with political economists @radboudpol.bsky.social, love it! Good discussions on using climate litigation to address corporate power and governance gaps. Thanks for having me @angelawigger.bsky.social!

Benchmarking labour competitiveness: the politics of institutionalizing unit labour cost surveillance in the European Union In responding to the 2008 financial crisis, EU crisis management evolved through successive diagnostic reframings that shifted the root causes from credit crunch to sovereign debt crisis to competi...

🚨Publication Alert 🚨
Our own @angelawigger.bsky.social and co-author with a new piece in Policy Studies, exploring how unit labour cost scoreboards remain firmly embedded in EU post-crisis governance. This reveals the persistence of competitiveness logics.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Special Marxists in the Netherlands Unite! Back to class. What does Marxism in the Netherlands look like today.

Due to popular demand there are a limited number of more tickets for our event in ONE WEEK 3rd December at Pakhuis de Zwijger.
Join us for an evening of talks from Sai Englert, Anja Meulenbelt, @angelawigger.bsky.social @sas-b.bsky.social and more!

Register here dezwijger.nl/programma/ma...

Joining meeting with @angelawigger.bsky.social on derisking and EU finance like InvestEU

Pointing out risks for EU budget

And no policy direction, no guarantees that the corporations and private equity funds deliver on the objectives

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@neweconomics.bsky.social
@epsu.bsky.social

Assistant Professor: International Relations | Radboud University Do you want to work as a Assistant Professor: International Relations at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

Nice opportunity for a political economist to work with the awesome @angelawigger.bsky.social and others in lovely Nijmegen www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Thanks, Jasper.

De publiek-private financiering van het EU-industriebeleid staat een groene transitie in de weg De investeringen die op Europees niveau nodig zijn om klimaatdoelstellingen te halen lopen onder andere via InvestEU. Via dit vehikel geeft de Europese Unie een begrotingsgarantie af van miljarden eur...

For my Dutch-speaking friends and colleagues: wbs.nl/publicaties/...

If you are interested to know more about how EU industrial policy is being financed, in this SOMO long read, I am outlining key features of InvestEU, its redistributive effects and how it empowers financial capital - at the expense of democratic oversight and the urgently needed green transition.

For my German-speaking friends and colleagues. There is a lot more forthcoming on this topic - in Dutch and English. Stay tuned ;-)

Het leest als de jaren negentig in het kwadraat: geef kapitaal de ruimte, dan volgt de welvaart vanzelf Het Commissie-voorstel voor een Europese ‘kapitaalmarktunie’ moet de samenleving als geheel verder financialiseren. De voorstellen sturen precies de verkeerde kant op, de juichende persberichten van d...

Letten we even op? Het kapitaal krijgt alweer meer ruimte, als het aan Europa ligt. Ten koste van de samenleving.
Column, vandaag zonder betaalmuur.
@somoamsterdam.bsky.social
@angelawigger.bsky.social
@fnv.bsky.social

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Director of Research Programmes (32-36 hours per week, Amsterdam-based) - SOMO Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for supervising activist research and investigations about some of the most urgent global issues?

SOMO, the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations in Amsterdam has a fantastic job opening that might be of interest to some of you: www.somo.nl/director-of-...

For narrow minds, everything is either-or. They cannot comprehend complexity or think beyond their rigid ideological boundaries.

Obviously, "Europe" can have both. But, yes, probably not while also continuing to give Big Business and billionaires massive tax breaks and state subsidies.

Come join Angela Wigger, Daniela Gabor, Etienne Schneider (all of whom I couldn't find on here yet?) and myself in Brussels (or online, ep.interactio.eu/2avd-ir39-466f) this Thursday, 9-11am CET. We'll discuss the EU's industrial policy agenda. Lots of stuff to chew on!

One of the various books forthcoming in the @manchesterup.bsky.social book series with Progress in Political Economy (PPE) is this by @alfnilsen.bsky.social and friends. The PPE series is edited with Angela Wigger and @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

Global Solidarities against Water Grabbing - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Why my new book Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing: Without Water, We Have Nothing addresses how conflicts over water are human-caused events that have socio-political and economic roots.

Commodity or commons? The heart of the topic of Caitlin Schroering’s new book *Global Solidarities Against Water Grabbing* in the Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
@garethbryant.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social and Angela Wigger

This was quite a while ago but it was simply amazing visiting Geneva University and learning about the cool programme Bruno Amable and Cedric Durand are running with colleagues.

Must read on the cracks of Elon Musk's empire: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...