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Benjamin Braun

@BJMbraun

Political economist | @MPIfG_Cologne | Researching central banking, asset management, green macrofinancial regimes & more | benbraun on the blue site

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Hanno Hauenstein(@hahauenstein) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.masha gessen ist in den letzten Tagen nicht gerade mit Samthandschuhen angefasst worden. Hier mein Versuch eines empatischen Gesprächs mit Masha Gessen—über Deutschland, Hannah Arendt und einen umstrittenen Essay.
fr.de/kultur/gesells…

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Isabella M. Weber(@IsabellaMWeber) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Germans have experienced a dramatic decline in real wages. The government just added an austerity program in response to the budget crisis. The country is on track for a deep recession while the far right AfD has overtaken all governing parties in the polls.

Germans have experienced a dramatic decline in real wages. The government just added an austerity program in response to the budget crisis. The country is on track for a deep recession while the far right AfD has overtaken all governing parties in the polls.
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Matthias Goldmann @goldmatt.bsky.social(@MattHGoldmann) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Für Jochen Bittner liegen die Zweifel junger Menschen am zivilisierten Westen daran, dass wir u.a. die Erfolge des Irakkriegs (!) nicht genügend würdigen.

Es gibt keine Erfolge des Irakkriegs.

Solche Rants voller fake news dienen nur dem Rechtsruck.

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Arielle Angel(@ArielleLAngel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Woke up to another ferocious attack on journalists, from Gaza to Jerusalem. Three attacked just today, including Al Jazeera's Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose wife and child were already killed by Israeli airstrikes. Every journalist worldwide should be speaking out about this.

Woke up to another ferocious attack on journalists, from Gaza to Jerusalem. Three attacked just today, including Al Jazeera's Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose wife and child were already killed by Israeli airstrikes. Every journalist worldwide should be speaking out about this.
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j.altaner(@AltanerJ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Who are the people pushing for Masha Gessen’s cancellation?
According to ZEIT, the Green party's Helga Truepel was a major voice behind it. Let's look at her social media account activity(her shares & reposts) of the last week & learn more about her
zeit.de/kultur/2023-12… /1

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Robert Pausch(@bertpsch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Austerität ist kein Naturgesetz, sondern eine politische Entscheidung Folge 342, diesmal mit einem besonders absurden Beispiel.

Das BMF räumt selbst ein, dass sich mit einer anderen Verbuchung der Zinskosten 17 Milliarden sparen ließen, schreibt Mark Schieritz

Austerität ist kein Naturgesetz, sondern eine politische Entscheidung Folge 342, diesmal mit einem besonders absurden Beispiel. Das BMF räumt selbst ein, dass sich mit einer anderen Verbuchung der Zinskosten 17 Milliarden sparen ließen, schreibt @schieritz
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Kai Koddenbrock(@KaiKodden) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Gessen's text teaches us a lot of history we know much too little about and contains complex reflections on the right-wing alliances being built under the misnomer of holocaust remembrance. That Germans mostly react by dismissing them is truly revolting. web.archive.org/web/2023120911…

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Dirk Moses(@dirkmoses) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I give the background/context to the masha gessen cancellation by Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung in this article about . In light of recent events, including the Oyoun defunding, its conclusion that 'cultural freedom is in mortal danger in Germany' seems right dirkmoses.com/uploads/7/3/8/…

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Benjamin Braun(@BJMbraun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“A better alternative to all of the above would be to open a frank political conversation about reforming the debt brake altogether.” Indeed. Every time that can is kicked down the road, progressive political possibilities shrink. The far right wins by sitting and watching.

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Justice Collective(@Justice_Berlin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Das CanG [wird] ein Zweiklassensystem schaffen: Legaler Zugang und Straffreiheit für einige, Kriminalisierung für rassifizierte, migrantisierte und andere überproportional polizierte Menschen.”

Wir in A&K über eine klaffende Lücke in der Debatte. 🧵
akweb.de/politik/fuer-w…

“Das CanG [wird] ein Zweiklassensystem schaffen: Legaler Zugang und Straffreiheit für einige, Kriminalisierung für rassifizierte, migrantisierte und andere überproportional polizierte Menschen.” Wir in A&K über eine klaffende Lücke in der Debatte. 🧵 akweb.de/politik/fuer-w…
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Benjamin Braun(@BJMbraun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An important and thought-provoking contribution by Christoph Sorg to the special issue on 'Rethinking economic planning' that he and Jan Groos are editing for Competition and Change Journal.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…

An important and thought-provoking contribution by @christophsorg to the special issue on 'Rethinking economic planning' that he and Jan Groos are editing for @CompChange. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10…
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Christoph Sorg(@christophsorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My own contribution to our special issue with Jan Groos Future Histories. I interrogate the notion of finance as a social planner of capitalism, the democratizing finance literature and develop a perspective on transformation perspective. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… 1/

My own contribution to our special issue with Jan Groos @FutureHpodcast. I interrogate the notion of finance as a social planner of capitalism, the democratizing finance literature and develop a perspective on transformation perspective. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… 1/
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advait(@advaitarun_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Short thread of everything happening in the climate finance space around COP28 that seems kinda worrisome and worth watching out for over the next year:

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Anthony Obst(@TheRealObst) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Böll Stiftung’s misreading of Masha Gessen is particularly egregious for many reasons. One of them is that in the paragraph right after the one they condemn, Gessen makes very clear that comparing Gaza to a ghetto is no equivocation and that there are “essential differences”.

The Böll Stiftung’s misreading of Masha Gessen is particularly egregious for many reasons. One of them is that in the paragraph right after the one they condemn, Gessen makes very clear that comparing Gaza to a ghetto is no equivocation and that there are “essential differences”.
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Benjamin Braun(@BJMbraun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Journalists need to ask German functionaries:
Do you realize that
- 8 million Jews live in the US?
- most have family members murdered in the holocaust?
- many are on the left and critical of Israel?
Are you really prepared – you, *Germans* – to declare them all anti-Semites?

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