This is an important finding on targeted labor adjustment schemes:
Compensation brings attention to the disruptive events that give rise to it (e.g. trade liberalization). The result is that trade adjustment can have a net negative electoral impact.

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Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations? - cup.org/4a26Soj

- Sung Eun Kim & krzysztof pelc

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🔍 Out in PoP:
'Does Political Diversity Inhibit Blood Donations?'
(with Sung Eun Kim)
🩸In a time of critical blood shortages, we look at how political identity shapes prosocial behavior
(sorry, it's not good news). Oxford Politics and IR Perspectives on Politics bit.ly/3TMnZEQ

I guess I can no longer tell students asking for extensions, 'wait until you enter the real world, then...'

wto.org/english/news_e…

Touché, Alan Beattie:
'Moan about US intransigence in the [WTO] all you want (I have and I will), but it’s principally the Americans making serious efforts to resist the Houthis’ attacks in the Red Sea.' on.ft.com/42Fi1ZA

Looking forward to speaking at the REMIX Summit in London tmr at 11:45am, on:
'The Market Value of God, Love, and Passion', drawing on my book 'Beyond Self-Interest'.
See you at the Royal Academy of Arts! remixsummits.com/ldn-2024/ #REMIXLDN Bloomsbury Books UK

Join us tmr for the first in a series of globe-spanning discussions: Sergio Puig on 'Rewriting Precedent' by intl tribunals. Register here: tinyurl.com/j96uhftv

Life is full of tough choices. Happy new year to all

Sitting on #FallingWalls panel in Berlin brimming with climate experts. Consensus on the biggest hurdle: 'Lack of political will.'
But that's too simplistic. It's not about intentions; policymakers face complex constraints. Scientific solutions must be made incentive-compatible.

Join us next Wednesday for a seminar by Professor Krzysztof Pelc on 'Beyond Self Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It'.

In-person, all welcome and no registration required.

Giving a public talk this Wed Oct 18, 5pm in Oxford, on the limits of self-interest in market societies.
Open to all.
oxcis.ac.uk/events/beyond-…

This Oct12th, Mona Paulsen Mona Paulsen is kicking off an exciting series of our IR Colloquium at Oxford Politics and IR: every Thursday 12:30-2pm in DPIR. Link to come!