Falls Ihr es noch nicht wusstet: Die deutschen Rentner:innen sind alle beim Staat angestellt!

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I still haven't fully realised this yet, but yesterday, I defended my dissertation "Putting the Gig Economy on the Party Agenda" @hhu.de! 🥳👩‍🎓 I am super grateful for all the support I received along the way - first and foremost from my supervisor Achim Goerres @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social #PhDone 🥰

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Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis on how citizens form coalition preferences! Many thanks to my committee, Sascha Huber, @kai-arzheimer.com, and @arminschaefer.bsky.social, and to my great colleagues at @powimz.bsky.social and beyond. Very happy!

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1) I saw this morning that Deirdre McCloskey is posting an argument from her 2016 book (Bourgeois Equality), in which she argues that economic inequality is unproblematic. I argued in the conclusion of my last book that you could only think this if you thought social problems in very simple terms.

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After a decade's labor, it is finally book-release day for "The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx." I'm both relieved and excited to see this day arrive. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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