Rune Møller Stahl

New article out📑 "The end of economic hegemony? Studying economic ideas in a post-neoliberal world" In the 20th century, debates on economic policy were closely tied to academic economics. From Keynesianism to neoliberalism, economic schools of thought have shaped historical epochs.

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.

I had the pleasure of joining Joe and Tracy on the great Odd Lots podcast to talk about Europe. The short version: I’m bullish on Europe’s position relative to the US but bearish on trade with China. Link: t.co/curFVPwT7N

We're hiring a postdoc to work on the intersection of class, inequality and the green transition. It's a two year position based at Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with Oxfam Denmark. Spread the word! @oxfamdanmark.bsky.social @ioa-cbs.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

We're hiring a postdoc to work on the intersection of class, inequality and the green transition. It's a two year position based at Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with Oxfam Denmark. Spread the word! @oxfamdanmark.bsky.social @ioa-cbs.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

The total cost for the European heatwaves might end up at 180 billions euros. And the summer is not over yet...

The Odyssey is such a traditionally manly movie. Lot's of violence, extremely positive portrayals of patriarchy and heterosexual love - there's even endles discussion of the Sea Peoples. The level of alienation from normie masculinity on the online right is really something to behold.

my crankiest Marxist take is that Bourdieu has a lot to answer for re the total deformation of class analysis over the past decades that has tech bros and mining magnates denounce 'the elites' aka a precarious university worker.

Mens topcheferne skovler penge ind, halter almindelige lønmodtagere efter. Hvis vi vil undgå amerikanske tilstande, må vi styrke medarbejdereje og sætte et loft over løngabet i erhvervslivet, skriver @runestahl.bsky.social i dagens @information.dk #dkpol www.information.dk/debat/2026/0...

The ECB just hiked into an oil price shock, again. In our new paper for the EP Monetary Dialogue, we argue that this needs to stop. 🧵 If inflation is a function of the energy mix (✅) and the energy mix a function of monetary policy (✅), then even a narrow reading of the ECB’s mandate ... 1/

Fredag fik verden sin første dollar-billionær. Men en sådan koncentration af velstand er ikke bare et spørgsmål om økonomisk retfærdighed, men er en trussel mod vores demokrati, skriver @runestahl.bsky.social politiken.dk/debat/debati...

Verdens første dollarbillionær er tegn på politisk fallit politiken.dk/debat/debati...

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

I know it's getting old at this pooint, but have we ever seen a clearer example of 'first time as tragedy, second time as farce.."

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Lønstigningerne i #dkøko ligger bortset fra B&A lavere end i udlandet i følge @danskarbgiver.bsky.social's opgørelse. Sammenlignet med DSTs opgørelse af lønstigninger i #dkøko er forskellen endnu mere markant, jf. bsky.app/profile/3ffi... #dkpol

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OIne of the more surprising pieces of news. Hungary, under a center right prime minister, might be the first European country to impose a wealth tax since the 1980s www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Lars Løkke Rasmussen forsøger at løse 1970'ernes problemer med nullernes værktøjskasse, når han kæmper for lavere skatter og øget arbejdsudbud i regeringsforhandlingerne. Har han ikke opdaget, at den globale økonomiske debat har flyttet sig www.altinget.dk/artikel/anal...

Imens vi venter på Løkkes skattelettelser, er Ungarn i gang med at indføre formueskat www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Efter i fem år i træk at have EUs største overskud på de offentlige finanser blev vi sidste år overhalet af Cypern. Dog stadig gigantisk overskud på 2,9% af BNP + vi har en KÆMPE offentlige finansiel nettoformue. #dkøko offentlige finanser er de stærkeste i EU og formentlig i DK-historien #dkpol

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Energikrisen efter lukningen af Hormuzstrædet presser priserne på benzin, energi og leveomkostninger op. Samtidig høster store selskaber milliarder i ekstra profit uden øget indsats. Derfor bør overnormale profitter beskattes, skriver @runestahl.bsky.social #dkpol politiken.dk/debat/debati...

@runestahl.bsky.social har talt med @jyllands-posten.dk om de stigende energipriser. "Han mener, at denne udvikling med stor sandsynlighed ikke kun vil betyde, at de fattigste bliver fattigere, men at de rigeste også bliver rigere." #dkpol Læs mere her👇 jyllands-posten.dk/indland/ECE1...

Wall Street is booking record profits from war-driven market volatility.

Without energy efficiency, the EU would need — and pay — 31% more for energy today. Since 2000, efficiency has removed 265 Mtoe of demand from the market entirely. The best protection against a price shock is not finding cheaper oil and gas. It's needing less of it.

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.