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New paper out comparing how Danish and British elites legitimize their power and privilege by drawing on two quite different types of merit. Hard work versus innate talent.
For us this really shows the power of comparative methodologies when studying seemingly similar phenomena
New Paper 🔔
We look at the contrasting meanings of merit that elites in the 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇰 deploy when justifying their success. Co-authored with @aaronsreeves @chellersgaard @antongrau
🧵 below…
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🔄 RT if you think 🇩🇰 Mads Pedersen is the Super-combative of the #TDF2026!
🔄 RT si vous pensez que 🇩🇰 Mads Pedersen est le Super-combatif du #TDF2026 !
👋 @century21fr l @LidlTrek
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Those who celebrate @elonmusk's $1 trillion fortune need to be reminded of a simple and vital truth:
That there is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy.
Skriver om, hvorfor vi forskere har svært ved at svare på, hvad penge og stærke interesseorganisationer betyder for vores demokrati. Fordi vi mangler åbenhed, adgang og systematisk registerering af forbindelse mellem erhvervsliv, politik og penge.
politiken.dk/debat/debatindl…
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Resilience is great, having very highly educated parents helps too
What’s the most important quality of a successful scientist? Chemistry laureate Carolyn Bertozzi believes it’s resilience. “You dust yourself off, you get back up there and you go out the next day and try again,” she said.
Do you agree?
#NobelPrize
ALT Carolyn Bertozzi
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Second: overall, a terrible night for mainstream parties. The four traditional "prime ministerial" mainstream parties had their worst collective result ever, dipping below 50 pct. for the first time. (2/4)
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New paper on wid.world by @gatonievas & @PaulaDruschke finds that 70% of World Bank and IMF funds are allocated to G7 geopolitically aligned countries.
Bottom line: rich countries pretend to be in favour of democracy but in practice they have built an undemocratic international system to benefit from the collective resources of global public goods, institutionalizing the political inequalities between global South and global North.
🔗wid.world/news-article/the-g…
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This commentary gathers testimonies from Danish researchers reflecting on the structural pressures eroding academic freedom across universities.
#EarlyView in #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/QI2V2SP
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Modstanderne af formueskat har skubbet de små iværksættere frem som billedet på, hvem der skal betale skatten. Nu falder et af debattens mest fremtrædende eksempler fladt til jorden.
Formueskat er og bliver helt overvejende en skat på de super-rige.
journalisten.dk/b-t-udpegede…
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I've said it before: what makes the current age feel particularly desperate is that people's apolitical pleasures and pastimes are colonised to an unprecedented degree.
Subsumed by professionalisation, measurement & calculation, the content industry and competitive fandom, or just simply profiteering. Football exemplifies all these perfectly.
🇦🇷😳 Marcelo Bielsa back in 2024: "I am sure that football is in a process of decline. It is becoming less and less attractive because what made it the best game in the world is not there anymore."
"If you let a lot of people watch football, but you don't protect the pleasure of what they watch, that favours business, because the business is that a lot of people watch football."
"For me, the introduction of technology (like VAR) does a lot of harm to football. This sport has a particularity: when it becomes completely predictable, it loses its appeal."
"As time passes, as fewer and fewer footballers are worth watching and as the game produced is less and less enjoyable, this artificial increase in the number of spectators will be interrupted."
Hov.
Er dem, der skal betale formueskat slet ikke fattige og uformuende iværksætterstuderende på Nørrebro, men derimod mangemillionærer i Nordsjælland?
Who would have thought?
altinget.dk/artikel/se-korte…
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Dem der skal betale #formueskat bor i høj grad nord for København. Den rigeste procent ejer det samme som 77 pct. tilsammen. Det handler om hvem, der skal bestemme i Danmark #Ulighed
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Skæve skattelettelser for 127 mia. kroner har gjort top 1% rigere mens de fattigste har tabt.
Formueskat handler ikke om at brandbeskatte de rigeste. Det handler om at stoppe med at bruge vores skattesystem til at hælde benzin på uligheden og i stedet bruge det til brandslukning.
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Hej Brian. Hvor mange millioner har I givet De Radikale i partistøtte? #dkpol
Nu er det endeligt slået fast. Der kan ikke samles 90 mandater om en formueskat med denne melding fra @radikale som vi i @DanskErhverv bakker fuldt op om.
Helt enig med Lidegaard. Det Danmark har brug for er en regering, der kan sætte det lange lys på, lave reformer og skabe velstand.
Ikke en regering, der vil straffe initiativ med en formueskat og hive raske danskere ud af arbejdsmarkedet.
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Opbakning fra nobelprisvinder @JosephEStiglitz til Socialdemokratiets forslag om en formueskat.
Stiglitz kalder i dag under sit besøg i Europa-parlamentet kritikken af formueskatten for “absurd”.
Jeg er enig. Skal vi ikke se om vi rent faktisk kan gøre noget for at vende ulighedskurven, før det bliver farligt for vores samfund? #dkpol
“🇩🇰has proposed a really modest wealth tax on the super rich of 0.5%.
There are people who say it would be an economic disaster.
It’s absurd. Does anybody think that if you tax Bill Gates by 0.5%, he will stop working?” - @JosephEStiglitz at @EUparliament
#TaxMix2050 @EU_Taxud
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Alle politikere må svare på hvad de vil gøre ved #ulighed. Den rigeste procent ejer det samme som 77 pct. Nej tak til Rigmænd i Generationer. Tid til en #formueskat.
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I 1990 var der ti europæiske lande der havde en formueskat.
I dag er det 2-3 stykker.
I 1990 var den gennemsnitlige europæiske selskabsskat på 35 procent.
I dag er den på 21 procent.
Var uligheden mindre dengang? Ja.
Var væksten mindre dengang? Nej.
Økonomisk ulighed er et politisk valg og ikke en naturlov. #dkpol
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Endelig et interview med en økonom, som faktisk har forsket i formueskatter og med rette kan kalde sig en af verdens førende eksperter på området. Han skærer igennem den enorme mængde misinformation og peger på formueskattens berettigelse. Pligtlæsning.
information.dk/kultur/2026/0…
