Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 (@edenhofer

Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

@edenhofer_jacob

BA, @PPEWarwick / MPhil, Comparative Government @UniofOxford & @SomervilleOx / DPhil student in Politics @NuffieldCollege & @Politics_Oxford

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Joined January 2020

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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Aug 13, 2024
I’ve collected most of my threads here. Perhaps this is of interest to some of you.
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Oct 28, 2025
Not saying this is the most important or even the best book, but it was my first love, as it were.
Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Oct 27, 2025
What are the books that have most influenced how you think about political economy?
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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May 27, 2025
Such a cool book
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@edenhofer_jacob
Oct 13, 2025
The Nobel Prize
@NobelPrize
Oct 13, 2025
The 2025 laureates in economic sciences Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt studied the mechanisms behind sustained growth. In an article from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model for what is called creative destruction: when a new and better product enters the market, the
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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May 29, 2025
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@edenhofer_jacob
May 6, 2025
Great excuse to promote this @ecmaEditors paper by Blume and Easley
Devon ☀️
@devonzuegel
May 6, 2025
The fact that there aren't more economists that are very rich should be a red flag
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Sep 15, 2025
Very interesting!
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@edenhofer_jacob
Oct 4, 2025
Let me add this paper by Besley et al, which is forthcoming in the @QJEHarvard, which, I think, provides a nice micro-foundation for between-cohort variation in zero-sum attitudes. They define “growth experience” as the average GDP growth an individual has lived through since
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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May 15, 2024
An absolute gem of an article - required reading for anyone interested in the political economy of inequality! annualreviews.org/content/journa…
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@edenhofer_jacob
Jul 24, 2024
Happy to circulate a new @cage_warwick working paper, which is joint work with @fetzert and @Prashant_Garg_. Using original data on high-street vacancies in England and Wales, we investigate the political ramifications of local decline. Brief summary 👇
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Feb 3, 2025
🚨 New working paper! 🚨 @grattonecon and I just completed the first draft of "The Rise and Fall of Technocratic Democracies". Excited to present it in Munich this week—thanks to @LauraSeelkopf, @christoph_knill & others for hosting us! 🧵👇 ▶️ Motivation Many democracies have
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
@edenhofer_jacob
Jul 29, 2024
Delighted to announce that I will be starting my DPhil in Politics at @NuffieldCollege in October as a Clarendon scholar. I couldn’t be more excited to work on climate politics with @fgenovese__ and David Rueda. Let me also thank my MPhil supervisor, @KosmidisSpyros, for his
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Sep 20, 2025
It is simple: @JohnHCochrane believes the political externalities of a Zucman-style wealth tax would be negative. @ojblanchard1, by contrast, believes that they would be positive. The Cochrane-type position follows from basic libertarian principles. By eroding the principle of
John Cochrane
@JohnHCochrane
Sep 19, 2025
I think actually we have a pretty good handle on institutions that promote long-run growth, and a little bit on the stability of democratic institutions. Large scale and somewhat arbitrary government confiscation of hard-earned wealth, to satisfy the passions of envious masses,
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Jacob Edenhofer 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Aug 12, 2023
I just re-read (parts of) Lijphart's "Patterns of Democracy" (2012) for something I am working on. In this 🧵, I will offer a fairly detailed summary of this truly seminal work in comparative politics, which, I hope, some of you may find useful. 1/n
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