This sounds great for people doing work on #assetization
This is excellent, both in terms of historical emergence of mutual funds and private equity in the US and in highlighting the political faultlines that each is aligned with today
PS: I was extremely tempted, but I did not.
Instead we did a side quest on option pricing: how Brownian motions imply a normal distribution at each point in time, and why the assumption of a constant sigma in Black-Scholes-Merton was problematic 🤓
Die Kürzungen im Gesundheitssystem sind ebenso falsch wie dramatisch. Psychotherapeut*innen müssen ihr ohnehin zu knappes Therapieangebot um 20-25% reduzieren und Angestellte entlassen. Man kürzt bei den Schwächsten, nur damit Spitzenverdiener und Reiche ihre Privilegien behalten können. Beschämend!
About to teach Callon on performativity.
Now accepting bets whether I will be able to resist the urge to say that Callons texts are like a Bach mass: absolutely genius, full of easter eggs, of their own emergent harmony, and about 35% too long.
Eleni Tsingou
IfS Frankfurt
Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out:
Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social
See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!
