Very excellent and welcome correction to maddening bond market discourse
New co-written paper out asking how Marxist IPE can use history to question our theories. We ask how Marxists can study capitalism without reifying the world market?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Among many things, it's just the sheer amount of people whose actions, small and large, have helped coordinate and sustain the genocide that breaks my heart
This is a lovely write-up of a remarkable place. Quietly transgressive in ways that already now feel impossible. Was my dream job to join Perc, so sad to see it go
Great new paper on the political economy of austerity by @ilovering.bsky.social. Uncovers history of austerity as an expansive programme of state planning and centralisation of power, rather than a macroeconomic policy driven by bond holders, state slashers etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
'Subprime mortgages were not developed by entities fitting the rentier model, but rather by real estate actors operating outside the established financial system'
Interesting new paper critiquing the Rentier conception for understanding financial politics
New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...
For all the talk of decline in Britain today by the right, the thing that is never mentioned is privitisation and financialisation. Very glad to see @cmmonwealth.bsky.social tackling this head-on:
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’.
Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
