Today, Wednesday, in London. Come join me! www.lse.ac.uk/events/capit...

Susan Strange saw global finance as a casino back in the 1980s and inspired Ann Pettifor's new book 'The Global Casino' as she explains here... www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx8dd...

The great Sven Beckert in the UK this week!

I saw this quote while at Goldsmiths the other week and have to admit that I'd never heard of Mark Fisher before...

This Saturday, March 28, I will speak on Capitalism: A Global History. If in town, come join me. oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

Free event in London tomorrow... (although it's a bit of a stretch now to call it a launch)

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

This looks very interesting

I'll be talking about economics, imagination, and 'Ricardo's Dream' at Goldsmiths Uni in London on 12 March at 4pm. Come along if you're in town! Cheers @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Great to see my friend, Dave, sign a contract for his first book on philosophy & aliens. Congrats!

As Trump reduces every economic forecaster in the world to a weeping nervous wreck…

The lens of history allows you to write a 'true story' of what's happening in the modern economy, whereas models often lead us astray - Stiglitz

This is very good on utopian economics as the 'governing science' of governments (right & left), banks, financial institutions, credit rating agencies, corporations & consultancies @abbyinnes.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb07...

Not sure how they found it, but this is apparently @the-syllabus.bsky.social's video of the week 😀

FWIW, I've written to the editor pointing out the links between African Brazil and David Ricardo's famous trade theory... will see if they print it

The @economist.com piece about Brazil's African heritage is good to see - but they fail to note the link to their hallowed free trade theory... www.economist.com/the-americas...

Great piece by @superwuster.bsky.social on how the UK became a digital colony of the US by believing the "dream of the 1990s" and "the logic of free trade and globalisation" h/t @unlearnecon.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Last Friday, I got to meet Benjamin Lipscomb author of 'The Women Are Up To Something'. He's in London researching his new book on the BBC. We decided to meet up at philosopher Mary Midgley's childhood home in Greenford, Middx. - where we got a personalised tour from historian Peter Hounsell

A year ago today... www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Love this story about the long evolutionary history of kissing - it's 21 million years old, don't you know? Helps to chip away at some of the more wild 'Nature red in tooth and claw' claims out there www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thanks for joining, Agnes! Pleased that analogy landed with you

I've been thinking about this today

This is tonight at 7pm (UK time). More than 60 people signed up already...

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Nice, new review of Ricardo's Dream "If you are interested in economics, history, politics and world affairs you should read this book" michaelcoblenz.medium.com/simple-econo...

I'm saddened by the hypocritical treatment of the BBC - and agree with Naomi Alderman that it's an institution worth protecting

Next Tuesday 18th Nov, I'll be giving a free, online talk on imagination, models, and the making of economic knowledge for @economicresearch.bsky.social Reserve a spot & find out more here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-econom...

Nice pushback on the corporate propaganda we're pushed daily...

The recording of my talk about the philosopher Mary Midgley and economics is already online. Thanks to the whole @inparenthesis.bsky.social team & to @philosophellie.bsky.social, @drelizabethmac1.bsky.social, @amytaggart.bsky.social, @iangr.bsky.social for joining! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNC...

I got to see the brilliant @lukewrightpoet.bsky.social perform in Bath last night. So full of energy, verbal dexterity and invention, and an excellent mimic too. Hard to do justice to the show 'Pub Grub' in a few words, but...

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I'm doing an online webniar tomorrow at 3pm (UK) with the wonderful @inparenthesis.bsky.social team on 'Mary Midgley among the economists' Looking forward to joining the dots between one of our best recent philosophers and the critique of mainstream economics More info & zoom link below 👇

Chris has been doing amazing work highlighting carbon trading scams of all sort for at least the last 15 years. So it was a pleasure to speak to him about climate, forest-carbon markets, and the visions of free market economists...

I might write something about this kind of comment (left on @unlearnecon.bsky.social recent video). I see no value at all in 'proving' in a perfectly contextless world that countries A & B could benefit form trading X & Y. What makes anyone think this logic then maps onto reality?

NEW VIDEO: The Death of Free Trade youtu.be/XsOYGt7EKG8

Me talking about David Ricardo & comparative advantage on the excellent @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social pod

THIS IS NOT A DRILL! My actual book launch event - which is only 6 months late - is at LSE October 13th, you can sign up here: www.lse.ac.uk/events/why-w...

Good video essay from @unlearnecon.bsky.social riffing on Ricardo’s Dream, about politics & power relations that exist alongside “free” trade and profoundly shape commerce. And the recent, mysterious “rediscovery” 🙄 of this fact by previously dominant states. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsOY...

I've listened to a lot of Pitchfork Economics over the years so it was a real pleasure to be a guest on the show. Listen here: buff.ly/jQUTct6

I had to deleted Bluesky app from my phone again... just get too sucked in otherwise & it's not great for productivty or my mood.

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

"Man is not adapted to live in a mirror-lined box, generating his own electric light and sending for selected images from outside when he happens to need them. Darkness and a bad smell are all that can come of that. We need the vast world, and it must be a world that does not need us; a world...

New paper on Susan Strange's concept of structural power @bhaggart.bsky.social - one for www.susanstrange.org

This deserves to have way more than 6k views It's beyond time to move from economic horror stories to stories for life www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5Yr...

Yuval Noah Harari dropping some truth here about leaders who built their careers built on division & distrust

The assumptions do so much work: "standard economic models typically presuppose that the question of peaceful coexistence is already resolved at the micro level (rule of law) as well as the macro level (peaceful international collaboration)." - Jakob Kapeller

That three major British newspapers jumped on the poorly sourced (ATF to Steven Crowder to WSJ) line about the bullets having ‘trans’ symbols (actually a, wait for it, Helldivers 2 code) is such a tell on what they really care about. They really need to apologise (they won’t)

Midgley on ‘theory-induced blindness’

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

Enjoying Zohra’s quick burst of an English accent at the beginning here. Great message & comms as usual