Our "Back to Dakar" paper is now out in Spanish in this cool special issue on the Memory and Future of Dependency Theory in Cuadernos De Teoría Social: cuadernosdeteoriasocial.udp.cl/index.php/ts... Thanks to Martín Arboleda, Francisca Benítez & Alonso López for editing & organizing!

🆕 Book Launch: Decolonising Economics Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonizing Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social. 🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn

It was really engaging to think about imperialism with Costas Lapavitsas and Claude Serfati at Historical Materialism this summer - with a lively French audience! Promising that so many young people are interested in Marxism and (anti-)imperialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwW...

In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky

Don’t miss this fantastic piece by Carla Coburger tracing the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperial money! Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's an incredible honour to receive this prize for policy relevant economic research. Big thanks go to my collaborators and co-thinkers on this exciting journey @bbonizzi.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics. d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

We had a very stimulating discussion on what it means to 'decolonise' the University in the context of genocide and the role of Economics with Chirashree Das Gupta, Tom Six, Amaarah Garda and Afreen Faridi. d-econ.org/decolonising...

A graph from the Nievas & Piketty paper that has gotten less attention: Today, only Norway matches the level of foreign wealth of the Netherlands in the colonial period 👀

The new @divdececon.bsky.social Reading List has dropped!!

Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

Fantastic article on the contradictions of Norwegian energy policy at home and abroad. The Norwegian state as a global rentier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@cacrisalves.bsky.social @devikadutt.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social I am looking forward to what will likely be my book of the year. Maybe after it's finished I can ship it across the pond for signatures? This has been a long time coming!

This is an important article highlighting blind spots in how economists understand colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Thank you @ingridhk.bsky.social!

Excellent from @ingridhk.bsky.social on @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & Nievas' foray into unequal exchange www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Channeling my anger at how colonialism & imperialism in understood in Economics (exemplified by Nievas and Piketty's recent paper) into a 4500 word long essay 🤓 (Thanks @ineteconomics.bsky.social!)

Nievas and Piketty’s “unequal exchange” that shows how treating colonialism as a pricing problem—rather than a system of social relations and production power—leads to modest market fixes that miss the engine of uneven development @ingridhk.bsky.social www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Rereading an oldie but goodie from @ripejournal.bsky.social, from a time when blunt openings like this one were more acceptable in academia: "In many respects IPE is a vulgar, fraudulent discipline." tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog: developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/p...

Great systematic take-down of the polycrisis concept from a Marxist perspective. Callum Cant shows how analyses of polycrisis repress structural explanations, analyse data from the implicit standpoint of the bourgeois state, and discount class struggle. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al... thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft

What could possibly go wrong?: "Liquidity is provided by individual depositors, many of whom are drawn by the high yields. “We’ve engineered the system such that after accounting for default rates and the [interest] rates on offer, providers will always make a profit,” he said."

The latest iteration of 'financial inclusion' looking scarier than ever!! www.ft.com/content/c531...

Join our discussion on decolonizing economics, the university & the space for radical thinking and activism at our upcoming Launch Event for the D-Econ Padlet! Chirashree Das Gupta, Tom Six & Amaarah Garda will join as speakers + Afreen Faridi will chair. Sign up! d-econ.org/decolonising...

Register for D-Econ's upcoming event on August 8th!!

Starting in an hour an a half at the University of Cape Town! :) You can join online here: t.co/ORPKTX8PdW

Finance, decolonisation, imperialism, Africa. Had a great time discussing these issues with students, academics and activists at Uni of Johannesburg yesterday! Spoke alongside Amaarah Gardah, Naiefa Rashid & Fiona Tregenna. Catch it here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/XIubA3Y...

New article! In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism. Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Thanks everyone for coming to the launch of our book Decolonizing Economics with @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social! Had such a great time engaging with students, friends, the public. And thanks to Marx Memorial Library for hosting 🤗 hetecon.net/2025/07/03/dec…

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Some thoughts on reading ‘Decolonizing Economics’ by @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/robertbi...

Join us next week for a book launch co-hosted with Rethinking Economics for Africa at UCT! @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social will discuss their new book, "Decolonising Economics: An introduction" Date: 16 July Time: 12:50-14:00 (lunch at 12:00) Venue: UCT & online (links below)

Really nice critique of the idea of 'sub-imperialism' being a theoretically/political useful way to describe South Africa's role in Southern Africa. Michael Nassen Smith builds his critique via his empirical analysis of South African mining in Zambia. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Join us for a discussion in Johannesburg next week :)

Kevin Okoth is sharp as always in the @lrb.co.uk: He breaks down Achille Mbembe's influences, contributions, and his complicated relationship to postcolonial & anticolonial thought. Also, his weird relationship to France. Gets more critical towards the end. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What's the problem with Nievas & Piketty's understanding of unequal exchange, colonialism and, implicitly, imperialism? I break down their theory & empirics here in this podcast, and lay out what gets lost when you focus on flows over social relations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsIK...

Couldn’t agree more. Synthesis of different traditions are difficult.

Check out this interesting new edited book! I was honored to be invited to write the afterword, and used the space to discuss the theoretical & political stakes involved in attempts to merge the international financial subordination (IFS) + financial statecraft + comparative capitalism literatures.🧵

Colonialism was violent & led to immense econ inequalities. Good this is recognized. But it needs to be understood within a broader theory of (the uneven development of) capitalism. There is no 'counterfactual' world where capitalism leads to equality, evenness & convergence 🫠

It's the book we've been waiting for!! Our podcasts are Eurocentric but that's why we finish our 'Short History' poem as we do. There is still much to learn & @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social are helping us with our journey. #EconSky

Example of what happens when a mainstream economist discovers structural inequality (without 'discovering' the theories to explain it): very impressive empirical documentation of it + completely out-of-touch assumptions about how to fix it (taxation, cheap debt, human capital).

Have you seen the beautiful & exciting @hetecon.bsky.social programme? Hosted by KCL 18-20 June at the Waterloo Campus. You can sign up to the conference just as an attendee as well! More info 👇 hetecon.net/2025/05/30/a...

📖 New Book: Decolonizing Economics SEA Co-Chair @cacrisalves.bsky.social‬ 's new book, co-edited alongside @devikadutt.bsky.social‬ , @surbhikesar.bsky.social‬ & @ingridhk.bsky.social , explores the Eurocentric foundations of mainstream economics. 🔗 Discover more here: buff.ly/ZZuy6IH

This wonderful new book just dropped through my mailbox. Looking forward to reading it, and congrats to @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social 🎉

Teaching with the Tricontinental. Really cool and useful project by Paul Gilbert and Danny Millburn and students at Sussex working with and reflecting on radical periodicals. openpress.sussex.ac.uk/teachingwith...

Our book is out and available for purchase in the U.K. Writing this book with @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social was a long and arduous process that has arguably changed us all, and we’d be honoured for y’all to read it!

Update: the book has now been published and is available in book stores ✨✨

📌 Discover the latest book co-authored by our @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics Senior Lecturer @surbhikesar.bsky.social with @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social and Ingrid Harvold 📚 Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction (Wiley, 2024) ➡ tinyurl.com/mrx84zvh

Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing. See more: www.politybooks.com/...