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It’s incomprehensible to me that universities imagine their decimation of humanities follows “market forces” when they are so manifestly behind the curve of even the most corporate decisions. Universities are stuck in spent logic of “we must embrace AI” when frontier labs are hiring philosophers 1/

(IRL) finfluencers! fantastic article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I really like the detail of this press cutting *Robots works problem never before solved* … and then it’s a picture of a woman doing the work 🤡 #AI #hiddenlabour

My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...

I’m very pleased to share that my book 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠 has been published in the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy by @routledgebooks.bsky.social. It examines impact bonds as a form of ethical finance and has been many years in the making, so it is wonderful to finally see it in print. 🧵

Everything is gender, AI edition.

Good news. search.app/iKZTg

Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality? Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!

Wie lässt sich Renaturierung 🌱🌿🌳 erfolgreich politisch gestalten und umsetzen? 18 Studierende der Politikwissenschaft und des Zukunftsmoduls der JGU auf einer 2-tägigen #Exkursion 🧭 im #Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald. Kalt wars schon - aber ein super Erlebnis!! Dank an die Freunde der Mainzer Poli

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...

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A thing I like here is (implicitly) bringing the sociology of conferences to political science. What is elsewhere called "field-configuring events" (of which Davos is a great case) is an instructive lens for understanding world politics.

💼 New in Socio-Economic Review: VC funding isn’t equal — and looks different in Africa. This review by Ben Mkalama and Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social unpacks how socio-spatial inequalities shape venture capital, comparing African, Asian and North American contexts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/... #SER

Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder! 🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄 Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!

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For German speakers: A post about our collaborative BA seminar 'Studying Frankfurt's Financial District' 🏦🏦🏦 I'm currently teaching its second rendition. 🧑‍🏫 Here's the blog to the seminar: finanzplatz-frankfurt.blog

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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

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finfluencers!!! jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

outstanding interview! and an amazing resource - comprehensive overview of critical macro finance & the wall street consensus...

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IPE workshop in Brussels!!!

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this is fun - uses coffee as an everyday entry point to explore the colonial contexts of Hegel's thought! ☕ www.jhiblog.org/2025/09/22/h...

fantastic piece and exciting method for studying app location data!

Fantastic resource, this!

This is ace - on the repo backbone of market based finance!

Willkommen zurück, liebe Studis!

First definitive proof that AI has a gender: "[A] common trend among these AI models: rather than declining to respond when they lacked reliable information, the models frequently provided confabulations—plausible-sounding incorrect or speculative answers." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

my big blue book project...

this is about our experience of teaching IPE collectively across three continents via Zoom... doi.org/10.1080/0969...

A happy ending to the negotiation thriller of the past days: €100bn of the €500bn infrastructure package will go to climate spending and the legal text will include language on additionality. Balanced outcome—and a big win for both Germany and Europe.

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Why does the largest trading bloc on the planet have a miniature-sized currency? With Trump, the EU will again much regret this. 🎈In a new working paper, @steffenmurau.bsky.social and I set out to theorise failure and develop a new IPE perspective that foregrounds offshore money. A thread 🧵

politics of industry events - edtech edition 👇 @lenarethel.bsky.social @mrcandreu.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1356...

IPE reunion in Mainz!!!

We’re organising a conference!

I have published a short piece in German summarising recent work on International Financial Subordination. Mainly for my parents so that they know what I do:)

For German speakers. About the business feminism of the German fintech sector… zevedi.de/efinblog-wer...

This is fantastic - about the role and significance of chatbots! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Any sign of a Fintech starter pack? Asking for a friend

@philippasigl.bsky.social dissecting the Schuldenbremse on my very home turf at Mainz University. What a treat!

How power is curated in fintech & Islamic finance... with @lenarethel.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ips/article/...