Now available in Latest Articles, Tamar Hofnung's timely analysis of opposition to civil rights reform in 1940s America www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

"Struggling crypto-hoarding companies are launching share buybacks in an attempt to boost their stock prices in the latest sign that this year’s “crypto treasury” craze is unravelling" on.ft.com/4gBRqTS Apparently investors are"raising questions about the business model" Yes. I have questions too

Not sure what you're doing this Sunday night but I am sitting here fascinated/mesmerised by @steffenmurau.bsky.social @rikereimer.bsky.social + research (& interactive instrument!) on the GFC/EZ crisis through the lens of the Monetary Architecture Framework and its balance-sheet based perspective.

"The private sector, left to its own devices and profit-motives, is not delivering the scale or type of investment needed to address the escalating and multi-dimensional ecological crisis." Our @joefherb.bsky.social on why we need central banks to step up in Edie. www.edie.net/when-it-come...

#GreenCentralBanking roundup: ✅ Leaders outline Africa-led green finance strategy 🇪🇺 EU court dismisses Austria’s challenge to nuclear & gas taxonomy inclusion 🇬🇭 Bank of Ghana accelerates green finance integration for SME competitiveness And more 👇

This is a great piece (and if you are staff or a student at a British university, you might find you can log in to the FT through shibboleth etc…)

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Much needed. Coming to a library near you in 2026!

Announcing our first winner of the Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize! Congratulations to John Donovan (OU), for his winning paper 'Commercial Gains, Climate Losses: Unpacking the Environmental Costs of Lunar Industrialisation'. www.bisa.ac.uk/news/early-c...

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

“Racial and gendered neglect undermines women’s rights and weakens climate action.” Omaira Bolaños and Namnyak Sinandei Makko explain how climate funding is not reaching Indigenous, Afro-descendant women. www.landclimate.org/...

New article with Lucia Quaglia examining the EU’s defensive statecraft to defend financial sovereignty around central clearing houses and Bigtech digital platforms, in Journal of International Economic Law doi.org/10.1093/jiel...

Today, @genevievelakier.bsky.social explains how Title VI, perhaps the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, has become one of the most powerful forces against desegregation.

I’ve been training my whole life for this moment

The insurance industry seems to be giving up on managing climate risk. on.ft.com/3KiCRbQ

FT: "An insurance industry that enthusiastically underwrites the most extreme anti-climate risks — from thermal coal to Arctic drilling — while simultaneously exposing itself to steepening losses on natural catastrophe cover is warped"... www.ft.com/content/dd85... via @ft

The Digital Is Material The cloud ☁️ has a footprint 👣 www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-cent...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

“Technology companies are not shy of falsely claiming that students are lazy or lack writing skills. Such a mantra serves only to sell products (…) We condemn those claims and reassert students’ agency vis-à-vis corporate control.” zenodo.org/records/1706... 19/🧵

Lib Dem treasury spokeswoman Daisy Cooper calls for a windfall tax on the exceptional profits that UK banks are making from the Bank of England’s £895 billion quantitative easing programme.

like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.

Machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society. Join Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Audrey Borowski in conversation with @amoorelouise.bsky.social from @leverhulmecal.bsky.social Register now 👉 www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...

100% this: "Critics of climate catastrophe often group together all visions of disastrous futures under labels like doomism or pessimism. This is unhelpful, and greater nuance is required."—Davidson & Kemp Fact: Prudent risk management *requires* exploring worst case scenarios. 1/2

“Think about having applied to university when you were 17 or 18, and then think about applying under bombardments, and starvation, and with limited resources, and having your documents destroyed, and having lost your family members.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🆕 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

This by @jamesomalley.co.uk is good.

Join us for a discussion of @johannalorenzo.bsky.social new book on the legal and sustainability implications of financing by multilateral development banks. W/@celinetan.bsky.social, @akinkugbe.bsky.social & @ingovenzke.bsky.social on 25 September. https://bit.ly/4nD6cfH @acil-uva.bsky.social

Your reminder that legislation to curb the rights of trans people to use restrooms or do anything else means everyone's behaviour, clothing etc will be opened up to intrusive and unwanted scrutiny and potential challenge in our daily lives. This is not a 'them' issue. Trans rights are human rights.

And yet, the EFH defines our current regulation of climate related financial risk. Apparently mandatory disclosures for climate related financial risks will let financial markets converge on the correct pricing of that risk: essentially the semi-strong version of the EMH… And yet it won’t. It can’t.

A short piece on Étienne Wolff - Collège de France administrator from 1966-74, who did experimental research on monsters, wrote his two major books as a prisoner of war, and whose work was read by Georges Canguilhem, Georges Bataille and Michel Foucault progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/21/e...

The wildfire version of this is playing out in Los Angeles as we speak. When you burn down 15,000 urban structures, you coat everything downwind (ie the rest of the city) - inside and out - in asbestos, lead and arsenic among other things.

Excellent piece on higher education and the ongoing AI hype game.

Bring back woke science and its little fixations like, say, references?

📘BOOK LAUNCH📘 Authors @nancyhiemstra.bsky.social and @drdconlon.bsky.social discuss their book, Immigration Detention Inc. with Setareh Gandehari of the @detentionwatchnetwork.org 🗓️Fri, Oct 3 ⏰6 pm 📍@peoplesbooktakoma.com peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/immigr...

Beyond Irrationality. @yuvalmillo.bsky.social @profcrawfordspence.bsky.social & James J. Valentine astutely show in their new excellent book how exactly social networks and structures shape financial markets and asset management. economicsociology.org/2025/09/06/b...

CFP: Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice.

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

OnlineFirst - "Brazilian concentration camps for drought refugees 1915/1932" by Laura Belik: #camps #drought #climaterefugee #Brazil #SouthAmerica journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

“We’re used to thinking of the fiscal crisis as the outcome of an over-generous welfare state or of larger economic forces. But the New York City’s flawed development strategies certainly played a role.” Kim Phillips-Fein and Daniel Wortel-London on NYC www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/d...

Letter to the FT: Lloyd’s cannot shirk its climate responsibility As global temperatures rise, millions of people will lose their livelihoods. Every insurer, banker and investor that supports the expansion of fossil fuels is contributing to this problem www.ft.com/content/0ab2...

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