If that's of interest, I explain this at much more length here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Lovely walk on Mont Royal after @excubs.bsky.social's kind invitation to speak at McGill

🚨 300 tickets sold! Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social 🪑 @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

A thoughtful review of The Spectre of Capitalism in the journal Capital and Class journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested? Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North. 🧵

Very good documentary on AI labour in Madagascar www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0a6...

🚨 Sign up for the @transitionsec.bsky.social free launch event with an online panel discussion. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social x @cplusc.bsky.social 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

The Spectre of State Capitalism cited in an El País newsletter on the return of the state as an economic actor. Also gave comments on the future of state capitalism and the stunted green transition

Some more brilliant work by the folks at Common Wealth. Check it out!

Chaebol in the crossfire under Trump 2.0 eastasiaforum.org/2025/09/12/c...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

New policy report just published with groundbreaking data showing that China's new global role in the green transition is investing in manufacturing, not financing infrastructure: "China’s Green Leap Outward" www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

one of those drop everything and just read it things …. www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

An exciting panel event launching our collaboration with @cplusc.bsky.social — the Transition Security Project. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Sign up for a free ticket below👇 📍 Online 🗓️ 16 Oct 6PM BST

"a sovereign nation forced to funnel private and public-sector investment to a much richer one under a structure unashamedly directed by the US president." Japan confronts the increased price of US friendship www.ft.com/content/678d...

Some good news for The Spectre of State Capitalism It's been shortlisted for: - BISA’s best book in International Political Economy 2025 award - ISA’s best book in Global Development Studies 2025 award Read the book for free! academic.oup.com/book/57552 @campolis.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Absolutely brilliant piece by @jamiemerchant.bsky.social for the latest Brooklyn Rail, bringing together Simon Clarke, @benbraun.bsky.social's asset management capitalism, @iliasalami.bsky.social's state capitalism and much, much more. brooklynrail.org/2025/09/fiel...

State capitalism is a emerging structural feature of the global economy, with governments owning capitalist assets as a hedge(+ other reasons) since the 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and Great Financial Crisis, as @iliasalami.bsky.social and Adam Dixon have written. academic.oup.com/book/57552

NEW from me @newrepublic.com: If progressives don’t seize this moment to define a democratic, public-minded state capitalism, they will find themselves living in one designed by the Trump administration. newrepublic.com/article/2000...

The UK govt is guaranteeing profits for renewables for the next 20yrs through CfD. While places like Spain end up with neg electricity prices, consumers in the UK will be charged more to ensure the transition is one into a profitable rentier future www.ft.com/content/adca...

"But the state, nevertheless, has the power to intervene within those limits, and indeed has the power to violate those limits at the cost of precipitating a crisis. The mediations between capital and the state do not determine that the state will intervene..." 1/2

Excellent www.contretemps.eu/net-flou-let...

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A really important paper!

Excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6ff9...

Shocked, shocked I tell you. www.ft.com/content/7ace...

At the Cambridge book launch of Indignity by @leaypi.bsky.social

Great piece

Well well well..

I need to submit my Marxism & Law syllabus from last semester for the LPE Project syllabus bank, what syllabus do you need to send to @lpeproject.bsky.social ?? 👀 👀 👀

"What property rights are there in space?" is a deeply, deeply disturbing question. www.ft.com/content/16c0...

Polyalignment in action "Xi and Modi say they are ‘partners not rivals’ in bid to repair China-India ties" - on.ft.com/4n6jHnH

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

Superb thread

"Economic historians may thus remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st-century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism whereby the fusion of private and state capital reaches new heights." @iliasalami.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/state-c...

If only western leaders were as enraged about literal kneecaping during a genocide by Zionist psychopaths as they are about a band called Kneecap speaking out against that very same grotesque genocide.

just read this by @anniemcc.bsky.social whose work is always super clear and multiply useful www.academia.edu/143589959/Mc...

A truly incredible book. It seamlessly weaves together economic geography, critique of political economy, and autobiographical story telling. The introduction in particular literally gave me shivers. Really remarkable.

Absolutely must listen episode on Chinese collateralised lending in developing countries open.spotify.com/episode/3iP9...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

- Rolling back environmental impact assessment - Doubling down on oil and gas production

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 is not possible to simply revive the strategies and jargon of the old Third World version of non-alignment." @iliasalami.bsky.social www.break-down.org/post/a-green...

Paul Tobin, @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce our new, open access, edited book ‘Stability and politicization in climate governance’. bit.ly/45Gb6RM. It is packed full of fantastic chapters about different aspects of climate politics. Here’s a short thread. 1/

Question marxologique : comment dit-on en français "the hidden abode of production" (capital vol 1, chapter 6)?

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

This is quite entertaining. I know a book which has a thing or two to say on this ;) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

Uneven and combined state capitalism www.wsj.com/tech/us-stak...

🚨 Exciting to see my new article w/ @jacktaggart.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social on the 'return' of industrial policy out in @globalpolicy.bsky.social. Does the emergence of the New Washington Consensus entail an expansion of policy space for Global South? See below to find out 👇