Oren Cass or David Harvey?

What Jeffrey Epstein knew about money Epstein’s emails show how the financial elite consolidated their wealth amid global turmoil 🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social

Democratic elites chose donors over workers. Without an aggressive economic agenda they risk becoming the permanent minority party, warns Thomas Ferguson. @bostonreview.bsky.social  www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

I often wonder if the tendency to mistake basic emotions (whether cruelty or despair) for deep insight is a distinctive feature of our era or something of all times. It seems to require both a definite capacity for critical thinking and a willingness to abuse it.

Australians are bracing for another interest rate rise because Labor has turbo-charged the housing crisis & refused to tackle corporate price gouging. If you're a mortgage holder or a renter, you face being hit by the RBA to “fix” the government’s "inflation problem".

👉 "You know you've got "research culture" right when people stop talking about research culture and just talk about their research."👈

ONE DAY LATER Larry Summers fleshed out his complaints in a Washington Post column

Hard to imagine how Larry Summers’s humiliation could be any more complete tbh

“Pantomime of thinking” is a great phrase

I've spent way too much time trying to understand Kevin Warsh's thinking, but there's not much there in the end. This is the upshot, I think:

This is subtly savage. www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

New book officially out 🚨 If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.

New paper out - on why there won't be a return to the golden age of inflation targeting. Empirical material focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia, but the argument applies broadly, I feel. www.ppesydney.net/content/uplo...

Recently stumbled on a more or less complete, unpublished Adorno fragment on fascist propaganda & mimesis while looking thru archival materials from the early phases (ca. 42/43) of writing Dialectic of Enlightenment. Just finished a translation—you can read it here! open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

The case against Graeberism and for Mamdanism dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Perhaps "the markets" are just telling us that their concern with central bank independence was never that principled to begin with.

Dear Stock Market: Trump is trying to throw the Federal Reserve chair in jail on charges even his fellow Republicans recognize as phony. Why aren’t you alarmed? Have you gone COMPLETELY deaf, dumb and blind? Love, Tim newrepublic.com/article/2052...

Bipartisanship is what's needed right now.

Jason Furman preaching about not playing politics while the Gestapo is banging down the church doors. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/o...

Different scenarios, but the attack on Powell illustrates in a very direct way that there won’t be a return to normal for central bankers.

MAGA understands that "to be truly transformative, it will need to control monetary policy. As the MAGA juggernaut makes a politics centred on defending the status quo increasingly incoherent, time is running out for its opposition to learn the same lesson." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

"A chronic, devastating cancer in American society is prominent Democrats outright refusing to share their constituents' urgency and horror in the face of what is being done to society by Republicans..."

The interview itself is such an unbearable exercise in legitimation, but this part is just a mental health problem.

“The so-called imperial boomerang is more like a deadly toxin that spreads in all directions, attacking the lungs and nervous systems of whoever happens to be standing nearby.”

"the pro-low-income worker tilt of wage gains during the Biden recovery was something we haven’t seen since the “Great Compression” of the 1940s." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-new-k-in...

I started a substack and am calling it, Theory Decay. This is my first (and possibly last) post. Link below:

Weirdly this is the rare Onion article that does nothing for me - please someone explain why it’s funny

Excited to see my new article "Regulatory Sandboxes: One Decade On" out in print. There's not much evidence that fintech sandboxes have benefitted anyone other than tech businesses - something we should bear in mind as policymakers rush to adopt AI sandboxes. www.law.georgetown.edu/internationa...

2025 in publications: 3 journal articles, 3 public pieces in leading journals and outlets on finance, tech, and imagination. Despite a strong year of research and impact, I’m still searching for a full-time academic or research home. It’s painful to see how normalized this precarity has become.

“The postwar deal was simple enough that it barely needed stating: education + work + time = house, security, retirement. It worked, more or less, for three generations — long enough that people mistook it for natural law rather than policy choice.” www.collisiondetector.com/riskmaxxing-...

The issue of affordability has jumped to the top of the US political agenda, threatening the Republican party’s prospects in next year’s midterm elections and weighing on Donald Trump’s presidency ft.trib.al/iE20dZc

Some of you are too immersed in parochial disciplinary concerns. Others of you are too oblivious to debates in your field. Only I know the correct balance between scholarly rigour and universal human relevance

New paper out - on why there won't be a return to the golden age of inflation targeting. Empirical material focused on the Reserve Bank of Australia, but the argument applies broadly, I feel. www.ppesydney.net/content/uplo...

Was only a matter of time of course, but all the same... "tax-aware investing"!

Was contemplating writing an intellectual biography of Summers, but Don Duke Donald beat me to it.

I am looking for an institutional history of the NBER - any suggestions or pointers?

I have a new paper out in @ripejournal.bsky.social: From colonial economics to structural adjustment: race, neoliberal ideology, and pernicious financial inclusion It's Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I would actually say that the (expectation of) bailout is already fully part of the business model?

“the struggle against fascism cannot begin in moral condemnations or abstract politics alone, but must start with a confrontation of the quiet compromises, self-deceptions, and moral blind spots within each of us” www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2025/1...

As the Fed meeting kicks off, Powell is grappling with intense internal divisions about the economic outlook and the policy path forward. A cut tomorrow will no doubt generate dissent, but standing pat would have prompted even more pushback www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/b... @nytimes.com

I am wondering about this all the time. My provisional answer is that in education AI is presented as "just a tool", whereas as consumers we respond to it as the final product (former definitely more pernicious). Very interested in more informed takes...

Still reading but here's my central source of confusion about this debate: isn't lazy rent collection (collecting money on pure formal ownership, without having to go to war, manage an estate, make appearances at court) something that only becomes a real option in capitalist society?

In „Die Asset-Ökonomie“ argumentieren Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper und @mkonings.bsky.social, dass nicht mehr durch Arbeit erwirtschaftete Einkünfte, sondern Vermögenswerte wie Immobilienbesitz & Co. den sozialen Status bestimmen. Die Rezension von Lukas Lachenicht: www.soziopolis.de/minsky-und-d...

"Work, Bad Infinity, and Habit" is finally out! I’ve been thinking about some of these ideas since my dissertation, and had the pleasure of pursuing them further with Lisa Herzog during my postdoc. Here’s our take on Hegel as a helpful ecological thinker 🦉🌿 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gillian Rose - a few links for the thirtieth anniversary progressivegeographies.com/2025/12/09/g...

One might think that central banks would jump at the opportunity finally to create a money system that serves the people rather than the banks. @katharinapistor.bsky.social explains why they haven't. bit.ly/4poyYSE

The total number of billionaires across the globe reached new heights in 2025. Some 2,900 billionaires now control $15.8 trillion, up from about 2,700 billionaires with a cumulative wealth of nearly $14 trillion a year earlier. 🔗 Read more: on.wsj.com/4owvufj

“We can’t all be expected to bike.” Fair. But that’s not the point. “Not everyone can or wants to bike. But some people can & do—and they deserve a safe, efficient, affordable way to move through the city. It’s about freedom of choice.” This & other useful comebacks, in @momentummag.bsky.social.

“As long as we allow an extreme minority of wealthy parasites to set the course for what happens to this species and this planet, we only have ourselves to blame for not even trying to overthrow and abolish them for good” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

This is a really smart piece by @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social, which echoes something I've long thought. The American right is simply better at creating an ecosystem of social mobility for intellectuals than the left broadly is... www.vox.com/on-the-right...