Katherina Kinzel, Jan Overwijk (IfS): Marxism Without Irony: On the Failure of Alfred Sohn-Rethel's Transcendental Materialism onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... [full text online]

Couldn't agree more with the quote from Shorten below. But then you read the piece and there's just nothing but the vapid consultancy speak - modularity, agility, stackabilty - that prevents universities from allocating resources in a sensible way in the first place.

Check out my new article published @distinktionjournal.bsky.social on contrarianism as a cultural practice enabled by the institutional logic of Silicon Valley VC. Read it here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We talk specifically and at length about the CFA franc currency union, a system with violent colonial roots that continues to constrain the economic and political agency of its member states in West and Central Africa.

A short intro for Issue 2 of The BREAK—DOWN from me & @johnmerrick.bsky.social The issue takes many approaches to "the frontier", but always with a core question: which compromises for a sustainable future unavoidable, & which should we resist at all costs? www.break-down.org/on-frontiers/

Later posting than usual, but: my newsletter this week is about Stephen Miran, his economic views, and what it could all mean for dollar dominance -- please check it out! open.substack.com/pub/ninaeich...

Finally read @alex1789.bsky.social critique of the new arguments about techno/neo-feudalism on the left. Great stuff! americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tech...

A nice article about friend and colleague Raewyn Connell in the SMH, including foreshadowing her new trans memoir. Pleased to see she's delivering this year's Ted Wheelwright lecture in political economy at Sydney University - one of the few universities to maintain political economy and Marxism.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

As US interest rates have risen, debt crises have exploded across much of the Global South. The IMF is doing to countries like Kenya and Sri Lanka what DOGE is trying to do to the US. @danieldenvir.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Im September erscheint ein von @huhnholz.bsky.social, @aaronsahr.bsky.social und Eva Weiler herausgegebener Sonderband zur Politischen Theorie öffentlicher Finanzen. Es geht darum, ökonomische, geldpolitische und fiskalische Fragen endlich wieder zum Gegenstand politischen Denkens zu machen.

Political economists always want credit for having predicted past financial crises. I, however, simply want some recognition for the fact that I realized Dr Phil was a fascist when he was still in Oprah's benevolent orbit.

📢Current Scholarship! Commenting recent work on money in early America, Prof. Desan's latest article traces the historiography of money to an emerging strand of scholarship that recovers money's nature as a practice that organizes value, deeply shaping social structures in the process.📜💰

Dimitris Vardoulakis, The Agonistic Condition: Materialism and Democracy - @edinburghup.bsky.social, June 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-ago...

Proud to stand with my Sociology colleagues, joined by @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @damiencahill.bsky.social and the mighty @nteunion.bsky.social against the devastating cuts proposed at Macquarie University

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here’s a link to a great conversation hosted by @phenomenalworld & @QuincyInst with @MonaAli_NY_US & @Brad_Setser, moderated by @StynesMichael about the $, imbalances, global public goods (or not) and other themes related to “Monetizing Primacy.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qc9...

now published: The Socialization Debate Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122 doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

“The manufacturing sector, which tariffs are supposed to be boosting, has shed jobs for three straight months.” www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

Nick Srnicek, Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI - @politybooks.bsky.social, October 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

We need guaranteed income but these pilots also show us how valuable something as simple as a job seekers allowance would be. Any future UI reform should include it. 19thnews.org/2025/07/cash...

Ta da! @70sbachchan.bsky.social was on @majorityreport.bsky.social talking about neoliberalism, and why the US is giving up on the industries of the future @thepolycrisis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/MuBPpNn...

The latest Dollars & Sense is up - inflation, discouraged workers, a bit of tariffs, it's all there! australiainstitute.org.au/post/lowest-...

"because virtue is actually important to professional work [moral deskilling] also means that no one can really do their jobs. This is now causing massive system failures"

As @andrewleyshon.bsky.social and I show in our forthcoming book, JPMorgan Chase has been competing against, partnering with, investing in, and buying up FinTech startups since at least 2014. They have long been leveraging their monopoly position in US banking to shape FinTech economies

With the rise of AI, I've begun to wonder if future graders of expository essays will even be able to grasp the sheer brilliance of Mandy Berry's famous Student Essay Unplugged? We many never see this kind of essay again, folks.

This is some wizard logic here, folks. In brief, the argument is: "To protect the Fed's independence, Powell should cave to political pressure." Never mind that doing so would *literally mean* the Fed is not politically independent, but what do I know?🤷‍♂️

At some point you realize that much of the punditocracy is half reality TV show, half high school - who are the big new personalities? where is the buzz? don't get too bogged down in the details!

I was just looking into a review copy of Phil Neel's new book, Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory. I thought the release date was Sept. I knew that, like all Hist Mat series, the initial hardcover would be $$$. With institutional access you can currently download the book free.

@danielwyche.bsky.social, The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other. From Spiritual Exercises to Political Transformation - @columbiaup.bsky.social, May 2025 cup.columbia.edu/book/the-car...

My article on "The Eco-Marxist Problematic" just became open access through the Taverne-Amendment. Free for anyone to read! research.uvh.nl/ws/portalfil...

ICYMI - @lclaberge.bsky.social on her new book 'Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke'. We talked about Y2K, the socio-cultural atmosphere of the late 1990s, and how Leigh Claire's book fits within the tradition of Workers' Inquiry: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

1. @abenewman.bsky.social and I have a new piece in @wired.com on the enshittification of American power. It repurposes arguments from our book, Underground Empire amzn.to/3PbIyqX , and Cory Doctorow's idea of enshittification to explain how the Trump administration is trying to remake the world.

The MAGA 2.0 business coalition is a fragile one, and the ruling class might just be at war with itself. @jamiemerchant.bsky.social considers the battle lines.

“The months since April 2 have clarified the multiple contradictory desires of the Trump administration vis-a-vis its position in the global economic hierarchy.” @rajakorman.bsky.social on Trumponomics, dollar diplomacy, and multipolarity www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mon...

Out now! The Politics of Feeling by @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social A critique of the living edge of politics, where feelings emerge, gather intensity, or dissolve in the continual making and remaking of the politics of the present www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

"a massive public jobs program for fascists"

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

What could a world after capitalism look like? This two-part article in the @NewLeftReview is the result of five years of research. I’ll be turning it into a book later this year, so I’d love to hear your comments and critiques. newleftreview.org/issues/ii153...

Ahead of the jobs report @bencasselman.bsky.social and I looked into how Trump's immigration policies make it hard for the Fed to know if the labor market is weakening, putting a divided central bank in a more fraught position as it debates rate cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/b... @nytimes.com

We seek submissions from across the humanities and social sciences and we are especially keen to hear from authors from under-represented groups (both within the academy in general and within economic discourse in particular).

Great to see Geoffrey Ingham's engaging review of The Bailout State alongside Epstein's Busting the Bankers' Club academic.oup.com/cpe/advance-...

Wrote an op-ed about why we need to expropriate the increasingly far-right AI industry and opt for public ownership of AI instead. In the spirit of Allende’s idea of socialist technologies, it’s time for a European project Cybersyn 2.0. sampol.be/2025/07/de-t...

this is in large part about an aging population, right?

“The coalition that carried Mamdani — renters, service workers, and progressive professionals — is a real and growing one. But it’s not large enough to win national elections or even many statewide contests.” (1/2) jacobin.com/2025/06/zohr...

he is so real for this

Because he threatens the whole post-fiscal crisis austerity regime imposed on NYC by Larry’s ideological ancestors. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“while weapons contractors will gorge on a huge new infusion of cash, military personnel, past and present, are clearly going to be neglected. As a start, the Veterans Administration is on the block for deep cuts, including possible layoffs of up to 80,000 employees” tomdispatch.com/feeding-the-...