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...

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...

Engin Isin, The Birth of Sensory Power: Doing Things with Words, Numbers and Neurons - @edinburghup.bsky.social, November 2025 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-bir...

Such a good piece by @garethwatkins.bsky.social that really captures the MAGA ethos: "The right wing intellectual project is simply to ask: ‘what would have to be true in order to justify the terrible things that I want to do?’" newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...

Perhaps don't go along with calling it an "incentive plan" www.ft.com/content/01bd...

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!

As Mark Carney continues his oil pipeline / tanker / LNG / Bill c-5 spree— It's worth reading this dispatch from @forensicarchi.bsky.social 's Omar Ferwati & Nessie Nankivell, documenting Indigenous resistance to the "Ring of Fire" in Northern Ontario. www.break-down.org/resistance-o...

Abundance thinking isn't just neoliberalism warmed over but a way to clear the ground for a compromise of centrism with MAGA authoritarianism. Dunkelman's NYT piece expresses that ambition very clearly. jacobin.com/2025/07/klei...

"The only path forward is to lean back into centralized public authority. And that’s why the second Trump administration has the potential to slingshot progressivism into a new, brighter future." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...

The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."

Excited to see my article "The affective politics of reactionary futurism in Silicon Valley" has now been officially assigned a volume and issue in Critical Studies on Security (Vol. 13, Issue 3)! I have 50 free copies; let me know if you need one. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4H3KM...

You just can’t fully rule out that Summers feels he’s done his time and is now stepping back into the public limelight and is the “leading economist” mentioned below. Gonna find out now…

This is a must-read: Gen Z’s so-called "lazy" or "risk-taking" behavior is a rational response to structural economic barriers. With housing out of reach, many turn to crypto, risky bets & "financial nihilism". www.ft.com/content/c17a...

"Banks provide the plumbing for the trillion-dollar private credit market, offering leverage and liquidity throughout a fund’s life." www.ft.com/content/535b...

I had literally not come across this by @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social until today, and it made me think about how extremely difficult it has become to find items (e.g. "book that emphasizes continuity of far-right radicalism with midcentury mainstream conservatism") you're actively looking for.

British millennials are embracing an unlikely new cause: infrastructure, housing and the politics of economic growth.

AI usage: 87% of executives use AI for work; 57% managers; 27% of employees. This is both easy to believe and easy to misinterpret. AI is *genuinely* useful if what matters is FORM. Terrible at SUBSTANCE. If useful for your job = your job just form. A 🧵 www.businessinsider.com/executives-a...

Oh hi, I wrote this in 2017. “Instead of defanging governments and big corporations, the distributed ledger offers those domains enormous incentive to consolidate their power and influence.”

This is a terrific meditation on art and slop www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFit...

That the $75 million is going to the Treasury and not one of Trump’s businesses underscores that the administration has maintained a core of integrity in a highly polarized political environment.

Billionaires Amass War Chests to Fight AI Regulation * Goal is influence ahead of 2026 midterm elections * More than 1,000 AI-related bills were introduced by state lawmakers in 2025 * Leading the Future super PAC has $100 million+ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech... by @laurajnelson.bsky.social

Published today: my op-Ed for Sifted on why the dynamics of VC are too risky for defence. I’m grateful to the editors for letting me make this point in the ‘lion’s den’ sifted.eu/articles/def...

We welcome APRA taking action in response to the Greens’ & community concerns for the massive spike in investor lending. However, this alone won’t cool investors’ stampede of the housing market. Jim Chalmers must direct APRA to use their levers to curb runaway investor lending.

Call for PhD Student! I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.

"onderzoekers die projectaanvragen schrijven, kosten ook veel geld. Die arbeidsuren worden grotendeels gefinancierd door de belastingbetaler. Wanneer je die verloren uren vergelijkt met hoeveel geld er daadwerkelijk wordt uitgedeeld, valt de balans soms negatief uit."

Labour is turning Britain into an authoritarian state. That’s bad enough now. But imagine what a Nigel Farage government will build on all these authoritarian foundations.

"Around Europe, labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with the center-right . In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this strategy with the same dismal results." From my analysis Jacobin on the state of Danish politics after the local elections

this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.

"Now the people who capitalized on the revolt against an indifferent American elite are in power, and, shock of all shocks, they are even more indifferent than anyone who came before them."

The system creates a middleman for every dollar spent — and an opportunity for them to make a profit off the digital equivalent of something so simple as handing someone else a bill.