Une merveilleuse analyse sur la tension entre la promesse d'efficacité technocratique et les institutions démocratiques. D'actualité frappante en suivant le débat européen sur les omnibus.

Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers

The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...

Bailey’s obsession w/ quantitative tightening should be a *much* more important story in any account of what’s going on w/ UK gilts. But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence

it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government www.theguardian.com/business/202...

@rlspang.bsky.social provides lots of details here on the politics of recent goldsilverbuggery. Also helpful: this article from a few years ago by @stefeich.bsky.social on crypto and the politics of depoliticization: academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...

Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now Should be hitting shelves in October! www.sup.org/books/theory...

Tim is writing the first draft of history ya'll, if you aren't already reading Polycrisis religiously you need to get on that.

Heartening to see the spirit of Keynes channeled in today’s Letters to the FT. The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!

Appropriately perhaps, today is the birthday of Maynard Keynes, Britain's greatest ever financial warrior: 142 years young today. #AgeofMammonandMars

What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for reading! Actually working on some projects on “counterfeit democracy” (including of the crypto variety) with Leah Downey, whose recent excellent book you might also appreciate.

Bloch: “I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present. If we had not already gone beyond the barriers, we could not even perceive them as barriers.”

Hi folks! Discount code incoming for my new book Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds.

For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English) undpress.nd.edu/978026820325... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

I'm just going to throw this book by @stefeich.bsky.social into the ring, as I think it talks about the most important aspect of money fundamental at play here: "... to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule."

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!? "[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."

Congrats to Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social‬ on winning the 2024 David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Kind words from a fantastic editor and theorist — it was great pleasure to work with Stefan

Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book! Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic. Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social! www.sup.org/books/politi...

In my article “Future Theft” I argue that fossil capitalization relies on a temporally inverted form of “original accumulation” (Marx) and ask if and how climate reparations can help to reclaim the stolen future. Open Access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage ‪@sciencespo.bsky.social‬ and I edit for ‪@theoryculturesociety.org‬ on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0

11/ Choose your climate future. Our political/social/econ choices over coming years will determine how severe consequences will be. Politics of who wins & loses,& how ppl & nations make justice @iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics. thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...

Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.

The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will take place on 24 June 2025 at 9am. To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...

Shortlist for the first Climate Fiction Prize has just been announced @climate-fiction.bsky.social - short thread

met this thing for the very first time yesterday at @peoplesbooktakoma.com— a weird feeling, truthfully, to see eight years of your life condensed into a 1-pound stack of paper. But it is very pretty & I hope some of you guys like it 🌿

Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot? Keynes ging es nicht darum, die Auseinandersetzung mit der Zukunft zu diskreditieren. Vielmehr ging es ihm um eine Kritik von Zukunftsvorstellungen, die nur die Gegenwart extrapolieren, schreibt @stefeich.bsky.social: politischeoekonomie.com/auf-lange-si...

Sehr lesenswerter Essay von Stefan Eich über Keynes "in the long run". politischeoekonomie.com/auf-lange-si...

Fascinating article 👇

www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-2-di... Heute online mit meinem Beitrag “Das Recht der Stärkeren” Mit Dank an das Surplus Team und die Hrsg @adamtooze.bsky.social @isabellamweber.bsky.social

Wrote something on Keynes and dentistry for the excellent new @surplusmagazin.bsky.social! surplusmagazin.de/john-maynard... Big thanks to @maxinefowe.bsky.social and the rest of the editorial team for their help (and the great illustrations)

🚨 Out now: Die zweite Surplus-Ausgabe »Die Ära der Kettensäge« ist da. Libertäre Rechte ergreifen weltweit die Macht. Sie bauen eine Welt, in der das Recht der Stärkeren gilt. Die Tage im Briefkasten, am Kiosk oder sofort online auf: 👉 www.surplusmagazin.de/surplus-2-die-ara-der-kettensage/

#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen? Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I don't know about you, but I am getting impatient waiting for the capitalists to save us. What happened to the whole "state as the managing committee of the bourgeoisie" thing? A political economy 🧵 1/

Teaching the political economy of the green transition this term, I used, and learned from, some amazing 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬. A 🧵 on some of the best. Further suggestions are very welcome, I'll add them below.

As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes. Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Managed to get another 50 free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/3CSAK... Otherwise DM me for a pdf

Can anyone recommend a GOOD survey of central bank independence spreading around the world? Maybe @proufos.bsky.social @nathantankus.bsky.social @rohangrey.bsky.social @jacquelinebest.bsky.social @raulcarrillo.bsky.social @stefeich.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @jvtk.bsky.social?

📚✨ New paper alert: Derisking as Worldmaking → Why finance is a worldmaking force → Why derisking undermines itself → Why we need a Smart Green State instead Full article: "Derisking as Worldmaking: Climate Finance and the Politics of Uncertainty" (in RIPE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The neoliberal great transformation is from this perspective best understood as the outcome of a political experiment to evade the dilemma of legitimation." -- @stefeich.bsky.social, The Currency of Politics. 1/

"Money is a metaphor that demands to be taken literally. Like language, money does not merely represent reality but constitutes it." -- Stefan Eich, The Currency of Politics Just started this, and it's so lucid, clear and thought-provoking. Thanks to @tobiasbunde.bsky.social for recommending!

For Sidecar, I wrote on Stiglitz and supply-side Keynesianism. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

When you come out of teaching Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and there’s a quizzical owl sitting outside the classroom in DC! 🦉 Still not quite sure what to make of it in this of all weeks… H/t @airidas.bsky.social

"The question of uncertainty might then be the most concentrated moment of real tension between financial capitalism and democratic politics." @stefeich.bsky.social from December 2024 www.boundary2.org/2024/12/stef...

A remarkable new memoir of J. G. A. Pocock by Quentin Skinner "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters," Journal of the History of Ideas (2025) muse.jhu.edu/article/949925

I went big picture with this one. Let me know what you think. open.substack.com/pub/thechina...