A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

"China is the only large country driving the energy transition at anything close to the necessary speed and scale." It's also the only one whose energy transition is not hamstrung by reliance on the motive force of renewables profitability. Coincidence? I think not.

‘Over the weeks, I didn’t once get a sense that anyone present had fully thought through that Martha had been deprived of, say, seventy years of life.’ @paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter’s preventable death in hospital: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

it's 100 years since the land registry (and therefore the modern property market) was established in england and wales. next tuesday i'll be talking with @sarahkeenan.bsky.social, lorna fox o'mahony and lucy finchett-maddock about the politics of registration. join: www.eventbrite.ca/e/perpetual-...

Our pitch for constructivist economic geographies - Rachel Phillips, Chris Meulbroek, Jamie Peck, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have some new online publications, great readings on home ownership, rentierism, and decarbonized living! 🔸 Susan Smith and Gavin Wood discusses the edges of owner occupation and rentier capitalism ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A new piece on extractive capitalism for @thetls.bsky.social, reviewing 4 new books, including @triofrancos.bsky.social's much-anticipated EXTRACTION and Partha Dasgupta's widely- praised ON NATURAL CAPITAL

‘We spoke on the phone to one of the consultants at King’s. There was, he said, “a full set of escalations” we could make. Welcome to my last four years.’ @paullaity.bsky.social on the search for accountability after his daughter Martha died of sepsis in hospital: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

'Welcome to my last four years.' A search for accountability and a full, detailed explanation for Martha's death . . . www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

My book Understanding Policy Mobility is out this month, for anyone interested in my take on this literature that has emerged over the last 15 odd years www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/und...

From my talk ... #CriticalDecade #Tyndall25UEA

Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizon' speech is approaching its 10th anniversary. Some reflections here on why the 'measure risk to manage risk' paradigm it set out has largely failed and alternative path forwards. medium.com/iipp-blog/th...

“The escalation from Trump One to Trump Two has seen irrationality spread from the deliberative public sphere to flood the veins of government.” In our brand-new issue: an anatomy of stupidity by @will-davies.bsky.social. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

A dramatic climate-insurance breakdown that shocks the financial system of entire national economies .....is not going to happen. Why not? NEW: @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

We finally FINALLY finished the big insurance piece. There's a LOT that is not in there. But I think we've got a few of the important bits. TL;DR insurance is extremely interesting, but it's neither the climate problem nor the solution. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Taxi for Mr Mandy please!

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/

Thrilled that my first article is out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social ☺️ It looks at why renewable energy buildout in Europe has been *so* unsteady - tracing the evolution of/conflict over the regime for RE derisking over the last two+ decades... It's open access! 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1350... Short 🧵 ...

First book talk of many done! Fantastic to engage with industry professionals @ #HousingCommunitySummit "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State" is now available to order - with all royalties going to the charity Surviving Economic Abuse. Hive: www.hive.co.uk/Product/Kath...

"I regret the thing that someone else did to me"

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 6 is now available online! It features a book forum on Shaina Potts’ "Judicial Territory: Law, Capital and the Expansion of American Empire". Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...

Antipode volume 57, number 5 -- our September 2025 issue -- out now, including a seven-article Symposium, "A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste" antipodeonline.org/2025/09/08/v...

Issue #2 has gone to print! Featuring an incredible range of essays, photojournalism, dispatches from around the world and an interview with the excellent @triofrancos.bsky.social check it out / subscribe via our shiny new website www.break-down.org

“The mood of Abundance is that of a chirpy regional sales manager giving a PowerPoint; Overshoot’s is a wild-eyed buccaneer swinging onto a burning frigate with a cutlass in his teeth.” —Trevor Jackson

Trevor Jackson's review of ABUNDANCE (Klein/Thompson) alongside OVERSHOOT (Malm/Carton) is very, very good.

We have fresh paper out on digitalization and neighbourhood belonging, and the connection between urban social life and online communities by Nerea Viana Alzola and Maxime Felder ➡️ "'You Know You’re from Le Lignon If … ' Negotiating Neighbourhood Belonging on Social Media"

Our new issue 47.16 is now online, featuring: @tomstevenson.bsky.social in El Salvador Kasia Boddy on Dorothy Parker Seamus Perry on Richard Ellmann’s biography of James Joyce Ruby Hamilton on David Lynch and Emily Witt (@embits.bsky.social) on the manosphere. Read online at lrb.co.uk

Very few social-democrat-vs-democratic-socialism vignettes can rival Sweden's future finance minister getting photographed in parliament scribbling ‘wage-earner funds are a fucking piece of shit.’ From @neilwarner.bsky.social's excellent recent article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As Trump moves to “encroach upon…the Fed’s prized autonomy,” Brett Christophers (@brettchristophers.bsky.social) asks: “Are central banks like the Fed really independent in the first place?” buff.ly/sQDQ4AD

Hugely important from @kevinclimate.bsky.social - when Govt’s own advisers aren’t speaking truth to power, it’s incredibly dangerous for all of us 👇

“What is distinctive about the inflation aversion of bankers and the rich is how unconditional it tends to be.” — @brettchristophers.bsky.social

New piece on Carbon Colonialism, net-zero nonsense, and how the UK Government's climate advisors (and many experts) shy away from speaking truth to power. We need a fundamental reboot of climate policy; - physics doesn't care about political sensibilities. theconversation.com/the-uks-year...

“Are central banks like the Fed really independent in the first place? If so, of what and whom? And what goals are they “independently” pursuing?” — @brettchristophers.bsky.social

Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.

Had the honour of sitting down with Harj Narulla, who represented Solomon Islands in the ICJ's landmark climate ruling in July. For anyone wanting to understand what it all means, look no further. Its potential impact goes far beyond what I expected. Or as Harj put it: “the stakes have changed”.

Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.

Fantastic article on the contradictions of Norwegian energy policy at home and abroad. The Norwegian state as a global rentier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to @dialogueshg.bsky.social for this forum on our book, which will be re-released as a paperback. We savor the critiques and argue that the Uber playbook has jumped scale. It's now the state, rule of law, & courts that are under threat from Silicon Valley. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Just finished reading about asset-manager society in “Our Lives in Their Portfolios” by @brettchristophers.bsky.social You should read it. “We’re 10 years in; we have 40 left to go. By the end of that 50 years, most infrastructure in the world will be transferred to private hands” Bruce Flatt “

Become my new colleague! Two weeks left to send in your application. #envpol #envhist #greensky #envhum @environmentalpol.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social @cnsjournal.bsky.social

On the long-run swings between cut-throat competition and cut-throat monopoly regimes. US and France focus. Read Erik’s 📕, and 🧵.

During the US New Deal, I show how a group of relative newcomers to the research division of the National Recovery Administration saw the negative effects of its anti-competition quasi-cartelization policies, and these same people went on to convince FDR to go full trustbuster come 1938.

But the point of the book is to put this in a broader context, of both the past and other countries: lots of countries experience these alternations back and forth between policy favoring competition or monopoly.

My book is out today! Read my stuff! academic.oup.com/book/60584?l... … The book looks at the long-run evolution of policy around monopoly and competition in the US and France over the 20th century, using extensive archival research to track the main policy actors who changed it at key moments.

Great summation of dynamics in @brettchristophers.bsky.social's book. Imagine a mode of production geared toward 'production for use' that could rationally plan the utilization of such solar resources instead of leaving it to anarchic (and cannibalizing) market forces.

UK homelessness minister faces calls to resign over tenant eviction claims

Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal trib.al/E59gUNW

Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 5 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from financialization and land values to decommodification strategies and mass displacement. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...