If there is one thing sustaining me and keeping me from succumbing to total despair and hopelessness, it is the encouragement and perspective offered by my much older, wiser teachers. A true blessing.

Syllabi for four of my courses (all undergraduate) are now available on my website: - Money and Central Banking - The Life and Work of John M. Keynes - Studying Capitalism - Intermediate Macroeconomics

Thank for the generous shout out! And honored to have my book next to Eric's one ☺️

A thread 🧵 of my work on money and central banking #hetecon First, a presentation from Dec '24 of an updated version of my working paper on a Post Keynesian reframing of the Pakistani monetary system. (WP link in next post.) My presentation begins at the 1:01:45 timestamp: youtu.be/fytHM7kJiFo?...

I have updated my teaching/syllabi page: daniyalkhan.net/teaching/

Four excellent recent reads

You know that Joan Didion quote about writing “to find out what you think”? Turns out that conversely, if you outsource writing, you actually become more ignorant.

Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise, pgs 56, 62. One of the best books I've read recently. Must read for all young scholars and anyone thinking of becoming an academic.

Questions for myself after watching Sanctuary on Netflix: (How) Is my economics different? Is my economics beautiful? کیا میری معاشیات مختلف ہے؟ کیا میری معاشیات خوبصورت ہے؟

To anyone who was paying attention, it was obvious when ChatGPT was first released that it was an artificial bullshit generator. Nothing that has come out since has required any adjustments to this view. (Except, I guess, to recognize that plausible-sounding bullshit is sometimes what people want.)

Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think. @devikadutt.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social

AI and commercial interests have muddied the water of higher education so badly I have no idea how people aren't just walking out of the sector. Don't know how long I'm going to last here, and no idea what I'll do afterwards.

The Heterodox Economics Working Group (HEWG) is an effort to foster a Pakistani community of economic heterodoxy. Our website is up and running, as simple as it is. sites.google.com/view/hewg/home #hetecon

Excellent. Must read. Remarkable foresight.

Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power", dies aged 88 on.ft.com/4kaAl4d

Complete fog of war here in Pakistan. Government and military sources have succeeded in cultivating an insane level of mistrust and misunformation among their own public.

My blogpost on the total breakdown of corporate governance at Columbia and the death of the corporate university: daniyalkhan.net/2025/04/12/t...

My reviews of three recent books on central banks by Moschella, Monnet, and Wansleben are out in ROPE and RRPE: ROPE (Moschella and Monnet): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... RRPE (Wansleben): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #centralbanking #hetecon