whats that? A response paper written by.... a human?
Verena Gradinger
@averenasour.bsky.social
🌚 26. She/her. 📌 Somewhere between Vienna and London. 📔 Political Economist in the making @SOAS University of London Critical Macrofinance by day. Ecological Marxism by night.
The UK bond market is just Polymarket for men in suits
"Globalisation, far from producing peaceful economic competition and state cooperation, has given birth to new and virulent forms of imperialism... resting on the organisation of production across borders and the command of money and finance." #imperialism #capitalism wearesparc.org/balancesheet...
Imperialism Today: Production, Money and Power in a Fragmenting World -
Costas Lapavitsas SOAS Imperialist ascendancy The intensification of imperialism during the last two decades, with the USA in the lead, is beyond dispute.
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As put by JP Morgan: "In bear markets, stocks return to their rightful owners" ie Only those w privileged access to credit & high quality collateral survive. With each financial crisis since 1980s there has been wave of consolidation across all industries, inc housing assets bsky.app/profile/70sb...
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3mo agoeverything in american politics boils down to this
We have extended the CfP until next week, April 17th If you considered applying and haven't done so this far, this is your chance!
Verena Gradinger@averenasour.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe are hosting a workshop on methodology, bringing together both qualitative and quantitative methods on balance sheets and money hierarchy. 12-13 June at FU. Applications to verena.gradinger@globalclimateforum.org
We are hosting a workshop on methodology, bringing together both qualitative and quantitative methods on balance sheets and money hierarchy. 12-13 June at FU. Applications to verena.gradinger@globalclimateforum.org
Steffen Murau@steffenmurau.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 Call for Papers 📣 The OBFA-TRANSFORM research group is hosting a workshop on 12-13 June at the Freie Universität Berlin! The title is "Monetary Architecture. Mapping the Web of Interlocking Balance Sheets in Times of Change". See the CfP here: tinyurl.com/5n7aab2r ▶️ Apply by 10 April
I am teaching in 1 hour and my slides are not done wish me luck lol
Put down social media. Text your 5 best friends/group chats of choice that article you have been reading and get angry of them for not putting down everything and sending you an adequate response within 30 minutes.
I love a good "see this problem is not new my dear pk friends" quote, especially when it concerns the role of the state and financial markets
Nick Bernards@nickbernards.bsky.social · 7mo agoEnough ‘now is the time of monsters’, in with ‘widespread participation in financial markets compels contradictory state action to backstop financial markets’ Gramsci.
Currently closely monitoring the gold price based on the line outside of the goldsmith's next to my therapist's office
Me teaching dialectical materialism to the kids
alex williams@atwilliams.bsky.social · 7mo agoit's about oil (superstructure), not oil (base), to put it in marxo terms
If you're only going to read one paper about the Eurocrisis in your entire life, it should be this one. The devil's in the details, but what makes this paper so strong is that it once and for all disproves the way many economists and politicians alike talk about the Eurocrisis
Steffen Murau@steffenmurau.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe recently published a study on the transformation of the Eurozone architecture (🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers...., with Alex Goghie, Matteo Giordano & @rikereimer.bsky.social) and launched an accompanying interactive online tool (🔗 monetary-architecture.com). This is how it came to be 👇
Our website is refurbished, our datasets are online, and you can now see what we've been up to in applying Monetary Architecture to explain financial cycles and balance sheet expansion & contraction. Very excited to have this out and looking forward to the many more things to come!
Steffen Murau@steffenmurau.bsky.social · 8mo ago📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣 Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊 That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
📣 News from the OBFA-TRANSFORM project 📣 Our Emmy Noether research group is fast approaching its halfway point and we’ve recently received confirmation of funding from @dfg.de for the second project period from 2026 to 2029 🎊 That's why we are launching our new website at obfa-transform.eu
POV: the deadline for the PhD proposal is in 52 hours and you are starting to question all your life decisions
SAPE 2 Imperialism: Economics of Re-armament and Militarism with Costas Lapavitsas and Clara Mattei, chaired by Hanin Khawaja is on 📍Wednesday 29 October 6-8pm UK time📍. Supported by @gftuet.org.uk Please find the discussion topics below. Sign up to receive Zoom link: bit.ly/47u3rZb
Join us at this year's Historical Materialism Conference - to discuss pressing issues such as rising authoritarianism and climate breakdown, the new age of Imperialism and the social foundations of AI. If you're lucky you might even get to fight some cultural Marxists after a few drinks ;)
Historical Materialism Journal@histmat.bsky.social · 10mo agoBADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online! Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Thank you so much for organising this! Not only were the presentations amazing, but also very helpful in finding inspiration for my PhD proposal. Plus I am now convinced that Leeds has by far one of the coolest PhD cohorts in the field of Economics
Iván Weigandi@iweigandi.bsky.social · 10mo agoOn Tuesday, we hosted a workshop on Global Banking and Global Stability (one of my favorite topics and the focus of my PhD) at the University of Leeds with many of my favorite researchers in the field. Porque los gustos hay que dárselos en vida (y antes que se termine el doctorado).
On Tuesday, we hosted a workshop on Global Banking and Global Stability (one of my favorite topics and the focus of my PhD) at the University of Leeds with many of my favorite researchers in the field. Porque los gustos hay que dárselos en vida (y antes que se termine el doctorado).
This is quite frankly so much worse than I imagined... Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: ‘I will remain someone with a political opinion’ - on.ft.com/47mmHWV via @FT
Former Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz: ‘I will remain someone with a political opinion’
The politician-turned-entrepreneur on his cyber security start-up, why Europe risks missing out on AI innovation — and his dealings with Peter Thiel
on.ft.com
Every day I wake up and wonder if there will be any "safe assets" left to analyse by the time I start my PhD
Person on the train is currently setting up her lecture on "The Philosophy of Monsters" using ChatGPT and I don't think she realises the irony nor the potential she is missing out on making this her case study
our macro-finance share house is reaching unprecedented levels of nerdiness: lets see what FT coffee tastes like @averenasour.bsky.social
My days are a constant back and forth between feeling like a genius and not understanding what money is... #thesislife
"Crypto is not a Ponzi scheme" Meanwhile crypto in the UK:
