Chris Clarke
@chris-clarke.bsky.social
Reader in Political Economy, University of Warwick. Politics of money/finance, fintech (and the like), governance/everyday of finance, ethics and IPE. Decolonial and socio-technical imaginaries, fintech in India, and financial memes currently on the desk
Just arrived: The Social Foundations of Global Finance edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others... #OpenAccess eBook available 👇 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
******DATA UPDATE****** Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023 The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar... What’s new about #CBI?
Ana Carolina Garriga - CBI data
***NEW DATA RELEASE - January, 2025*** Version 3 of the data covers 192 countries, between 1970 and 2023. It includes 46% more observations than the 2016 release (*). The paper describing the update...
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Deep into marking a pile of book reviews. A clear majority chose to write on Adam Tooze's Crashed. Yet the book is read so differently across the papers, while all offering glowing accounts. Sign of a good book I guess?
Kids at the play centre, so some time to read more of @natjdyer.bsky.social's wonderfully researched and superbly written Ricardo's Dream!
"it just becomes leverage upon leverage, all the way down" Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT
I've probably spent way too much of my life writing about bitcoin — over twelve years. Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012. jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...
After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed
What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octobe...
jpkoning.blogspot.com
"The winners are already reaping unimaginable rewards. All this is taking place before Trump is even in office." Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT
Trump’s bonanza of the century
Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation
on.ft.com
"Bluesky is designed not to trap users in a gilded cage — but investors like gilded cages because they’re easier to monetise" Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue
The social network offers a near facsimile of Elon Musk’s X that’s friendlier to users, if not necessarily investors
on.ft.com
The return of Cold War era chess match fixing allegations. indianexpress.com/article/spor...
Russia chess federation president calls for FIDE investigation on world championship match between Gukesh and Ding Liren
TASS quoted that in an equal endgame, Ding Liren made a blunder on move 55 after which Gukesh won advantage on a pawn ending.
indianexpress.com
"Trading volumes in US equities jumped 38 per cent in November from the same month in 2023, reaching levels not seen since the meme stock craze of early 2021" Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary. on.ft.com/3DeFbgz
Donald Trump’s election win sparks trading surge for banks and brokers
Markets activity ‘exploded’ as traders bet on a more business-friendly approach by incoming administration
on.ft.com
Writing about fintech in relation to the social foundations of finance approach of my late friend and colleague Tim Sinclair has given me an opportunity to unpack with more precision the new forms of power and inequality fintech establishes in the world economy. #ipesky
Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DE
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd
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OUT TODAY (and on vibe): The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia - Thais Franca www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia
The immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academics have garnered substantial attention within the literature. Although it is still not possible to precisely detail the pandemic's long-term...
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Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop: As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
theconversation.com
Fiery stuff, though maybe a bit harsh on rocks and trees. New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT
"Platforms are designed to perform accumulation strategies of their owners and these include the displacement of informal, solidaristic relations by vertical relations of market dependence". The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social
Sally Brooks@sallyhbrooks.bsky.social · 2y agoSince I’m new here I’ll share my latest publication doi.org/10.4337/9781... pre-print eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/207016/8/CH_...
Reading a super chapter by @lenarethel.bsky.social entitled 'Governing Financial Development in a Time of Uncertainty' for a work-in-progress workshop on her book tomorrow with the IPE cluster at Warwick. #ipesky
Love or hate this, it's the social foundations of markets at play. on.ft.com/49rBLmx
Mainstream memecoins signal changing markets
Ordinary investors need to pay attention to new information flows online
on.ft.com
This kind of autocritique from the FT is fascinating, not least because the core point is a direct defence of finance as distinct from gambling, calling to mind Marieke de Goede's magisterial Virtue, Fortune, and Faith (2005) #ipesky www.ft.com/content/3903...
Memecoins will go away once we stop paying attention to them
Regulation has failed. It’s time to try indifference
ft.com
This story is quite horrific. And a chilling indictment of how academic research is viewed by some. Rooting for @allylouks.bsky.social to take this and turn the attention into something positive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Academic trolled for Cambridge Uni PhD 'unfazed by the vitriol'
Dr Ally Louk receives threats on X after posting about her PhD, but says most comments are
bbc.co.uk
Ace talk by @natjdyer.bsky.social to the IPE research cluster at Warwick today. Check out his book! #RicardosDream #ipesky
Yeah, sure, but this only applies to memecoins?! Squirrels, dogs and pygmy hippos: crypto’s multibillion-dollar ‘memecoin’ boom - on.ft.com/3OEPVap via @FT
feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add
Teaching on the politics of inflation today. Students find it much more accessible compared to a few years ago. Experience eh? They enjoyed engaging this fantastic article by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social putting the inflation game into historical context. #ipesky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Inflation Game: Targets, Practices and the Social Production of Monetary Credibility
In recent years, central banks have continued to preach inflation targeting even as they have pursued a wide range of unorthodox inflation-management policies. As the disconnect between discourse a...
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