maybe it's time to re-consider this?

My new Cambridge Element, Islands of Exception: Law, Empire, and Offshore Finance in the Caribbean, is out! The book explores the colonial foundations of offshore finance and its role in global capitalism. Free to download until December 8! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

"The preference for defence spending therefore appears to reflect a political choice. While military expenditure can sustain aggregate demand, the postKeynesian tradition has long argued that the preference for military over civilian expenditure reflects class interests (Kalecki, 1943)."

NEP-PKE: Post Keynesian Economics@repec-nep-pke.bsky.social · 2w ago

The economic effects of military expenditure: A macrosimulation analysis for Italy: Morlin, Guilherme

now that they've annhilated wild fish stocks, european aquaculture turns to chicken www.ft.com/content/8f1e...

Farmed salmon now being raised on chicken

Fears of consumer backlash pushed aside as producers respond to surge in fishmeal prices

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'Theorizing “compute” as the organizing asset of digital capitalism' -- Kean Birch & Jacob Hellman doi.org/10.1177/1350...

Fossil resource dominance is not only about energy - it is also about stuff. And increasingly so. In a new paper out in Competition & Change with @peternewell.bsky.social, we introduce to notion of synthetic capital to explore forces of fossil resource dominance that extend beyond energy.

Our new research, covered in the Guardian, shows that countries in debt crisis have had to cut education spending by 8% since 2019. Unjust debt is eating away at people's futures. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Developing nations face triple shock from energy crisis, El Niño and borrowing costs, UN warns

UN’s development arm calls for urgent action as crises could ‘throw tens if not hundreds of millions back into poverty’

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I love Kevin. He just has zero time for the comforting conceit of jet-setting "climate-concerned" academics that they are part of the solution and not in fact part of the problem. And he's right, of course.

🍂 That "messy" yard you're looking at? It’s actually a five-star winter resort for wildlife. Leaving the leaves and letting nature breathe isn't council neglect—it's ecological intelligence. Let's ditch the leaf blowers give hedgehogs a cozy, wild winter! 🦔🍁 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Plastic flowers and mowed lawns: the exploration of everyday unsustainability

In human-controlled environments and in cultivated landscapes, the plants accommodate social, cultural and economic needs. This article will focus on the use of plants for agriculture, urban planni...

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It's always nice when one of your PhD students gets their first publication. 'The spatial politics of International Climate Finance: A case of India' now out by Soham Banerjee along with Dishil Shrimankar and myself. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1.... 1/

Big ups to @katearonoff.bsky.social for covering this seemingly boring but actually really important story about the GHG Protocol. Standards are technical & opaque AND they’re where the politics happen. This is a classic case of “managing tons.” 🧵

Did the Forestry Industry Just Get to Write Its Own Emissions Rules?

Accusations of industry capture, allegedly secret working groups, and the resignations of two researchers—a scandal is rocking the world of carbon emissions accounting.

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"transformative change must start with private law, as it is the body of law that empowers holders of capital to build their wealth and wield power over others." - Katharina Pistor seems like the dual class share broligarchs should be making this fairly obvious to people

The New Institutional Political Economy of Capitalism

In recent decades, capitalists have largely succeeded in undermining the state's capacity to act, leaving it too weak to carry out social democratic reforms even with a favorable government in place.

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New Paper out in Socio-Economic Review! Part of a coming special issue on the socio-economics of loss and decline. About the 4D chess of using blended finance for the coal exit in the Global South. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/ser/... (or ask me for a copy if you don't have access)!)

Nice reality check on the AI hype and why the techbros promote this BS: www.technologyreview.com/2026/09/22/1...

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

Breathless claims about AGI and new capabilities fall apart pretty quickly under scrutiny.

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Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-already-in-dangerous-hands/

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Pre-order the coolest luddite piece of conceptual electronic music you will see in 2026! On CD or digital. wolkenscheidt.bandcamp.com/album/stallm... #electronica #idm #cd #physicalmedia #fantasy #conceptart

Stallmeister Rittich vs. The Machine, by Ørdop Wolkenscheidt

10 track album

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"Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than 1100 people." Interesting, and entirely justified. We can expect this to become a lot more common.

Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India

Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.

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“[T]he way we routinely discuss public finance and the limitations we impose on monetary design are thoroughly normative and rest on the exclusion of the inexpressible weirdness of money and the humans who create it.” However, “‘anyone can liberate themselves from the strictures of normativity.’”

Money on the Left@moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Drawing on neuroqueer theory, @robbhawkes.bsky.social's new essay challenges "normal-person monetary imaginations," arguing that money is far weirder, malleable, and redesignable than economic orthodoxy admits. Read "Money Is Weird" here.👇

UK PM Andy Burnham has announced a £2 cap on bus fares 🚌 a welcome step for people forced into debt to pay for essentials by the cost of living crisis But there's a catch: it's partly funded by switching international climate finance from grants to loans 🧵

Giuliano Da Empoli‘s ‘Hour of the Predator’ is the worst book I’ve read this year so far. Means I found the below review though, which is great and provided some relief to my frustration! Thanks @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social

Morten Høi Jensen@mortenhoijensen.bsky.social · 9mo ago

For @readliberties.bsky.social I wrote about the favorite writer of Europe's political elites: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

I've just submitted the manuscript of my new book, Fictional Worlds and Financial Realities in Speculative Literature and Film, to Palgrave Macmillan! It reads six works of SF - Gibson, Stross, Robinson, Villeneuve, Hawley, Garland - as a way of seeing how finance colonizes the future. More soon.

The ownership & management of financial assets is ever-more concentrated. This fuels systemic risk but occurs during times of growing risk supervision. In our new paper Hayley James and I address this puzzle by studying the rise of the so-called Master Trust. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

Powerful call for debt cancellation in leading health journal @thelancet.com: "All global health practitioners should treat debt justice as a health financing issue, not as a separate macroeconomic debate." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Country ownership without fiscal justice is responsibility without resources

Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own…

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Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 5mo ago

Aircon stocks become next hot bet as Europe wilts ft.trib.al/D0w5eBB

It's conference season, so academics merrily criss-cross the world as the planet burns

And there we have it! Choose between maintaining the life-support systems of this planet or AI! "Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says" www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

politico.eu

Exciting news!! We have a fully-funded PhD place for a UK home student available 🚨 including a £21k+ a year stipend 🚨. Come and do a PhD with me as your supervisor! Critical tax law, value theory, global production and the legal form, that kind of thing ... fancy it? www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRX657/l...

Not fully done with the podcast yet but I second this recommendation!

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've just completed S1 of @delugecast.bsky.social a spoiler free chapter by chapter podcast about the #climate novel 'The Deluge' by Stephen Markley. I highly recommend that you buy yourself a copy of the book (perhaps set up a book club) and listen along. Here's three reasons why 🧵

Working on a paper on the Bank of Canada's Contingent Term Repo Facility. Using Access to Information requests to fill in some blanks (underused research method imo), I found my paper title. A 'juicy, interesting policy question' is one way to describe bringing asset managers under CB protection

We have a new paper out in EPA! 📊 @jhasselbalch.bsky.social Epistemic Derisking: Knowledge infrastructures in energy finance Beyond financial & regulatory tools, we show how states wield energy models to mobilise private capital for renewables & energy security journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...