Stefan Eich
@stefeich.bsky.social
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023) https://stefaneich.com/
@stefeich.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social argue in their substack that Keynes & Mann both wanted to save the "thin crust of civilisation" by trying to convince the bourgeoisie that one can and should imagine a radically better future. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Chartbook 465 The Last of the Magicians: Thomas Mann, John Maynard Keynes and the Alchemy of Bourgeois Liberalism
An essay by Adam Tooze and Stefan Eich
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Adam Tooze (@adamtooze.bsky.social) & I have been looking for Dr Faustus in expected places. Here are our musings on Thomas Mann, Keynes, magic, and alchemy. "The Last of the Magicians: Thomas Mann, John Maynard Keynes and the Alchemy of Bourgeois Liberalism" adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
Ein sofortiger Klassiker! 🪨🔥
Andreas Folkers@afolkers.bsky.social · 2mo agoEs ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
Es ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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The Democratic Politics of Monetary Design Vortrag von @stefeich.bsky.social (www.stefaneich.com), per Video zugeschaltet zur Ringvorlesung "𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗭𝘂𝗸𝘂𝗻𝗳𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀" an der @tuda.bsky.social 🗓 15.7.2026, 18 Uhr 📍 TU Darmstadt, Großer Hörsaal im Schloss (S 313/30) 🔗 zevedi.de/ringvorlesun...
My book Against Money, coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, is coming out from University of Chicago Press on May 5. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Against Money
A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card ...
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This Friday! Don’t forget to RSVP @natashalennard.bsky.social @joncatlin.bsky.social
Stefan Eich@stefeich.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us next Friday at 12:30pm at the Remarque Institute (@remarquenyu.bsky.social)! SEYLA BENHABIB ON AT THE MARGINS OF THE MODERN STATE: CRITICAL THEORY AND LAW as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
Join us next Friday at 12:30pm at the Remarque Institute (@remarquenyu.bsky.social)! SEYLA BENHABIB ON AT THE MARGINS OF THE MODERN STATE: CRITICAL THEORY AND LAW as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
ICYMI: "Critical Theory of Finance" Wendy Brown, Stefan Eich, Aaron Benanav and Paul North discuss the separation of #capital from the productive #economy and #finance as an abstraction. #Philosophy #CriticalTheory Please like and subscribe on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6j...
Critical Theory of Finance: Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich & Aaron Benanav with Paul North
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Coming up: Mon. Mar. 9 ~ 12:15pm ET / 4:15pm UK "Critical Theory of Finance Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North On the effects of the enormous shift around who has economic control. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – "Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom
"Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom, Mon 9 Mar 2026 - For the last 50 years, finance played an ever-larger r...
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This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
We are delighted to share this fascinating Watson School of International and Public Affairs Podcast with Leah Downey, author of Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMz... #money #democracy #economics #policy
Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters
YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs
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It's not as simple as central bank independence good, political involvement bad. As highlighted in our conversation with Stefan Eich. @stefeich.bsky.social
Une merveilleuse analyse sur la tension entre la promesse d'efficacité technocratique et les institutions démocratiques. D'actualité frappante en suivant le débat européen sur les omnibus.
Pierre Charbonnier@picharbonnier.bsky.social · 9mo agoRemplacer la démocratie par un système politique où trônent les ingénieurs ? C'est l'idée commune aux deux super-puissances rivales, les USA et la Chine. Pour Le Grand Continent j'analyse cette réinvention de Saint Simon : le dogme de l'efficacité. legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/1...
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
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excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers
Working Papers | DeRisk
DERISK explores how systemic risks are transforming governance in western democratic societies…
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The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...
Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
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Bailey’s obsession w/ quantitative tightening should be a *much* more important story in any account of what’s going on w/ UK gilts. But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.social · last yr.it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government www.theguardian.com/business/202...
it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England urged to slow bond-selling plan to help cut record UK borrowing costs
Ex-MPC members say ‘quantitative tightening’ should be scaled back or halted entirely, saving the Treasury up to £10bn a year
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@rlspang.bsky.social provides lots of details here on the politics of recent goldsilverbuggery. Also helpful: this article from a few years ago by @stefeich.bsky.social on crypto and the politics of depoliticization: academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
Old Utopias, New Tax Havens: The Politics of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective
AbstractCryptocurrencies are frequently framed as future-oriented, technological innovations that decentralize money, thereby liberating it from centralize
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Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last yr.WaPo published a puff piece about "new state legal tender laws." As @grahamhubbs.bsky.social noted, it took them 500 words before they introduced a skeptical view. I've written about it, but wasn't sure how to get it published--so it's on my website for now. Please read! www.rebeccalspang.org/blog
Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now Should be hitting shelves in October! www.sup.org/books/theory...
Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...
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Tim is writing the first draft of history ya'll, if you aren't already reading Polycrisis religiously you need to get on that.
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · last yr.Trade, Dollars,Energy...even MODERNITY & the FUTURE. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order A quarter of the way to the 22nd Century, everything is up for grabs TY for inspo:Mark Blyth,Helen Thompson,Bentley Allan phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
Heartening to see the spirit of Keynes channeled in today’s Letters to the FT. The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
Appropriately perhaps, today is the birthday of Maynard Keynes, Britain's greatest ever financial warrior: 142 years young today. #AgeofMammonandMars
Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last yr.It’s publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.
What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
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Thanks for reading! Actually working on some projects on “counterfeit democracy” (including of the crypto variety) with Leah Downey, whose recent excellent book you might also appreciate.
Curtis 🏳️🌈@soccurt.bsky.social · last yr.Just finished @stefeich.bsky.social's challenging but excellent 2022 book The Currency of Politics. Covering various thinkers from Aristotle to neoliberals, it was an interesting intellectual history of attempts to politicize (and often democratize) money and to de-politicize (de-democratize) it.
Bloch: “I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present. If we had not already gone beyond the barriers, we could not even perceive them as barriers.”
Hi folks! Discount code incoming for my new book Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds.
For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English) undpress.nd.edu/978026820325... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Alasdair MacIntyre
This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...
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