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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Now that the United States and Iran have declared a two-week cease-fire, the question is whether the war’s economic disruption will be short-lived or lasting,” Jamie Martin writes in a guest essay.
Opinion | This Might Be the Most Economically Destabilizing War in Decades
Even if this cease-fire holds, the war’s shocks may last for years.
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Very happy to see this spiky little book out in the world, the product of many conversations with @hpe-project.bsky.social interlocutors and the editorial labor of Andrew Anastasi. Sign up to our mailing list for the chance of getting a hold of a copy! www.hpeproject.org
VERY happy to announce a renewal of our summer grant program for PhD students and freshly minted PhDs. Hearing about people's research is my favorite part of our @hpe-project.bsky.social so please apply! www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp?s...
HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project
The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.
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The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp
HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project
The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.
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What might we be able to build in the future that we can't build today? For the @TheIdeasLetter, I wrote about the political economy of technology and technological change in a world beyond capitalism. www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real...
A Real Political Economy of Technology - The Ideas Letter
Two technological futures are competing for political and material priority: generative AI and the green transition. Benanav argues that while AI is marketed as a world-reordering breakthrough, its pr...
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Bethany Moreton talking now about the Christian reconstructionist movement, Gary North, and the relationship between neoliberalism and religious far right at the KHC in Oxford/Wadham.
holy smokes huge honor to be next to these books
National Book Critics Circle@bookcritics.bsky.social · 7mo agoAnnouncing the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Finalists for Criticism!
Turning citizens into enemies, neoliberal governments hamstring democracy Out today - The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval and Pierre Sauvêtre
The Choice of Civil War
Margaret Thatcher’s mantra ‘there is no alternative’ was not a statement of historical fact but a strategic objective. She shared with Hayek, Pinochet, Mises, Trump, Bolsonaro, and Macron a commitment...
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An epidemic of workforce demoralization? "Intensive AI use is demotivating and deskilling, fuelling boredom and mediocrity. We could even see a reverse ‘productivity J-curve’: short-term productivity gains rapidly overwhelmed by a deterioration in labour quality" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar
Legacies of the bubble.
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Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Very grateful for this smart and far-reaching review of Born in Flames by @david-helps.bsky.social in @dissentmag.bsky.social dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Bronx Still Burns - Dissent Magazine
The borough's arson wave in the 1970s was caused by financial forces and political priorities that continue to hold power in New York City.
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david helps@david-helps.bsky.social · 7mo agoFor Dissent’s Winter issue, I wrote about urban climate risk, the burning of the Bronx, and @benchansfield.bsky.social’s phenomenal new book ‘Born in Flames.’
'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson. @quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
In case you missed our last newsletter of 2025, check out our latest publications, a couple CFPs, job and fellowship ads, and more:
Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms
As we close out 2025, we write to share a wide range of publications, to celebrate our recent grantee workshop, and to alert you to upcoming award, conference, and job opportunities.
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Today, @quinnslobodian.com takes you inside a recent conference devoted to the world after neoliberalism. What emerged, he argues, was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.
Post-Neoliberalism is the New Centrism
At a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism, what emerged was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.
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Very grateful for the opportunity to receive feedback from the @hpe-project.bsky.social community on my doctoral project, after receiving a HPE summer grant to conduct further archival and interview research in Geneva and Paris
The History and Political Economy Project@hpe-project.bsky.social · 8mo agoIn our final session of the day, Connor O'Brien (@connorpobrien.bsky.social, Cambridge) zoomed in for a presentation on the history of "good governance" in the context of struggles over development and political authority around the globe.
Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org
"[P]ublic housing was the only type of housing spared by the inferno… What would it mean to take that finding seriously?" @benchansfield.bsky.social on implications of the 1970s arson wave for the housing justice movement today: www.hpeproject.org/blog/firestorm
FIREstorm — History & Political Economy Project
Bench Ansfield in conversation with Andrew Anastasi
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A nice surprise in a bleak week www.bookcritics.org/2025/12/15/2...
2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Criticism - National Book Critics Circle
Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025, by A.S. Hamrah (n+1) Authority: Essays, by Andrea Long Chu (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Dismantling the Master’s Clock: On Race, Space, and Time,
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Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more
Really enjoyed sharing thoughts on Aditi Dey’s & Charli Muller’s excellent papers!
The History and Political Economy Project@hpe-project.bsky.social · 8mo agoJason Jackson (MIT) and Ben Siegel (BU) contributed fantastic commentaries on their presentations and to round out the first session of the conference.
For our concluding keynote presentation, Joel Suarez delivered a wonderful talk on “informal” work, immigration, and notions of freedom in global capitalism. And that’s a wrap on our fourth annual grantee conference!
Our final grantee panel of the weekend! Chloe Bernadaux (Northwestern) analyzed how the UN embargo of Iraq in the 1990s was interpreted domestically through discursive frames of legitimacy, humanity, and imperialism
Day 2 of our grantee conference! We started things off with a fascinating presentation by Jan Altaner (Cambridge) on real estate speculation in Beirut and its imbrication in global capital flows
In our final session of the day, Connor O'Brien (@connorpobrien.bsky.social, Cambridge) zoomed in for a presentation on the history of "good governance" in the context of struggles over development and political authority around the globe.
We were thrilled to have Sarah Bellows-Blakely (@bellowsblakely.bsky.social, Freie Universität Berlin) deliver our conference's first keynote presentation, based on her book Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The week in review: a call to join the ranks of the @a-lpe.bsky.social, an interview with @benchansfield.bsky.social about the business of arson, and a new entry by Amna Akbar in our symposium on Free Gifts. Plus, the best of Law and Political Economy from around the web 👇🧵
Weekly Roundup: Dec 12
A call to join the ranks of the Association for Law and Political Economy, an interview with Bench Ansfield about the business of arson, and a new entry by Amna Akbar in our symposium on Free Gifts.
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Hengameh Ziai (SOAS) kicked off our second panel with a fascinating presentation on human capital theory and debates within agriculture and development economics.
We are thrilled to host our fourth annual grantee conference – Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms – today and tomorrow at @bupardeeschool.bsky.social.
Heading up to Boston for our 2025 @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees research conference. This year’s theme is ‘Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms,’ and we have keynotes from Sarah Bellows-Blakely and Joel Suarez.
