Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven

@ingridhk.bsky.social

Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com

This is wild. At no point at the peak of structural adjustment would you have heard the IMF or WB say: ‘Turn every possible state-owned resource into an asset, every possible state-owned asset into a security, and leverage all possible state-owned funds.’ www.ft.com/content/2d9e...

China’s cash-strapped local governments drive record sales of asset-backed securities

ABS issues bring in badly needed money but some assets are of uncertain quality

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The first academic review of our book is out! Nice one by Luis Cortés in Capital & Class. Very grateful for the engagement 😊 Just one key correction: this is *not* a decolonial book as such. It's common for folks to immidiately see *decoloniality* when reading... journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Join the United Nations Economist Network Working Group on Human-Centred Economics and Sustainable Development for a discussion with the authors of the new book, Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction. 🔥 Tomorrow! Tuesday, 18 Nov., at 230-4pm UK time. hetecon.net/2025/11/14/d...

Decolonizing Economics Webinar

The United Nations Economist Network Working Group on Human-Centred Economics and Sustainable Development is pleased to invite you to a special webinar presentation and discussion with the authors …

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The only amusing thing about Summers/Epstein is this journalist referring to Summers as a "leftwing academic". LOL. Also, how did it take so many so long to peg Summers as a wrong'un? Already in 1991 he was trumpeting the economic logic of "dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country".

The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him

Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear

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Now that election season is over, Norway again shows its true imperial face: Ethical guidelines for the Sovereign Wealth Fund to be loosened because of fear that they'll *actually* safeguard against investment in genocide. www.ft.com/content/12a5...

Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes

Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel

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The Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger: good on history of politics & econ of industry but ends on a fantasy note: techno-optimist, green growth, no mention renewables being additive + crazy focus on individual action for climate change 🫣 State/Petroleum ideology in action?

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