“[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 · 6h 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 · 6mo 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 · 2mo 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.

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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 · 2mo 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/...

New open access article on @antipodeonline.bsky.social with @nickbernards.bsky.social and Laura Quinteros. We look at green fintech to show how green finance works as fictitious capital. Builds on @cedricdurand.bsky.social

Nick Bernards@nickbernards.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New article! @giuliadalmaso.bsky.social, Laura Quinteros and I on experiments with ‘green fintech’, and what they tell us about green finance as a form of fictitious capital. Just out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article out in International Political Sociology, "Making Finance Legible: Speculative Fiction & the Sociology of Futures". It explores how finance builds invisible systems - debt, derivatives, algorithms - that shape the future, & how speculative fiction makes them visible. Link + thread below.

Must read by @danielagabor.bsky.social @benbraun.eurosky.social "This, we argue, is the pathway for the Santa Marta countries to achieve the decarbonized sovereignty imperative—the strategic pursuit of decarbonization as a matter of national security" www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aga...

Against Carbon Shock Therapy | Daniela Gabor & Benjamin Braun

The war in Iran has sent oil prices skyrocketing. Daniela Gabor and Benjamin Braun argue the ripple effects and states (non)responses to the crisis represent a

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I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...

The first paper of my dissertation is published now in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social! Press coverage of the richest Germans is rare but focused on a minority of highly visible individuals and varies along the historical origins of fortunes. doi.org/10.1177/00380385261428292

"For every additional dollar of windfall profit, approximately $0.20 is booked in tax havens. This diversion intensifies during commodity booms." Noteworthy in light of <gestures broadly at the world> taxobservatory.world/publication/...

This was a bit of a labour. First drafted in the first days of the trump in a fever that is largely gone from this version. But insurance, finance, theory and a Stuart hall cameo survive if you like that kind of thing onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmental...

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The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures

Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

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Today we published our latest investigation, into climate aid & carbon capture. UK funds that could have funded clean energy in poor countries instead developed Chinese oil extraction - including in Xinjiang while Uyghurs were facing human rights abuses. 1/7🧵👇 landclimate.org/xinjiang-ccus/

UK accused of 'undermining human rights commitments' over Xinjiang carbon capture aid - Land and Climate Review

UK foreign aid helped to develop Chinese fossil fuel extraction in a region where the oil sector is associated with forced labour risks, a new investigation has found.

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How is law used to make voluntary carbon markets liquid? Lukas Bogner traces how UNIDROIT's standardisation of carbon credits reshapes property rights in the Global South and drives jurisdictional competition in the Global North. Open access here:

🇪🇺🇮🇳 The EU–India FTA has landed. Two points: (1) The obligation to effectively implement Paris has been weakened: "effectively" has been dropped. (2) The dispute settlement process is 100% political: no expert review, no remedies. All in all, a significant weakening of the trade-climate nexus 🔻

New Paper out with @financeandspace.bsky.social (open access!) about attempts to make voluntary carbon markets 'liquid' via legal standardization, and a source of climate finance for the Global South. Plenty of strange things happening in the process. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 Publication day! The first paper from my project on Europe’s EV battery roll-out is finally out I unpack how the EU’s EV battery boom is entangled with sacrifice zones—investment in Serbia & Hungary de-risked through autocracy. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

New interesting looking paper on Climate obstruction and the African Petroleum Producers Organization. Research on climate obstruction is dominated by studies of the North American and European context, so this kind of research is very welcome!

Climate change obstruction in Africa: the case of African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO)

Legacy emissions, climate colonialism, and climate apartheid are central themes in contemporary discussions surrounding climate action in Africa. Nevertheless, there exists a scarcity of research f...

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Check out our new article "Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production" co-authored with @peternewell.bsky.social @freddiedaley.bsky.social and Daniela Soto Hernandez in @gepjournal.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/glep/article...

Power in Fossil Fuel Supply-Side Policy: Closing Down and Opening Up Opportunities to Phase Out Fossil Fuel Production

Abstract. Supply-side climate policy initiatives that restrict fossil fuel production are gathering momentum. A growing body of academic scholarship seeks to understand this new frontier in global cli...

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I have a new review paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social! ✨ What would it actually take for states to pursue green transformations? I identify 5 capacities — planning, disciplinary, strategic, legitimation and adaptive — and their respective policy elements, capabilities and institutions

So instead of electrifying vehicle fleets to address climate change we are are instead using battery technology to drive more AI slop? No thanks. www.ft.com/content/8b0a...

Manufacturers pivot from EV batteries to storage as AI boom drives demand

Retooling of factories comes as cell makers have cancelled enough capacity to produce 2mn electric cars

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