Appreciate this very thoughtful and generous (but not uncritical) review of Against Money by Jeffrey Sklansky in the American Prospect. It's always gratifying to see a serious reader who so clearly gets what the book is trying to do. prospect.org/2026/08/06/a...

The Class Struggle in Your Wallet - The American Prospect

A new book about the meaning of money argues for how to use finance to create a more equitable economy.

prospect.org

We're often told that capitalism and market liberalisation are closing the gap between rich and poor countries, and the old colonial inequalities are fading. Is it true? We explored this question in a new paper, just published in NPE. Buckle up for some interesting results! 🧵

Any doubt that private finance is procyclical af? The proof is in the pudding of the new arms race. A must-read on @phenomenalworld.bsky.social:

Alfredo Saad-Filho & Jack Taggart | Defense Dividends

The interpenetration of private finance and the military

phenomenalworld.org

Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 4w ago

New in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social w/@alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social. As geopolitical competition intensifies, major states are militarising, & private finance is investing across competing blocs. The prospect of durable peace is now at odds with the logic of financial returns. tinyurl.com/4s4fjwce

Hitting the nail on the head: "the power demand of data centres almost doubled between 2020 and 2025, and they now consume almost as much electricity as the entire annual increase in global renewable generation in 2025."

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · last mo.

Adam Hanieh breaks down the Energy Institute's 2026 Statistical Review of World Energy, an annual report on global energy trade, production and usage.

A welcome reminder to the intellectually lazy habit of calling everything 'fascism': “The left is doing itself too many favours by considering its opponents fascists [...] The contemporary far right is more a function of the crisis of liberalism than it is a function of the strength of the left.”

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left

Postdoc opportunity in development studies at Cambridge. Apply! www.queens.cam.ac.uk/about-us/vac...

Re-reading this piece now to situate the current pivot to 'security'.

Xan López@xanlopez.net · last yr.

The Green European Journal publishes a revised and condensed version of our “The Green New Deal: A Bitter Victory or a Sweet Defeat?”, written by @htejero.bsky.social, @esantiago.bsky.social and myself. www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-green-ne...

Another case of the EU pivoting from environment to security? I was recently interviewed in the piece below (in Dutch). Also, see the open letter against lifting the Arctic oil & gas moratorium: www.nordicsustainablefinance.org/publications...

Trouw@trouw.nl · last mo.

Noorwegen hoopt door de Iranoorlog de EU te verleiden toch maar te gaan voor olie uit het kwetsbare noordpoolgebied

So nice to see this piece out with @jacktaggart.bsky.social @policyrelevant.bsky.social and Peter Dauvergne on global environmental governance in a fracturing liberal political economy... We talk about climate, food and plastics governance as liberal norms erode...

Jack Taggart@jacktaggart.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happens to global environmental governance when the liberal world economy underpinning it fragments? New piece in @ripejournal.bsky.social, w/ Peter Dauvergne, @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social & @policyrelevant.bsky.social. We ask what comes after ‘liberal environmentalism’. doi.org/10.1080/0969...

“The Trump administration is currently involved in an expansive project to reposition the US national economy and the US state within global critical minerals networks.” @iliasalami.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social on Trump’s state capitalist turn. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...

Trumpian State Capitalism | Ilias Alami & Thea Riofrancos

Critical minerals security and US economic interventionism

phenomenalworld.org

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

theguardian.com

Save the date! Nov 12-14, HU Berlin, part of the Socialization research project at @ktbberlin.bsky.social socializationproject.de

Rosie Collington@rosiecollington.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really looking forward to this! Thanks to @solveigdegen.bsky.social @cominsitu.bsky.social @rabeaber.bsky.social & Clara Weinmann for organising 🤩🛢️💸

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/05/crit... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis

Over the last two decades, the European Union (EU) has faced a series of intertwined crises, including the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 a...

andreasbieler.blogspot.com

This is an excellent piece and I think it’s true that we are witnessing the death of the myth of peaceful economic sanctions. But this raises the question of what kind of politics is adequate to the death of liberal mythology and the stark revelation of the violent underside of liberal ‘peace’.

LPE Blog@lpeblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today, @jbentonheath.bsky.social argues that, on the high seas, we may be witnessing the death of one of the liberal order’s central myths: that sanctions are peaceful alternatives to war.

Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction Excited to share a study I co-authored, together with Tom Ackers, Conrad Kunze, Paulina Orozco, and Nils Urbanus, published by the @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...

an excellent outlook on the macro-political economy of inflation

Phenomenal World@phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Throughout the North and the South, oil shocks lead to upward redistribution of income and wealth” This month’s Meridional column: @rugitsky.bsky.social on Hormuz, the 2022 energy shock, monetary tightening, and the economic consequences of the war on Iran. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...

geopolitics of grid synchronization, 1992-2026

Great editorial by @equatormag.bsky.social drawing a parallel between the Strait of Tsushima (1905), the beginning of the end of the Russian and other European Empires, and the Strait of Hormuz (2026) for the US Empire. www.equator.org/articles/gho...

Ghost Fleet • EQUATOR

America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come

equator.org

The newly founded Brussel Institute for Geopolitics' mission statement is an eerie read: To remain soft on the inside Europe has to "strengthen its posture towards the outside" and learn "to act and think in terms of power, interests and strategy." big-europe.eu/mission-stat...

daniela russ@ueberdruss.bsky.social · 4mo ago

or perhaps this is just the return of the repressed colonial history? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Whoa. What's the strategy here?

Kate Mackenzie@katemac.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Reuters story has more detail but still not a lot. Real times we are living in... www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

We got a chance to do something for @lpeblog.bsky.social on Muskism as a possible successor to post-Fordism, drawing on the concepts of Michel Aglietta and the Regulation School. This one was really fun! lpeproject.org/blog/muskism...

Muskism as Fordism

Coined by a German economist in 1926, Fordism came to describe the dominant political-economic order of the mid-twentieth century. Could "Muskism" play a similar role in the twenty-first?

lpeproject.org

🌍💥Can wartime planning inspire a just ecological transition today? Next Wed., join us for a powerful talk by @rbaernthaler.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Part of the #REALPostgrowth seminar series, rethinking economics for a world in crisis. Also online📲 www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

OUT: Carney's speech. IN: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speech in Beijing "navigate this post-Rupture world in which Washington’s reliability can no longer be assumed, and in which Beijing’s partnership, however complicated, cannot be refused" www.sinicapodcast.com/p/pm-pedro-s...

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Spain, rarely the center of gravity in European affairs, has become the standard-bearer for Europeans frustrated at the continent’s fear of standing up to a U.S. president." www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This was brilliant.

The BREAK—DOWN@the-breakdown.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"To find optimism in geopolitical rivalry is to place one’s faith in abstract forces rather than human beings. It is, in this sense, a kind of pessimism." New from Casey A. Williams, on why the renewable boost driven by war in Iran may not be cause for optimism. www.break-down.org/why-climate-...

European Commission collaborating with Microsoft to cover up data centre emissions. Another great project for #EuropeanSovereignty

Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦@osma.fishpool.org · 4mo ago

What. The. Fuck. ?? It's bad enough that EU is reneging on major parts of the European Green Deal and buying big tech bullshit about AI wholesale, but this is another level. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions

Is 'green growth' really phasing out fossil fuels and, if so, what does it mean for environmental sustainability, social progress, and (what’s left of) world peace? 📅 See you on Fri, 24 Apr, 1 pm CET, for the next @ecpr.bsky.social 'Energy Politics, Policy & Governance' seminar series.

Standing Group on Energy Politics, Policy and Governance (Energy-PPG) Seminar Series

European Consortium for Political Research

ecpr.eu

New report: The EU paid universities more than €100 million to build Europe’s border regime Universities provide research, analysis, data and technology for border and migration control - and lend an illusion of scientific legitimacy to ethically questionable policies. tni.org/borderlabs

A backsliding transition: towards renewables-with-coal.

Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

“If you’re sitting in Asia, going through this again, it’s possible you change your strategy long term — rely more on coal for longer, build out your renewables faster and reduce your exposure to natural gas.” 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Today we launch our new policy briefing - Popular Asset Commissions: Building a Green Democratic Haringey. Written with @kmilb.bsky.social & @kaiheron.bsky.social for @abundance-org.bsky.social, the briefing informs Haringey Green Party’s 2026 local election manifesto. 🔗 t.co/Amk6knck6u