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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/

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Andreas Folkers@afolkers.bsky.social · 2w ago

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 Philosopher@philosopher1923.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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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Airidas@airidas.eurosky.social · 8mo ago

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 · 8mo ago

Remplacer 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...

Natasha Lennard@natashalennard.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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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Stefan Eich@stefeich.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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 · 11mo ago

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...

Graham Hubbs@grahamhubbs.bsky.social · last yr.

@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

Bentley Allan@bentleyallan.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

Stefan Eich@stefeich.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

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Rosie Collington@rosiecollington.bsky.social · last yr.

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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Stefan Eich@stefeich.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

Samuel Baudinette@sambaudinette.bsky.social · last yr.

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.”

Thomas Lalevée@thomaslalevee.bsky.social · last yr.

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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@akrubic.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm just going to throw this book by @stefeich.bsky.social into the ring, as I think it talks about the most important aspect of money fundamental at play here: "... to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule."

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Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last yr.

The Supreme Court goes out of its way to say that its order today does NOT allow Trump to remove members of the Federal Reserve because it is "uniquely structured" and has a "distinct history tradition." (I do not think those distinctions hold water.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Refugee Assistance Project, 582 U. S. 571, 580 (2017) (per curiam) (“The purpose of . . . interim equitable relief is not to conclusively determine the rights of the parties, but to balance the equities as the litigation moves forward.” (citation omitted)). A stay is appropriate to avoid the disruptive effect of the repeated removal and reinstatement of officers during the pendency of this litigation. Finally, respondents Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris contend that arguments in this case necessarily implicate the constitutionality of for-cause removal protections for members of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors or other members of the Federal Open Market Committee. See Response of Wilcox in Opposition to App. for Stay 2−3, 27−28; Response of Harris in Opposition to App. for Stay 3, 5−6, 16−17, 36, 40. We disagree. The Federal Reserve is a uniquely structured, quasi-private entity that follows in the distinct historical tradition of the First and Second Banks of the United States. See Seila Law, 591 U. S., at 222, n. 8. The March 4, 2025, order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 25−cv−412, ECF Doc. 39, and the March 6, 2025, order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 25−cv−334, ECF Doc. 34, are stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.