Starting to dig into this, very different from Beckert obviously 🧐🤓📚
Vanessa Ogle
@vanessahistory.bsky.social
History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
This is great!
Alex Cobham@alexcobham.bsky.social · 6mo ago(Featuring mentions for Marlene Parker, Ryan Pinder, Matthew Gbonjubola, @islandtaxprof.bsky.social, Eric Williams, @quinnslobodian.com, @vanessahistory.bsky.social, Attiya Waris, @taxjustice.net and er Bob Marley) www.ifcreview.com/articles/202...
AI made a word cloud from the text of Beckert's Capitalism. Not so surprising (if you've read the book): merchants, trade, labor, state, among others. More surprising: French (?), distribution, family
Good 'books in the mail day' yesterday, can't wait to dig in. Muldrew is unsurpassed at showing how we can't understand capitalism, merchant networks, and banking, no matter how global, without talking about social foundations and institutional mechanisms
From “flags of convenience” to shell companies, the “offshore economy requires such legal abstractions” to ensure “it can be neatly separated from the ‘real’ economy onshore.” —@vanessahistory.bsky.social
Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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“For every waterfront revitalization project in Europe or North America, there is a port somewhere else that was not downsized and cleaned up but expanded, often at appalling cost.” —@vanessahistory.bsky.social
Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
nybooks.com
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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Emerging here briefly to share what I find to be a mind-boggling factoid from today's writing so far (and to disappear again into writing mode just as quickly 😊 )
🚨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris – PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) 💸🗺️
AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September
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Not on here ATM really but re-upping this in light of today's news (which are better than nothing but not what many had called for): www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Shipping’s Shadow World | Vanessa Ogle
In the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly after
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Read about noblesse without oblige and the effects of secrecy on politics and society in tax havens, out from behind the paywall:
Dissent Magazine@dissentmag.bsky.social · last yr.The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home. Now unpaywalled, by @vanessahistory.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...
“Imagine the chief executives of America’s top universities and richest corporations…issued a public statement that spoke clearly and loudly about the dangers…” Those who speak out will at least put themselves on the right side of history. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
When Will US Academia and Business Speak Up Against Trump? | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik argues that leaders in both sectors bear a disproportionate responsibility to come to democracy's defense.
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"Offshore finance" is conceived very broadly including historically, do share and check it out!
Brooke Harrington@ebharrington.bsky.social · last yr.Are you a social scientist or historian whose work includes analysis of the offshore finance system? Then please submit a paper to the special issue of Socio-Economic Review I'll be guest editing w/Kimberly Kay Hoang & @vanessahistory.bsky.social. Due May 15th. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
Chris Brooke@chrisbrooke.bsky.social · last yr.To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Nothing Gold Can Stay | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
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Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.
You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Nothing Gold Can Stay | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
nybooks.com
BTW, perhaps nothing would enrage Trump more than US trade partners brushing the tariffs off and saying we‘ll just find other trade partners, thank you very much.
Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Michael Derby@michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2y agoJ.P. Morgan econs on Trump’s latest are “increasingly concerned that the policy mix may tilt into an unintentionally far less business-friendly stance. The sustained 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico set to start this weekend is materially different than the tariff increases built into our baseline.”
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
academic.oup.com
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off. As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week. It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Rachel Ramirez@rachelreports.bsky.social · 2y agoTrump’s executive order took aim at “environmental justice” — eliminating positions and assessing spending on projects, including those aimed at poor, rural communities. I talked to former WH environmental justice advisers to the Biden administration on what this means. www.cnn.com/2025/01/26/c...
With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess it’s time to repost my starter pack: “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism” go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz
Interview with @princetonupress.bsky.social on Erased... including why, in the end, I wasn't actually able to write this history ‘without men’... and the broader and contemporary relevance of the story... press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...
Patricia Owens on Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary fie...
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It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
Streetsblog NYC@nyc.streetsblog.org · 2y agoNEW: There's been a 51-percent drop in injuries an a 55-percent drop in crashes year-over-year within the congestion relief zone in just the first 12 days of the program. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/01/23/c...