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DATA UPDATE Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023 The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar... What’s new about #CBI?

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Deep into marking a pile of book reviews. A clear majority chose to write on Adam Tooze's Crashed. Yet the book is read so differently across the papers, while all offering glowing accounts. Sign of a good book I guess?

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Kids at the play centre, so some time to read more of @natjdyer.bsky.social's wonderfully researched and superbly written Ricardo's Dream!

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"it just becomes leverage upon leverage, all the way down" Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent opportunity for ECRs!

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

I've probably spent way too much of my life writing about bitcoin — over twelve years. Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012. jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...

submitted 71 days ago • 2 comments

"The winners are already reaping unimaginable rewards. All this is taking place before Trump is even in office." Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT

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The relentless advance of American asset managers in Europe on.ft.com/3DkrIUF

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"Bluesky is designed not to trap users in a gilded cage — but investors like gilded cages because they’re easier to monetise" Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT

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The return of Cold War era chess match fixing allegations. indianexpress.com/article/spor...

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"Trading volumes in US equities jumped 38 per cent in November from the same month in 2023, reaching levels not seen since the meme stock craze of early 2021" Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary. on.ft.com/3DeFbgz

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Writing about fintech in relation to the social foundations of finance approach of my late friend and colleague Tim Sinclair has given me an opportunity to unpack with more precision the new forms of power and inequality fintech establishes in the world economy. #ipesky

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Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DE

submitted 79 days ago • 30 comments

OUT TODAY (and on vibe): The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia - Thais Franca www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop: As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption. theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

submitted 78 days ago • 10 comments

Fiery stuff, though maybe a bit harsh on rocks and trees. New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT

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"Platforms are designed to perform accumulation strategies of their owners and these include the displacement of informal, solidaristic relations by vertical relations of market dependence". The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Reading a super chapter by @lenarethel.bsky.social entitled 'Governing Financial Development in a Time of Uncertainty' for a work-in-progress workshop on her book tomorrow with the IPE cluster at Warwick. #ipesky

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Love or hate this, it's the social foundations of markets at play. on.ft.com/49rBLmx

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

This kind of autocritique from the FT is fascinating, not least because the core point is a direct defence of finance as distinct from gambling, calling to mind Marieke de Goede's magisterial Virtue, Fortune, and Faith (2005) #ipesky www.ft.com/content/3903...

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

This story is quite horrific. And a chilling indictment of how academic research is viewed by some. Rooting for @allylouks.bsky.social to take this and turn the attention into something positive. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The ‘money repressive hypothesis’ is very interesting here.

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Ace talk by @natjdyer.bsky.social to the IPE research cluster at Warwick today. Check out his book! #RicardosDream #ipesky

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Yeah, sure, but this only applies to memecoins?! Squirrels, dogs and pygmy hippos: crypto’s multibillion-dollar ‘memecoin’ boom - on.ft.com/3OEPVap via @FT

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

submitted 90 days ago • 8 comments

Teaching on the politics of inflation today. Students find it much more accessible compared to a few years ago. Experience eh? They enjoyed engaging this fantastic article by @jacquelinebest.bsky.social putting the inflation game into historical context. #ipesky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Presumably if the lines between established payment infrastructures and crypto payment infrastructures continue to blur this further moves crypto from a consumer protection issue towards a more substantial systemic risk. www.forbes.com/sites/boazso...

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The share of UK first-time buyers relying on parental financial support has significantly increased over time. www.ft.com/content/4b7e...

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Before reading this I had completely overlooked the importance of connecting debate on financial infrastructures with the sociology of money. #ipesky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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"like a digital asset, 'the real value is the concept itself'" What concept exactly? Look forward to seeing the PoC. Trump-linked crypto founder eats $6mn banana on stage - on.ft.com/3OuDVs2

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Dear Bsky friends, our @cambridgeup.bsky.social book (w/ Andreas Nölke) was recently published! Here we explore whether/how the #BRICS contest liberal #finance through a systematic empirical analysis across 7 countries, 11 issue areas & 3 dimensions. Check it out 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

submitted 90 days ago • 2 comments

Beyond the study of high level central bank discourse, "it is just as important to look at the technical specifications through which key models and indicators are operationalized and interpreted by technocratic agents on a day-to-day basis". Super job done by Nick Kotucha.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

The minor problem of having an academic partner and not checking with each other what books you've ordered recently.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

"This ‘past as future’ presumption makes no logical sense in the context of decarbonisation and green transition – where economic, energy and other systems must of necessity undergo profound transformation" Great work on models and the technocratic politics of climate change by colleagues in PAIS.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Adding to this, an announcement this week that 300 jobs at Sussex are at risk. At what point does the UK government realise that one of its most successful sectors is being destroyed?

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Looking forward to @natjdyer.bsky.social giving a talk on his new book to the IPE research cluster at Warwick next week. #RicardosDream

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

"how might we conceive of a form of capitalism suffering a profound devaluation of values, and in which enrichment stems from the flow of time itself?" Profound thinking about a crisis of value and justification in the asset condition by @will-davies.bsky.social

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

I created a starter pack for the political, cultural, social study of money and finance. It is incomplete and provisional. Please suggest additions/updates! go.bsky.app/3BhMAZq

submitted 93 days ago • 16 comments

Dissecting the curious relationship between financialization and assetization, with a focus on power. Nice.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

New article on the role of industry events in ordering alternative financial markets out in New Political Economy now (with Marco Andrei and Ruben Kremers): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

UG students taught me a lot in class today, including insights into how in Nigeria there is a strong sense of "you in the UK treat credit cards as money too much - it's not real!" while simultaneously holding the view that crypto is more trustworthy than the naira, for understandable reasons.

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New symposium out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Depletion through/of Social Reproduction. It builds on Shirin Rai's foundational work on depletion to replenish geographical thinking on depletion through/of social reproduction. 1/7 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

The World Chess Championship match begins today! Rooting for Gukesh but huge respect for Ding speaking openly about mental health struggles at the top of an elite sport. www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

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Can't believe this wasn't a thing yet— 50 women in political economy I follow & you should too! 💡 Send me more! 🙋‍♀️ go.bsky.app/QFrdfh3

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