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"Money is a metaphor that demands to be taken literally. Like language, money does not merely represent reality but constitutes it." -- Stefan Eich, The Currency of Politics Just started this, and it's so lucid, clear and thought-provoking. Thanks to @tobiasbunde.bsky.social for recommending!

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For Sidecar, I wrote on Stiglitz and supply-side Keynesianism. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Just out: "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters" by Quentin Skinner @jhideas.bsky.social, a memoir of Pocock derived from his correspondence with Skinner between 1965 & 2020 muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

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When you come out of teaching Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and there’s a quizzical owl sitting outside the classroom in DC! 🦉 Still not quite sure what to make of it in this of all weeks… H/t @airidas.bsky.social

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"The question of uncertainty might then be the most concentrated moment of real tension between financial capitalism and democratic politics." @stefeich.bsky.social from December 2024 www.boundary2.org/2024/12/stef...

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A remarkable new memoir of J. G. A. Pocock by Quentin Skinner "J. G. A. Pocock: A Life in Letters," Journal of the History of Ideas (2025) muse.jhu.edu/article/949925

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I went big picture with this one. Let me know what you think. open.substack.com/pub/thechina...

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Trying to distract yourself from the inauguration but finding it hard to look away? Why not read some of the contributions to our boundary2 online forum, which explore what happens when money and politics become inextricably entangled. 🧵 www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...

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Excited to see this symposium on my book out in the Review of Politics! With terrific contributions by Samuel Chambers, Chiara Cordelli, Duncan Kelly, William Clare Roberts, Melissa Schwartzberg, & Jonny Thakkar, plus a response by yours truly. 🙏🙏🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Very pleased to announce that The Bailout State is now available everywhere. Get a copy and find out why governments rescue banks, not people!

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My colleague Per Hansen has written a truly wonderful book called "There Will Be the Devil to Pay" about the 1931 financial crisis. It receives its worldwide print release today. All I can say is that if you have any interest in financial crises you need to read it. www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

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Lee Harris @leeharris.bsky.social opens her new global insurance beat at the FT with a bang!

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Wild to consider that in 1945 a U.S. Senator (from Idaho!) would introduce a Congressional resolution in favor of the "creation of a world republic" & that by the next year, a dozen states had passed resolutions to Congress favoring the "federation of the world." A different world was possible.

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Mark Schwartz in full-on Hegel mode, taking stock of Piore & Sabel's 'Second Industrial Divide'. They were wrong, but since the Owl of Minerva flies at dusk, it's worth looking back to understand why global capitalism didn't turn into one big flexible specialization Emilia-Romagna.

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Today is, believe it or not, the official publication date of “Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary.” The perfect Christmas gift 🎁

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This is what you call a thought-provoking essay: 'Are we all dead in the long run? John Maynard Keynes and the politics of time', by @stefeich.bsky.social As a bonus, this little-known image of Keynes performing in theater in 1903. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Hay que leer lo último de @stefeich.bsky.social en el Chartbook de @adamtooze.bsky.social, sobre Keynes y su forma abierta y experimental de entender lo político. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Stefan Eich: “Are we all dead in the long run? John Maynard Keynes and the politics of time”: adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Great @stefeich.bsky.social piece on the oft-overlooked politics of time in Keynes’ thought: ‘there is no such thing as “the future” but instead only ever a proliferation of multiple yet unformed possibilities’. Chartbook 342 open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

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I adapted some work I’ve been doing on Keynes & time into a long-form essay for @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook! “Are We All Dead in the Long Run?” Why we have misunderstood Keynes’s quip about the long run and what it opens up instead adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...

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Really dug this dive into the changing face of money as an organ of state from @stefeich.bsky.social. Good thinky Saturday AM read. www.boundary2.org/2024/12/stef...

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This by @stefeich.bsky.social is excellent as usual. On what it means for money to be always political, and what can it possibly mean to "democratize the monetary system". I liked his pushback against the depoliticization/repoliticization dichotomy. www.boundary2.org/2024/12/stef...

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Honestly, anyone with even a remote interest on money, monetary prácticas, monetary policy and monetary politics must read this. I particularly liked @stefeich.bsky.social article. Esto es de lectura casi obligatoria. El de Stefan Eich es muy bueno.

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Konings's introductory essay here is deep and has given me a lot to think about. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in finance and economic policy. Parts of it relate to what Lev Menand and I have called "the monetary-financial complex."

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boundary2 just published a forum on the gordian knot of finance, where @stefeich.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @thisblue.bsky.social, Janet Roitman, Dick Bryan, and myself reflect on the infuriating hold of finance on economic policy (and how to break it) www.boundary2.org/the-gordian-...

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Special issue of the “Finance and Fiction” dossier of the b2o Review just dropped: THE GORDIAN KNOT OF FINANCE Special Issue editor is @mkonings.bsky.social who is also a contributor alongside @thisblue.bsky.social, @aminsamman.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, Dick Bryan and Janet Roitman 🔥🪢 🏦

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In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

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instead of spending 10.8 billion dollars on this maybe the city could fund libraries and a functioning subway?

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In the confession album of one of Karl Marx's daughters, you can find the answers of the family dog, Whiskey. @tomaashby.bsky.social #Marx #KarlMarx

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When consulting the glossary of terms in Bruno Latour’s Politics of Nature, and you get helpful explanations like “Subject: see Object” 😑

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Amazing thread of something I almost took for granted growing up there. Also, you have to picture a humongous open surface mine next to many of these towns to get the full NRW vibe.

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Freue mich sehr darüber, dass mein letztes Gespräch mit dem genialen Stefan Eich (@stefeich.bsky.social) nun auch auf MAKROSKOP erschienen ist. Großen Dank an Sebastian Müller! makroskop.eu/41-2024/keyn...

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Berlin, negating the negation's negation

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"The Murmur of Engines" A fascinating essay about narrating the origins of WWI - Chris Clarke on Perry Anderson on Chris Clarke www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The idea that the state must not offer a better public infrastructure because doing so would endanger the profitability of dysfunctional private infrastructure is an argument we would never indulge for roads or bridges. And yet it shapes the entire discussion of digital public money. Good thread👇

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The ECB is handicapping its digital euro project (strict holding limits, no interest payments, and mandatory bank account links) in order to protect the current broken, inefficient, subsidized banking system. Do we need banks? My post today www.siliconcontinent.com/p/do-we-need... 🧵 1/10

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