Carolina Alves
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔 Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
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cacrisalves.bsky.social
It’s out! I’m deeply proud and grateful for this book — especially for the chance to collaborate with such brilliant & bold minds.

Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation
politybooks.bsky.social
Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing.

See more: www.politybooks.com/...
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jasprblom.bsky.social
Flashbacks to my first job working on an earlier Argentinean crisis. That on this occasion a libertarian extremist is asking for a governmental bail-out, though, tells you all you need to know about the fairy-tale nature of their ideology. Living in economic la-la-land till the powerful also get hit
piie.com
Even concrete US interventions are unlikely to save Argentina's peso for long unless they go further than so far promised—though it might give Milei a rickety bridge through the October election without an embarrassing devaluation.
By Maurice Obstfeld:
America's Argentina rescue won’t save the peso for long
The Argentine peso is in trouble again, but this time the US government is riding to the rescue. In late September, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced several supportive measures, including po...
www.piie.com
cacrisalves.bsky.social
I’m sure this one was the best talk. @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
cominsitu.bsky.social
had a blast, as always, great talks—except THIS one!
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cacrisalves.bsky.social
‘Hygge Marxism’ ❣️🥰✨✊
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historyned.bsky.social
35 years ago today, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory was absorbed into the Federal Republic. If you want to learn more about the rise and fall of the GDR on this auspicious #TagderEinheit, you can check out my new book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-de...
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dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS 📕🚨

We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).

The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.
Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.
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live.from.roys.house
yeah i see a worrying number of people dismissing the use of LLMs for a lot of things but excepting the generation of summaries, which, based on both the architecture and the output i've seen, are just as bad and prone to hallucination as any other task
irisvanrooij.bsky.social
AI “summaries” are not summaries but slop
cacrisalves.bsky.social
Wow, and, of course, the reproduction of a very specific knowledge.
cacrisalves.bsky.social
Great video, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social! ✨🙌 Thank you for coming to the seminar yesterday.
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mia-gray.bsky.social
Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book.

Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm)

Dept of Geography, Cambridge
agendapub.bsky.social
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”

@graceblakeley.substack.com on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki (out next week).

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...

#housing #debt
Photo of a pile of books. The books are 'Debt Trap Nation' by Katherine Brickell and Mel Nowicki. Cover image features a woman and small child in a deep concrete basin or pit with no way of climbing out as the ladder is too short.
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esqueer.net
This article is spot on about the UK's descent into anti-trans hysteria. In 8 years, they went from the conservatives trying to make it easier for trans folks to self attest gender to a liberal government implementing a bathroom ban by fiat.

www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...
Britain’s Bathroom Ban
The UK has gone from a bathroom ban being unthinkable to a Labour government implementing an extraordinarily authoritarian one—without a vote.
www.liberalcurrents.com
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cplusc.bsky.social
The official launch of @transitionsec.bsky.social is in just one week! Join CCI & @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
at the free inaugural panel event featuring our strategic co-dir @triofrancos.bsky.social:
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
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bwaber.bsky.social
Last was "Congo" by David Van Reybrouck. This book provides a sweeping analysis of the DRC's history, and reading this book in 2025 with a renewed Rwandan invasion is as edifying as it is depressing. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/... (9/9)
Congo
From the beginnings of the slave trade through colonization, the struggle for independence, Mobutu's brutal three decades of rule, and the civil war tha...
www.harpercollins.com
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70sbachchan.bsky.social
"In Gaza, destruction is rewarded with contracts and the “peace plan” is property development.

Historian @adam_tooze & economist @ClaraEMattei
trace how capitalism profits through ruin: war, austerity, and reconstruction form one system of control. "
youtu.be/0iIEgp1LPpA
Rebuilding Gaza — For Profit | Adam Tooze
YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation
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cacrisalves.bsky.social
I’m in london every Monday and Tuesday :)
cacrisalves.bsky.social
Rob!!!!!!!!!! You were there!? I didn’t see you. So glad you like it.
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
✍️ Carlota Perez - Life of Revolutions

@amirleb.bsky.social spoke with IIPP Honorary Professor @carlotaperez.bsky.social about her life, career, and intellectual journey for his latest piece in 'Development and Change'.

🔗 Read the full conversation here: buff.ly/E19bHn8
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
📍Happening today - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn
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iipp-ucl.bsky.social
📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

🔗 Learn more and register here: buff.ly/c3e34Sn
cacrisalves.bsky.social
Don’t compromise, Jo. AI won’t reach its full potential under the current Big Tech regime, plus no meaningful regulation & unchecked political influence. The issue isn’t just how AI is used, but who controls it and for what gain. It’s bad news all along. Yeah. it clears your data, but at what cost?
day.at
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jwmason.bsky.social
The other side is, of course - of course! - the companies making LLMs are not doing so with the goal of more easily sharing the material that people have made freely available on the web. They are doing so with the goal of enclosing it - converting the products of free human activity to commodities.
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davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
Join our next Visual Assembly to collectively imagine, plan and draw cities of the future.

Saturday October 4
10:00 - 12:00
Vienna, Austria
About the event: davidgraeber.institute/imagining-a-...
Link to regiter: uttaisop.at/anmelden/