Carolina Alves
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
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
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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Carolina Alves
@cacrisalves.bsky.social
· May 31
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/...
See more: www.politybooks.com/...
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
Here’s to hoping its ideas spark fresh conversations and inspire meaningful change in our field. #economics #eurocentrism #decolonisation
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Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
✨ Had an incredible time @kilkenomics.bsky.social Festival in Ireland! A privilege to learn from brilliant panelists & a curious audience. We explored big questions:
The Economics of War
J Milei, Miracle or Mirage?
Booms, Busts & Bailouts
Grateful for the conversations that challenge & inspire!
The Economics of War
J Milei, Miracle or Mirage?
Booms, Busts & Bailouts
Grateful for the conversations that challenge & inspire!
November 12, 2025 at 11:39 AM
✨ Had an incredible time @kilkenomics.bsky.social Festival in Ireland! A privilege to learn from brilliant panelists & a curious audience. We explored big questions:
The Economics of War
J Milei, Miracle or Mirage?
Booms, Busts & Bailouts
Grateful for the conversations that challenge & inspire!
The Economics of War
J Milei, Miracle or Mirage?
Booms, Busts & Bailouts
Grateful for the conversations that challenge & inspire!
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Join Us at SASE 2026 in Bordeaux!
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Join Us at SASE 2026 in Bordeaux!
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?
More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
@kilkenomics.bsky.social with these amazing powerful women. @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
#economics @katie0martin.ft.com @kyla.bsky.social @leahdowney.bsky.social #kilkenomics
#economics @katie0martin.ft.com @kyla.bsky.social @leahdowney.bsky.social #kilkenomics
November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@kilkenomics.bsky.social with these amazing powerful women. @davidmcwecon.bsky.social
#economics @katie0martin.ft.com @kyla.bsky.social @leahdowney.bsky.social #kilkenomics
#economics @katie0martin.ft.com @kyla.bsky.social @leahdowney.bsky.social #kilkenomics
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If 1000 billion dollars for a single human beings work really makes you think about the labor theory of economic value AND the madness of economic reason, do I have the essay for you by @cacrisalves.bsky.social. What Would Marx say?
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If 1000 billion dollars for a single human beings work really makes you think about the labor theory of economic value AND the madness of economic reason, do I have the essay for you by @cacrisalves.bsky.social. What Would Marx say?
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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🎤 Kilkenomics Festival 2025
IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social will be speaking at the 2025 @kilkenomics.bsky.social festival, the world's only economics & comedy festival, on Day 2 (November 8th).
🔗 See her shows and buy tickets here: buff.ly/X1rwtM2
IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social will be speaking at the 2025 @kilkenomics.bsky.social festival, the world's only economics & comedy festival, on Day 2 (November 8th).
🔗 See her shows and buy tickets here: buff.ly/X1rwtM2
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎤 Kilkenomics Festival 2025
IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social will be speaking at the 2025 @kilkenomics.bsky.social festival, the world's only economics & comedy festival, on Day 2 (November 8th).
🔗 See her shows and buy tickets here: buff.ly/X1rwtM2
IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social will be speaking at the 2025 @kilkenomics.bsky.social festival, the world's only economics & comedy festival, on Day 2 (November 8th).
🔗 See her shows and buy tickets here: buff.ly/X1rwtM2
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
Still looking better than the LLM ones.
Keep going! 😈🧙🎃👻💀🤓📚✊🙌
Keep going! 😈🧙🎃👻💀🤓📚✊🙌
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Still looking better than the LLM ones.
Keep going! 😈🧙🎃👻💀🤓📚✊🙌
Keep going! 😈🧙🎃👻💀🤓📚✊🙌
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“As long as the logic of capital accumulation remains intact, technological innovation will continue to deepen, not alleviate, the social & ecological challenges we face.”
Polycrisis, or the ‘Madness of Economic Reason’ - @cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Polycrisis, or the ‘Madness of Economic Reason’ - @cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
www.versobooks.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
“As long as the logic of capital accumulation remains intact, technological innovation will continue to deepen, not alleviate, the social & ecological challenges we face.”
Polycrisis, or the ‘Madness of Economic Reason’ - @cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
Polycrisis, or the ‘Madness of Economic Reason’ - @cacrisalves.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...
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Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
October 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Join us TODAY to launch the Green Planning Commission, rethinking planning to recover a democratic & decarbonised future from the crises of our age.
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
🎙️ @cacrisalves.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social Richard Kozul-Wright & @mathewlawrence.bsky.social
🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-the...
Weekend read?
In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.
Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social
In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.
Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social
Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
www.versobooks.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Weekend read?
In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.
Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social
In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.
Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social
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Every day, new horrors.
October 24, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Every day, new horrors.
Girton College was very Halloweenie tonight. 🎃 👻 ✨❣️
@sjs1869.bsky.social @elisabethkendall.bsky.social @girtoncollege.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
@sjs1869.bsky.social @elisabethkendall.bsky.social @girtoncollege.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Girton College was very Halloweenie tonight. 🎃 👻 ✨❣️
@sjs1869.bsky.social @elisabethkendall.bsky.social @girtoncollege.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
@sjs1869.bsky.social @elisabethkendall.bsky.social @girtoncollege.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org
📌 Join us TOMORROW at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for a discussion with @devikadutt.bsky.social , @cacrisalves.bsky.social , @surbhikesar.bsky.social , Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven on:
🌍 Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction 📚
Info and livestream 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
🌍 Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction 📚
Info and livestream 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
💔
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
💔
I couldn't agree more. It's both infuriating and disheartening to see journalism reduced to chasing clicks and scandals in any field, often at the expense of substance and genuine informative value.
It would help our blood pressure if we regarded journalists as mere peddlers of product and propaganda rather than as dedicated pursuers of truth. It's the exceptions to this we should note, not the countless examples.
October 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I couldn't agree more. It's both infuriating and disheartening to see journalism reduced to chasing clicks and scandals in any field, often at the expense of substance and genuine informative value.
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Did they get the management consultants in or something?
Whereas drug gangs used to be vertically integrated, with a single kingpin supervising production, transport and distribution, they now rely heavily on outsourcing. This has fuelled specialisation and innovation
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
New decentralised networks are even harder to disrupt than the hierarchical gangs they have replaced
econ.st
October 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Did they get the management consultants in or something?
🙌✨❣️🥳✊
✍️ Coordination and Power
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
The latest paper by IIPP PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social reframes production as an information-processing endeavour. The paper was awarded the Herbert Simon Prize by the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/dH5D65U
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
🙌✨❣️🥳✊
One of the @iipp-ucl.bsky.social talks you cannot missed it!
🎤 Rethinking Economic Power in the Digital Age
Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/qMoft7U
Join us for the latest IIPP #PhDInConversation event, featuring PhD Candidate @faustogernone.bsky.social in conversation with Professors @mazzucatom.bsky.social, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, & Tommaso Valletti.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/qMoft7U
October 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
One of the @iipp-ucl.bsky.social talks you cannot missed it!
Once again, we see why so many women don’t report their abusers and rapists.
Because the system doesn’t protect the, it protects the predator. They twist the truth, question her credibility, and let him walk free.
#patriachy #misogyny
Because the system doesn’t protect the, it protects the predator. They twist the truth, question her credibility, and let him walk free.
#patriachy #misogyny
Powerful, grubby men using their connections to cover their abuse of a trafficked teenage girl.
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
After all the revelations, it's never "not" shocking.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/royals/...
October 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Once again, we see why so many women don’t report their abusers and rapists.
Because the system doesn’t protect the, it protects the predator. They twist the truth, question her credibility, and let him walk free.
#patriachy #misogyny
Because the system doesn’t protect the, it protects the predator. They twist the truth, question her credibility, and let him walk free.
#patriachy #misogyny
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⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event.
We were proud to host the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics' by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/uNiZSll
We were proud to host the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics' by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/uNiZSll
October 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
⏮️ Catch up on our recent #IIPPInConversation event.
We were proud to host the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics' by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/uNiZSll
We were proud to host the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics' by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.
📺 Watch the event recording here: buff.ly/uNiZSll
Your reading for weekend from #CriticaDev blog!
"Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance" by Prof Sergio Martin Páez
@ufrjoficial.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social
developingeconomics.org/2025/10/07/l...
"Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance" by Prof Sergio Martin Páez
@ufrjoficial.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social
developingeconomics.org/2025/10/07/l...
Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance
The year 2025 will be the third consecutive year in which the Brazilian economy experiences sustained growth. During the first two years of his administration, economic expansion was above 3% annua…
developingeconomics.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Your reading for weekend from #CriticaDev blog!
"Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance" by Prof Sergio Martin Páez
@ufrjoficial.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social
developingeconomics.org/2025/10/07/l...
"Lula da Silva and Brazilian financialization: Learning from Dilma and the Limits of Confronting Finance" by Prof Sergio Martin Páez
@ufrjoficial.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social
developingeconomics.org/2025/10/07/l...
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Israel's genocide has created 61 million tonnes of debris in Gaza.
October 18, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Israel's genocide has created 61 million tonnes of debris in Gaza.
Fantastic.
I've published a new (short) article on 'John Maynard Keynes and Universal Basic Income', which might be of interest to those working on these debates: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
John Maynard Keynes on Universal Basic Income
John Maynard Keynes has not normally been seen as a basic income supporter, but two letters written by Keynes during the Second World War suggest that he had thought seriously about the idea and was a...
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Fantastic.
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“It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” one research analyst said. Fueling that transition are migrant workers from China, laboring in deadly conditions.
Read @wufeiyu.bsky.social’s new feature, produced Grist and republished by Rest of World:
Read @wufeiyu.bsky.social’s new feature, produced Grist and republished by Rest of World:
The Chinese migrant workers powering the deadly EV nickel boom
30,000 Chinese workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Eastern Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk on the frontier of the green energy transition.
restofworld.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
“It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” one research analyst said. Fueling that transition are migrant workers from China, laboring in deadly conditions.
Read @wufeiyu.bsky.social’s new feature, produced Grist and republished by Rest of World:
Read @wufeiyu.bsky.social’s new feature, produced Grist and republished by Rest of World: