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Carolina Alves

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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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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · May 31

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

Polity @politybooks.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/...

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 20h

Wow, and, of course, the reproduction of a very specific knowledge.

Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 22h

Great video, @ruthcurtice.bsky.social! ✨🙌 Thank you for coming to the seminar yesterday.

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Mia Gray @mia-gray.bsky.social · 7d

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

Agenda Publishing @agendapub.bsky.social · 7d

“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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

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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Climate and Community Institute @cplusc.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ben Waber @bwaber.bsky.social · 2d

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...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d

"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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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 1d

I’m in london every Monday and Tuesday :)

Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 1d

Rob!!!!!!!!!! You were there!? I didn’t see you. So glad you like it.

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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 2d

✍️ 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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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 3d

📍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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UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose @iipp-ucl.bsky.social · 4d

📍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

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 5d

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?

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 7d

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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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7d

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/

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 7d

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Paul O’Connell @pmpoc.bsky.social · 7d

I've posted a new paper on SSRN - it argues that unless imperialism is central to our analysis of inequality and its impact on human rights, then our theory and practice remain in a blind alley - forthcoming in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law is.gd/igjgnI

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Galo Vasco @galovasco.bsky.social · 7d

Cruel
Fascista

Rita Machado @nesimachado.bsky.social · 8d

1,8 milhão de brasileiros nos EUA, sendo muitos deles trabalhadores de baixa renda. Que horror, essa vida!

Bairro brasileiro nos EUA vive medo generalizado: 'Atendo escondido e em casa' noticias.uol.com.br/ultimas-noti...

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Rosie Holt @rosieisaholt.bsky.social · 8d

“Tony Blair will bring peace to Palestine” claims rep.

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Juliet Liu @juliet.social · 10d

I'm starting to think we need to bring back a constructive form of shame, which @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social makes a great case for in this excellent piece:

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 10d

Winters are the new summers.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10d

"The past, if not properly mourned, can come back to haunt us."

An excerpt from Stephen Frosh's new book, How to be Real - out today

Ghosts and Ancestors

[book-strip index="1" style="buy"] The past, if not properly mourned, can come back to haunt us. Let me start with one example. In October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, was elected pre...

www.versobooks.com

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Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 12d

It shows more details about the books/papers you add, and allow you to read some of docs there. I’m still getting used to it.. so not I’m aware of all changes.

Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social · 12d

The changes in portion sizes, whether eating out or buying from supermarkets, are insane. It’s outrageous how much smaller things have gotten. Is there any regulation around this? @harrywallop.co.uk

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Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 12d

Instead of judging individuals by what they contribute to society, why not judge society by what it contributes to individuals? Like, y'know, civilized people would.

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 12d

Dehumanisation as policy.
It ignores people's actual lives and experiences in favour of some sick idea that migrants are just resources to be used and discarded at will.
It is incredible how Labour has become, in practice, the most anti-immigration government in decades.
news.sky.com/story/shaban...

Shabana Mahmood vows law reforms to prove migrants 'contribute' to UK society

The home secretary signalled in her first major interview since taking over the reins that she believed migration "has been too high".

news.sky.com

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