For all the talk of decline in Britain today by the right, the thing that is never mentioned is privitisation and financialisation. Very glad to see @cmmonwealth.bsky.social tackling this head-on:

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Among many things, it's just the sheer amount of people whose actions, small and large, have helped coordinate and sustain the genocide that breaks my heart

Great new paper on the political economy of austerity by @ilovering.bsky.social. Uncovers history of austerity as an expansive programme of state planning and centralisation of power, rather than a macroeconomic policy driven by bond holders, state slashers etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'Subprime mortgages were not developed by entities fitting the rentier model, but rather by real estate actors operating outside the established financial system'

Interesting new paper critiquing the Rentier conception for understanding financial politics

Leftish critics often treat the UK as having never really escaped Thatcherism. What's so brilliant about this report is how it makes New Labour's supply side political economy - with all its failures - a crucial historical era too www.common-wealth.org/publications...

this looks very good: "Charting venture capital’s 1950s emergence, 1960s formalization, and 1970s institutionalization, I show how early venture capital investors built a financial infrastructure that safeguarded the appreciation of their assets"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....