My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today!
In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance.
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I’m very pleased to share that my book 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐸𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑠 has been published in the RIPE Series in Global Political Economy by @routledgebooks.bsky.social. It examines impact bonds as a form of ethical finance and has been many years in the making, so it is wonderful to finally see it in print. 🧵
Everything is gender, AI edition.
ABSTRACT The Recovery and Resilience Facility of the European Union (EU) provided member states with funds to counteract the economic consequences of the pandemic and required the submission of national action plans. The EU developed guidance on how member states should apply for and use these funds, directing applicants to include a gendered analysis. While there is significant variation in the levels of gender awareness within the national plans, the Irish plan is notable in that it lacks any substantial engagement with gender considerations. Using document analysis and policy maker interviews, this article examines the causes and outcomes of this disengagement, exploring this puzzle of a lack of gender sensitive economic policy-making in Ireland. We examine why, despite direction from the EU, those charged with Ireland’s economic policy framework omitted any significant consideration of gender. Drilling down into a specific example of how gender considerations were marginalised in economic governance, we argue for understanding more about how the interpretive or cognitive lens that policy makers apply reinforces long-standing norms about what matters. We contribute to feminist political economic analysis of the EU and national policy-making, highlighting where the blockages to gender equality lie.
Why is it so hard to translate high-level committements into actual policy changes when it comes to gender equality?
Check out our newly published article - ‘It would have slowed down the work’ – the challenges of gender sensitive economic policy
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Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism
International Workshop
Friday, 13 February 2026
Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt
With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills
Please register by February 6!
Wie lässt sich Renaturierung 🌱🌿🌳 erfolgreich politisch gestalten und umsetzen? 18 Studierende der Politikwissenschaft und des Zukunftsmoduls der JGU auf einer 2-tägigen #Exkursion 🧭 im #Nationalpark Hunsrück-Hochwald.
Kalt wars schon - aber ein super Erlebnis!!
Dank an die Freunde der Mainzer Poli
New co-written paper out asking how Marxist IPE can use history to question our theories. We ask how Marxists can study capitalism without reifying the world market?
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fantastic resource!
A thing I like here is (implicitly) bringing the sociology of conferences to political science. What is elsewhere called "field-configuring events" (of which Davos is a great case) is an instructive lens for understanding world politics.
💼 New in Socio-Economic Review:
VC funding isn’t equal — and looks different in Africa.
This review by Ben Mkalama and Stefan Ouma @econgeo.bsky.social unpacks how socio-spatial inequalities shape venture capital, comparing African, Asian and North American contexts.
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Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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If you're still thinking about what to read over the holiday season – worry not, we've just made your choice even harder!
🎄 Our December issue is out 🎄
Our festive intellectual treats, from the meta-theory of performativity, decarbonization, green finance to the theory of money – check it out!
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For German speakers: A post about our collaborative BA seminar 'Studying Frankfurt's Financial District' 🏦🏦🏦
I'm currently teaching its second rendition. 🧑🏫
Here's the blog to the seminar: finanzplatz-frankfurt.blog
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Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
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finfluencers!!!
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outstanding interview!
and an amazing resource - comprehensive overview of critical macro finance & the wall street consensus...
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IPE workshop in Brussels!!!
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this is fun - uses coffee as an everyday entry point to explore the colonial contexts of Hegel's thought! ☕
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more on data centres...
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fantastic piece and exciting method for studying app location data!
Fantastic resource, this!
