This has been a LONG time in works: my paper on how dollar hegemony is a form of international law-making power. It includes a long methodological/theoretical section on why strong versions of the 'law constitutes political economy' aren't convincing papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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.
Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off:
www.sup.org/books/politi...
mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...
It's not Marxism. It's not post-structuralism. It's a secret third thing. 🥸
The Ontology of the Monetary Image (Wonkish)
A lot of the money behind the AI boom is coming from pension funds of working class people and when parts of the AI bubble burst, private capital gets protected, while ordinary people can be left with the losses.
The AI Data Center Gold Rush: The Bailout State Behind It - youtu.be/fHwYIFa1mNE
Terrifying thought, just imagine -
"Without solutions, America’s anxiety will become rage — and political backlash will follow"
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/o...
“Much of the American public associates abundance with the ideas put forth by Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson...While they are certainly part of the picture, the incomplete policy ideas championed in the airplane book are only a glimpse of the entire abundance universe."
Read the report. If you can. 🤢
People referring to Claude Code in fifty years.
Once nostalgia starts, it's unstoppable..
Like 99% of people on here, I now have a stake in the financial future of Anthropic - so I feel deeply conflicted about their surprisingly ethical stance. Will have to learn to live with this unresolvable tension.
So good - "In a bit of profound irony, data-center construction has broken free of the choke points decried by abundance to the point that it is now bidding up land value and resulting in further constraints on the supply of housing"
newrepublic.com/article/2064...
@dylangyauchl.bsky.social could you follow me so I can message you? (Can't seem to find an email address).
Go read my latest in the monthly about affordability politics and why it's deeper than just price levels!
The abundance clique has an AI problem. Beyond being funded by Silicon Valley, the ecosystem features an array of tech libertarians, a smattering of technofascism, and no answers for our anti-AI moment. Read @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com!
newrepublic.com/article/2064...
"what the politics of private finance teaches is the inadequacy of considering only what we can achieve in the short term, given the political constraints"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
It wasn’t just the child tax credit.
And it’s not just the Republicans.
“Any discussion of rent regulation has to grapple with the fact that owners of residential buildings pay most of their rent earnings not on maintenance or operations, but to service their debts to their creditors.”
NEW by @jwmason.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...
The Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power is out today! Peter Niesen (based @politikuhh.bsky.social), Lucia Rubinelli (@luxirubsi.bsky.social) and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate to be able to publish the contributions of so many wonderful colleagues. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Oren Cass or David Harvey?
What Jeffrey Epstein knew about money
Epstein’s emails show how the financial elite consolidated their wealth amid global turmoil
🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social
Democratic elites chose donors over workers. Without an aggressive economic agenda they risk becoming the permanent minority party, warns Thomas Ferguson. @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...
I often wonder if the tendency to mistake basic emotions (whether cruelty or despair) for deep insight is a distinctive feature of our era or something of all times. It seems to require both a definite capacity for critical thinking and a willingness to abuse it.
Australians are bracing for another interest rate rise because Labor has turbo-charged the housing crisis & refused to tackle corporate price gouging. If you're a mortgage holder or a renter, you face being hit by the RBA to “fix” the government’s "inflation problem".
👉 "You know you've got "research culture" right when people stop talking about research culture and just talk about their research."👈
ONE DAY LATER Larry Summers fleshed out his complaints in a Washington Post column
Hard to imagine how Larry Summers’s humiliation could be any more complete tbh
“Pantomime of thinking” is a great phrase
I've spent way too much time trying to understand Kevin Warsh's thinking, but there's not much there in the end. This is the upshot, I think:
New book officially out 🚨
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
