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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Thinking long

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Sometimes I try to imagine what the world will be like in 2100. That seems endlessly far away, but it's worth considering there are pro...
Monday, September 10, 2018

The protean 1940s moment in political economy

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Key primary texts for a seminar: James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution (1941). Joseph Schumpeter,  Capitalism, Socialism, and Democr...
Wednesday, December 06, 2017

The 2017 Tax Bill as Plutocratic Insurgency

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The 2017 US federal tax bill, which as of this writing is currently undergoing reconciliation between the House and Senate versions, repre...
Friday, July 21, 2017

The rightwing free speech outrage playbook

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The right-wingers have now got a clear playbook for their so-called “free speech” agenda on university campuses. It entails three simple st...
Sunday, June 04, 2017

Is a global history of development possible?

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What would a fully integrated “global” history of development entail? It would require Considering all actors in the development proces...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

Course idea

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Global Commodities: Start of a syllabus Week One Selections from Gary Gereffi, Miguel Korzeniew, Commodity Chains and Global Capitalism ...
Friday, July 22, 2016

Hudson talk notes on Plutocratic Insurgency

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The point of commonality across all the speakers at yesterday's Hudson Institute event on Plutocrats, me included, was that the United...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

Between Ta-Nehisi and Me

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I was asked this morning what I make of Thomas Chatterton Williams's somewhat acerbic take in the London Review of Books  of Ta-Nehisi...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Who is to blame?

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Unfortunately, the answer to "who is to blame" is not simple. One perhaps useful way to think about responsibility for terrorism...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

Piketty: Some personal, political reflections

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I have just finished Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century ( Harvard UP ), and it is magnificent. The Book We Need Now....
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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Techno-rationality or bust

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The New York Times had a fascinating profile of Paul Kingsnorth, whose "Uncivilization" project looks squarely in the face of t...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Reading list: American Political Economy in the 20th century

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A reading list. First semester: From the classics to the Depression Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of ...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

The policy-advising hegemony of economics

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Since I find Storify a rather mystifying app, I'm going to take a series of tweets I made yesterday and turn them into a brief blogpost...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

1000 points of light for liberals

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I just read Habits of the Heart for the first time since it came out, and whoa is it a period piece, sure to be at the center of reading li...
Sunday, December 01, 2013

Why "Neoliberalism" is Not a Helpful Term

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Over at The New Inquiry Mike Konczal has an excellent review of Philip Mirowski's new book , Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste. M...
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Tuesday, October 01, 2013

The Master Narrative of the Tea Party

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The worldview of the Tea Party: Founded by Christian patriots in a tax revolt, America has always resisted the tyranny of an out-of-touch a...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

Manning v. Ellsberg

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Updated A lot of people have made a big deal out of the fact that Daniel Ellsberg has been a vigorous defender of Bradley  Chelsea Mannin...
Friday, August 02, 2013

The conceptual origins of the black market in the moral economy of the 1940s

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Among people who study illicit economies and trafficking it's become fashionable to suggest that illicit markets have always been with...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Best Movies of the 1970s

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The 1970s is generally acknowledged as the greatest decade for cinema, especially for Hollywood, as the shackles of the old censorship we...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

The Fog of Development

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I've spent a good part of the last few weeks thinking about development assistance, especially development assistance in (subnational) ...
Friday, March 01, 2013

The maturing global narcotics business in Africa

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The latest United Nations Office of Drug Control report contains grim news about how the global prohibition regime is creating new opportu...
Friday, February 15, 2013

What is the Subject of Intellectual History?

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Cross-posted in slightly different form at the US Intellectual History group blog . Last week, Ben Alpers mused on the possibility of an ...
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