@cedricdurand.bsky.social
"Après six mois de Trump, la question qui se pose est de savoir si la nouvelle administration américaine, déjà à bout de souffle, sera capable d’agréger les intérêts des multiples factions rivales qui sous-tendent le trumpisme." avec @benbraun.bsky.social
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/07/2...
New WP - "Further expansion of historically oversized financial systems faces structural limits. In the context of debates regarding systemic shifts away from finance-led accumulation regimes , this research highlights the monetary dimension as a crucial locus of transformation."
10.07.2025 10:45 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0"Ecological planning in the Anthropocene " - 24-26 September 2025 - University of Geneva
05.07.2025 17:04 — 👍 24 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
For the upcoming conference on "Ecological Planning in the Anthropocene" at the University of Geneva next September (25-26), we invite PhD candidates and early researchers to participate in the Young Scholar Forum, which will take place on the 24th September.
25.06.2025 11:03 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
Out today: Freedom for Capital not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order @versobooks.bsky.social
24.06.2025 07:20 — 👍 96 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 1
"Mark I is characterized by the empowerment of financial actors: in a context of high interest rates and full-blown liberalization, (...) Mark II is characterized by a strongly established financial hegemony with new forms of intellectual and financial monopoly." link.springer.com/article/10.1...
22.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Je ne sais toujours pas si je suis convaincu par le concept, mais de la matière à réfléchir.
22.06.2025 21:37 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0"La nécessité d’utilisation des TIC pour la planification écologique nous oblige à composer avec, malgré le fait qu’elles incorporent bel et bien l’héritage capitaliste en son sein". Merci Lucas Benyattou pour cette recension. @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social @i-laboetie.bsky.social
19.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"large, economy-wide costs shocks make executives feel very good indeed". A crucial demonstration by @isabellamweber.bsky.social @benbraun.bsky.social @jvtk.bsky.social Evan Wasner and Markus Lang
17.06.2025 16:06 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0An industry-led thinktank released a "Draghi/Letta-Report for Denmark" suggesting that pension funds should be allowed to invest in risk capital. That sounds like B&Ds story of private equity (eg Blackrock) aiming for a profitable exit of inflated holdings by bringing pensions into PE market.
12.06.2025 14:24 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Félicitations @mathildeviennot.bsky.social. On a besoin de ce livre !
14.06.2025 08:32 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"Les incohérences de Trump sont le signe de contradictions structurelles" merci @reminoyon.bsky.social @nouvelobs.com de faire écho à America’s Braudelian Autumn avec @benbraun.bsky.social et de reprendre ce résumé schématique des tensions dans le bloc trumpiste.
www.nouvelobs.com/idees/202506...
"the antinomies of Trumponomics are on full display, and without obvious resolution" with @benbraun.bsky.social @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
L'état des troupes trumpiennes, et les tensions qui les traversent. Meilleur point d'étape sur Trump, à lire impérativement !
04.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Historically-informed political economy and well worth the read from @cedricdurand.bsky.social and @benbraun.bsky.social on @phenomenalworld.bsky.social.
"Hegemonic decline, according to the historian Fernand Braudel, ..."
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www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
I like the epistemological conlcusion also : "To make credible causal claims, the researcher must have a firm grasp on what exactly is causing changes in what, and she must correctly characterize the treatment and correctly characterize the control."
31.05.2025 09:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0" the effect of washing machines on married women’s labor supply is likely the result of economic development and changes in norms for household goods more generally, rather than a causal impact of washing machine ownership on married women’s labor supply." Ouch. works with TV too. Great work !
31.05.2025 08:59 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Great read on "the circumstances that led big tech to join private finance as the second capital faction backing the return of Trump" and why big tech now has big worries about the geoeconomic fragmentation - and efforts by former allies to pursue digital sovereignty - that Trump has unleashed.
30.05.2025 21:56 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0@benbraun.bsky.social
30.05.2025 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Autumn before Braudel: "superabundance of capital (..) means the end of progressive industrialization and expansion, that is, a tendency to a stationary state and the beginning of disintegration and decline." Henryk Grossman on William Playfair. Great ref. Thanks @postdiscipline.bsky.social
30.05.2025 19:43 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
4 NEW pieces, with @cornelban.bsky.social + @jhasselbalch.bsky.social on state planning, @rosiecollington.bsky.social on planet-critical sectors, @shayaksengupta.bsky.social + Abhinav Jindal on multilateralism, and @brusselermel.bsky.social + @chrismwhayes.bsky.social on derisking
(Links below)
I'm a simple man, I see Braudel I click...fascinating read
30.05.2025 18:25 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
You'll learn more about the US, education, & climate change from this than from reading anything else today.
Financialization is what top US universities built (it's still the dominant path of graduates), & it chose Trump.
It's not an easy marriage:
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
“While finance split into two political factions, the Silicon Valley elite marched rightward in astonishing unity.”
@cedricdurand.bsky.social and @benbraun.bsky.social start to map the fractions of the Trump II coalition
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
30.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 122 🔁 52 💬 6 📌 15
Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @benbraun.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
Historical ESG : Brazil, Finance and Slavery: "investors and investment intermediaries have long cared about how borrowers tackled the major social issues of the time, and could use money to subtly influence behaviour." J. Flores @dehes.bsky.social in @alphaville.ft.com www.ft.com/content/14c8...
28.05.2025 09:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
L’extrême droite contemporaine réussit à combiner l’appel à la liberté économique avec des théorisations pseudo-scientifiques sur les hiérarchies naturelles fondées sur la race et/ou le QI. Entretien avec l'historien des idées Quinn Slobodian 👇
www.contretemps.eu/marche-quoti...
To see the full program: www.unige.ch/sciences-soc...
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