@vanessahistory.bsky.social
History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
So proud of the work @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social is doing. Such an important field 😍
16.05.2025 00:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not on here ATM really but re-upping this in light of today's news (which are better than nothing but not what many had called for):
www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Read about noblesse without oblige and the effects of secrecy on politics and society in tax havens, out from behind the paywall:
11.04.2025 17:34 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
“Imagine the chief executives of America’s top universities and richest corporations…issued a public statement that spoke clearly and loudly about the dangers…” Those who speak out will at least put themselves on the right side of history. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
18.03.2025 21:21 — 👍 153 🔁 64 💬 0 📌 11"Offshore finance" is conceived very broadly including historically, do share and check it out!
01.03.2025 01:56 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
25.02.2025 22:24 — 👍 5508 🔁 1501 💬 23 📌 38if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
11.02.2025 19:33 — 👍 736 🔁 201 💬 7 📌 8
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
27.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 56 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 1
You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
03.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.
03.02.2025 19:44 — 👍 31066 🔁 8911 💬 1576 📌 578
You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
03.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 23 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0BTW, perhaps nothing would enrage Trump more than US trade partners brushing the tariffs off and saying we‘ll just find other trade partners, thank you very much.
02.02.2025 17:32 — 👍 29 🔁 9 💬 8 📌 0Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
27.01.2025 19:22 — 👍 56 🔁 36 💬 0 📌 1Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off.
As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week.
It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
Some political graffiti I spotted on my stroll
26.01.2025 16:04 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess it’s time to repost my starter pack: “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism”
go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz
Reductress headline: Woman Decides to Unwind by Reading a Thousand People's Thoughts on the 68 Most Horrible Things That Happened Today
me
24.01.2025 05:11 — 👍 629 🔁 89 💬 5 📌 10
Interview with @princetonupress.bsky.social on Erased... including why, in the end, I wasn't actually able to write this history ‘without men’... and the broader and contemporary relevance of the story...
press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...
It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
23.01.2025 22:37 — 👍 4002 🔁 728 💬 46 📌 14It's UK publication day of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. 🥳 Look out for book talks at SOAS (tomorrow), York, LSE, Chicago, Trento, Oxford, Durham...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
This story in Wired was my first big intro to crypto and what it was enabling. So very worth reading!
22.01.2025 01:02 — 👍 42 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0
Shoutout to Doug Emhoff!
21.01.2025 23:50 — 👍 2326 🔁 373 💬 61 📌 65
The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...
17.01.2025 16:38 — 👍 66 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 7"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”
16.01.2025 23:34 — 👍 594 🔁 237 💬 17 📌 25the 'pay taxes' part was of course never really a true...
15.01.2025 03:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations! Looking forward to reading
14.01.2025 22:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Lool!
14.01.2025 01:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Features the Princeton history faculty who, as someone put it to me after I described the episode, represents the Ivy League prof who 'says things out loud that they really shouldn't say and apparently doesn't know what it looks like to others' 😬
13.01.2025 20:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
