Emerging here briefly to share what I find to be a mind-boggling factoid from today's writing so far (and to disappear again into writing mode just as quickly π )
01.10.2025 13:16 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September
π¨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris β PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) πΈπΊοΈ
03.09.2025 20:20 β π 5 π 5 π¬ 0 π 1
So proud of the work @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social is doing. Such an important field π
16.05.2025 00:31 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Shippingβs Shadow World | Vanessa Ogle
In the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly after
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...
11.04.2025 17:37 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 β π 21 π 6 π¬ 0 π 0
When Will US Academia and Business Speak Up Against Trump? | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik argues that leaders in both sectors bear a disproportionate responsibility to come to democracy's defense.
βImagine the chief executives of Americaβs top universities and richest corporationsβ¦issued a public statement that spoke clearly and loudly about the dangersβ¦β 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 β π 152 π 63 π¬ 0 π 10
"Offshore finance" is conceived very broadly including historically, do share and check it out!
01.03.2025 01:56 β π 9 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
When 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. βWhy? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.β
25.02.2025 22:24 β π 5480 π 1497 π¬ 23 π 38
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
11.02.2025 19:33 β π 760 π 208 π¬ 7 π 7
Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
Guest editors
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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 β π 56 π 36 π¬ 0 π 1
Nothing Gold Can StayΒ | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
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 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 0 π 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 β π 30903 π 8847 π¬ 1566 π 575
Nothing Gold Can StayΒ | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
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 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
BTW, perhaps nothing would enrage Trump more than US trade partners brushing the tariffs off and saying weβll just find other trade partners, thank you very much.
02.02.2025 17:32 β π 29 π 9 π¬ 7 π 0
Leopard: I will eat your face
Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating
Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
01.02.2025 17:12 β π 10660 π 2882 π¬ 202 π 106
Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System
Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review
Guest editors
Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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 β π 56 π 36 π¬ 0 π 1
Some 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.
Itβs disappointing, but Iβll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.𧡠1/
26.01.2025 15:06 β π 4155 π 1633 π¬ 157 π 97
With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess itβs time to repost my starter pack: βExperts on German Rightwing Extremismβ
go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz
25.01.2025 18:27 β π 382 π 166 π¬ 12 π 1
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 β π 621 π 89 π¬ 5 π 10
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 β π 3984 π 726 π¬ 46 π 14
It's UK publication day of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. π₯³ Look out for book talks at SOAS (tomorrow), York, LSE, Chicago, Trento, Oxford, Durham...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
21.01.2025 08:59 β π 53 π 11 π¬ 5 π 2
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 β π 42 π 15 π¬ 2 π 0
Shoutout to Doug Emhoff!
21.01.2025 23:50 β π 2314 π 372 π¬ 60 π 65
"G.M. monitored and sold peopleβs precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,β Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. βWith this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americansβ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.β
16.01.2025 23:34 β π 591 π 236 π¬ 17 π 25
the 'pay taxes' part was of course never really a true...
15.01.2025 03:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Congratulations! Looking forward to reading
14.01.2025 22:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Author of Michael Young, Social Science and the British Left, 1945-70. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
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Sparse reactions to things, augmented with academic propaganda -- from the verified author of 'The Provoked Economy' (Routledge, 2014), AKA Fabian Muniesa
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