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📍Happening today - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

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📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

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📍Happening tomorrow - Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonising Economics', by @iipp-ucl.bsky.social Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

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BREAKING: Over a thousand people gather in Trafalgar Square to oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

Police have already started arresting peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs which say "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

Our "Back to Dakar" paper is now out in Spanish in this cool special issue on the Memory and Future of Dependency Theory in Cuadernos De Teoría Social: cuadernosdeteoriasocial.udp.cl/index.php/ts...

Thanks to Martín Arboleda, Francisca Benítez & Alonso López for editing & organizing!

🆕 Book Launch: Decolonising Economics

Join us for the launch of the new book 'Decolonizing Economics', by IIPP Professor @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social and @ingridhk.bsky.social.

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YouTube video by Historical Materialism Paris Briser l'engrenage impérialiste - HM Paris 2025

It was really engaging to think about imperialism with Costas Lapavitsas and Claude Serfati at Historical Materialism this summer - with a lively French audience! Promising that so many young people are interested in Marxism and (anti-)imperialism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLwW...

In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky

Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...

Don’t miss this fantastic piece by Carla Coburger tracing the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperial money!

Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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It's an incredible honour to receive this prize for policy relevant economic research. Big thanks go to my collaborators and co-thinkers on this exciting journey @bbonizzi.bsky.social @powelljr.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social @kaikodden.bsky.social @cacrisalves.bsky.social

Wow, amazing! Congrats Nina! 🥳

The D-Econ Padlet Welcome to the D-Econ padlet!  This padlet is an effort to make resources related to decolonizing economics available to a wider audience. We have chosen to start with a few select themes, but…

Check out the newly launched D-Econ padlet for resources related to these topics.
d-econ.org/d-econ-padlet/

Decolonising Economics and the University: Padlet Launch Event (Recording) On Friday August 8th, 2025, D-Econ organized an event on Decolonizing the University, where the D-Econ Padlet was launched. The event brought scholars and activists together to discuss the role of …

We had a very stimulating discussion on what it means to 'decolonise' the University in the context of genocide and the role of Economics with Chirashree Das Gupta, Tom Six, Amaarah Garda and Afreen Faridi. d-econ.org/decolonising...

A graph from the Nievas & Piketty paper that has gotten less attention: Today, only Norway matches the level of foreign wealth of the Netherlands in the colonial period 👀

The new @divdececon.bsky.social Reading List has dropped!!

D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1 It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…

Our new Alternative Reading List is out!

Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.

Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!

d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

The landlord state goes abroad: The remaking of the Norwegian ‘Energy Nation’ as a global rentier - Yngve Solli Heiret, 2024 This paper explores the global political economy of the relationship between energy, ground rent, and the state. In its role as the ‘nation’s landlord’, the sta...

Fantastic article on the contradictions of Norwegian energy policy at home and abroad. The Norwegian state as a global rentier. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

@cacrisalves.bsky.social
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@surbhikesar.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social

I am looking forward to what will likely be my book of the year. Maybe after it's finished I can ship it across the pond for signatures? This has been a long time coming!

🤩 wow, thank you!

This is an important article highlighting blind spots in how economists understand colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Thank you @ingridhk.bsky.social!

Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven devel...

Excellent from @ingridhk.bsky.social on @thomaspiketty.bsky.social & Nievas' foray into unequal exchange www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Thanks Jeff! :)

Channeling my anger at how colonialism & imperialism in understood in Economics (exemplified by Nievas and Piketty's recent paper) into a 4500 word long essay 🤓

(Thanks @ineteconomics.bsky.social!)

Uneven Development Without Social Relations—The Trouble with Nievas and Piketty’s Unequal Exchange Why do market-centric fixes for “unequal exchange” fall short? Sidelining social relations and production power turns colonialism into a pricing problem—and hides the mechanisms that keep uneven devel...

Nievas and Piketty’s “unequal exchange” that shows how treating colonialism as a pricing problem—rather than a system of social relations and production power—leads to modest market fixes that miss the engine of uneven development @ingridhk.bsky.social www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Rereading an oldie but goodie from @ripejournal.bsky.social, from a time when blunt openings like this one were more acceptable in academia:

"In many respects IPE is a vulgar, fraudulent discipline."

tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Private Equity in the Global South: Locusts? Vampires? The contagion effect The effectiveness of private equity has been a subject of ongoing debate in countries of the Global North. There is substantial evidence highlighting the extractive practices associated with privat…

The brilliant Farwa Sial on the growing role of private equity in the global South, writing for the Developing Economics blog:

developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/p...

The mirage of polycrisis: A symptomatic reading of Tooze - Callum Cant, 2025 The concept of the ‘polycrisis’ is communicatively potent. That potency partially explains why the term has made its way to the fore in debate after debate sinc...

Great systematic take-down of the polycrisis concept from a Marxist perspective.

Callum Cant shows how analyses of polycrisis repress structural explanations, analyse data from the implicit standpoint of the bourgeois state, and discount class struggle.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al...

thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft

What could possibly go wrong?:

"Liquidity is provided by individual depositors, many of whom are drawn by the high yields. “We’ve engineered the system such that after accounting for default rates and the [interest] rates on offer, providers will always make a profit,” he said."