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Some of my favorite leftist Latin American scholars were in a room talking about what leftist-governed cities in Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela and Ecuador have to teach a socialist in the belly of the beast - truly you do not want to miss this episode, so many actually practical and urgent lessons here

The New School for Social Research pauses PhD student admissions for the 2026 cycle
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I woke up to find that Flatbush Avenue is now called Karl-Marx-Allee:

“And perhaps in one of my favorite examples illustrating the historical obsession with measurement in organizations, Fourcade and Healy unearth how the division at Ford responsible for surveilling workers was named the 'Sociology Department.'”

Just published: my review of @brettchristophers.bsky.social's excellent "The Price Is Wrong," in the @bjsociology.bsky.social.

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The Story of Capital For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...

David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026
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A Green Cold War In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.

"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."

Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!

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Espiral de concentración | Sofia Ocampo, Cristian Medina, Andrés Mojica El poder de los bancos en Colombia

“Para hacerse una idea, un año de las utilidades de los bancos [en Colombia] bastaría para cubrir el presupuesto de 2024 del Ministerio de Justicia y tres veces el presupuesto del Ministerio de Ambiente.” www.phenomenalworld.org/es/analisis/...

Green hydrogen is growing — but not enough to meet the hype Low-emission production still meets only a small fraction of hydrogen demand

on.ft.com/3KFsyyL Green hydrogen is growing — but not enough to meet the hype

The Inventor of the Future - Boston Review The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

I wrote for the @bostonreview.bsky.social about the extraordinary Andrée Blouin, along with Lumumba, Cesaire, Fanon, and the anticolonial revolution that could have been.

‘the public has been turned into as cash machine’ :💥

“Private developers in Nigeria build the projects involving a network of photovoltaic panels and batteries, with the sun providing power during the day, and connecting to the main grid in the evening.” t.co/jGLPcED92G

Can We Design a Green Transition That Doesn't Turbocharge Extraction? | Common Dreams Policies that promote alternatives to car use, reduce sprawl, encourage more compact batteries, and require recycling would all reduce the scale of mining needed for carbon-­free transportation.

Achieving a globally just energy transition requires understanding supply chains in reverse, starting from what we produce and consume and working backward to their material inputs, writes @triofrancos.bsky.social: www.commondreams.org/opinion/gree...

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested

£416 — nearly a quarter — of your average energy bill was taken as pre-tax profits in 2024.

Our new project — Who Owns Britain? — featured in @theguardian.com.

Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more

Tix free but going fast!

This new paper by Xuan Li and @cornelban.bsky.social is so great I have a nickname for it and it’s VC à la CCP.
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Financing technological innovation in China: neo-developmental financial statecraft through government guidance funds This paper examines China’s distinctive approach to financing innovation, contributing to debates on the derisking state, neo-developmentalist alternatives, and economic statecraft. It focuses on t...

Just out: How China builds strategic dominance in high-innovation niches fracturing the economic status quo in the world: Government Guidance Funds turn fiscal money + SOE assets into venture capital with planning discipline. A different game than Europe or Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Production of Nature: An Interview with Alyssa Battistoni by Jochen Schmon

Alyssa Battistoni discusses her book, Free Gifts, a value-theoretical study of capitalism's appropriation of nature, with Jochen Schmon. They cover the "new materialism," reproductive labor, existentialism, and activism.
@alybatt.bsky.social, @jochenschmon.bsky.social, @princetonupress.bsky.social

Quinn Slobodian and Philip J. Stern on Political Economy - @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Erika Monahan
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Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age In defiance of global trends, Gustavo Petro’s Colombian government has sought to abandon coal and oil. But the project exposes the limits of post-extractivism in one country.

‘Colombia Against the Fossil Fuel Age’ - Andreas Malm & Maxy Guez ⁦‪

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Whose Fed? | Brett Christophers For the past twenty years, central banks have rarely been out of the news. Called upon to stabilize the global financial system when it appeared at risk

Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
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The AI explosion means millions are paying more for electricity Across much of the eastern U.S., electricity bills have jumped. The reason? Data centers required for AI and other tech wonders are driving up electricity demand.

This summer, across a vast stretch of the eastern United States, monthly home electric bills jumped.

Trenton, NJ: $26
Philadelphia: $17
Pittsburgh: $10
Columbus, OH: $27

Why? Big Tech's data centers.

AI's destruction isn't free — we're paying for it.
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The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states Energy systems can shape political institutions and make some nations more vulnerable to trade wars than others

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com.

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The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

What Does It Take to Topple a Dam? - Boston Review A new politics of rivers is emerging.

I wrote about dams, using new books by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, James C. Scott, and Yuvan Aves to discuss a remarkable transformation on the Klamath River where four large dams have been removed to restore the watershed. 🧵

www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

Economy and Society Volume 54, Issue 2 of Economy and Society

Issue 2 of 2025 is out now! With papers on ecologization, gendered labour of finance, temporalities of indebtedness, housing in Swedish growth model, state capitalism in France, economization of immunization, cyber socialism/neoliberalism, and necro-economics
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Closing the Extractive Frontier | Phenomenal World With more than half of Colombia’s export revenues coming from coal and fossil fuels, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s plan to end domestic fossil fuel production is profoundly ambitious. Former Min...

Closing the Extractive Frontier

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Our interview with Andrés Camacho, Colombia’s former Minister of Mines and Energy @phenomenalworld.bsky.social