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Great interview - European nations call a spade a spade!

More on the arts: if you are a composer - apply! If you know one, pass it on!

Episode 65 - Making Sense of the Radical Right Radical right-wing politics is commonly understood as a cry of the “left behind” - working-class voters who lost out in the transition to a post-industrial, services-based, and globalized economy. Phi

I learned a lot from @philiprathgeb.bsky.social’s excellent book on how the radical right in the USA and Europe uses economic policy to advance its cultural and ideological goals, so I spoke to him for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast.

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Join us for this talk that will examine the financial interests opposing decarbonization with @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social

📅 3 March, 6.30pm

📍In-person and online

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Ho … is a new film that Melina Leon is working on. Find out more here

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An artistic illustration representing European society, featuring a diverse crowd of brightly coloured, faceless silhouettes in the foreground. A stylized landscape of houses sits behind them under a sky of flowing yellow and blue ribbons, with the European Union flag's yellow stars visible in the top left corner.

Early-career scholars: is "European society" a lived reality or a legal construct? Bring your doctrinal, socio-legal, or critical arguments to our MPIL conference (17-18 Sept).

Deadline: 31 March 2026.
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#CallForPapers #EuropeanLaw

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Five days left to apply for the finance summer school vol. 3 👇

Unfortunately we had to postpone the event due to the weather. We are aiming now for 13 April! Will confirm soon!

HO ... (Documentary Film) A feature doc about a migrant’s journey across a United States in turmoil, tracing acts of hope.

My friend and co-fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, @melinaleon.bsky.social is working on a documentary film project about the undocumented in our times. Please support her project by pitching into her kickstarter campaign at www.kickstarter.com/projects/mel...

YouTube video by Capitalisn't How Inequality Distorts the Law - ft. Katharina Pistor | Capitalisn't

Now out - my conversation with Luigi Zingales and Bethany MacLean about capitalism and the law - inspired by my new book “The Law of Capitalism”

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Very much looking forward to this debate together with Jeremy Kessler and Suresh Naidu!
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Episode 64 - Capitalism is commonly understood as an economic system, but Columbia University legal scholar Katharina Pistor argues that its more properly understood as a kind of legal regime. Pistor joins Chris M

Heaven help me, I am a Podcaster now. I recently talked to @katharinapistor.bsky.social about capitalist law and its discontents (with a particular eye toward the law’s impact on labor and worker organizing) for @cunyslu.bsky.social’s Reinventing Solidarity podcast: soundcloud.com/cunyslu/epis...

Stack of books: The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi International Political Economy by Ben Cohen The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich The Globalizers by Ngaire Woods The Money Laundry by J.C. Sharman The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor Bankers' Trust by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella Rating Politics by Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston Bucking the Buck by Daniel McDowell The Meddlers by Jamie Martin The Entangled Legacies of Empire (eds. Gilbert, Bourne, Haiven, and Montgomerie) Depletion by Shirin Rai Chip War by Chris Miller

This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...

It was great talking to you!

Das Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos gehört abgeschafft Das WEF in Davos steht im Zeichen einer Weltordnung, die es nicht mehr gibt. Damit sollte auch das Forum sein Ende finden.

Das WEF in Davos steht im Zeichen einer Weltordnung, die es nicht mehr gibt. Damit sollte auch das Forum sein Ende finden, schreibt @katharinapistor.bsky.social.

The Time Has Come to Shutter the World Economic Forum Katharina Pistor recounts how the annual Davos gathering has served as a platform for anti-democratic deal-making.

My latest on @projectsyndicate.bsky.social

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@katharinapistor.bsky.social, ‪Thomas Piketty, Anke Rehlinger, Christiane Benner, Jakob Hafele, Baro Vincenta Ra Gabbert, ‪Mariana Mazzucato, @mauricehoefgen.bsky.social‬, @martynalinartas.bsky.social‬, Maria Syed.

Und in dieser Ausgabe ein Interview zu meinem jüngsten Buch, “The Law of Capitalism and how to transform it”

🚨Today is the final day to register for the Association of Law and Political Economy's inaugural conference🚨

And even if you are unable to attend the conference, you can still join @a-lpe.bsky.social as a member and vote in the spring elections!

Links to both can be found in the post below!

Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War Vol. VI - Max Planck Law

Reminder: @mpil.de and the Humboldt University will host the Sixth Authors’ Workshop of the Max Planck Trialogues on 12–13 March 2026 in Berlin. Researchers can apply as ‘engaged listeners’. Register by 15 December: law.mpg.de/event/max-pl... #MPINetworkEvent

Hört euch jetzt die neue Folge an:
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Creative Destruction Should Not Spare Commercial Banks Katharina Pistor worries that policymakers are foregoing innovation for fear of disrupting a centuries-old business model.

One might think that central banks would jump at the opportunity finally to create a money system that serves the people rather than the banks. @katharinapistor.bsky.social explains why they haven't. bit.ly/4poyYSE

Narzissmus ohne Grenzen

Creative Destruction Should Not Spare Commercial Banks Katharina Pistor worries that policymakers are foregoing innovation for fear of disrupting a centuries-old business model.

My latest on Project syndicate

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Richtig.

The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

»Wer macht überhaupt das Geld?« Die Juristin Katharina Pistor kritisiert, dass das universelle Äquivalent nicht für die Allgemeinheit produziert wird. Im Interview spricht sie über die herrschende Geldordnung und deren Profiteure.

»Ein solch feudalistisches Geldverhältnis halte ich für unvereinbar mit den Grundwerten einer demokratischen Ordnung.«
@katharinapistor.bsky.social im Interview mit Stephan Kaufmann (@nd-aktuell.de) über die Geldverfassung der Gegenwart (Adorno-Vorlesungen 2025).
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