Toby Bennett

Some afterthoughts on this also available from me here:
jcasc.com/index.php/jc...

The Frankfurt Book Fair

Tooze on the economics of the Frankfurt Book Fair.

To be paired with @clairesquires.bsky.social and @bethdriscoll.bsky.social highly readable book on the subject:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

open.spotify.com/episode/58hx...

Keep music live and local!

The Repetition of China | Made in China Journal Chinese scholars who have engaged with Fredric Jameson often observe—sometimes with admiration and sometimes with a degree of irony—that he appears ‘more Marxist than any Marxist in China’. Jameson’s ...

In this essay, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee argues that China no longer mirrors Western modernity but transforms it from within, forcing us to rethink the very categories through which we understand capitalism, socialism, and the modern world, and to confront the limits of the West's theoretical imagination.

Screenshots on culture and economy scholarship from our very own @tgpb.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1753... conversation piece with @mazzucatom.bsky.social & Justin O’Connor

What makes Joel Mokyr great His Nobel is a triumph for history and the importance of ideas

The editors are thrilled to hear that economists are continuing to discover culture. open.substack.com/pub/worksinp...

A fantastic episode. The art of talking about a big, complex book is perfected, by host and author, to an unbelievable degree.

Our latest issue just out and, we think we can say this, it is a banger. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjce20/c... feat. @philiproscoe.bsky.social @ulissess.bsky.social @cibled.bsky.social @maijutanninen.bsky.social @busedoyu.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social @theobourgeron.bsky.social &&

Ha, I am certainly no expert by any means. But thanks though - I will definitely forward to some colleagues in China!

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value.

MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

This article is great! It offers a contribution to conceptualisations of "real abstraction" by asking how music helps us come to *feel* exchange value.

MORE IMPORTANTLY it genuinely provides an answer to this age-old question:

It's a really useful provocation Théo!

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“While each approach contributes to an economic sociology of the far right, the article contends that the materialist approach is central for articulating these findings with those of broader far-right studies.”

A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us.

The times they are a-changin': markets after neoliberalism, and how to study them This is a lightly edited version of the inaugural lecture given by Professor Philip Roscoe, at the University of St Andrews, 19 February 2025. Philip has been Editor-in Chief (joint) of this journa...

In this vein I also recommend reading @busedoyu.bsky.social and colleagues taking Callon to Zucotti park: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And @philiproscoe.bsky.social on the simultaneous rise of "market studies" amid the downfall of market primacy: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'd add that @jcultecon.bsky.social is open to comment pieces & analyses of the present conjuncture of this kind, under the excellent stewardship of @busedoyu.bsky.social. There's no "party line", other than a need to be in (maybe critical) dialogue with the kind of thinking the journal foregrounds.

This is a great article

Pierre Bourdieu and Erwin Panofsky: Architecture, Scholasticism and the Concept of Habitus In 1967, Pierre Bourdieu translated Erwin Panofsky’s 1951 book Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism into French. The German-born Panofsky is best known for his work in art history, and f…

@stuartelden.bsky.social is a master of the illuminating microstories of intellectual history; this one on how Bourdieu's translation of Panofsky shaped his and contemporary French thinking is a gem

progressivegeographies.com/2025/09/14/p...

Economic sociology and the far-right Reflecting on the recent support of prominent business moguls for far-right movements, this comment article argues that reactionary politics are permeating deeply into socio-economic interactions, ...

"the rise of reactionary politics is an epochal trend that reshapes markets and capitalist systems in depth"

@theobourgeron.bsky.social in @jcultecon.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎨 The art of the public: cultural economy and cultural policy

IIPP Director @mazzucatom.bsky.social co-authored a paper alongside Justin O'Connor & @tgpb.bsky.social‬‬, arguing for a new and more dynamic valuation of art as a public good.

✍️ Read the paper: buff.ly/9OA9eVo

Meanwhile I'm seeing a lot of small and under-resourced organisations really ploughing their ingenuity into rethinking how tasks work with genAI - in this context it seems to me that genAI is really an austerity technology, something small orgs turn to when there are few other options

This is an excellent and underappreciated observation. (Some) AI tools offer a fun-ish new way of approaching the boring task (for a while). They don't do away with the need for the boring task to be completed. So much 'innovation' fuelled by the fantasy of an escape from admin...

Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons - EASE Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for schol...

On the EASE Digest, we highlight the new book from @samuelmoore.org tackling the infrastructures and integrity of the open access research publishing landscape.

ease.org.uk/2025/09/publ...

#EASEdigest #OpenAccess

Will no doubt be a crucial resource.

Yes something about the collision of different kinds of property renovation something something.

"The trouble with having a skip outside your house", they said, "is that people treat it like a public bin".

And while this is true, and it's pretty disgusting, it also means you sometimes end up with a big carrier bag full of ragga and dancehall cassettes. Reasonable trade-off in my eyes.

Warren Brodey, 101, Dies; a Visionary at the Dawn of the Information Age

Warren Brodey, one of the most fascinating and mysterious figures of recent tech history, passed away on August 10th. He was 101. A complex man who went from mentoring Nicholas Negroponte at MIT to becoming a Maoist in Norway and China www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/t...

I need to look into SA clearly. NC seems somehow intuitively correct but I've seen it criticised in the past by other well-informed people too.

I assume your post was related to the current authors/publishers vs Meta via LibGen issue? The parallels with music (and elsewhere) are striking. Anyway it's really refreshing to see someone call this out, especially a legal scholar. Feels like only a very few lonely voices doing so.