Carolina Alves

@danielagabor.bsky.social @jomichell.bsky.social @csissoko.bsky.social @tobyn.bsky.social They may be able to help, Solange.

History of Finance: is there any history out there of special purpose vehicles? I can only find general histories, placing SPVs within the general history of structural finance in the 70s...

From Haaretz:
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

"...Israeli writer David Grossman said coming to the realization that Israel is committing genocide was extremely painful, but he now has a moral obligation to speak up: 'I feel an inner urgency to do the right thing, and now is the time to do it'."

needs to be said again and again

Just tagging this for @ducu.bsky.social

The political economy of patriarchal accumulation This paper investigates an empirical puzzle in brideprice that raises issues for social reproduction approaches’ unitary framework of ‘capitalist-patriarchy’. In Timor-Leste, brideprice averages ar...

Moving beyond the ornamental assertion of class and patriarchy as relational, @drmeljohnston.bsky.social delivers a BIG contribution to current debates on capitalist patriarchy with this latest article in @ripejournal.bsky.social
@feministonmarx.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

I think about these stories as I read about the various “deals” universities are signing with Trump. These deals do a lot of things but one is precisely try to ensure that these atrocities are allowed to continue by casting all discussion of them as antisemitism. It’s abhorrent.

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Avisa quando pra gente poder organizar uma festa pra comemorar

Since Israel cut off aid in March _to try to force Hamas to give up hostages_, Israel’s effort to install its own distribution system has been marred by chaos and casualties while hunger has increased. Scores have been killed as Gazans rushed to get food.

This was never the purpose, and it's obscene to keep repeating the lie this far into a premeditated atrocity.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

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A windfall tax on banks on banks could raise more than *£11 billion*

That's enough to cover the cost of the welfare u-turn AND scrapping the two-child benefit cap

Catch us in The Mirror today 👇 and add your name 👉bit.ly/taxthebanks

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As they say, not that I've written about this, but oh wait I have in fact *actually* written about this: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"can" in the "can get Indefinite Leave to Remain after 5 years" does the heavy lifting

who is this idiot, is she really a Member of Parliament?

Brilliantly said, and I’ll add the money we spend on visa applications and language courses.

It’s unbelievable how an MP can say this and suffer no consequences.

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Excellent to see this out after a bit of work steering it through. Learnt a huge amount in the process about a context I knew little of before. Includes a slightly different but wonderful article on artistic engagement in resistance through poetry & song

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Amazing event at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social on building public innovation.

@rainerkattel.bsky.social #summer

BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.

Really inconsiderate of Gazan children to choose the school holiday period to starve to death and therefore force Freeman to confront her own complicity in genocide.

[But don't worry, she succeeds in blaming it all on Hamas and "very bad people."]

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Uneven Ground: Inequality and Planetary Health Can we afford the consumption patterns of the super-rich? Or does human and planetary wellbeing require us to drastically reduce inequality?

The richest 1% emit 100x the greenhouse gas emissions of those in the world’s bottom 50%, notes @profkepickett.bsky.social. “Inequalities of income, wealth and political power sit at the heart of the environmental crisis” @equalitytrust.bsky.social #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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Rosie!!!! 🤣 🔥🔥

After Seville | Daniela Gabor COP30 in Belém

I've written the final instalment of Dispatches from Seville:

For COP30 in Belem, Brazil's leadership of the Baku to Belem Roadmap to USD 1.3 trillion renews the ’investible climate’ agenda in Seville

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

How people and government can justify this?

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"it seemed to us like this was almost like a game of target practice. We're going to shoot the head today. Tomorrow it'll be the chest. The next day it'll be the testicles"

British surgeon Nick Maynard on IDF soldiers shooting Palestinian kids.

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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...

Seis em dez brasileiros acreditam que ricos devem pagar mais impostos | Maquiavel Pesquisa Nexus indica forte apoio à chamada 'justiça tributária' e ao projeto do governo Lula que amplia a isenção do Imposto de Renda

Seis em dez brasileiros acreditam que ricos devem pagar mais impostos, por @brunocaniato.bsky.social veja.abril.com.br/coluna/maqui...

I can’t believe I have just watched this… surreal.

this morning I have been thinking about Orlando Letelier, the Chiliean economist assassinated by Pinochet's junta a month after he wrote the famous The Nation critique of the Chicago boys funding by the CIA, and Milton Friedman's overt support for their shock therapy.

Far-right minister says Israel pushing to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, will make it Jewish Amichay Eliyahu says planned settlements in Strip won't be 'fenced in,' denies starvation claims; Lapid: Israel cannot win war 'with ministers who sanctify blood and death'

Far-right minister says Israel pushing to ‘wipe out’ Gaza, will make it Jewish https://www.timesofisrael.com/far-right-minister-says-israel-pushing-to-wipe-out-gaza-will-make-it-jewish/