My book 'The Personal Life of Debt' is published today 🥳 and you can read the free e-book here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/bo… #debt #inequality #coercion #subjectivity #ethnography #sociology #anthropology #Britain

An extended review of my book in Capital and Class, by Christian Koutny. Unsurprisingly I don’t agree with all of it, but it is really quite nice to see this kind of engagement with the book! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

Some weeks ago I was invited by IIPPE to speak at SOAS University of London and review Nick Bernards's latest book on financialisation (plutobooks.com/9780745348896/…). This review has now been published by Capital & Class as an extended book review. contd. in comments journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

🧵Don Goldstein & I edit a symposium on “Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine" in Review of Radical Political Economics. 5 powerful essays that place Palestine at the heart of global capitalism’s contradictions. Intro: doi.org/10.1177/048661…

Now reading - really quite enjoying this one. Has its limits, but more takes on climate politics that put the political economy of asset stranding at the centre would be very welcome.

A nice review of Fictions of Financialization in IJURR.org: ijurr.org/book_review/fi…

I have a new piece in Review of International Political Economy which is part of a forthcoming special issue on Raced Finance. Thanks to Ilias Alami Vincent Guermond & Ali Bhagat for being such fantastic editors 🌟 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really excited for this collection! On renewing Marxist debates about 'exploitation' as a lens on the transformations of contemporary capitalism. Coming soon...

New article! In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism. Now out in NPE journal! (Open Access) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Another SI contribution now out! Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholars at the journal Economy and Society ! Submit your papers for a £1000 Early Career Paper Prize 2026. Link below.

NEW POST: Farwa Sial unpacks what the rise of private equity for the global South means, especially when it comes to indebtedness, public markets, and the public subsidy function of development finance. Locusts? Vampires? Have a read 👇 developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…

Well, this is exciting. Writing this with Keir Milburn and Bertie Russell was a blast. I can't wait to share it with the world this September. Preorder with Pluto Press: plutobooks.com/9780745351353/…

One hint that Israel was going to starve everyone in Gaza was that senior Israeli national security people said, in Oct '23, that they were going to starve everyone in Gaza. This was published in English by Fathom Journal/Calev Ben-Dor, Michael Walzer's favorite magazine.

The latest iteration of 'financial inclusion' looking scarier than ever!! Paulo L. dos Santos Nick Bernards ft.com/content/c531a2…