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nice to see this out since we started working on it in 2020 (!) across four countries and time zones Emily Rosenman ᴍɪᴄʜᴇʟᴇ ᴀᴄᴜᴛᴏ

& thank you to our 2021 RGS-IBG discussants (Laura Clancy, Katie Higgins, Jessa Loomis (@jessaloomis.bsky.social)) who helped us to think through the paper at an early stage

Thanks all for your interest! 😇 Honestly, I thought no one would be interested in 'Adaptive Political Economy.'

Free to download at SSRN. Will appear in World Politics in ~ a week.

Comments & rec' readings greatly appreciated

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

We invite your contributions to EPA’s new section on constructing explanations!

Our baby has just finished second in the under-9s at the Durham County Junior Chess Championships!

Very proud of Jaun Hwang, a PhD student I co-supervise with Andy Pike CURDS Newcastle Newcastle University Geography, for winning the 2024 'Best Dissertation Proposal' award by American Association of Geographers Economic Geography Specialty Group!
ncl.ac.uk/press/articles…

Really glad this awesome Symposium on 'Uneven development and social difference in capitalism' is now out in EPA: Economy and Space
I myself contributed a piece 'Racial capitalism, uneven development, and the abstractive powers of race and money'
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

OnlineFirst - 'Introduction: Uneven development and social difference in capitalism' by Mikael Omstedt and Nina Ebner:

#capitalism #unevendevelopment #socialdifference

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Finally read this REALLY important, must-read by Matthew Cole 🍉.

It places platformisation in the long history of capitalism and technological transformation. Super convincing theoretical moves here. Check it out!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/an…

Looking forward to reading this super interesting new paper!

10 years since this lucid piece by Bank of England economists explained how money is created in the modern economy. In short, commercial banks effectively 'print' money when they make new loans, it's not at all what you think. Weird, fascinating, important
bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bull…

We have Zoë Billingham Neil Lee Luke Raikes and Joyce Liddle speaking at this #devolution event with Insights North East.

It’s hybrid and couldn’t be more timely. 2 weeks after local and mayoral elections, and 🤔 weeks before GE.

Not to be missed!

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'The #Geography of #EU discontent and the regional development trap,' written with Lewis Dijkstra & Hugo Poelman, hot off the press in Economic Geography.
Don't miss it! (especially if you want to know what drives #discontent ).
#openaccess
doi.org/10.1080/001300…

My cheeky lad won his school year group’s chess tournament!

Brilliant essay from John Tomaney & Andy Pike CURDS Newcastle in the latest edition of IPPR Progressive Review,marking IPPRNorth 20th anniversary

A long and winding road
Fixing regional governance in The North East

⬇️Well worth reading (it's free!)⬇️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ne…

A refreshing delight from the Cheviot Hills - a Northumberland original!

Antipode Volume 56, Number 3 - our May 2024 issue - out now, including 10 articles (7 of them #OpenAccess ) and a 6-article Symposium, 'Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing' antipodeonline.org/2024/04/12/vol…

Really happy to see this collection of articles fully out in the world, i.e. in an issue. A project begun during the pandemic when our caring demands, needs, and capacities stretched immeasurably. Much gratitude to all involved!

The River Tyne

Fantastic Yuen Yuen Ang passage on the distinction between 'complicated' and 'complex' systems.
Complicated systems have many separable, parts that can be understood in isolation. In contrast, a complex system is an interconnected whole, and much harder to disentangle effects 1/2