New working paper: Exploitation. A socio-economic approach joint work with sociologist Simon Bittmann hal.science/hal-04435653

My dissertation is now viewable here - repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-3… It has a long acknowledgements section, and there I thanked everyone who helped me over the years. Even if your name isn't on the list, please know that I am deeply grateful to your encouragement and support!

Excellent book that deserves more attention and discussion. My review proseontherocks.substack.com/p/soviet-histo…

funny seeing the irony of Varoufakis saying this of all people

what is allen been cooking cepr.org/publications/d…

Stop arguing with you know who. He isn’t arguing in good faith. He runs a desert compound where he argues for an Islamic leviathan state to fight climate catastrophe. He runs a grad student apocalyptic cult.

Great to see Adorno endorsing methodological individualism and microfoundations

American philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine dies of Alzheimer’s in Boston, Massachusetts. He was 92. His last words were reportedly “It’s funny, I am dying of an illness, but I do not even remember what my illness is called. Althusser? Alzheimer? I cannot

It is difficult to estimate exactly how many Gazans were murdered by Israel, but it’s important to keep in mind that the survivors are not unscathed. 90% of housing has been destroyed so most Gazans are homeless, their entire past erased. Imagine losing everything you ever owned,

A timeless epigraph from Baran's "The Political Economy of Growth"... from 1957

Its kinda funny people take the idea of western marxism so seriously when you had schaff being close friends with fromm

Annual viewing.

cool of Myerson to say this

I really, really despise when people use "Keynesianism" to describe all varieties of non-Marxist left-wing or statist economic thought.

This isn’t just the Hobsbawm thesis, this is how everyone understood things prior to the 60s/70s. During this period the left went from being understood as the radical wing of enlightenment inheritors, to being critics of the enlightenment’s totalizing force.

so true friedman

Daora

I actually think Oct 7th delegitimized both tendencies. The genocide forced third campists to accept geopolitical realities, while China's national pragmatism+collapse of axis of resistence exposed multipolarism as cope