Crashed to Corona 7: Responding to the global epidemic
June 30, 2020
The WHO declared a pandemic on Wednesday 11 March 2020. At that point COVID-19 had been reported from 110 countries. But through the end of
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Crashed to Corona 6: For a Politics of Monetary Policy
May 16, 2020
What are central banks for? How should they be governed? What is their role in the 21st century? The recent German Constitutional Court decision has
Crashed to Corona 5: The first economic crisis of the anthropocene
May 7, 2020
‘We are living through the first economic crisis of the Anthropocene’ At the spring meeting of the IMF this April, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva referred
Crashed to Corona 4: Central banks in action
April 20, 2020
The scale, pace and extent of central bank action in response to the COVID-19 crisis has been spectacular. It dwarfs that which followed the financial
Crashed to Corona 3: The Fed Beyond Swap Lines
April 5, 2020
On Tuesday 31 March the Fed added another weapon to its arsenal in the struggle to maintain global dollar liquidity and stability in key US
Crashed to Corona 2: Mapping the Global Funding Squeeze
March 29, 2020
It has been another week in which economic history has been made. On the heels of the trade wars and the mounting geopolitical tension between
Crashed to Corona 1: The Dollar Shortage
March 22, 2020
We are in a scramble to prevent the run into dollars destabilizing financial systems around the world.
Scrapbook: Félix Vallotton – the war years
January 19, 2020
Félix Vallotton – the war artist.
Scrapbook: Half a block on West 24th, early December 2019
December 15, 2019
An afternoon of galleries. December 14 2019.
Climate Crisis: A debate with the Bundesbank about Green QE
October 31, 2019
I’ve found myself in a bit of an argument with Germany’s Bundesbank about the possibilities of harnessing central bank to the cause of climate change
Response to Anderson: Preface & thanks
October 12, 2019
To be made the object of “one of those” articles by Perry Anderson is a disorientating experience. Anderson, NLR 119 (1) It is flattering, painful
Notes on the Global Condition: The Europeans and the IMF
August 4, 2019
In picking Kristalina Georgieva, the Bulgarian chief executive of the World Bank, as their candidate to succeed Lagarde at the IMF, the EU made the
Climate Crisis: Central banks and the “macroprudential greening” of finance
July 20, 2019
“Greening” finance is one of the hot themes amongst regulators and progressive central bankers right now. Gillian Tett US managing editor of the FT has
German Question(s): The shocks that remade German politics
July 14, 2019
In the course of writing Crashed I was so mystified by the illogic of German policy that I felt I should try to write a
Modern History: Tobias Straumann’s 1931: Debt, Crisis, and the Rise of Hitler … some further thoughts.
July 7, 2019
We conventionally date the onset of the Great Depression to 1929. This make sense from the point of view of conventional business-cycle analysis. But the
Notes on the Global Condition: Ramifications of a strong dollar
June 29, 2019
Between 2014 and 2016 the US dollar appreciated by almost 25 percent against a basket of world currencies. The shift was driven above all
Notes on Social Theory: Histories of the Crisis of Democracy
May 17, 2019
A take on the “crisis of democracy” literature and related essays.
Notes on Social Theory: Laudatio for Danilo Scholz, Winner of the Heinrich Mann Prize 2019
April 7, 2019
Reviewing Danilo’s brilliant essays and journalism was a fascinating project.
Framing Crashed (11): American Power and Global Order
March 30, 2019
What does the election of Donald Trump in November 2016 mean for American power and for global order? Like everyone else I’ve been struggling to
Framing Crashed (10): “A New Bretton Woods” and the problem of “economic order” – also a reply to Adler and Varoufakis
February 9, 2019
The pitfalls of Bretton Woods Talk.
Framing Crashed (9): Christophers’ The New Enclosure, Crashed and the problem of dirty and clean histories of neoliberalism
January 20, 2019
Thinking about Brett Christophers book about land privatization and the question of dirty histories of neoliberalism.
Framing Crashed (8) – Provincializing Europe?
January 6, 2019
Thoughts connecting Deluge and Crashed on Europe’s place in a history of our global age.
Framing Crashed (7): Trans-Atlantic banking glut or Asian savings glut?
December 30, 2018
The latest from the BIS on the genesis of the 2008 crisis.
Notes on the Global Condition: Climate Change and Island Sovereignty
December 21, 2018
What happens when the anthropocene puts a time limit on the lifespan of political sovereignty?
Europe’s Political Economy: The Italy Debate
December 8, 2018
A roundup of recommended reading on Italy’s political economy.
Travel: Scottish History Trip with Conley & Silvers
October 18, 2018
The mysteries of the neolithic, Robert the Bruce, the Jacobites and the battlefields of Culloden, the high Victorian industrial revolution, Scottish independence and North Sea
Framing Crashed (6): The Politics of Keynesianism
September 9, 2018
Crashed is a book about a crisis of capitalism. It is centrally preoccupied with the relationship between democracy, government and economics. But, as some reviewers
Framing Crashed (5): The Turkish Crisis – the Missing Chapter
August 19, 2018
A brief survey of the political economy and geopolitics that frame Erdogan’s regime and Turkey’s current financial difficulties.
War in Germany (17): The High Point of German Militarism, the death of the Weimar Republic and the Making of the Third Reich
August 11, 2018
How Germany’s soldiers helped to make and unmake the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Framing Crashed (4): The City of London & the Shock of 2008.
July 29, 2018
How North Atlantic globalization al l’anglaise helped to pave the way for 2008 and how it forms a new weak link in the world economy.
Framing Crashed (3): Trans-Atlantic Power, Money and Politics
July 22, 2018
How trans-Atlantic politics framed the crisis of 2008 and its histories.
Notes on the Global Condition: The “Rise of China” – semi-regular scrapbook (2018 July)
July 18, 2018
Taking stock of the last few weeks of reading about the biggest story in the world economy.
Framing Crashed II: 2008, the Crisis of the National Macroeconomics and the “Revolution” of Macrofinance
July 5, 2018
How the 2008 crisis rocked conventional international macroeconomics and forced the development of a new approach to the analysis of macrofinance.
Notes on Social Theory: Making and Unmaking the Economy – Pilling and Mazzucato reviewed
July 1, 2018
Two books critical of GDP cause me to revisit the trajectory of the “fixing/making-up the economy” literature.
War in Germany 16: Making a Bitter Peace 1918-1923
June 29, 2018
Can you negotiate the end of a total war? The story of the German revolution, near civil war and the brutal process of peace-making both inside and without.
War in Germany Extra: Wages of Destruction Podcast
June 28, 2018
A podcast about Wages of Destruction, the modernity of the Nazi war effort and the logic of Eastward expansion with Alex Doherty of Politics, Theory, Other.
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