Reading: Nov 29 2017
November 29, 2017
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Notes on the Global Condition: Where in the world is America?
November 26, 2017
Migrant European musicians, the Family of Man and David Hockney’s America.
Notes on Social Theory (and History): artistic labour and the gig economy
November 23, 2017
Musical labour in the 19th century.
German Question(s): After Jamaica
November 21, 2017
First take on the political vacuum in Germany.
Modern History: Viewing the Age of Extremes from South Korea
November 19, 2017
First of series of blogs about fascinating grad student conference at University of Michigan.
Notes on the Global Condition Nov 2017: The unbelievable easiness of sovereign bond markets
November 14, 2017
Following up last week’s post on sovereign bond markets. Plus a giant Tajik dam!
Notes on Social Theory: Gendered Language in Marx Translation
November 9, 2017
From Mensch to Man: How did gendered language get inserted into one of the most cherished passages of Marx’s writing?
Modern History: Debating 1914 with Branko Milanovic
November 8, 2017
Are modernization theories a frame for understanding the July crisis, or are they drivers of the crisis?
Notes on the Global Condition: Of Bond Vigilantes, Central Bankers and the Crisis, 2008-2017
November 7, 2017
Charting the “strategic game” between sovereign borrowers and capital markets since 2008.
America’s Political Economy: Lost Generations – Cumulative Impact of Mass Incarceration
October 28, 2017
23 million Americans live with the stigma of incarceration or felony conviction. It is an engine of social destruction.
Notes on the Global Condition October 2017: The huge imbalance in global sovereign debt markets
October 27, 2017
What are the implications if the IMF is correct and over the next five years the US is the only large net supplier of sovereign debt to global bond markets?
German Question(s) (3): Applying the Debt Brake – The Genealogy of German austerity regime
October 22, 2017
How did Germany make itself into a leader of austerity politics? The answer is less obvious than one might think.
America’s Political Economy: On not growing the pie
October 19, 2017
Fascinating discussion in pages of FT of basic questions of distribution and growth and their implications for economic policy.
German Question(s) (2): Demographic Anxiety and Childcare after Communism
October 14, 2017
Along with Hartz IV & the debt brake the reform of childcare was a key part of the transformation of Germany’s political economy in early 2000s.
German Question(s) (1): Sketch of a book project
October 8, 2017
Wenn ich an Deutschland denke – musing about a new project on 21st-century Germany.
Blitzkrieg manqué or a new kind of war? Interpreting the Allied Victory in the Normandy campaign
August 27, 2017
Should D-Day be located in a narrative that tracks back to 1940 or one that points forward to the nuclear age?
Notes on the Global Condition: Crisis in the Heartland – Homage to Peter Gowan
July 30, 2017
Recommending a brilliant non-reductive political economy of the Wall Street-City of London nexus and its role in the 2008 crisis.
Notes on the global condition: the dollar funding crisis of 2008 and the Fed’s unheralded rescue operation
July 16, 2017
How Europe’s banks almost ran out of dollars and the Fed saved them. What are the implications for the politics of global financial governance?
Modern History: World War II, strategic bombing and the liberal-democratic mode of war.
July 12, 2017
On Richard Overy’s important book about thinking about strategic bombing in World War II.
America’s Political Economy: Class, the Republicans and the Fed
July 10, 2017
Brilliant piece by Sam Bell on the nightmare prospect of Kevin Warsh as Fed chair and the class politics of macroeconomic analysis.
America’s Political Economy: climate change, inequality and the value of (poor) lives
July 4, 2017
How will global warming will hit the poorest counties of the United States?
Reading Varoufakis: Frustrated Strategist of Greek Financial Deterrence
July 1, 2017
How Athens threatened to blow up Draghi’s QE, but didn’t dare.
America’s Political Economy: 2007-2010 crisis hit lowest income groups harder than ever
June 30, 2017
The financial crisis had an unusually severe impact on lowest income groups in the US.
Daily Notes 2017/7
June 29, 2017
Illinois budget crisis, Chinese stimulus, Brit real wages, Merkel’s global popularity, BIS on globalization of labour market and wage pressure. Good day for charts!
Notes on the Global Condition: How the IMF pulls its punches when it comes to Trump’s America
June 27, 2017
The IMF’s evaluation of the Trump administration’s economic policies starts well but pulls it punches.
Daily Note 2017/6 The Pre-Industrial Phillips Curve
June 22, 2017
When did wages become responsive to macroeconomic conditions? The very long view.
Modern History: MG42 – on the histories of a machine gun
June 21, 2017
How do we write the history of guns “after fascism”?
America’s Political Economy: Infrastructure and Chicago’s 75th street corridor
June 18, 2017
America’s Infrastructure problems come together at one Chicago intersection.
Daily Notes 2017/4: The Global Credit Impulse
June 16, 2017
Foreboding developments in global credit conditions and also a look back.
Daily Notes 2017/2
June 14, 2017
The $ 1.3 trn student debt problem is a gendered problem. Women are liable for 2/3 of it.
Notes on the Global Condition: Wherever it is, let’s bomb it!
June 14, 2017
Can folks find Ukraine and North Korea on a map and is their ability to do so associated with their preference for military intervention? Unfortunately so. What might be a progressive response.
Daily Notes 2017/1: US Bank Profits Across the Crisis
June 13, 2017
US bank profits have surged since the early 2000s and even more since the crisis.
America’s Political Economy: Infrastructure Follow Up
June 9, 2017
On Goldman, US infrastructure and the China-comparison.
America’s Political Economy: The Inefficiency of Construction and the Politics of Infrastructure
June 6, 2017
The mystery of why construction costs so much in the US and why it matters for progressive politics.
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