Normandy: Three days in a landscape saturated with history
June 3, 2017
Coming to terms with the Babel of D-Day commemoration on the Normandy beaches.
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Medieval Burgundy’s Abortive Project of State-Building
May 31, 2017
How the rise and fall of Valois Burgundy opened the door to modern European power politics.
Modern History: Critiquing Frank Trentmann’s Empire of Things
May 18, 2017
Read Deborah Cohen’s review in the NYRB!
Europe’s Political Economy: Reading Schäuble
May 11, 2017
Wolfgang Schäuble, Germany’s Finance Minister is widely seen, as one of the “most consequential European politician of his generation”. Joshua Rahtz’s recent NLR piece is
Notes on the Global Condition: Strike Stops Rocket Launch
May 7, 2017
How Europe’s globalized space program intersects with “post”-colonial struggles in French Guiana.
Notes on Social Theory: Reviewing Anderson’s H-Word in the FT
April 28, 2017
Exploring Perry Anderson’s intellectual workshop.
Notes on Social Theory: Reviewing Anderson’s “H-Word” in the FT
April 28, 2017
Reviewing Anderson on Hegemony in the FT.
America’s Political Economy: The Fed and the Markets – Putting Your Ear to the Echo Chamber
April 27, 2017
As the Fed plans its next move, back channels to the bond markets are buzzing. What are some of those channels and what is the talk?
America’s Political Economy: Hunger in America
April 25, 2017
USDA food insecurity figures may severely understate the scale of the problem of hunger in 21s-century America, especially in rural areas.
Notes on the Global Condition: The UAE and the Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa
April 23, 2017
Under the title “Horn of Africa: Pivot of the World” LMD published a great piece by Gérard Prunier last year on the truly mind-blowing
Notes on the Global Condition: Conversation with a Bundesbanker
April 22, 2017
A lunchtime exchange with Andreas Dombret on the Eurozone, trans-Atlantic relations and populism.
The Russian Revolution and the World. Notes on a Columbia panel.
April 21, 2017
Whose 1917? Which Russian revolution?
Notes on the Global Condition: The Easter 2017 Cocoa Crisis
April 16, 2017
No Easter chocolate cheer on the Ivory Coast where the 2016-2017 cocoa price collapse is threatening to wreak havoc and derail a reform agenda.
Notes on the global condition: Have we ever been global? Tyler Cowen and the “distance puzzle”
April 15, 2017
Untangling how falling trade costs have and have not driven global integration.
America’s Political Economy: The top 0.01 % and “entrepreneurial income”
April 13, 2017
New insights into inequality dynamics and the importance of “S-corporations” from Guvenen and Kaplan.
Notes on the Global Condition: “Unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated and unsustainable”? How dangerous is the Sino-American economic imbalance?
April 11, 2017
Summers, Bernstein, Wolf and Setser dig into the new balance of financial terror between China and the US.
Notes on the Global Condition: Chinese Capital, the US and Germany
April 9, 2017
China’s FDI surge challenges both Germany and US to define national economic interests beyond the platitudes of “market economics”. In the German case this raises the issue of Europe and trans-Atlantic relations.
Notes on the Global Condition: Who’s Your Big Brother? NAFTA, the EU and regional integration projects
April 7, 2017
How the Czech republic and Chihuahua state are linked in the strategies of transnational suppliers. Comparing NAFTA and EU expansion as geoeconomic strategies in the post Cold War period.
Notes on the Global Condition: The Americanization of Global Capital
March 30, 2017
Recent work by Sean Starrs and how it helps us to understand US-centric hierarchies of ownership and control in global capitalism.
America’s Political Economy: West Permian, the World and EXXON’s shift to “extraction mode”
March 27, 2017
The political economy of West Permian, the center of the fracking revolution and the site of EXXON’s latest strategic play.
The Birth of Bailouts From the Spirit of Vietnam: The Financial Powell Doctrine, Larry Summers & the Military-Economic Intertext
March 26, 2017
How Larry Summers in the post-Vietnam moment sketched out space for economic policy thinking between Kissinger and Martin Feldstein and how he filled it with the vocabulary of the late Cold War.
“No Mandate” at the G20 – The State of US Trade Policy in Trump’s First Spring
March 20, 2017
Uncertainty rules. Can the protectionist turn be for real? Does anyone know? The FT, the Washington Post, the White House anyone?
America’s Political Economy: Debating the Republican Protectionist Turn
March 19, 2017
Why nixing TPP and TTIP does matter. How it fits in America’s political economy. And is there neoliberalism beyond free trade? Continuing the debate.
America’s Political Economy: Tax Under Conditions of Oligopolistic Capitalism
March 18, 2017
Fascinating report on which US corporations actually pay taxes and which don’t. Differential tax rates as a starting point for a mapping of political and economic power.
America’s Political Economy: Trump & The New Protectionist Alignment
March 17, 2017
Abstract from Trump. Focus on the question of how the Republicans broke with globalization orthodoxy. Does that help us situate the current moment? Should it make us even more worried?
Notes on the Global Condition: Surrealism in Interwar Egypt & Trotskyist Cultural Politics
March 14, 2017
The extraordinary conjuncture of Egyptian surrealism, anti-fascism, Trotsky, Breton & World War II.
Not since the Napoleonic Wars have workers in Britain experienced similarly poor wage growth.
March 10, 2017
UK recovery since 2008 confirmed by latest budget forecasts as the slowest since WWII. Real pay growth stagnation is most severe in more than 200 years! The historic precedent for our current situation are the Napoleonic wars.
Logics of Brexit and the Perils of “Owning the Economy”: Engaging with Watkins and Davies
March 7, 2017
How the monolithic economism of the Remain campaign backfired and what remains amongst the wreckage. How May’s “protective state” is twinned with disaster capitalism.
Engaging with Perry Anderson on anger, fear, despair and anti-systemic politics.
March 4, 2017
What lies behind the asymmetry in the left and right-wing challenges to the current order? Political economy and political sociology.
Notes on the Global Condition: Mapping the debate around the “left behind” white working class:
March 2, 2017
After flogging and Brexit, today we crash-test an 8*8 matrix. Yes … really. Social theory in the spirit of Roadkill.
Explaining Brexit and Trump: Search for a Method
March 1, 2017
Do the stresses of globalization, the “left behind white working-class” or racism and authoritarianism explain the surge in support for right-wing populism? Can we escape an intellectual impasse? Back to Gramsci and Sartre?
Notes on the Global Condition: Women in Informal Employment (WIEGO) and the the global effort to map the informal sector
February 28, 2017
How the “informal economy” was discovered in the 1970s and where we are now in our efforts to count how and where most people in the poorest countries work.
Notes on the Global Condition: India’s Informal Capitalism Under Pressure
February 27, 2017
Staggering data from the ILO on India’s labour market. Only 7 % of Indian workers work on formal contracts in formal enterprises! Data that put one in mind of classic debates within German Social Democracy on how to characterize capitalist social structures.
Notes on the Global Condition: Egypt’s Ongoing Crisis Feb 2017
February 26, 2017
As Sisi’s regime embarks on a tough IMF program it faces huge domestic economic pressures and a new conflict with Saudi Arabia over Syria that has shut off its vital oil supply.
Europe’s Political Economy: Politicizing the Family – Germany after the Cold War
February 25, 2017
How the fall of the Berlin Wall, globalization, judicial activism and the politics of social policy transformed the family policy regime of Germany from the 1990s onwards.
America’s Political Economy: The “missing women”
February 24, 2017
Discouraged male workers are a hot political issue in America. But what about women? The truly exceptional thing about the US is the retreat of prime age women from the labour market and the utter lack of policy to address this basic issue of modern society.
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