An edited version of my recent LRB Winter Lecture, The Reaction Economy, has now appeared in the new issue of the London Review of Books. You can also listen to me discussing the piece on the LRB podcast or watch the original lecture.
Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
Review essay on Clara Mattei’s The Capital Order, published in The New Statesman
In conversation with Roger Berkowitz at ‘Rage and Reason’, the annual conference of the Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College, New York, in October 2022
Comment piece in The Guardian on the hypocritical responses to Kwasi Kwarteng’s “mini-budget”
Article in London Review of Books about the new economic turmoil in Britain, and how the Tories have abandoned traditional neoliberal reverence for ‘the markets’.
Comment piece for The Guardian, on the end of the era of ultra-cheap money, and who ultimately benefited from it.
An essay for the LRB Blog, on the bizarre outpouring of “thanks” to Queen Elizabeth.
Opinion piece in The Guardian on the revival of failed ‘supply-side’ economic dogma, as the inspiration of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng.
Article for The Guardian on how ideas, once considered integral to policy reform, are mysteriously absent from the current crisis
Article in the London Review of Books on the decline of the UK economy as the backdrop to the current Tory leadership election.
Review of books by Mike Savage, Gurminder Bhambra & John Holmwood and Thomas Piketty, published in the London Review of Books, which considers the relationship between sociology and history in the present global conjuncture.
New comment piece in The Guardian on the cost-of-living crisis and how the economy and society has been remade to serve capital at every turn.
William Davies 