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Discussing the Happiness Industry with the Radical Therapist podcast
Succession Economics – new working paper
My new working paper on the politics and economics of inheritance, both in a public and a private sense, is now published online (and open access) by Centre for Understanding Prosperity.
‘Anger Fast and Slow’
My article, Anger Fast and Slow: Mediations of Justice and Violence in the Age of Populism, is now available open access in the latest issue of Global Discourse. The issue also contains a response from Jeremy Engels to my piece, plus a symposium on Nervous States, with two critical appraisals and my response.
Interview with Carl Miller for Intelligence Squared
In this podcast, I discuss the themes of Nervous States with Carl Miller, and relate them to the current moment.
The Great British battle
Essay published by Guardian Review, on the nationalist currents being stirred by the covid crisis.
Who will go back to work?
Blogpost on the class divisions emerging from the lock-down, published by the Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre.
The case for more progressive taxes
Piece written for Discover Society, on why the current mood of solidarity and empathy for the vulnerable should be converted into a new era of progressive fiscal policy.
The holiday of exchange value
Blogpost written for the Goldsmiths Political Economy Research Centre, looking at the coronavirus crisis from the perspective of economic sociology of markets.
Getting the measure of the Covid crisis
Comment piece published at The Guardian, on the novelty and scale of the new crisis of global capitalism.
Society as broadband network
Article in the London Review of Books, on how the Covid 19 pandemic has revealed different understandings of ‘society’.
How the humanities became an enemy within
Op-ed published in The Guardian, on how multiple forces of reaction have taken aim at the humanities, in government, higher education and the arts.
