Review of Martin Wolf’s new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, published in The New Statesman
‘The business-lounge intellectual’
‘Stagnation Nation’
Article in the London Review of Books on the decline of the UK economy as the backdrop to the current Tory leadership election.
‘This age of inflation reveals the sickness ailing Britain’s economy: rentier capitalism’
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.
‘Where the internet went wrong – and how we can reboot it’
Review essay in The New Statesman, discussing The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith and Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff.
Interview with New Humanist
I discussed our arguments in Unprecedented? with New Humanist.
Extract from Unprecedented?
Unprecedented?: How Covid-19 Revealed the Politics of Our Economy is published this week, co-authored by me and three colleagues in the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths. You can read an extract from the book in the new issue of The New Statesman here.
‘Post-Neoliberalism?’
Nicholas Gane and I have co-edited a special issue of Theory Culture & Society on the theme of ‘Post-neoliberalism?’. It features articles by Melinda Cooper, Quinn Slobodian, Dorit Geva, Roger Burrows and Harrison Smith, Alan Finlayson, Nicholas Gane and me, on various aspects of the challenges to neoliberalism, especially those from the political Right. The special issue was accepted and the pieces commissioned prior to 2020, so they don’t confront the most recent upheavals and challenges to the political-economic order. However, the Introduction (which is open access) does address the significance of the Covid-19 pandemic, and what it means for the status of ‘neoliberalism’.
‘When others stay silent about the ills of British capitalism, liars like Johnson rush in’
Comment piece published in The Guardian, on Boris Johnson’s dubious claims for a new ‘economic model’.
New journal article
‘The financialization of anti-capitalism?: The Case of the ‘Financial Independence Retire Early’ community’, jointly authored with Nick Taylor, is now published in Journal of Cultural Economy
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.
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 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.
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