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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 16h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

Enjoyed reading this! I recently published a paper that you might be interested in? Saying similar things via an examination of the writings of original neoliberal intellectuals (e.g. Hayek/Friedman), i.e. no redemptive 'free market' moment for neoliberalism: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form

The article contributes to the emerging literature on neoliberalism that explicitly rejects the long-held assumption that it is fundamentally about the valorisation of free markets. This scholarshi...

www.tandfonline.com

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

My pleasure! Easy to support high-quality work like this :)

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

Seeing Kerbdog live this evening >>>>>>>>> Celebrity Traitors

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 4d

Another essential paper by Carla. I scribbled lots of sweary notes when going through Becker's stuff on suicide, so it's good to see someone has properly held this nonsense to account

Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 4d

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work

Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

www.tandfonline.com

Joost Vervoort - Infrastructures of Mystery @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 4d

Reading about how one motivation for younger people to get involved in the Mamdani campaign was loneliness and a desire to find community brought me back to thinking about alchemizing the loneliness pandemic into social action. Wrote about that a few years ago: anticiplay.medium.com/heart-conste...

Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness

How can loneliness be the starting point of social change? And how can games help?

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Carla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 4d

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work

Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

www.tandfonline.com

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

It's not just about the messenger.

You've got to have the right message.

Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 5d

We need to combat the Big Lie about neoliberalism. It was not about the free market, it's about redistributing income upward cepr.net/publications...

New York Times Pushes Blatant Lies About Neoliberalism

The notion that economic policy over recent decades was about leaving things to the market is a sick lie that obscures the real drivers of inequality.

cepr.net

Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoying the irony of Norway's oil investment fund having "ethics rules". An oil fund!

It's like a serial killer having ethics rules about where he can and can't bury the bodies.

Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes

Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel

www.ft.com

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

OK great! Along with the hatchet job article on those in the community who'd warned something like Grenfell might happen, there were just too many Anderson-type essays (by him or others) in each issue in the late 2010s, so I cancelled my subscription. ERB definitely more my thing!

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 6d

Haha, likewise! I prefer ERB, and recently took out a subscription as I realised I was reading almost everything in the issues I tried. Feels more grounded and less Perry Anderson (can't think of a better way to put that!)

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, fair enough! Maybe something like London/European Review of Books?

Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 7d

Sven Beckert in the NYT missing the point about neoliberalism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 7d

History of the Human Sciences?

Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social

Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?

www.ppesydney.net

Ulrich Brand @ulrichbrand.bsky.social · 7d

I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with @politybooks.bsky.social.

🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate.

www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 7d

New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green

Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule

With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok

Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - November 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Stefan Zyinski will present his article 'Coloniality dressed in Green' available: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gpe/3/2/article-p315.xml Discussants are Johannes Jaeger and...

bham-ac-uk.zoom.us

Jeremy Morris @jeremymorris.bsky.social · 10d

postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...

Ethnography (about Russia) is not anecdotes

one of the main problems of the monocrop ‘Russia expertise field’ is its frequent distance, disdain or condescension towards its subject matter. Externally-imposed theories and even domestically co…

postsocialism.org

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 10d

Looks like an excellent and important collection!

Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 11d

Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration
The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...

Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 11d

Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration
The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...

Jana Bacevic @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 11d

A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

After a year of street protests, Serbia’s students split on what should come next

As a radicalised generation presses its calls for political change, a debate has opened up over whether to join battle by the ballot box

www.theguardian.com

Ulrich Brand @ulrichbrand.bsky.social · 11d

Our gratitude & appreciation for the work the editors from Rowman & Littlefield did to create the serie 'Transforming Capitalism' and to @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social for publishing 'The Limits to Capitalist Nature'. Thank you.

You can order the book here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/limits-to...

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 11d

Looking forward to reading this! Very timely

Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 11d

🚨New paper alert🚨 My analysis of the energy crisis in Britain for @geographers.bsky.social as one of a transition between capitalism based on fossil capital to one based on electrify capital, which calls for a new accumulation regime of higher co-ordination and discipline for capital.

Gareth @gfearn.bsky.social · 11d

🚨New paper alert🚨 My analysis of the energy crisis in Britain for @geographers.bsky.social as one of a transition between capitalism based on fossil capital to one based on electrify capital, which calls for a new accumulation regime of higher co-ordination and discipline for capital.

Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 12d

Was vom „Linkskonservatismus“ Wagenknechts übrig bleibt.

Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 14d

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 14d

Rarely has the phrase 'protests too much' seemed so apt. What an intellectual fraud

Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 16d

Pleasure! Very glad for it to have been in the series

mosaik @mosaikblog.bsky.social · 18d

In der neuen Podcast-Folge hört ihr einen Beitrag von und mit Alexander Gallas. Im Rahmen der Reihe „Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung“ hat er sein zweiteiliges Buch „Jenseits der Fabrik. Streiks und Klassenbildung über den industrielles Sektor hinaus“ vorgestellt.

mosaik-blog.at/jenseits-der...

Jenseits der Fabrik

Ein Mitschnitt der Jour Fixe-Reihe „Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung“ vom 8. Oktober 2025. Herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Folge des mosaik Podcast. Diesmal hört ihr einen Beitrag von und mit Alexa...

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