Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
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Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Race in Marshall's Economics | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Race in Marshall's Economics
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My "Race in Marshall's Economics" is now available, and open-access!
Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess
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Thanks to editors and reviewers at _Modern Intellectual History_, and to folks at Cambridge University Press who have been coping with cyberattack aftermath. #EconSky #OpenAccess
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New bookg: Léon Walras, Economist and Liberal Socialist, by Jean-Pierre Potier
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November 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
New bookg: Léon Walras, Economist and Liberal Socialist, by Jean-Pierre Potier
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amzn.to/46ZoClf
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Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Well, it's happened. Burning Men is a physical artefact, out in the world.
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
On Saturday I went to John Sandoe Books in Chelsea to see it and get my author copies. Was not prepared for all the FEELINGS
If you're in London, pop in and get a free copy with your Christmas haul. It's ... smoking..!
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Steve McCurry, Rome, 1994
November 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Steve McCurry, Rome, 1994
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Accelerated depreciation is supposed to be a tax incentive that enables long-term investment, but ideally not a feature of the actual investment goods.
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Accelerated depreciation is supposed to be a tax incentive that enables long-term investment, but ideally not a feature of the actual investment goods.
Max checks out the camera.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Max checks out the camera.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
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A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A discussion of Foucault’s newly published manuscript Les Hermaphrodites - particularly in relation to his other texts on this topic, including the Herculine Barbin memoir and his text in Arcadie progressivegeographies.com/2025/11/02/f...
Used my extra hour to get to the bottom of my feed.
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Used my extra hour to get to the bottom of my feed.
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Works for AI too
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Works for AI too
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David Teniers the Younger painted a number of delightfully spooky variations on the Temptation of St. Anthony. They say the devil has the best tunes.
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
David Teniers the Younger painted a number of delightfully spooky variations on the Temptation of St. Anthony. They say the devil has the best tunes.
In the contest for the lap, Marty is larger but Max is more persistent.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In the contest for the lap, Marty is larger but Max is more persistent.
Retiring so I never hear the words "strategic planning" again.
October 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Retiring so I never hear the words "strategic planning" again.
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New book: Consumer Society and the Economists: Consumption and Well-Being in the History of Economic Thought, by Fernando Collantes
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October 29, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New book: Consumer Society and the Economists: Consumption and Well-Being in the History of Economic Thought, by Fernando Collantes
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amzn.to/48Em90O
Taking put the dogs and trusting you all to wrap up the baseball by the time we're back.
October 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Taking put the dogs and trusting you all to wrap up the baseball by the time we're back.
Max solving for equilibrium.
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Max solving for equilibrium.
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a Hoser Discloser, if you will
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
a Hoser Discloser, if you will
"Napier ... invented logarithms in order to speed up his calculations of the number of the Beast."
I ran across this in a footnote in Hugh Trevor-Roper's "General Crisis of the 17th Century" and thought what a lovely story but how exactly ... and it turns out sadly that nope.
I ran across this in a footnote in Hugh Trevor-Roper's "General Crisis of the 17th Century" and thought what a lovely story but how exactly ... and it turns out sadly that nope.
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
"Napier ... invented logarithms in order to speed up his calculations of the number of the Beast."
I ran across this in a footnote in Hugh Trevor-Roper's "General Crisis of the 17th Century" and thought what a lovely story but how exactly ... and it turns out sadly that nope.
I ran across this in a footnote in Hugh Trevor-Roper's "General Crisis of the 17th Century" and thought what a lovely story but how exactly ... and it turns out sadly that nope.
The "Tony Blair Institute" has 786 staff? Genuinely baffled.
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Tony Blair Institute undertakes restructuring as losses mount
Consulting group and think-tank founded by former PM doubles down on artificial intelligence and seeks new donors
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October 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The "Tony Blair Institute" has 786 staff? Genuinely baffled.
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William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
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NDPR review
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NDPR review
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October 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
William Paris, Race, Time, and Utopia: Critical Theory and the Process of Emancipation - Oxford University Press, 2025
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
NDPR review
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global.oup.com/academic/pro...
NDPR review
ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/race...
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Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Mamdani: "There are 12 days remaining until Election Day. I will be a Muslim man in NYC each of those 12 days and every day that follows after that. I will not change who I am, how I eat, or the faith that I am proud to call my own."
Medieval gold-makers: While looking for something else I found myself in Johannes Janssen's _History of the German People_, vol 15. (1910 English translation, looks like the original was late 1890s.)
I'd always thought of alchemical synthesis of gold as a quaint, foolish quest. Ha!
I'd always thought of alchemical synthesis of gold as a quaint, foolish quest. Ha!
October 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Medieval gold-makers: While looking for something else I found myself in Johannes Janssen's _History of the German People_, vol 15. (1910 English translation, looks like the original was late 1890s.)
I'd always thought of alchemical synthesis of gold as a quaint, foolish quest. Ha!
I'd always thought of alchemical synthesis of gold as a quaint, foolish quest. Ha!
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Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – @brisunipress.bsky.social, April 2026
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Politics of Exhaustion
Politics of Exhaustion - Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement; Blending feminist, intersectional and decolonial perspectives, the book reframes exhaustion as both a tool of governance and a sit...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Leonie Ansems de Vries, Politics of Exhaustion: Border Violence and Struggles Over Movement – @brisunipress.bsky.social, April 2026
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bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/politics-of-...
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New book: Moral Discourses of the Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Hye-Joon Yoon
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October 22, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New book: Moral Discourses of the Economy in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Hye-Joon Yoon
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amzn.to/4nT2ZsR
That tattoo of Paul de Man? Hey, it was 1980. I was a comp lit student.
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
That tattoo of Paul de Man? Hey, it was 1980. I was a comp lit student.