Dillon Wamsley
@dillonwamsley.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher @sperishefuni.bsky.social
Researching political economy, state theory, capitalism and democracy
Researching political economy, state theory, capitalism and democracy
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Crisis Point: Debating Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh
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What role does crisis play in capitalism’s history? Are we in the middle of a new era of poly or permacrisis? Find out in episode 1 of Crisis Point, a new SPERI (@sperishefuni.bsky.social) limited series hosted by me and Chris Saltmarsh. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jwW...
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Labour government preparing to hike income taxes - blaming bond markets.
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
Keir Starmer puts Labour MPs on notice for Budget tax rises
Prime minister declines to rule out higher income taxes as Treasury lays foundations for bigger fiscal buffer
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Labour government preparing to hike income taxes - blaming bond markets.
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
not one adult in the room will say the obvious:
1. Britain's fiscal rules are shambles
2. Bank of England has too much power over fiscal decisions
3. ignore bond vigilantes
www.ft.com/content/5c8f...
“There are entire ruling class industries on the market side…and committees and subcommittees and consultants on the government side, working hand in hand that take in billions of public dollars to make that opaque… regime of credit allocation function.”
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
Paying for It | David I. Backer
Should Zohran Mamdani become the next mayor of New York City, he will be restricted by the municipal bond market.
thebaffler.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
“There are entire ruling class industries on the market side…and committees and subcommittees and consultants on the government side, working hand in hand that take in billions of public dollars to make that opaque… regime of credit allocation function.”
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
thebaffler.com/latest/payin...
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New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper
Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...
www.thedigradio.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...
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Does China's party-state capitalist model mean it can fully decarbonise its economy?
Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis
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Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis
🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5
September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Does China's party-state capitalist model mean it can fully decarbonise its economy?
Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis
🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5
Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis
🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5
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The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...
Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
player.captivate.fm
September 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...
“What is more, one wonders why something as crucial as borrowing costs to the lives of every citizen should sit beyond a country’s democratic process.”
www.ft.com/content/a667...
www.ft.com/content/a667...
I can take or leave central bank independence, frankly
It makes no difference to growth and policymakers are always in hock to someone
www.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“What is more, one wonders why something as crucial as borrowing costs to the lives of every citizen should sit beyond a country’s democratic process.”
www.ft.com/content/a667...
www.ft.com/content/a667...
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My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith.
jacobin.com/2025/08/albe...
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Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots
Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.
jacobin.com
September 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith.
jacobin.com/2025/08/albe...
@johncke.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @dgrdon.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social @youcaughtscott.com @desmondcole.bsky.social @temcd.bsky.social @dillonwamsley.bsky.social
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@johncke.bsky.social @charlieangus104.bsky.social @dgrdon.bsky.social @nolore.bsky.social @youcaughtscott.com @desmondcole.bsky.social @temcd.bsky.social @dillonwamsley.bsky.social
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Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
The Long Twilight of Central Bankism
Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
jacobin.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.
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🏠 Why is the housing market so broken?
Professor Johnna Montgomerie joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to explore how housing became a source of debt instead of security, and what it would take to change it.
🔊 Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/housi...
#HousingCrisis
Professor Johnna Montgomerie joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to explore how housing became a source of debt instead of security, and what it would take to change it.
🔊 Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/housi...
#HousingCrisis
August 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🏠 Why is the housing market so broken?
Professor Johnna Montgomerie joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to explore how housing became a source of debt instead of security, and what it would take to change it.
🔊 Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/housi...
#HousingCrisis
Professor Johnna Montgomerie joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to explore how housing became a source of debt instead of security, and what it would take to change it.
🔊 Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/housi...
#HousingCrisis
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Why does austerity keep coming back?
In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8
#Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy
In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8
#Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy
August 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Why does austerity keep coming back?
In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8
#Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy
In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8
#Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy
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Prof Matthew Watson joins @sperishefuni.bsky.social's podcast to ask: was the Long Depression truly a crisis?
From falling profits to class conflict, this period changed how we think about capitalism.
Listen now: bit.ly/3H4K4Lw
#EconomicHistory #PoliticalEconomy #ThePlayerSheffield
From falling profits to class conflict, this period changed how we think about capitalism.
Listen now: bit.ly/3H4K4Lw
#EconomicHistory #PoliticalEconomy #ThePlayerSheffield
July 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Prof Matthew Watson joins @sperishefuni.bsky.social's podcast to ask: was the Long Depression truly a crisis?
From falling profits to class conflict, this period changed how we think about capitalism.
Listen now: bit.ly/3H4K4Lw
#EconomicHistory #PoliticalEconomy #ThePlayerSheffield
From falling profits to class conflict, this period changed how we think about capitalism.
Listen now: bit.ly/3H4K4Lw
#EconomicHistory #PoliticalEconomy #ThePlayerSheffield
"In the short term, the basic arithmetic of bond markets has deteriorated; more supply coupled with a reduction in both reliable and speculative demand. And that means higher bond yields look probable, forcing governments to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits."
www.ft.com/content/2209...
www.ft.com/content/2209...
The bond market maths does not add up for governments
Higher yields look probable, forcing countries to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits
www.ft.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
"In the short term, the basic arithmetic of bond markets has deteriorated; more supply coupled with a reduction in both reliable and speculative demand. And that means higher bond yields look probable, forcing governments to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits."
www.ft.com/content/2209...
www.ft.com/content/2209...
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What caused the 2008 financial crash? Why does it still matter today?
Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI in Crisis Point to talk about how the crisis reshaped politics, the economy, and our everyday lives - and what might come next.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a
Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI in Crisis Point to talk about how the crisis reshaped politics, the economy, and our everyday lives - and what might come next.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a
July 21, 2025 at 10:11 AM
What caused the 2008 financial crash? Why does it still matter today?
Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI in Crisis Point to talk about how the crisis reshaped politics, the economy, and our everyday lives - and what might come next.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a
Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI in Crisis Point to talk about how the crisis reshaped politics, the economy, and our everyday lives - and what might come next.
🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a
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What can the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis tell us about capitalism and global crashes?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram speaks to Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley about the role of the IMF, how it hit Asia, and how it connects to 2008.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp
Jomo Kwame Sundaram speaks to Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley about the role of the IMF, how it hit Asia, and how it connects to 2008.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp
July 14, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What can the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis tell us about capitalism and global crashes?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram speaks to Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley about the role of the IMF, how it hit Asia, and how it connects to 2008.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp
Jomo Kwame Sundaram speaks to Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley about the role of the IMF, how it hit Asia, and how it connects to 2008.
Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp
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We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration
www.phenomenalworld.org
May 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.
“the debt crisis creates constraints beyond any Caesarist ambition. Either Trump has to make decisions on tariffs that calm bond markets, or, he will have to rely on the Fed’s willingness to activate more QE”https://unherd.com/2025/05/trumps-new-world-disorder/
Trump’s new world disorder
unherd.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
“the debt crisis creates constraints beyond any Caesarist ambition. Either Trump has to make decisions on tariffs that calm bond markets, or, he will have to rely on the Fed’s willingness to activate more QE”https://unherd.com/2025/05/trumps-new-world-disorder/
“Thatcher didn’t plan to financialise the British economy; nor did she think she could survive unemployment of more than 10 per cent... By 1990, she’d shown you could do all these things and still win elections. This was the Thatcher transformation.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · It’s a shitshow: Thatcher’s Failed Experiment
Tim Lankester, Thatcher’s private secretary for economic affairs for the first two and a half years of her tenure,...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 4, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Thatcher didn’t plan to financialise the British economy; nor did she think she could survive unemployment of more than 10 per cent... By 1990, she’d shown you could do all these things and still win elections. This was the Thatcher transformation.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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💭NEW BLOG💭
Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series
📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO
🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ
Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series
📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO
🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ
April 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
💭NEW BLOG💭
Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series
📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO
🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ
Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series
📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO
🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ
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On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
April 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX
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The journal I help edit, Critical Sociology, is running a special issue on Antonio Gramsci’s notion of the “passive revolution.” Here is one of the articles by @grundrza.bsky.social and Paret that considers absorption as a bottom up process. Check it out online first.
April 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The journal I help edit, Critical Sociology, is running a special issue on Antonio Gramsci’s notion of the “passive revolution.” Here is one of the articles by @grundrza.bsky.social and Paret that considers absorption as a bottom up process. Check it out online first.
Last episode of Crisis Point is out now. We wrap up the series offering a working theory of crisis and covering polycrisis, the novelty of 2008 and its aftermath, climate change, and what political economy can offer to make sense of the present. open.spotify.com/episode/3shV...
Crisis Point: A Theory Of Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh
SPERI Presents... · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last episode of Crisis Point is out now. We wrap up the series offering a working theory of crisis and covering polycrisis, the novelty of 2008 and its aftermath, climate change, and what political economy can offer to make sense of the present. open.spotify.com/episode/3shV...
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Yield on 10y Treasuries back above 4.5%. We're not sure who's selling but we know who the holders are. I wrote a short post with some hopefully helpful dataviz based on TIC and financial accounts. Key points:
1. Foreign holdings as % of total: declining since 2008.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
1. Foreign holdings as % of total: declining since 2008.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
April 11, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Yield on 10y Treasuries back above 4.5%. We're not sure who's selling but we know who the holders are. I wrote a short post with some hopefully helpful dataviz based on TIC and financial accounts. Key points:
1. Foreign holdings as % of total: declining since 2008.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
1. Foreign holdings as % of total: declining since 2008.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...
Episode #11 of Crisis Point with Jeremy Green (@jbrgreen.bsky.social) is out now. What is the relationship between climate change, capitalism, and modernity? How does it force us to rethink our understanding of crisis?
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Climate crisis threatens human life & with it the conditions of capitalist production. Can we stop it? How does it relate to other capitalist crises?
@jbrgreen.bsky.social joins Chris & Dillon to discuss perhaps the most pressing crisis of all. open.spotify.com/episode/4pYE...
Climate crisis threatens human life & with it the conditions of capitalist production. Can we stop it? How does it relate to other capitalist crises?
@jbrgreen.bsky.social joins Chris & Dillon to discuss perhaps the most pressing crisis of all. open.spotify.com/episode/4pYE...
Crisis Point: Climate Crisis w/ Jeremy Green
SPERI Presents... · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Episode #11 of Crisis Point with Jeremy Green (@jbrgreen.bsky.social) is out now. What is the relationship between climate change, capitalism, and modernity? How does it force us to rethink our understanding of crisis?
"Whatever the plan may have been, its extent and its timing were ultimately determined by the movement of capital."
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on.ft.com/4lp51QD
Markets 1, Trump 0
Plenty of game left to play, though
on.ft.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"Whatever the plan may have been, its extent and its timing were ultimately determined by the movement of capital."
on.ft.com/4lp51QD
on.ft.com/4lp51QD
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🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?
Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.
Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE
Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?
Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.
Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE
April 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️
Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?
Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.
Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE
Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?
Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.
Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE