Chris Clarke
@chris-clarke.bsky.social
Reader in Political Economy, University of Warwick. Politics of money/finance, fintech (and the like), governance/everyday of finance, ethics and IPE. Decolonial and socio-technical imaginaries, fintech in India, and financial memes currently on the desk
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Reposted by Chris Clarke
Just arrived:
The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social
Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...
#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social
Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...
#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
September 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Just arrived:
The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social
Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...
#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
The Social Foundations of Global Finance
edited by @chris-clarke.bsky.social & @benclift.bsky.social
Chapters by @johannespetry.bsky.social, @hozic.bsky.social, Randall Germain, Magnus Ryner, Matthew Watson & others...
#OpenAccess eBook available 👇
www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...
This seems like an age ago already! Thanks for an ace event @drscottjames.bsky.social
Great to host this workshop on Epistemic Politics with @benclift.bsky.social at Warwick yesterday
October 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This seems like an age ago already! Thanks for an ace event @drscottjames.bsky.social
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******DATA UPDATE******
Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023
The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar...
What’s new about #CBI?
Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023
The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar...
What’s new about #CBI?
Ana Carolina Garriga - CBI data
***NEW DATA RELEASE - January, 2025*** Version 3 of the data covers 192 countries, between 1970 and 2023. It includes 46% more observations than the 2016 release (*). The paper describing the update...
sites.google.com
January 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
******DATA UPDATE******
Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023
The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar...
What’s new about #CBI?
Central Bank Independence: 192 countries, 1970-2023
The most comprehensive #dataset on #CentralBanks is updated and available at sites.google.com/site/carogar...
What’s new about #CBI?
Deep into marking a pile of book reviews. A clear majority chose to write on Adam Tooze's Crashed. Yet the book is read so differently across the papers, while all offering glowing accounts. Sign of a good book I guess?
January 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Deep into marking a pile of book reviews. A clear majority chose to write on Adam Tooze's Crashed. Yet the book is read so differently across the papers, while all offering glowing accounts. Sign of a good book I guess?
Kids at the play centre, so some time to read more of @natjdyer.bsky.social's wonderfully researched and superbly written Ricardo's Dream!
December 21, 2024 at 2:40 PM
Kids at the play centre, so some time to read more of @natjdyer.bsky.social's wonderfully researched and superbly written Ricardo's Dream!
"it just becomes leverage upon leverage, all the way down"
Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT
Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT
December 20, 2024 at 7:20 AM
"it just becomes leverage upon leverage, all the way down"
Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT
Inside Wall Street’s booming $1tn ‘synthetic risk transfer’ phenomenon - on.ft.com/49PjGiv via @FT
Excellent opportunity for ECRs!
December 19, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Excellent opportunity for ECRs!
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I've probably spent way too much of my life writing about bitcoin — over twelve years.
Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012.
jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...
Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012.
jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...
After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed
What follows is an essay on how my thinking on bitcoin has changed since I began to write on the topic starting with my first post in Octobe...
jpkoning.blogspot.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:15 AM
I've probably spent way too much of my life writing about bitcoin — over twelve years.
Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012.
jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...
Anyways, I just reread everything I've ever written on bitcoin. Here's how my thoughts on the topic have changed since my first post in 2012.
jpkoning.blogspot.com/2024/12/afte...
"The winners are already reaping unimaginable rewards. All this is taking place before Trump is even in office."
Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT
Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT
Trump’s bonanza of the century
Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation
on.ft.com
December 18, 2024 at 7:49 AM
"The winners are already reaping unimaginable rewards. All this is taking place before Trump is even in office."
Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT
Trump’s bonanza of the century - on.ft.com/3Dh32w1 via @FT
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December 17, 2024 at 8:43 PM
"Bluesky is designed not to trap users in a gilded cage — but investors like gilded cages because they’re easier to monetise"
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue
The social network offers a near facsimile of Elon Musk’s X that’s friendlier to users, if not necessarily investors
on.ft.com
December 16, 2024 at 7:27 AM
"Bluesky is designed not to trap users in a gilded cage — but investors like gilded cages because they’re easier to monetise"
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT
Bluesky: the tech hotshot that’s old, new, borrowed and blue - on.ft.com/4gbNWXi via @FT
"Trading volumes in US equities jumped 38 per cent in November from the same month in 2023, reaching levels not seen since the meme stock craze of early 2021"
Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary.
on.ft.com/3DeFbgz
Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary.
on.ft.com/3DeFbgz
Donald Trump’s election win sparks trading surge for banks and brokers
Markets activity ‘exploded’ as traders bet on a more business-friendly approach by incoming administration
on.ft.com
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 AM
"Trading volumes in US equities jumped 38 per cent in November from the same month in 2023, reaching levels not seen since the meme stock craze of early 2021"
Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary.
on.ft.com/3DeFbgz
Meme stocks as benchmark for market commentary.
on.ft.com/3DeFbgz
Writing about fintech in relation to the social foundations of finance approach of my late friend and colleague Tim Sinclair has given me an opportunity to unpack with more precision the new forms of power and inequality fintech establishes in the world economy.
#ipesky
#ipesky
December 12, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Writing about fintech in relation to the social foundations of finance approach of my late friend and colleague Tim Sinclair has given me an opportunity to unpack with more precision the new forms of power and inequality fintech establishes in the world economy.
#ipesky
#ipesky
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Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DE
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd
t.co
December 10, 2024 at 8:27 AM
Should anyone want to read my reflections on causing a stink and going viral, my article with The New Statesman is linked below: t.co/Hnqmzhz2DE
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OUT TODAY (and on vibe): The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia - Thais Franca www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia
The immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on academics have garnered substantial attention within the literature. Although it is still not possible to precisely detail the pandemic's long-term...
www.tandfonline.com
December 11, 2024 at 4:21 PM
OUT TODAY (and on vibe): The glass is half empty: the pessimistic mood in (post)COVID-19 pandemic neoliberal academia - Thais Franca www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop:
As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
theconversation.com
December 11, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Scary stuff by @laurielaybourn.bsky.social and @jamesgyke.bsky.social on the climate-inflation doom loop:
As climate disruption kicks off, prices go up, central bankers hike and angry voters derail democratic systems, setting the stage for more disruption.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
Fiery stuff, though maybe a bit harsh on rocks and trees.
New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT
New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT
December 11, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Fiery stuff, though maybe a bit harsh on rocks and trees.
New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT
New eras, same bubbles: the forgotten lessons of history - on.ft.com/3ZMaEPW via @FT
"Platforms are designed to perform accumulation strategies of their owners and these include the displacement of informal, solidaristic relations by vertical relations of market dependence".
The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social
The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social
Since I’m new here I’ll share my latest publication doi.org/10.4337/9781... pre-print eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/207016/8/CH_...
Chapter 16: The platformisation of global development
This chapter explores how deployment of digital platforms aligns with the behavioural turn in global development to create conditions for experimentation with new forms of privatised behavioural gover...
doi.org
December 10, 2024 at 8:52 PM
"Platforms are designed to perform accumulation strategies of their owners and these include the displacement of informal, solidaristic relations by vertical relations of market dependence".
The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social
The notion of vertical relations used here is really intriguing. Ace chapter @sallyhbrooks.bsky.social
Reading a super chapter by @lenarethel.bsky.social entitled 'Governing Financial Development in a Time of Uncertainty' for a work-in-progress workshop on her book tomorrow with the IPE cluster at Warwick.
#ipesky
#ipesky
December 8, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Reading a super chapter by @lenarethel.bsky.social entitled 'Governing Financial Development in a Time of Uncertainty' for a work-in-progress workshop on her book tomorrow with the IPE cluster at Warwick.
#ipesky
#ipesky
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Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1
December 6, 2024 at 11:49 AM
Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1
This kind of autocritique from the FT is fascinating, not least because the core point is a direct defence of finance as distinct from gambling, calling to mind Marieke de Goede's magisterial Virtue, Fortune, and Faith (2005)
#ipesky
www.ft.com/content/3903...
#ipesky
www.ft.com/content/3903...
Memecoins will go away once we stop paying attention to them
Regulation has failed. It’s time to try indifference
www.ft.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:07 PM
This kind of autocritique from the FT is fascinating, not least because the core point is a direct defence of finance as distinct from gambling, calling to mind Marieke de Goede's magisterial Virtue, Fortune, and Faith (2005)
#ipesky
www.ft.com/content/3903...
#ipesky
www.ft.com/content/3903...
This story is quite horrific. And a chilling indictment of how academic research is viewed by some. Rooting for @allylouks.bsky.social to take this and turn the attention into something positive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Academic trolled for Cambridge Uni PhD 'unfazed by the vitriol'
Dr Ally Louk receives threats on X after posting about her PhD, but says most
comments are
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2024 at 10:06 PM
This story is quite horrific. And a chilling indictment of how academic research is viewed by some. Rooting for @allylouks.bsky.social to take this and turn the attention into something positive.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...