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

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

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

Ace talk by @natjdyer.bsky.social to the IPE research cluster at Warwick today. Check out his book!

#RicardosDream
#ipesky

Yeah, sure, but this only applies to memecoins?!

Squirrels, dogs and pygmy hippos: crypto’s multibillion-dollar ‘memecoin’ boom - on.ft.com/3OEPVap via @FT

The minor problem of having an academic partner and not checking with each other what books you've ordered recently.

I often avoid debates about the fate of #neoliberalism, for fear of totalising tendencies. But this analysis by Philipp Staab nicely unpacks how digital capitalism built on proprietary markets further undermines the fiction of market neutrality at the centre of much neoliberal mantra.

Straight talking honest politics?

Reading work in progress from brill pairing between @benclift.bsky.social and @sahildutta.bsky.social

Infrastructural priorities