Christopher Olk
@christopher-olk.bsky.social
PhD in https://www.moneyandpower.net @ FU Berlin
interested in the political economy of money, energy, and state capitalism
interested in the political economy of money, energy, and state capitalism
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How much a dollar cost: Currency hierarchy as a driver of ecologically unequal exchange
Asymmetric transfers of biophysical resources from the Global South to the North are a key obstacle to sustainable development. The underlying causal …
www.sciencedirect.com
🧵Very excited to share my new open-access article in @WorldDevJournal: Looks like currency hierarchies are a key driver of asymmetric resource transfers from South to North, and that the causal mechanism has to do with the diverging 'prices of money': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
July 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.
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not sure why biscotti would choose such heavy reading for our vacation but apparently @christopher-olk.bsky.social recommended it
June 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
not sure why biscotti would choose such heavy reading for our vacation but apparently @christopher-olk.bsky.social recommended it
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You can read the article Multi-Perspectivity & Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza &October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void @jannisgrimm.bsky.social and I wrote for Daedalus here, alongside many other important contributions. I’m very happy + grateful to have worked on this piece together
May 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
You can read the article Multi-Perspectivity & Ethical Representation in the Context of Gaza &October 7: Addressing the Semantic Void @jannisgrimm.bsky.social and I wrote for Daedalus here, alongside many other important contributions. I’m very happy + grateful to have worked on this piece together
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I am happy to share that my first article was published in Business & Politics earlier this year!
It’s availabe as a open access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I summarise some key insights form the paper below👇
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It’s availabe as a open access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I summarise some key insights form the paper below👇
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Beyond formal politics: the epistemic facet of business power | Business and Politics | Cambridge Core
Beyond formal politics: the epistemic facet of business power - Volume 27 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I am happy to share that my first article was published in Business & Politics earlier this year!
It’s availabe as a open access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I summarise some key insights form the paper below👇
1/x
It’s availabe as a open access article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I summarise some key insights form the paper below👇
1/x
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Nice nightmare reading together with @christopher-olk.bsky.social and Louis Miebs in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 18, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Nice nightmare reading together with @christopher-olk.bsky.social and Louis Miebs in @ripejournal.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A credit theory of anti-credit money: How the cryptocurrency sphere turned into a shadow banking system
Cryptocurrencies were designed to function as money without banks. How, then, could they run into a banking crisis in 2022? We argue that the evolution of the crypto sphere into a credit based syst...
www.tandfonline.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#Crypto began as an anti-state, anti-credit project. Now it's an integral part of the state-backed credit system - just think of Trump’s 'Bitcoin Reserve'. How and why did this happen?
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Find answers in our new open-access article in @ripejournal.bsky.social:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧵Very excited to share my new open-access article in @WorldDevJournal: Looks like currency hierarchies are a key driver of asymmetric resource transfers from South to North, and that the causal mechanism has to do with the diverging 'prices of money': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How much a dollar cost: Currency hierarchy as a driver of ecologically unequal exchange
Asymmetric transfers of biophysical resources from the Global South to the North are a key obstacle to sustainable development. The underlying causal …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 3, 2024 at 10:57 AM
🧵Very excited to share my new open-access article in @WorldDevJournal: Looks like currency hierarchies are a key driver of asymmetric resource transfers from South to North, and that the causal mechanism has to do with the diverging 'prices of money': www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wir suchen eine*n Studentische Mitarbeiter*in (SHK) für unsere Forschungsgruppe zur (Geo-)politik des Offshore-Finanzsystems! Hier ist der Call, gerne teilen:
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
January 8, 2024 at 10:45 AM
Wir suchen eine*n Studentische Mitarbeiter*in (SHK) für unsere Forschungsgruppe zur (Geo-)politik des Offshore-Finanzsystems! Hier ist der Call, gerne teilen:
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
wird mal Zeit. Ich freu mich, @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social!
October 20, 2023 at 2:22 PM
wird mal Zeit. Ich freu mich, @dielinkeberlin.bsky.social!
Die AK ist die beste linke/linksradikale deutschsprachige Zeitung. Abo lohnt sich enorm. ❤️
Tausend Dank für eure Reposts, motivierende Kommentare und die ersten 90 Abos! Jetzt geht die Langstrecke los.
Warum wir mindestens neue 1000 Abos brauchen, liest du hier: www.akweb.de/1000-neue-ab...
Wir freuen uns, wenn wir ak mit deiner Hilfe besser machen können. Danke für deine Unterstützung!
Warum wir mindestens neue 1000 Abos brauchen, liest du hier: www.akweb.de/1000-neue-ab...
Wir freuen uns, wenn wir ak mit deiner Hilfe besser machen können. Danke für deine Unterstützung!
October 20, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Die AK ist die beste linke/linksradikale deutschsprachige Zeitung. Abo lohnt sich enorm. ❤️
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Diese großangelegte deutsche Externalisierungskampagne dieser Tage, Antisemitismus auf „Fremde“ auszulagern, so gut wie jeden Ausdruck palästinensischer Selbstbestimmung & Geschichte stummzuschalten und die Dehumanisierung einer ganzen Bevölkerungsgruppe abzunicken, ist wirklich mehr als gruselig
October 14, 2023 at 6:17 PM
Diese großangelegte deutsche Externalisierungskampagne dieser Tage, Antisemitismus auf „Fremde“ auszulagern, so gut wie jeden Ausdruck palästinensischer Selbstbestimmung & Geschichte stummzuschalten und die Dehumanisierung einer ganzen Bevölkerungsgruppe abzunicken, ist wirklich mehr als gruselig
new paper with @jasonhickel.bsky.social & Colleen Schneider: We can fund Universal Public Services, a Job Guarantee and rapid de-carbonization, all without GDP growth or inflation! Here's how: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 3, 2023 at 6:42 AM
new paper with @jasonhickel.bsky.social & Colleen Schneider: We can fund Universal Public Services, a Job Guarantee and rapid de-carbonization, all without GDP growth or inflation! Here's how: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...