Daniyal Khan
@daniyalk.bsky.social
CHIMERA'S BANE: demystifying and demythologizing capitalism with heterodox analysis. (Visit my website to read and subscribe.) Independent economist and writer.
www.daniyalkhan.net
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Dear friends,
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
In fact the threat of separation should be withdrawn altogether. An extension of the deadline is not nearly good enough, and legitimizes the position taken by the management.
The New School is a beacon of higher education thanks to the labor of its faculty & staff.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
I strongly urge @thenewschool.bsky.social to extend the deadline for faculty to consider separation packages, engage in good faith & protect the programs that make New School a globally renowned institution.
December 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
In fact the threat of separation should be withdrawn altogether. An extension of the deadline is not nearly good enough, and legitimizes the position taken by the management.
Dear friends,
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Dear friends,
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
As part of my effort to move on from the academy, I am presenting my writing under the banner "Chimera's Bane". The first issue ("The Great Underwhelming", link below) is published. You can read it online or download the PDF. You can also subscribe if you like. ...
Wrote something about the AI craziness. Another post coming soon.
daniyalkhan.net/2025/11/06/t...
daniyalkhan.net/2025/11/06/t...
Tall tales of the AI tech bros
Artificial intelligence (AI) is many things: a fear, an ambition, a fantasy, a site of conflict, a financial bubble, and an ideological battleground. But right now I can’t help but feel that …
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November 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Wrote something about the AI craziness. Another post coming soon.
daniyalkhan.net/2025/11/06/t...
daniyalkhan.net/2025/11/06/t...
Been a while since I posted here. Made the big decision to leave academia:
daniyalkhan.net/2025/09/16/w...
daniyalkhan.net/2025/09/16/w...
Why I’m leaving the university
A Graduation Ceremony at Leiden University about 1650, Hendrick van der Burgh (c. 1650) I’m writing this primarily as a way of achieving clarity for myself. The publishing part of it is for p…
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November 30, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Been a while since I posted here. Made the big decision to leave academia:
daniyalkhan.net/2025/09/16/w...
daniyalkhan.net/2025/09/16/w...
If there is one thing sustaining me and keeping me from succumbing to total despair and hopelessness, it is the encouragement and perspective offered by my much older, wiser teachers. A true blessing.
May 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If there is one thing sustaining me and keeping me from succumbing to total despair and hopelessness, it is the encouragement and perspective offered by my much older, wiser teachers. A true blessing.
Syllabi for four of my courses (all undergraduate) are now available on my website:
- Money and Central Banking
- The Life and Work of John M. Keynes
- Studying Capitalism
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Money and Central Banking
- The Life and Work of John M. Keynes
- Studying Capitalism
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
May 29, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Syllabi for four of my courses (all undergraduate) are now available on my website:
- Money and Central Banking
- The Life and Work of John M. Keynes
- Studying Capitalism
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
- Money and Central Banking
- The Life and Work of John M. Keynes
- Studying Capitalism
- Intermediate Macroeconomics
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Thank for the generous shout out! And honored to have my book next to Eric's one ☺️
A book review of @manuelamoschella.bsky.social and Monnet's 2024 books on central banks:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Capitalism’s Double-Edged Sword: A Review of Two Recent Books About Central Banks
Published in Review of Political Economy (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
May 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thank for the generous shout out! And honored to have my book next to Eric's one ☺️
A thread 🧵 of my work on money and central banking #hetecon
First, a presentation from Dec '24 of an updated version of my working paper on a Post Keynesian reframing of the Pakistani monetary system. (WP link in next post.) My presentation begins at the 1:01:45 timestamp:
youtu.be/fytHM7kJiFo?...
First, a presentation from Dec '24 of an updated version of my working paper on a Post Keynesian reframing of the Pakistani monetary system. (WP link in next post.) My presentation begins at the 1:01:45 timestamp:
youtu.be/fytHM7kJiFo?...
Paper Session 6: Market Systems and Local Development
YouTube video by CERPakistan
youtu.be
May 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A thread 🧵 of my work on money and central banking #hetecon
First, a presentation from Dec '24 of an updated version of my working paper on a Post Keynesian reframing of the Pakistani monetary system. (WP link in next post.) My presentation begins at the 1:01:45 timestamp:
youtu.be/fytHM7kJiFo?...
First, a presentation from Dec '24 of an updated version of my working paper on a Post Keynesian reframing of the Pakistani monetary system. (WP link in next post.) My presentation begins at the 1:01:45 timestamp:
youtu.be/fytHM7kJiFo?...
I have updated my teaching/syllabi page:
daniyalkhan.net/teaching/
daniyalkhan.net/teaching/
Teaching
Money and Central Banking ECON 3602 (LUMS, Spring 2024) The Banker and his Wife, Marinus van Reymerswaele This course presents some salient problems and debates in the social scientific study of mo…
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May 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I have updated my teaching/syllabi page:
daniyalkhan.net/teaching/
daniyalkhan.net/teaching/
Four excellent recent reads
May 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Four excellent recent reads
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You know that Joan Didion quote about writing “to find out what you think”?
Turns out that conversely, if you outsource writing, you actually become more ignorant.
Turns out that conversely, if you outsource writing, you actually become more ignorant.
Am interviewing right now and one promising candidate had written an intriguing mission statement on their CV.
I asked what they meant by it and they seemed to not even realise what it said and then blustered an explanation.
It dawned on me that they’d probably ChatGPTed it.
I hate this timeline.
I asked what they meant by it and they seemed to not even realise what it said and then blustered an explanation.
It dawned on me that they’d probably ChatGPTed it.
I hate this timeline.
May 27, 2025 at 1:39 AM
You know that Joan Didion quote about writing “to find out what you think”?
Turns out that conversely, if you outsource writing, you actually become more ignorant.
Turns out that conversely, if you outsource writing, you actually become more ignorant.
Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise, pgs 56, 62.
One of the best books I've read recently. Must read for all young scholars and anyone thinking of becoming an academic.
One of the best books I've read recently. Must read for all young scholars and anyone thinking of becoming an academic.
May 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Lindsay Waters, Enemies of Promise, pgs 56, 62.
One of the best books I've read recently. Must read for all young scholars and anyone thinking of becoming an academic.
One of the best books I've read recently. Must read for all young scholars and anyone thinking of becoming an academic.
Questions for myself after watching Sanctuary on Netflix:
(How) Is my economics different?
Is my economics beautiful?
کیا میری معاشیات مختلف ہے؟
کیا میری معاشیات خوبصورت ہے؟
(How) Is my economics different?
Is my economics beautiful?
کیا میری معاشیات مختلف ہے؟
کیا میری معاشیات خوبصورت ہے؟
May 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Questions for myself after watching Sanctuary on Netflix:
(How) Is my economics different?
Is my economics beautiful?
کیا میری معاشیات مختلف ہے؟
کیا میری معاشیات خوبصورت ہے؟
(How) Is my economics different?
Is my economics beautiful?
کیا میری معاشیات مختلف ہے؟
کیا میری معاشیات خوبصورت ہے؟
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To anyone who was paying attention, it was obvious when ChatGPT was first released that it was an artificial bullshit generator. Nothing that has come out since has required any adjustments to this view. (Except, I guess, to recognize that plausible-sounding bullshit is sometimes what people want.)
May 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
To anyone who was paying attention, it was obvious when ChatGPT was first released that it was an artificial bullshit generator. Nothing that has come out since has required any adjustments to this view. (Except, I guess, to recognize that plausible-sounding bullshit is sometimes what people want.)
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Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think.
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Our book is *finally* available for pre-order! It'll ship next week on May 30th 😱 Been a long time coming, very curious about what you all will think.
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
@devikadutt.bsky.social
@cacrisalves.bsky.social @surbhikesar.bsky.social
AI and commercial interests have muddied the water of higher education so badly I have no idea how people aren't just walking out of the sector. Don't know how long I'm going to last here, and no idea what I'll do afterwards.
May 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
AI and commercial interests have muddied the water of higher education so badly I have no idea how people aren't just walking out of the sector. Don't know how long I'm going to last here, and no idea what I'll do afterwards.
The Heterodox Economics Working Group (HEWG) is an effort to foster a Pakistani community of economic heterodoxy. Our website is up and running, as simple as it is.
sites.google.com/view/hewg/home
#hetecon
sites.google.com/view/hewg/home
#hetecon
HEWG
Shalimar Garden, Lahore (Hiroshi Yoshida, 1932)
sites.google.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The Heterodox Economics Working Group (HEWG) is an effort to foster a Pakistani community of economic heterodoxy. Our website is up and running, as simple as it is.
sites.google.com/view/hewg/home
#hetecon
sites.google.com/view/hewg/home
#hetecon
Excellent. Must read. Remarkable foresight.
"But now, Modi’s rhetoric has boxed him in. Having set a precedent, he faces intense public and political pressure to respond forcefully to each new attack, even when India’s options are limited or risky."
My piece in Foreign Affairs
My piece in Foreign Affairs
India and Pakistan Are Perilously Close to the Brink
The real risk of escalation in Kashmir.
www.foreignaffairs.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Excellent. Must read. Remarkable foresight.
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Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power", dies aged 88 on.ft.com/4kaAl4d
Joseph Nye, who coined the term ‘soft power’, dies aged 88
[FREE TO READ] Former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government served in two US presidential administrations
on.ft.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Joseph Nye, who coined the term "soft power", dies aged 88 on.ft.com/4kaAl4d
Complete fog of war here in Pakistan. Government and military sources have succeeded in cultivating an insane level of mistrust and misunformation among their own public.
May 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Complete fog of war here in Pakistan. Government and military sources have succeeded in cultivating an insane level of mistrust and misunformation among their own public.
My blogpost on the total breakdown of corporate governance at Columbia and the death of the corporate university: daniyalkhan.net/2025/04/12/t...
The death of the corporate university and its burial on the Columbia campus
Photo by Chenwei Yao on Unsplash The slippery slope on which the board of Columbia University has stumbled since the start of the Gaza protests has turned out to be very steep, and the crash has be…
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April 18, 2025 at 12:20 AM
My blogpost on the total breakdown of corporate governance at Columbia and the death of the corporate university: daniyalkhan.net/2025/04/12/t...
My reviews of three recent books on central banks by Moschella, Monnet, and Wansleben are out in ROPE and RRPE:
ROPE (Moschella and Monnet): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RRPE (Wansleben): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#centralbanking #hetecon
ROPE (Moschella and Monnet): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RRPE (Wansleben): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#centralbanking #hetecon
March 12, 2025 at 7:42 AM
My reviews of three recent books on central banks by Moschella, Monnet, and Wansleben are out in ROPE and RRPE:
ROPE (Moschella and Monnet): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RRPE (Wansleben): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#centralbanking #hetecon
ROPE (Moschella and Monnet): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
RRPE (Wansleben): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#centralbanking #hetecon