Scott James
@drscottjames.bsky.social
Reader in Political Economy, King’s College London
www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-scott-james
IPE of finance and tech, monetary politics, City of London
BANK POLITICS (OUP, 2023)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bank-politics-9780192898609?cc=gb&lang=en&
www.kcl.ac.uk/people/dr-scott-james
IPE of finance and tech, monetary politics, City of London
BANK POLITICS (OUP, 2023)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/bank-politics-9780192898609?cc=gb&lang=en&
Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card
October 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Treasury seizes the £5bn for a new strategic bitcoin reserve on my 2026 bingo card
I’d forgotten about this characteristically punchy Adam Curtis documentary from 1996
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
October 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
I’d forgotten about this characteristically punchy Adam Curtis documentary from 1996
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
The Reinhart/Rogoff bargain here is that generational deregulation > crisis > bailouts = the price of credit creation, creative destruction, etc. But it relies on a logic of mean reversion for central bank balance sheets and public debt that we left in 2008. So next time probably will be different.
October 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Reinhart/Rogoff bargain here is that generational deregulation > crisis > bailouts = the price of credit creation, creative destruction, etc. But it relies on a logic of mean reversion for central bank balance sheets and public debt that we left in 2008. So next time probably will be different.
see also SPMG Maths
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
see also SPMG Maths
British PE equipment as postwar political economy:
The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off
The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger
The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off
The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger
October 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
British PE equipment as postwar political economy:
The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off
The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger
The Apparatus - peak Thatcherism, shiny and new, novelty soon wore off
The Horse - solid postwar settlement with impending sense of danger
Opposing perspectives on the UK’s macro predicament, but both of which echo postwar left and right narratives about declinism rooted in pathologies of the British state, ie. BOE orthodoxy vs Westminster politics
October 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Opposing perspectives on the UK’s macro predicament, but both of which echo postwar left and right narratives about declinism rooted in pathologies of the British state, ie. BOE orthodoxy vs Westminster politics
London calling 🚨
Turbocharging stablecoins 🤝 DeFi-ing the digital pound?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Turbocharging stablecoins 🤝 DeFi-ing the digital pound?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
October 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
London calling 🚨
Turbocharging stablecoins 🤝 DeFi-ing the digital pound?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
Turbocharging stablecoins 🤝 DeFi-ing the digital pound?
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
New article with Lucia Quaglia examining the EU’s defensive statecraft to defend financial sovereignty around central clearing houses and Bigtech digital platforms, in Journal of International Economic Law
doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
September 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New article with Lucia Quaglia examining the EU’s defensive statecraft to defend financial sovereignty around central clearing houses and Bigtech digital platforms, in Journal of International Economic Law
doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
doi.org/10.1093/jiel...
IMF going all in on stablecoins right now
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
September 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
IMF going all in on stablecoins right now
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
www.imf.org/en/Publicati...
Ultimately the prospect of expanding sterling stablecoins backed by short term gilts will be a huge temptation for any future government
www.imperial.ac.uk/business-sch...
www.imperial.ac.uk/business-sch...
September 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ultimately the prospect of expanding sterling stablecoins backed by short term gilts will be a huge temptation for any future government
www.imperial.ac.uk/business-sch...
www.imperial.ac.uk/business-sch...
Are we seeing the rise of tech financed pop-up political movements?
the-blindspot.com/repost-the-t...
the-blindspot.com/repost-the-t...
September 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Are we seeing the rise of tech financed pop-up political movements?
the-blindspot.com/repost-the-t...
the-blindspot.com/repost-the-t...
This is very good on the Silicon Valley canon, ideology and techno-aristocratic virtues
henryfarrell.net/the-silicon-...
henryfarrell.net/the-silicon-...
September 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This is very good on the Silicon Valley canon, ideology and techno-aristocratic virtues
henryfarrell.net/the-silicon-...
henryfarrell.net/the-silicon-...
Counterpoint: Financial market sanguinity reflects the current reconciliation between competing factions of capital backing Trump
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
August 30, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Counterpoint: Financial market sanguinity reflects the current reconciliation between competing factions of capital backing Trump
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ame...
We are decades away from AGI
August 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
We are decades away from AGI
Unusual for the UK to find itself increasingly at odds, in tone at least, with both the US and EU on digital currencies
www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...
July 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Unusual for the UK to find itself increasingly at odds, in tone at least, with both the US and EU on digital currencies
www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...
www.bankofengland.co.uk/speech/2025/...
🚨This is not 1986, but there are divergent voices within the Bank
July 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🚨This is not 1986, but there are divergent voices within the Bank