Tomas H. Løding
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Tomas H. Løding
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Post-doc at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen | Economic Sociology | Financialization
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I wrote about an obscure German contribution to the critique of political economy, for @harpers.bsky.social harpers.org/archive/2025...
The Sameness of Different Things, by Benjamin Kunkel
Reading a new translation of Capital
harpers.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Stark reminder that AI, FinTech, etc. do not contain conditions of their own existence
techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/f...
Fintech founder charged with fraud after 'AI' shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines | TechCrunch
Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding
techcrunch.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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As the Trusk regime is wrecking the state apparatus that brought us the IRA, it's more urgent than ever to understand the politics of green macrofinancial regimes.

Here's a 🧵 on the result of @danielagabor.bsky.social and I wrecking our brains for four years.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Wealth inequality in the USA has risen sharply in recent times and has reached a new historic record.

Sources: Forbes 400 Rich list; total wealth denominator: US Financial Accounts

via @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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It's kind of incredible that Israel can launch hundreds of airstrikes and a ground invasion of a country that it isn't at war at, and that no one has attacked it form. And it's just taken for granted, there's not even a discussion of it. mondoweiss.net/2024/12/insi...
December 16, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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November 19, 2024 at 4:26 AM
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Work in progress starter pack for people working on neoliberalism/ordoliberalism. Share and add yourselves/others. go.bsky.app/CKC3crA
November 18, 2024 at 9:42 AM
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It's not that a self-coordinating market is bad, but that it can't exist, and the delusion it can (even as a coherent benchmark) *is* bad--both for its direct normative implications and for its indirect effect on how we argue for egalitarian policies and frankly also what we think is possible
Because he muddles the difference between the ideology and the actual existence of a "self regulating market" and treats social construction as a special case only important for "fictitious commodities" because "real commodities" behave "neoclassically"
November 17, 2024 at 11:01 PM