Dan Seel

Economic sociologist, PhD candidate @UWSoc writing on: labor, elites, and economic development in the American South.

"Above this ridge, new peaks will rise"

[Mike McCarthy @its_mccarthy]

The great Marxist economist Anwar Shaikh has died. He made crucial contributions to crisis theory, to the critique of free trade, to the labor theory of value…But for me his work provides the economics to understand class segmentation. I was reading him on this earlier today.

[Shahram Azhar @ShahramAzhar]

Sad news.

Today, we lost one of the greatest thinkers of political economy. Rest in peace Anwar Shaikh.

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@gabrielwinant '34 textile strikes? Or the 1912 Lawrence strike?

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@gabrielwinant DM me, I can likely help!

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@RedThunderAudio @alexcowan2 Lol sorry for coming to this so late, haven't logged in in a month! My number one recommendation for the basics is Doug Henwood's Wall Street, which is old but still very good. He has a free pdf on his site. "Making of Global Capitalism" is great too for a historical perspective

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@bo_austin_ Angela Davis?

[James Meadway @meadwaj]

Food+rent driving it. David Ricardo’s economy.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Great column from @NathanTankus dismissing the nonsense that the Fed wouldn't accept the trillion dollar coin. https://t.co/sm0wOFB8kL

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@price_laborecon ime playing with it a bit it can sometimes invent commands that don't actually exist so... user beware

[Itai Yanai @ItaiYanai]

New Nature paper provides evidence that science has become less innovative since the 1950s. The authors suggest reversing the trend by:
1. reading widely,
2. focusing less on quantity of papers, & more on research quality,
3. taking year-long sabbaticals.
https://t.co/oYV5JCXRl8

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@KevinReuning @Budget So absurd and so clearly discriminatory

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@nkulw after all, to paraphrase @BrankoMilan, communism was a developmentalism

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@gabrielwinant fair enough, but I think its much more likely to fade as a set of diffuse assumptions than as an intentional project. Looking at the folks working off of eg Brenner/Wright it seems more likely that the best AM work will get read into other traditions and lose the analytic baggage

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@gabrielwinant Seems like analytic has the most difficulty reproducing itself as a thought collective, it's hard to think of many young Marxists keeping that torch burning. Can't speak to analytic philosophy but the neoclassical econ and liberal politics it drew from have lost a lot of luster.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

I love working at the ideological laundromat called Vox, where we mix obvious things and complex ones like lights and darks, generously pour a few cups of liquid labelled "cocksure tone policing" on the pile, set the Soil Level to Max, and everything comes out gray and shrunk

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

Hegel once called the morning newspaper "the realist's morning prayer"; IMO then the explainer is the realist's most reassuring theodicy

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

The tube thing was a total sieve and waste of time and mostly existed to kill high speed rail projects so we have credibility issues imo https://t.co/Q7ihLQ8hDv

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

because the Mars thing is fake and isn’t going to happen

[Dan Seel @dt_seel]

@MaraDicenta @esocite @4sWeb Congrats Mara!