Nathan Sperber

Academic researcher and writer. Living and working in Shanghai - most of the time - since 2010

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

Thread with some of my publications and interviews over the past two years or so:

(1/7) Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy (second expanded edition), co-authored with George Hoare, Bloomsbury, London, 2025
https://t.co/tTnSy6rdf7

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

@Biblio_Soc @mazenpseud @NewLeftReview Sure, send me a DM or provide an email address and I'll send the PDF to you

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

For New Left Review, I analysed what is alive and what is dead in neoliberalism under the conditions of present-day Western capitalism @NewLeftReview

[Melanie Brusseler @BrusselerMel]

"Altering a state’s policy direction is one thing; restructuring the essential workings of the economy is another."

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

@old_mole The chat button on my profile page should work. If it doesn't you can give me an email address here and I'll send it to you

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

@DrLeeJones @IliasAlami @TrissiaHebe_W @outtaKimbo @adam_tooze @cuizhiyuan @paologerbaudo @ULojkine Bien entendu

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

@IliasAlami @TrissiaHebe_W @outtaKimbo @adam_tooze @cuizhiyuan @DrLeeJones @paologerbaudo @ULojkine C'est envoyé

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Sperber has a few worlds to say (some nice, some reasonably critical) about "The Great Global Transformation". Like many he focuses on Chapter IV where National Market Liberalism is defined and discusses the "three counter-revolutionaries" (TXP).
Nathan Sperber, Beyond Neoliberalism?,
NLR 158, March–April 2026
https://t.co/CjpHKxEdLJ

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

If you don't have an NLR subscription and would like to read the article, DM me and I'll be happy to send you a PDF

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

This work might be of interest to @IliasAlami @TrissiaHebe_W @outtaKimbo @adam_tooze @cuizhiyuan @DrLeeJones @paologerbaudo @ULojkine

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

(7/7) "Nello stadio primario · Nathan Sperber sull'economia politica della Cina", interview with Tempolinea, a weekly newsletter by the magazine Iconografie, March 2026 (Italian)
https://t.co/fR65ioBY5I

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

Thread with some of my publications and interviews over the past two years or so:

(1/7) Introduction to Antonio Gramsci: His Life, Thought and Legacy (second expanded edition), co-authored with George Hoare, Bloomsbury, London, 2025
https://t.co/tTnSy6rdf7

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

(6/7) "勒庞被判刑，极右翼出局？法国朋友：没那么简单……", interview with 叁零柒计划 on French politics, April 2025 (Chinese)
https://t.co/5tSYMoTiwi

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

@IliasAlami Thanks Ilias! Very happy you liked it

[Nathan Sperber @nat_sperber]

Here's my latest article in the London Review of Books, on Keyu Jin's New China Playbook, on the 'Hefei Model' and more broadly on the state's involvement in the Chinese economy https://t.co/zOv0dazI0n