"Whoever wishes to talk about the bond market, should not be silent about the central bank"
One week in Britain - what a week - and I am already seeing ghosts!
Voldemort on Threadneedle street. The Bank of England and the "haunted house" of English politics. The latest Chartbook newsletter just dropped. Sign up below for more.
This is excellent - w amazing quotes from fiscal fetishists applauding Bailey/BoE disciplining the Truss government -
with only one objection, 'grubby' pubs in Bloomsbury are the only ones not owned by private equity.
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The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells is now available online
https://t.co/2YRAQ32xDS
47 chapters on Wells and his worlds
Hardcopy to follow in June
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
Friday, 4/24
Seyla Benhabib on her new book:
At the Margins of the Modern State: Critical Theory and Law
In conversation with:
Stefan Eich
Jonathon Catlin
Natasha Lennard
RSVP: https://t.co/mQa6xN2bm4
Friday, 4/24
Seyla Benhabib on her new book:
At the Margins of the Modern State: Critical Theory and Law
In conversation with:
Stefan Eich
Jonathon Catlin
Natasha Lennard
RSVP: https://t.co/mQa6xN2bm4
Friday, 4/24
Seyla Benhabib on her new book:
At the Margins of the Modern State: Critical Theory and Law
In conversation with:
Stefan Eich
Jonathon Catlin
Natasha Lennard
RSVP: https://t.co/mQa6xN2bm4
“How were the Greeks able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society.”
@adam_tooze Reading Seaford’s amazing book was actually one of my ways into all of this. Totally blew my mind! He also wrote a neat article on money and tragedy a few years before the book: https://t.co/xV0KP9NofQ
Coming up: Mon. Mar. 9 ~ 12:15pm ET / 4:15pm UK
"Critical Theory of Finance
Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North
On the effects of the enormous shift around who has economic control.
#Philosophy
https://t.co/YNp76iNIAf
In just a few days, @stefeich will join us to discuss his co-authored paper with Leah Downey, "What Would it Mean to Democratize Finance?"
For more information and updates on future workshops, check out our website: https://t.co/2DKso8BveC
Now on FirstView: Nayeli L. Riano reflects on the questions and methods of intellectual history in her review essay of Javier Fernández-Sebastián’s Key Metaphors for History and Elías Palti’s Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change https://t.co/anpzIQBTBR
Join us and @stefeich to discuss his co-authored paper with Leah Downey, "What Would it Mean to Democratize Finance?"
We will meet on Februrary 20th at The Graduate Center from 4:30-6:30pm. See you there!