Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔 Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
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A review of the book edited by Roberto Ciccone with Pierangelo Garegnani's papers (Capital theory, the surplus approach, and effective demand. An alternative framework for the analysis of value, distribution and output levels), by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo doi.org/10.1080/0967...
Dear friends, INDIGNITY is coming out tomorrow and I will be discussing it with the brilliant Hannah Dawson. If you know anyone who wants to celebrate with us, hear the discussion & maybe a bit of reading, feel free to spread the word - still some tickets left! www.waterstones.com/events/lea-y...
Home Office outfit today - from 2014-15. ✨✊ #fractionals @soaseconomics.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
In Yemen as in Gaza, bombs and starvation are stealing the lives of our children | Elham Al-Oqabi
“A gripping tale of all the unsung female industrialists and workers who are missing from conventional economic histories”. A huge thank you to the brilliant @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social for her kind words about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - out now.
"A boycott is in place until further notice." Utrecht University becomes first Western academic institution to announce an academic *boycott* of Israel. This is the result of strategic, ethical work by students & university staff.
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
2025: Yvette Cooper suspends the rights of child refugees to come to the UK, effectively rejecting Article 8 of the ECHR 2016: Yvette Cooper making a passionate plea for child refugees to come to the UK Cooper spent over a decade speaking up for child refugees, now she rejects Article 8 of ECHR
The great thing about doing an episode on a living economist is there are lots of great things to watch on YouTube, none more so than this excellent series on Feminist Economics by @jayatighosh.bsky.social via @ineteconomics.bsky.social - here is the trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ-y... #EconSky
it's very funny that people don't think using the app designed by a remigration fanboy doesn't shape their brains
Centrism isn't an obstacle to fascism or a bulwark against it. It's a welcome mat. There's no point telling people "It's Starmer or Farage" when the dynamic at work here is plainly Starmer *and* Farage. "Labour or Reform" makes as much sense at this point as "Vichy or the Third Reich".
In our podcasts we like to recommend books and here are some of our recommendations from our latest, including books by Nancy Folbre, Marilyn Waring, @devikadutt.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social, @timjackson.org.uk & @clubofrome.org. #EconSky
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Well put. I feel the same... 💔
Going on Ferrari @lbc.co.uk in a minute to argue about the ECHR as well. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
Superb stuff! PS: I know I owe you an email! ✨
@johnthornhill.bsky.social 's article interviewing me about a possible AI bubble collapse was widely read and commented and referred to in dozens of newspapers around the world. I guess financial bubbles spur information bubbles. Shame my next book is not at the publisher's yet!
There is nothing defensible about the cruelty being inflicted on, and the engineered starvation of, people of Gaza. I can’t do much, but, like many other scholars, I have signed the Academics for Palestine pledge. academicsforpalestine.org
"We must revive the socialist traditions of co-operation, solidarity and anti-racism" Ben Sellers argues only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the right-wing course that appears to lie ahead www.redpepper.org.uk/political-pa...
Israel kills 29 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-kills-29-palestinians-gaza-dawn
Bless Alf Dubs. 92 years old and still arguing for the rights of refugees, 86 years after he came to the UK. Wouldn’t it be nice if our politicians could regain some humanity and Alf Dubs could retire. Not looking likely, though, is it? #r4today
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To the government, so it can provide housing for refugees…
New York in the ’70s, during the crisis, was a city of artists — but once bankers and accountants moved in, it grew meaner and duller. 3/
This is a concise and informative read on Hamas' organizational structure and ideology - by Tarek Hamoud www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Berlin, Germany - broken arm, broken nose, broken State.
When an economist and central bank governor looks at race and how it matters for the broader economy, that work “seems more like social science than it does economics and monetary policy”. Economics really has to stop being status quo ‘science’, it’s embarrassing.
You might well ask whether the current political climate is creating a permissive environment for this kind of racist abuse. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Agree….
I don't want to be too harsh here, because there's clearly some emotional underdevelopment in people who feel the need to take their dogs to the cinema. But get a grip. Your dog isn't interested in films. Surely you can make it through a couple of hours apart from your barking, shitting Teddy bear.
Appalling! I wanted to scream 😱
For the last hour, Sky News has been almost wall-to-wall on migrant hotel protests... or as chief correspondent Jon Craig puts it, 'illegal migration'. They desperately need some real news.
The comparison with Latin America reinforces how much I’m enjoying seeing liberals finding out that capitalism has never been a system of ‘law & order’. We kept telling them but… you know, the problem was always ‘us’ & our corruption. 🤷♀️
Agree… and I felt for it once! Got in with a Brazilian mindset.
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A new piece I wrote appearing in FOREIGN AFFAIRS today www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warn...
These are really insane numbers. Even if we only look at formal political offices, billionaires are more than 10,000x more likely to hold a national political position than the average person.
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A heavy heart this week. 💔 Some lights in our lives should never go out… even when they shine from far away. Rest in Power, Jorge Miglioli (1935–2025). - Economist - Introduced Kalecki & effective demand to the Brazilian audience - Marxist - Communist - Mentor - dear friend #economics #Brazil
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps. "Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps" archive.ph/78dcP
The immigration debate is going badly off track, thanks to a combination of opportunism, racism and spinelessness in the UK's political and media class. But it's not too late to turn things round. Me in Time magazine time.com/7312223/uk-i...
when Yannis Dafermos, @jomichell.bsky.social and I wrote the institutional supercycles paper in 2021, we predicted radical institutional change, but naively (me) thought it would be a green supercycle. Instead, we have an authoritarian AI one.
we heterodox economists have been saying this for decades, but now Big Finance is saying it, you know it's the end of liberal macro institutions, a death brought to you by Donald Trump.
Today in the Western Marxism world: “Adorno, one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School, is accused of inheriting the worst of Hegel (low analytical rigour and a lack of clarity in argumentation)... ” 👀 estadodaarte.estadao.com.br/literatura/o...
Never tired of revisiting this goodie! ✨ #economics
Academics are very concerned that the BBC is changing access to its archival material by releasing material in an orchestrated way rather than allowing researchers to ask their own queries. Very worrying development and a good overview by @vanessathorpe.bsky.social observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
This morning, me in the @nytimes.com, discussing why the attacks on Governor Cook, the ONLY woman of color to join the Fed's Board of Governors, is a perfect example of how the individual costs women of color face TODAY become societal costs for everyone tomorrow. This is #TheDoubleTax. #blacksky
Every time I read people talking about why they have to be on Twitter this is my only thought
It's an absolutely terrible time for the BBC to completely lose confidence in its ability to make its own editorial decisions and outsorce them to an increasingly radicalised right-wing media ecosystem.
The BBC might just as well run stories headlined "Woman says she was abducted by aliens."
Yes you would Nick – you went into coalition with David Cameron and George Osborne. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Oh man, this will be good!
💭 Economic theory actively shapes how we organise our economy and society. IIPP's Strategic Economics Alliance will connect women economists with policymakers to reimagine economics. ✍️ Read our manifesto here: buff.ly/vRjnWqo @iipp-ucl.bsky.social
We are looking to recruit a part time senior research fellow to the democracy and politics team to take a leading role in IPPR’s work on the future of democracy in a time of populism. Find out more here 👇 www.ippr.org/jobs/senior-...
The Haitian Revolution began on this day in 1791. It became a tremendous symbol of hope for slaves throughout the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States — and one of tremulous fear for their masters.
Scary & yet hopeful essay by Charlie Warzel. Must-read. 'How lucky we are to be alive right now! Yes, things are weird. But what do you expect? You are swimming in the primordial soup of machine cognition. There are bound to be growing pains & collateral damage' www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
My brother was once barred from entering my building, even w/ keys in hand. He sat on the pavement for 5 hrs until I got home. The porter then told me “He’s too dark to be your brother…looked like a criminal”. We ended up at the police station. I left a grown man battered & I don’t regret a thing.
Most white people will never truly grasp what this feels like… The sadness. The injustice. The rage. The helplessness. The feeling of being unwanted. 💔 But they will sure feel entitled to say: ‘violence isn’t the answer’ #racism #BLM
Far right demagoguery - thanks to crucial, repeated validation from the political mainstream - has painted a target on the back of every man of colour in this country. Everyone knows what is likely to happen next.
Well said.
I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising
Snap!!! It used to drive me mad…
Obviously the smears against this man are incredibly libellous - and it says a lot about access to the law that he wouldn't be able to afford to Lord McAlpine these fuckers - but at what point does the government clock that it needs to get a grip on this raging online fire of fascist hate?
There are two reasons why the European Union refuses to put any sanctions on Israel while giving massive, unflinching support for Ukraine: Racism and Zionism.
But if we step back and look at what is going on with *annual* inflation - two things stand out: food and household bills. On household bills, much of this is to do with rises in some key administered prices, like water bills.
Parabens, Nina! ✨🙌
But living in an asylum hotel - where there are reports of scabies, nutrition related illness leading to babies failing to thrive, mums unable to feed their kids, allegations of racist abuse & sexual harassment- is not the same as staying in a hotel on holiday www.opendemocracy.net/en/asylum-ho...
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Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
Drawing on the likes of Leah Downey, Arjun Jayadev, Leon Wansleben & @geoffmann.bsky.social, I have a new piece in @nybooks.com on money, power, and central banking.
Must-read issue - thanks @r-bellofiore.bsky.social! I was introduced to economics through Claudio Napoleoni, long before textbooks became the norm in Brazil. At the time, I had no idea just how fortunate I was.
Let's say it again, "the economy" is entirely dependent on the environment. No economy on a dead planet, no #PublicHealth on #biodiversity-depleted islands www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.
Huge if true.
My latest, explaining the Lukacsian concept of a subject-object of history, explaining how specifically for leftism it presents a fruitful ideal for us to aim at, and how it may be misapplied twilliambell.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/t...
Sunday morning quiz. Which famous politician once said this? "I loathe this modern tendency to try to find a form of words that takes the meaning out of anything you might say." #EconSky
Academic historians rarely speak up like this but have made an exception in speaking in support of trans people in the UK and against the current trans exclusionary situation over there. Not just a few historians but hundreds signed this. www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/02/h...
Just a reminder to anyone who may need to hear it, that the world doesn't revolve around you and your stupid looking dog, and the latter is no reason to blitz, sterilise or bubblewrap the local wildlife habitat to within an inch of its life. It's your problem. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Come & work with us at Girton College, Cambridge University! We're seeking a Head of Governance & College Registrar. Here's a half-minute glimpse into life at beautiful Girton ... so check out the job details here: www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie... @girtoncollege.bsky.social
As I insisted here, we live in an age where Capital Rules www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
On this day in 1911, EF Schumacher was born in Bonn. He wrote the fantastic book 'Small is Beautiful' and his ideas are still relevant now when it comes to the emergency on planet earth. Have a listen to our podcast today to celebrate his birthday. #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...
Global warming is a deliberate policy of death for the poor, sick and vulnerable. A global necropolitics. jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
#AI Chatbots that provide human-like interactions are used by millions of people every day. New research from @kingsnmes.bsky.social has revealed that they can be easily manipulated to encourage users to reveal up to 12.5 times more of their personal information. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/ai-chat...
I’m impressed by my skills! The symmetry. ✨ @kateraworth.bsky.social #capitalism
Thank you, Holly! When you have time, come over for a chat. ❣️
✨ Heading into my fourth year @iipp-ucl.bsky.social and I’m over the moon to finally carve out time for a proper Brazilian-style office clean! Just getting ready… I have dreamt about this so many times - but buckets of water flying around… unfortunately. 🫤 #Brazilians #academia
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Summertime... and the reading’s easy! 🏖️📚 Here’s a thread of what we’re reading this summer at Common Wealth. Let us know your favourites in the replies! 👇 🧵
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Episode three of Antisocial Economics is out now! @wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Gurminder Bhambra about the colonial history of wealth and its implications in the contemporary racial wealth divide. Who actually paid for the things we think of as ‘ours’ like the NHS?
This is exactly the: ‘I’m not racist I have black friends’ Shocking. #racism #immigration #UK www.instagram.com/reel/DNSm8F2...
"This is what makes cosmetic decolonisation so insidious. It tells a story of change without changing... celebrates inclusion while reinforcing exclusion...clings to the aesthetic of justice while refusing to confront the mechanics of power" (Manuel Aguilera, IIPP alumin) medium.com/iipp-blog/wh...
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