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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Coming soon, to a choice architect near you. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722662...

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Elizabeth Tandy (Ellie) Shermer @etshermer.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

@bsky.app Friday, Nov 21, 3pm CT: Join @andrewhartman.bsky.social & me for the next Newberry Capitalism seminar. UIC's Penelope Dean will share her new work on capitalism, xerox, and YOU. Comment by @elicook.bsky.social Free registeration for paper and zoom info: www.newberry.org/calendar/pen...

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Penelope Dean, University of Illinois Chicago

Capitalism and You

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Harvard used to be a hedge fund with a university, now it's just a hedge fund

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

1/ My article is out in HOPE and I am excited. In writing the first concept history of WTP I show how early neoclassical econs understood that the amount someone is willing to pay for something often does not reflect how much they value it because rich people have way more money!

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Funny how this article argues that there are no profits in the nyc supermarket business and then casually mentions that the guy who owns the nyc supermarkets is a billionaire www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...

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Opinion | The Problem With Grocery Stores Isn’t Profits. It’s Reality.

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Cant stop thinking of this picture since I first saw it

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Scandinavian Peeps: I will be giving a talk next month in Stockholm about my forthcoming (2026) book! www.iffs.se/en/calendar/...

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Eli Cook: Choose Your Own Captivity: Choice Architects and the Analog Origins of Digital Capitalism

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"Freeing" markets never creates abundance. It builds just enough to be profitable and then usually stops. Abundance is risky , capital wants no part of that

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Another dead Gazan prisoner. Israel is making Guantanamo look like a beach resort in comparison

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Israel update: Trump effectively twisted Bibi's arm and stopped the war in Gaza, something Biden was too weak (and pathetic) to do. But after that shitshow of a WH meeting, it's clear that Trump's insane shift in focus to ethnic cleansing has empowered Bibi to end the ceasefire. What an evil idiot.

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Oh no, the rate of economic exploitation and surplus value extraction is dropping whatever will we working people do

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Deepseek? Meh. Wake me up when the Chinese finally invent a meseek

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Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

@phenomenalworld.bsky.social has established itself as an indispensable and vibrant forum for fresh thinking in political economy. Delighted to step into this conversation again with a contribution on railroads & the history of industrial policy in the U.S.: www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/dev...

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Developmental Tracks | Phenomenal World

Recent years have seen an astonishing resurgence of industrial policy as a legislative agenda and topic for lively debate. Thanks in large part to the waning political fortunes of neoliberalism, delib...

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Honestly, calling this the second Gilded Age is such an insult to the first Gilded Age when corporate power and oligarchy were *way* more challenged. We wish we were in the second Gilded Age.

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Reading Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism and it feels like 80% bullshit. I also think she way overestimates the actual predictive powers of big data. If I were a Google executive I'd be happy with this book: Evil but super-competent!

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

This place is kind of dull....BUT what if I told you that slavery played a central role in the rise of American capitalism?

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Eli Cook @elicook.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

So.... how bout them bears?

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