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Fulya Apaydin

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Associate Prof. | Political economy, industrial policy, finance and development | PI: Governing Private Debt | Writing a book on Space policy for Verso Books 🚀 🛰 Views: my own

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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 20h
This is not how imagined KITT coming to life... youtu.be/LhLk1lR7QdI?...
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KITT Jumps a Mountain | Knight Rider
YouTube video by Knight Rider Official
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 20h
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘People’s dignity, and democracy, is at stake’: meet the economist ditching ideology for reality
Exclusive: Isabella Weber prescribes a common-sense solution to poverty, inequality and fascism – making life’s essentials affordable for all
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
This is probably the most personal piece about my intellectual journey I've written. I hope others enjoy it. www.crisesnotes.com/the-death-of...
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The Death of Three Recent Giants: Lord Robert Skidelsky, Anwar Shaikh and Perry Mehrling
This year has been a difficult year for one of the corners of my world. It’s hard to even exactly describe what this corner is. The best way I can find to describe Lord Robert Skidelsky, Anwar Shaikh ...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 14/10/2026
This is excellent. Connects as well to the Vanderbilt Report which also is intended to stigmatize sociology (among other disciplines).
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International and Monetary Economics Network @intmon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Perry Mehrling, RIP. Perry Mehrling was a highly esteemed historian of economics. Here is his homepage: sites.bu.edu/perry/ His last book: "Money and Empire: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System" amzn.to/47RVhJ2
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Talk of the coming end of dollar hegemony has resurfaced once again. Yet as our book of the week explains, the dollar's persistence relies on the security umbrella that the US offers to the world’s wealthiest countries. By Ho-fung Hung on @uchicagopress.bsky.social buff.ly/fF42QbU
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"'If you see a Norwegian number calling, please pick up," Nobel committee chair tells peace prize winner.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In tribute to Anwar Shaikh, some hitherto unpublished comments on his most important book. alexcallinicos.substack.com/p/in-memory-...
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Terrible news for higher education. This will effectively kill OPT, which is major incentive for international students. $70k fee university must pay. Seems like game over for OPT. Will go into effect after 30 day public comment and 60 day implementation delay.
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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Further liberalisation of Ireland's R&D tax credit in todays budget. Critical question is which companies these policy measures benefit. The credit already disproportionately benefits large US companies (it cost the State close to €1bn in 2023, with the majority going to US companies) #budget2026
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Echoes here of Rainer Weiss and LIGO from the 2017 Nobel. Sometimes you have to think boldly, even a little crazily.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
3.8 for Abi??? www.faz.net/aktuell/das-...
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Das Abi-Zeugnis des Kanzlers bleibt unter Verschluss
Friedrich Merz kehrt heute an das Gymnasium zurück, an dem er vor 51 Jahren Abitur gemacht hat. Seine Abschlussnote wird er den Schülern dort wohl nicht verraten – aus gutem Grund.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hi Stephan, yes, you are right 🙏--I suppose the paperback version is scheduled to come out next year. Looking so much forward to reading this, really sounds fascinating.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Super interesting to read this by Nikhil Kalyanpur 👇: thepriceofpower.substack.com/p/the-real-f...
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The Real Foreign Influence Op
Forget “oligarchs”, MNCs dominate American Politics
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TL;DR: John Levi Martin re-reads the Rubin report and effectively skewers her claims.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Some of us strive for a less politicized sociology, and some do not. But none of us want well-meaning but misled administrators to open the gates to a trojan horse of an equally politicized, but scientifically weaker, sociology, and that is what the Rubin report calls for." osf.io/preprints/so...
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Berlin election shows robust support for assets as class boundary thesis proposed by Adkins, @melindacooper.bsky.social, @mkonings.bsky.social: - Significantly higher Left vote share in areas with higher % of renters. - Higher AfD/CDU & surprisingly SPD share in areas with higher asset ownership.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/dbbf...
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US satellite maker Planet Labs opens Berlin factory as military demand booms
Germany is leading European drive to reduce dependence on America for space-based intelligence, says US group’s CEO
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Economic thought @economicthought.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New book: The Mathematisation of Economics: A Twentieth-Century History, y Marcel Boumans (the pdf is free online until September 18) www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There is a great Fugger museum in Augsburg (some of the exhibition items are especially useful for teaching financial history modules). Also, this book: www.upress.virginia.edu/title/4162/.
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The Fuggers of Augsburg - UVA Press
As the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famou
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.ft.com/content/3f90...
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Turkish stocks slide in ‘fund run’ as investors withdraw $1bn
Index provider MSCI raises prospect of cutting Turkey from emerging market to frontier status amid accusations of ‘co-ordinated trading’ by fund managers
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Remember when Anthropic were the good guys?
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New levels of dystopia unlocked.
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Anthropic Is Building AI to Predict Which Activists Police Should Watch
Anthropic built a 24/7 intelligence operation to monitor AI activists, classifying dissent alongside terrorism while paying security guards just $22 an hour.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.tovima.com/celebrities/...
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Performer Giorgos Mazonakis, 54, Dies From Heart Attack
The popular Greek singer was prominently active for three decades in the country’s music scene
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can't believe this news. Mazonakis 😢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JPp...
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Γιώργος Μαζωνάκης - Θάλασσες - Official Music Video
YouTube video by Giorgos Mazonakis
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Hear hear 👇
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can't wait to read this book by Nikhil Kalyanpur: cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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Legal Weapons of the Wealthy by Nikhil Kalyanpur | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
In Legal Weapons of the Wealthy, Nikhil Kalyanpur examines a striking feature of today's global legal order: the use of foreign courts by elites to settle domestic disputes. On the surface, the "outso...
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Framing AI as this uncontrollable super-artificial being has a clear financial motivation, e.g. insurance companies could avoid responsibility when AI is legally framed as some force-majeure equivalent when disaster hits, and tech corporations just walk away without facing any legal consequences.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI drama, everyday.
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Fresh Popcorn Popping!
ALT: Fresh Popcorn Popping!
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Two mathematicians argue that they solved an important problem, partially using LLMs, the company claims to have solved the same pr "with minimum human input" but declines to say whether corporate employees relied on models trained on these researchers' prompts. Details: cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A good rule of thumb: If the press release (or stenographic news reporting masquerading as journalism) says that an "AI" did something, that's deliberate obfuscation. Software doesn't do anything of its own accord, but folks sure like to talk about it as if it does: >>
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How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." Maya Angelou.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Did the US withdraw from the Outer Space Treaty over the weekend or what?
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Two days before the end of Trump's first term, the White House released the 1776 Report, which blamed the Frankfurt School for the breakdown of the "American way of life." Our article of the week traces the long history of Frankfurt School conspiracy theories. By Matthew Handelman buff.ly/NEKmBsW
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I understand that villain stories are quite captivating for the audiences, and that narrative sells, and that the documentary film-makers will milk it to the bone. I will watch this with interest--not because I buy into this narrative, but because the guy is just a symptom of a bigger problem.
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Elon Musk Unmasked in Alex Gibney Documentary: “Insane a Person This Chaotic Has So Much Power”
He is the richest man on earth. An explosive new film from the Oscar-winning director suggests he also may be among the most dangerous.
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Three new pieces on the future of the global auto industry and its workers: - Paolo Gerbaudo on BYD's globalization - CUT Bahia head Alfredo Santos interviewed on BYD's operations in Camaçari, Brazil - Jeffrey Hermanson interviewed on labor organizing in Mexico's manufacturing centers.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Climate change threatens bank reserves, which are literally made of Parmesan cheese. Yes. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...
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Rising Temperatures Are Threatening Italy’s Bank Reserves—Because They’re Made of Parmesan Cheese
Italy is experiencing one of the hottest summers on record, and hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano Reggiano wheels can’t handle the heat.
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Interesting to see this published in the NYT. Debt jubilees were indeed quite common in pre-capitalist times. But more recently, the neoliberal creed declared it as the ultimate sin. Only when the hegemon can't manage it, cancellation becomes a legit option? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/o...
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Opinion | An Ancient Sumerian Solution to Our $40 Trillion Deficit
In the ancient world, debt forgiveness was a regular tool to control the economy. Why have we forgotten it?
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Economist is the Daily Mail of econ news. Surprised to see many who take it so seriously here.
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Stephen C. Smith @wordsmithfl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Space #NASA From @arstechnica.com: #Ukraine struck the #Russia Progress Rocket Space Center with cruise missiles. Comment ... This is a BIG DEAL for the #ISS partnership. The factory builds the rockets that send international crews from Baikonur to the ISS. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
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Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles
Flamingo missiles were used. A good achievement."
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to try and stop it?" www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took …
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Re-reading this from Terry Eagleton. Written in 2015. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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The Slow Death of the University
Bean counters, bureaucrats, and barbarians are to blame.
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John Hogan Morris @johnhoganmorris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afr...
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Kate Mackenzie & Tim Sahay | Green Strategy in Africa
On the continent’s industrial development agenda for the twenty-first century
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esaspaceweather @esaspaceweather.esa.int · 13/08/2026
Meanwhile, up in space… 🛰️👀 @esa.int 's Proba-2 happened to be passing over Europe at just the right time to catch the eclipse too. Here’s how the event was seen from its perspective 🌞🤖 Data via the ESA #SpaceWeather Portal👇 🌐 swe.ssa.esa.int/sidc-S101-fe... #EuropeanSolarEclipse
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Here are some pics from today's solar eclipse--unfortunately clouds blocked the rest, so no full-eclipse shots, but it was indeed an experience! 🔭
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Thank you!
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Fulya Apaydin @fulyaapaydin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Viewing from Spain--only have glasses. Why colander? And paper?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/08/2026
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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