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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/04/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Now that the United States and Iran have declared a two-week cease-fire, the question is whether the war’s economic disruption will be short-lived or lasting,” Jamie Martin writes in a guest essay.

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Opinion | This Might Be the Most Economically Destabilizing War in Decades

Even if this cease-fire holds, the war’s shocks may last for years.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/03/2026

Very happy to see this spiky little book out in the world, the product of many conversations with @hpe-project.bsky.social interlocutors and the editorial labor of Andrew Anastasi. Sign up to our mailing list for the chance of getting a hold of a copy! www.hpeproject.org

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/03/2026

VERY happy to announce a renewal of our summer grant program for PhD students and freshly minted PhDs. Hearing about people's research is my favorite part of our @hpe-project.bsky.social so please apply! www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp?s...

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HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project

The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

The 2026 @hpe-project.bsky.social grant competition is now open! PhD candidates and early-career scholars doing work on histories of neoliberalism are welcome to apply by April 5 for research work this summer. Details and application: www.hpeproject.org/grants-cfp

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HPE Project 2026 Summer Research Grant CFP — History & Political Economy Project

The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.

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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

What might we be able to build in the future that we can't build today? For the @TheIdeasLetter, I wrote about the political economy of technology and technological change in a world beyond capitalism. www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-real...

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A Real Political Economy of Technology - The Ideas Letter

Two technological futures are competing for political and material priority: generative AI and the green transition. Benanav argues that while AI is marketed as a world-reordering breakthrough, its pr...

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Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Bethany Moreton talking now about the Christian reconstructionist movement, Gary North, and the relationship between neoliberalism and religious far right at the KHC in Oxford/Wadham.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/01/2026

holy smokes huge honor to be next to these books

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Turning citizens into enemies, neoliberal governments hamstring democracy Out today - The Choice of Civil War: Neoliberal Strategy and the Politics of the Enemy by Pierre Dardot, Haud Guéguen, Christian Laval and Pierre Sauvêtre

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The Choice of Civil War

Margaret Thatcher’s mantra ‘there is no alternative’ was not a statement of historical fact but a strategic objective. She shared with Hayek, Pinochet, Mises, Trump, Bolsonaro, and Macron a commitment...

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Baltimore! Join the great Nathan Connolly and me at @redemmas.org on January 29th!!

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Cédric Durand @cedricdurand.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

An epidemic of workforce demoralization? "Intensive AI use is demotivating and deskilling, fuelling boredom and mediocrity. We could even see a reverse ‘productivity J-curve’: short-term productivity gains rapidly overwhelmed by a deterioration in labour quality" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Cédric Durand, After AI — Sidecar

Legacies of the bubble.

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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 14/01/2026

Debates continue to circulate—as they should—about the utility of neoliberalism as a category of analysis and political practice. Myself + three other historians wrote a brief overview of how it works in our field for the Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13/01/2026

'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment' bit.ly/3LKB8NF - new article in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society'. With contributions from Quinn Slobodian, Priya Lal, Gary Gerstle & Tehila Sasson. @quinnslobodian.com, @priyalalista.bsky.social @tsasson.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Opening page for the Royal Historical Society article 'Writing the History of Neoliberalism: A Comment'.

Full abstract: This series of comments brings together four historians of neoliberalism, each of whom focuses on a different part of the world but whose work has implications that are transnational if not global. Quinn Slobodian reconstructs the rise of the category of neoliberalism among historians and identifies the different paths of inquiry it is generating. Priya Lal, offering an Africanist’s perspective, moves beyond the reduction of the neoliberal narrative of the continent to one of linear declension and abjection by way of structural adjustment to show continuities from the colonial era to early independence. Gary Gerstle, an Americanist by training, offers a macro take on the move from a Keynesian and social democratic order to a neoliberal one while insisting we attend to the diverse ways policies and elite neoliberal ideas are taken up by populations for whom promises of freedom may mean something different from what intellectuals intended. Finally, Tehila Sasson, a historian of modern Britain and the world, explores the left-wing features of what has come to be called neoliberalism, insisting we keep a keen eye out for unintended consequences and unlikely origins. Together, the comment offers a satellite’s eye view of a subfield reaching maturity."

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Today, @quinnslobodian.com takes you inside a recent conference devoted to the world after neoliberalism. What emerged, he argues, was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.

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Post-Neoliberalism is the New Centrism

At a recent convening devoted to the death of neoliberalism, what emerged was less a rupture with the past than a centrist project of status-quo stabilization.

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Connor O’Brien @connorpobrien.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Very grateful for the opportunity to receive feedback from the @hpe-project.bsky.social community on my doctoral project, after receiving a HPE summer grant to conduct further archival and interview research in Geneva and Paris

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Happy to share the CFP for next year's Social Science History Association conference under the leadership of Ho-fung Hung - "Decentering Modernity." Proposals due by March 1 - details here: ssha2026.ssha.org

Call for Papers 51st Annual Meeting of the Social Sciences History Association Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia – November 19th-22nd, 2026 Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2026 Decentering Modernity Since the inception of social science disciplines in the nineteenth century, modernity has been viewed as a unique phenomenon originating in the West and radiating to the rest of the world. This understanding of modernity has served as the foundation of modern social sciences. It has also been embraced by both Western imperialists, who believed in their “civilizing mission,” and postcolonial nationalist elites striving to implement “modernizing programs” in their new nations. Over the last three decades, social science history has witnessed a flourishing of works that challenge this Western-centric notion of world development. They demonstrate that modernizing processes that have long been assumed to be unique to early modern Europe – such as the rationalization and centralization of the state, marketization of the economy, the rise of new ideologies pursuing individual freedom and political representation, and the transition away from the demographic ancien régime – have been parallel processes across different civilizations in the post-Mongol world. Embedded in diverging cultural idioms and manifesting local variations, the multiple forms of early modernities interacted with one another in the integrated global economy from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century. As such, the rising domination of the Western form of modernity in the Age of Imperialism is far from a unidirectional imposition of Western institutions, but a constant process of power, resistance, hybridization, and negotiation. In today’s world, we see the center of gravity of capitalist development moving away from traditional Western countries with the emergence of new centers of capital accumulation in the Global East and Global South. While the ongoing democratic backsliding does not spare man…

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"[P]ublic housing was the only type of housing spared by the inferno… What would it mean to take that finding seriously?" @benchansfield.bsky.social on implications of the 1970s arson wave for the housing justice movement today: www.hpeproject.org/blog/firestorm

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FIREstorm — History & Political Economy Project

Bench Ansfield in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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julián gómez-delgado @juliangomezdelgado.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Is infrastructure sabotage always a destructive act led by seditious individuals? no my new article in Human Geography studies Colombian public sector workers ‘breaking’ infrastructure to oppose privatization in 1992, and argues sabotage can reshape policies, politicize society & more

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Jason Jackson @jasonbjackson.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Really enjoyed sharing thoughts on Aditi Dey’s & Charli Muller’s excellent papers!

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

For our concluding keynote presentation, Joel Suarez delivered a wonderful talk on “informal” work, immigration, and notions of freedom in global capitalism. And that’s a wrap on our fourth annual grantee conference!

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Our final grantee panel of the weekend! Chloe Bernadaux (Northwestern) analyzed how the UN embargo of Iraq in the 1990s was interpreted domestically through discursive frames of legitimacy, humanity, and imperialism

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Day 2 of our grantee conference! We started things off with a fascinating presentation by Jan Altaner (Cambridge) on real estate speculation in Beirut and its imbrication in global capital flows

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

In our final session of the day, Connor O'Brien (@connorpobrien.bsky.social, Cambridge) zoomed in for a presentation on the history of "good governance" in the context of struggles over development and political authority around the globe.

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We were thrilled to have Sarah Bellows-Blakely (@bellowsblakely.bsky.social, Freie Universität Berlin) deliver our conference's first keynote presentation, based on her book Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

The week in review: a call to join the ranks of the @a-lpe.bsky.social, an interview with @benchansfield.bsky.social about the business of arson, and a new entry by Amna Akbar in our symposium on Free Gifts. Plus, the best of Law and Political Economy from around the web 👇🧵

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Weekly Roundup: Dec 12

A call to join the ranks of the Association for Law and Political Economy, an interview with Bench Ansfield about the business of arson, and a new entry by Amna Akbar in our symposium on Free Gifts.

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Hengameh Ziai (SOAS) kicked off our second panel with a fascinating presentation on human capital theory and debates within agriculture and development economics.

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We are thrilled to host our fourth annual grantee conference – Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms – today and tomorrow at @bupardeeschool.bsky.social.

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Christy Thornton @llchristyll.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Heading up to Boston for our 2025 @hpe-project.bsky.social grantees research conference. This year’s theme is ‘Two, Three, Many Developmentalisms,’ and we have keynotes from Sarah Bellows-Blakely and Joel Suarez.

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New on our blog: a wide-ranging interview with HPE grantee @benchansfield.bsky.social on their monumental book, Born in Flames www.hpeproject.org/blog/firestorm

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FIREstorm — History & Political Economy Project

Bench Ansfield in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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FIREstorm — History & Political Economy Project

Bench Ansfield in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New interview! Andrew Anastasi and I discuss the emotional logic of insurance and how racial capitalism is being misconstrued in the present -- as made manifest in some reviews of my book. Grateful for this partnership between @hpe-project.bsky.social and @lpeblog.bsky.social!

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Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

“it turns out that insurance is utterly mesmerizing, and that’s in part because insurers quantify emotions like fear, hope, and mourning. They can offer an almost transparent window into the affective logic of capitalism.

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Justin Randolph @randolphjustin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

beautiful “There is limited benefit in viewing the saga as a conspiracy…Though human hands lit those fires, they were set in motion by forces far more impersonal and far-reaching than a mere criminal cabal. The carnage was the bitter fruit of financialization….Less whodunit than whatdunit.”

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Today, Andrew Anastasi and @benchansfield.bsky.social discuss the wave of landlord-perpetrated arson during the 1970s, how residents organized to stop it, and what this tells us about the ongoing interplay between property and racial capitalism.

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The Business of Arson: An Interview with Bench Ansfield

An examination of the wave of landlord perpetrated arson in the Bronx during the 1970s presents an untold story of racial capitalism and financialization. Andrew Anastasi interviews Bench Ansfield…

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Matthias Schmelzer @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

At the end of this month @versobooks.bsky.social will publish my book Freedom for Capital, Not People. Here's a blog that give some background - a conversation with Andrew Anastasi from @hpe-project.bsky.social and Joshua Rahtz www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

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Capital’s Regime Change and the Neoliberal Monetary Debate

The Mont Pèlerin Society, founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, transformed the world economy. As Matthias Schmelzer argues in Freedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont Pèlerin Society and...

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Our present moment "echoes the 1970s, when monetary policy reflected the rivalry among global powers and the careful management of alliances." @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social, author of "Freedom for Capital, Not People," in conversation w/ translator Joshua Rahtz: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-reg...

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Matthias Schmelzer and Joshua Rahtz in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social: The neoliberal thought collective kept "their ideas at-the-ready for politicians amidst changing historical conditions…. Progressives today could learn from this kind of long-term, transnational organizing and intellectual work." www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-reg...

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Capital’s Regime Change and the Neoliberal Monetary Debate — History & Political Economy Project

Matthias Schmelzer and Joshua Rahtz in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

@matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social's history of debates in the Mont Pèlerin Society is out this month from @versobooks.bsky.social, in a new, HPE-funded translation by Joshua Rahtz. We spoke with Matthias & Josh about their work and the new moment in which it lands: www.hpeproject.org/blog/new-reg...

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Capital’s Regime Change and the Neoliberal Monetary Debate — History & Political Economy Project

Matthias Schmelzer and Joshua Rahtz in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Today at 12:30pm EDT, Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social will discuss lessons from the history of global activism directed at the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and more. Register here: tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL

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The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

More than 25 years after the WTO protests in Seattle, what lessons can global activists draw? Register to join Walden Bello, Bhumika Muchhala, @pauladlerstein.bsky.social, and @llchristyll.bsky.social for a discussion tomorrow at 12:30 EDT. tinyurl.com/HPEAAWL

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