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Chris Muellerleile

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Economic geographer in Swansea, Wales

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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New article just dropped in APSR! Leah Downey and yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when all they really mean is increasing market access. (Looking at you, economists! 👀) And, more positively, what a better vision of “democratization” looks like when applied to finance.
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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society @cjres.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🔥Our upcoming issue is Cities and the Climate Crisis - edited by Meric Gertler, Betsy Donald, Amy Glasmeier and Siqi Zheng. The Editorial Introduction is open access online: academic.oup.com/cjres/advanc...
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The climate crisis: in what sense an urban problem?
In February 2026, the Trump Administration made global headlines when it reversed a scientific ruling by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) known
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow.
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The Senate must reject the Clarity Act’s ethics charade
The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists
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Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Pens shaped like drones and toy - all can be found at arms fairs. Jill Gibbon's latest book takes readers behind the scenes to explore how the marketing of weapons functions as a way to obscure the destruction of war
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Gifts from the Arms Trade
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Jessa Loomis @jessaloomis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What is a housing 'love letter' and how and why is it being used by prospective homebuyers? In this new paper with @lukegreen.bsky.social we argue that these personal letters are market devices through which buyers seek advantage in an increasingly unequal housing system doi.org/10.1016/j.ge...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Huge thanks to @dancohen.bsky.social @akass.bsky.social @emilyrosenman.bsky.social Martine August, and Rachel Weber for organizing! It was a terrific 2 days of exchanging ideas and enjoying the summer heat in Toronto. Just before the smoke rolled in!
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Me riffing on @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com while making the case for a Gramscian methodology for the study of financial firms at the New Methods in Financial Geography Workshop at Queen's University in Toronto.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I cannot believe a few guys making bets on a prediction market are driving some news coverage at CNN and CNBC. It’s clearly info slop, not news. This piece by @atrupar.com & @juddlegum.bsky.social reveals how truly bad it is & how viewers are being misled. Yikes. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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How Kalshi infects the news
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.
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Dieter F. Kogler @dfkogler.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Is AI an economic equalizer across Europe, or is it widening the regional divide? 🌍 Our new open-access paper in Regional Studies maps the spatial geography of AI across EU NUTS-2 regions using a multi-dimensional framework. Here is what we discovered: 👇 doi.org/10.1080/0034...
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The geography of artificial intelligence in European regions: innovation, exposure and use
This paper maps the geography of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, exposure and use across European Union (EU) NUTS-2 regions using six complementary indicators. Findings reveal a spatial pa...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Trump's crypto $billions are in the news again. I wrote about exactly this as part of an excellent special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age edited by @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @robkitchin.bsky.social @steelecat717.bsky.social @jwhiah.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Then they turned on the geographers. Because geopolitics and understanding of climate collapse was so very yesterday. 5/9
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The UK universities cutting geography have lost their bearings
From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors
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Antulio Rosales @antuliorosales.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I am glad to see this new article out in GEP, with Heather Millar, Ty Tarnowski and Holly Burke. Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada ⬇️ direct.mit.edu/glep/article...
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Banning Bitcoin: The Material and Normative Dimensions of Energy Security in the Regulation of Cryptocurrency Mining in the United States and Canada
Abstract. New digital industries like artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cryptocurrency mining are voracious energy consumers, with complex implications for states’ climate action, economic...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
New review paper from Matt Zook and I on Cryptocurrencies in Geography. We use the idea of Monetary Interregnum to situate new spaces of crypto in the present conjuncture. Open access for now at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Purportedly I am also on the cover photo.
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I have the exact same question in reference to (I suspect) the same book, which I also love. After 10 years of teaching it, my copy is in tatters.
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Piece in CCPA with @marxist.af on surveillance pricing. We gathered industry webinars and earnings calls to study how firms are using AI to set individualized prices. We found that surveillance pricing is built on existing market power and infrastructure. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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“Surveillance pricing” is already here—Canada needs laws to stop it | CCPA
Driven by big tech and corporate concentration, companies are using surveillance to warp prices and extract from consumers
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Completely agree.
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Aaron Benanav @abenanav.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
My colleague Ryan Lee and I been working for the past 6 months on a microeconomic theory that could serve as the foundation for a new, multidimensional economics. Our first working paper, "Choice under value pluralism," is below. Please read, share, and comment! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Choice under Value Pluralism
Classical rational choice theory assumes preferences are complete, presupposing that an agent's evaluative considerations have a common scale. We drop completen
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
You can imagine the response from boosters...'but everything is corrupt, and there are no objective truths (or at least we can't know them), so the only solution is to marketize information and knowledge. Only the crowd can determine the ambient air temperature.'
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Trump broke the Commandents, so Vance had to commit the Deadly Sins. Trump compared himself to Jesus, so Vance had to claim that he was better at theology than the pope. This is one sad weird heretical Oedipal thing.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Twelve of the 14 universities had council members, who had substantive roles as consultants from firms such as Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Boston Consulting
Group," she said.
Senator Sheldon said this was not a coincidence.
"I believe that there's an intended infiltration of our governing boards by consultancy firms. It's all the mates looking after each other and seeing these consultancy costs balloon right across the university sector," he said.
One governing board even appointed a consultant to run its university.
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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
12 month postdoc post working on my ERC funded Data Stories project. The role is to undertake a comprehensive data audit of the data terrain of housing, property and planning in Northern Ireland & compare to Republic of Ireland. Closing date 31 March 2026. Job details: my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk Initial deadline is May 1, 2026. Please distribute widely!
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Postdoctoral Fellowships – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
My new book Currency of Nihilism is officially out today! In it, I develop a history and theory of financial nihilism that speaks directly to the ongoing merger of digital technology with finance. Use the code SAMMAN20 for 20% off: www.sup.org/books/politi... mngbookshop.co.uk/978150364586...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are available in Human Geography at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. wgsss.ac.uk/fellowships/. Interested candidates should email me as soon as possible. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk Initial deadline is May 1, 2026. Please distribute widely!
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Postdoctoral Fellowships – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences
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Erin Torkelson @erintorkelson.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I’ve got a book coming out! Check out the introduction online now!
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Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Due to Trump & Vance ‘Unusually Steep’ Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.
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Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows
Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
And this one will align with questions about the nexus of big tech--big finance with the U.S. state at the fore: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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From cryptocurrency to cryptofinance: FTX, disintermediation and the US state
During the first decade of cryptocurrencies (2008–2017) there were few connections established between crypto and the conventional finance sector, but in the US in 2025 the integration of these two...
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Terrific Stefan. I look forward to reading it! This paper may fit well with your review: www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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Derivatives, Market Liquidity, and Infrastructural Finance (Chapter 2) - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure - June 2025
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
meanwhile this is not worrying at all giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Federal Reserve grants Kraken access to payments system in first for crypto group
Digital assets company will be able to connect directly into key parts of central bank’s infrastructure
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graham steele @grahamsteele.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The @federalreserve.gov just granted a crypto company—Kraken—access to its public payment services for the first time. More evidence that crypto’s success is not as an *alternative* to the existing financial system but to capture the existing payment infrastructure. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Kraken Becomes First Crypto Firm to Win Access to Fed’s Core Payments System
The decision means the industry is a step closer to becoming integrated into the mainstream financial system.
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Agreed. @biblioracle.bsky.social is really good on this. I've used his work recently in developing a Freshman class on writing in human geography in the wake of 'AI'.
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 24/02/2026
Rather than adapt to the river, we have tried to bend it to our will. Scott traces the history of this struggle to the dawn of sedentary agriculture. bit.ly/3MYGrcY
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Do Humans Really Understand the World’s Disorderly Rivers?
In James C. Scott’s last book, In Praise of Floods, he questions the limits of human hegemony and our misplaced sense that we have any control over the Earth’s depleted watershed.
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Maya Weeks, Ph.D. @mayaweeks.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
“Credit derivatives tied to single companies didn’t exist on many high-grade Big Tech issuers a year ago, and are now some of the most actively traded US contracts in the market outside of the financial sector”
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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
This is very good. It's easier to blame universities for a poor economy than it is to blame, well, everything else. But you certainly won't *fix* the economy by just forcing people into trades apprenticeships.
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Ha! It's certainly good for the financial sector!
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
If you send me an email, I will reply with the article. c.m.muellerleile@swansea.ac.uk
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Massive capital switching exercise in process, enabled as always by exotic financial instruments. The debt fuelled $3 trillion AI data center build out is enabled by quickly expanding market for credit default swaps and other credit derivatives. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Bubble Fears Are Creating New Derivatives
Debt investors are worried that the biggest tech companies will keep borrowing until it hurts in the battle to develop the most powerful artificial intelligence.
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Alphabet's 100 year AI build debt instruments have a higher credit rating than UK government debt. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Alphabet 100-Year Bond Gets Most Demand in Sterling Sale
Alphabet Inc. has received close to ten times orders for a £1 billion ($1.4 billion) sale of an ultra rare 100-year bond, a landmark transaction in the debt-fueled race for artificial intelligence sup...
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Dundurn Press @dundurnpress.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
COMING WINTER 2026: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks “A must read.” — Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century Pre-order now: buff.ly/tj2zi24 #wealthtax #capitalism #billionaires
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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
MAGA “In blue-collar industries—such as manufacturing, construction, logging and mining, transportation and warehousing, and utilities—a cumulative total of nearly 166,000 jobs were lost from February 2025 to January 2026.” www.americanprogress.org/article/work...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 11/02/2026
And finally he demands Judge Kaplan recuse himself, arguing he showed "extreme prejudice". Both that argument and his "no actual loss" theory are already being litigated in his pending appeal before the Second Circuit, which I wrote about here: www.citationneeded.news/issue-96/#sbf
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Issue 96 – Redefining solvency
Sam Bankman-Fried makes his case for a retrial and aspiring crypto banks hit roadblocks
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What a vision of the future. All else aside, does anyone who doesn't directly profit from it, actually want this?
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Chris Muellerleile @muellerleile.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Absolute anti-financialization screed by Oren Cass in NYTs (paywall). I wish populists would start to take these arguments (which many of us in the academy have been making for years if not decades) more seriously. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...
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Opinion | How the Capitalists Broke Capitalism
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding prospect.org/economy/2025...
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Private Equity Ripped the Heart Out of Skateboarding
Multiple buyouts and bankruptcies have ruined iconic brands and hollowed out skateboarding culture. It’s our financialized economy in miniature.
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