Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This is a lovely write-up of a remarkable place. Quietly transgressive in ways that already now feel impossible. Was my dream job to join Perc, so sad to see it go 2113
Reposted by Sahil DuttaResearch Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Predatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’. Hepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...researchprofessionalnews.comPredatory recruitment ‘will cause UK university failures’ - Research Professional NewsHepi report proposes capping student numbers for high-tariff universities with soaring undergraduate recruitment 02015
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Very excellent and welcome correction to maddening bond market discourse 010
Reposted by Sahil DuttaNick Taylor @ntaylor.bsky.social · 02/02/2026New in SER: Nils Peters shows soaring UK startup valuations in the 2010s were less about VC power & more about a struggle for ownership. Late‑stage funds pushed into early‑stage rounds, intensifying competition & a small elite captured outsized returns. doi.org/10.1093/ser/...doi.orgBringing ownership in: a conjunctural approach to venture capital valuationsAbstract. High startup valuations are commonly perceived as expressions of venture capitalists’ (VCs) power. This study complicates this view and argues th 1125
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 26/01/2026New co-written paper out asking how Marxist IPE can use history to question our theories. We ask how Marxists can study capitalism without reifying the world market? www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... 0102
Reposted by Sahil DuttaJohn Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 16/09/2025For all the talk of decline in Britain today by the right, the thing that is never mentioned is privitisation and financialisation. Very glad to see @cmmonwealth.bsky.social tackling this head-on: www.theguardian.com/politics/202... 12513
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Among many things, it's just the sheer amount of people whose actions, small and large, have helped coordinate and sustain the genocide that breaks my heart 010
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Great new paper on the political economy of austerity by @ilovering.bsky.social. Uncovers history of austerity as an expansive programme of state planning and centralisation of power, rather than a macroeconomic policy driven by bond holders, state slashers etc www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comAusterity governance and the performance anxieties of the tax stateAusterity might not have reduced the net spend of the state, but it has certainly transformed it into something more centralised, coercive, and managerial. The austerity literature often explains t... 0117
Reposted by Sahil DuttaCarla Ibled @cibled.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Very happy to say that my article on Musk and Thiel's political theory of the founder (drawing on Lacan on the way) is out with @jcultecon.bsky.social! Strange to see it out there with all what happened in the last year, but it will hopefully make it a good read www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.com‘Founder as Victim, Founder as God’: Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the two bodies of the entrepreneurSilicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e... 96836
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024'Subprime mortgages were not developed by entities fitting the rentier model, but rather by real estate actors operating outside the established financial system' Interesting new paper critiquing the Rentier conception for understanding financial politicstandfonline.comRethinking predation under financialisation through the history of subprime mortgages: a case of raiding financeThe ‘rentier’ model provides an influential framework for conceptualising the predatory traits of financialisation. It asserts that financialisation has empowered a class of rentiers who wield infl... 0133
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Leftish critics often treat the UK as having never really escaped Thatcherism. What's so brilliant about this report is how it makes New Labour's supply side political economy - with all its failures - a crucial historical era too www.common-wealth.org/publications... 001
Reposted by Sahil DuttaMartijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social · 23/11/2024this looks very good: "Charting venture capital’s 1950s emergence, 1960s formalization, and 1970s institutionalization, I show how early venture capital investors built a financial infrastructure that safeguarded the appreciation of their assets" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comSolving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalitiesThe 2010s were an era of abundant capital for investors but limited opportunities to put it to profitable use. This paper traces the origins of dealing with the ‘problem’ of having to convert large... 2259
