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Stefan Eich

@stefeich.bsky.social
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Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023) stefaneich.com

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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 11h
I love the reference to faux-democratization as “predatory inclusion.” It’s perfect! 👏🏽 Stefan & Leah. “We argue that conceptions that reduce democratization to expanded market access are not merely insufficient but, when applied to speculative capital markets, amount to predatory inclusion.”
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 12h
Good timing…
WASHINGTON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - The US securities ​regulator is set to propose rules on Wednesday aimed at expanding retail investors' access to private assets that have ‌traditionally been reserved for professionals, potentially offering higher returns but also exposing everyday Americans to more risk.
The Securities and Exchange Commission's proposals are part of a broader push by US President Donald Trump's administration to "democratize" private assets, such as private equity, private credit, real estate and venture capital, that can potentially result ​in higher returns than traditional stock and bond portfolios.
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 11h
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 14h
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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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Friends in DC? Please join me with the brilliant @stefeich.bsky.social to discuss On UnCertainty & more! Solid State Books H St, 10/22! www.eventbrite.com/e/natasha-le...
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Natasha Lennard - On Un/Certainty
We live in uncertain times. But what does uncertainty mean for our ability to act?
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benedikt heyl @benediktheyl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
@stefeich.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social argue in their substack that Keynes & Mann both wanted to save the "thin crust of civilisation" by trying to convince the bourgeoisie that one can and should imagine a radically better future. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Chartbook 465 The Last of the Magicians: Thomas Mann, John Maynard Keynes and the Alchemy of Bourgeois Liberalism
An essay by Adam Tooze and Stefan Eich
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Adam Tooze (@adamtooze.bsky.social) & I have been looking for Dr Faustus in expected places. Here are our musings on Thomas Mann, Keynes, magic, and alchemy. "The Last of the Magicians: Thomas Mann, John Maynard Keynes and the Alchemy of Bourgeois Liberalism" adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-...
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ein sofortiger Klassiker! 🪨🔥
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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Es ist da! Es geht um Aufstieg, Niedergang und Nachleben der fossilen Moderne; um moderne Geschichte als Naturgeschichte; um die materielle Vermittlung des Sozialen durch Kapital und Kohlenstoff; um Kritik an sozialen Verhältnissen, die buchstäblich Natur geworden sind. shorturl.at/FJnFc
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Fossile Moderne. Buch von Andreas Folkers (Suhrkamp Verlag)
Was immer der »Motor« moderner Gesellschaften sein mag, fossile Brennstoffe sind... | Buch von Andreas Folkers versandkostenfrei & direkt vom Verlag kaufen
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Diskursprojekt "eFin & Demokratie" (ZEVEDI) @efin-diskurs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Democratic Politics of Monetary Design Vortrag von @stefeich.bsky.social (www.stefaneich.com), per Video zugeschaltet zur Ringvorlesung "𝗗𝗶𝗲 𝗭𝘂𝗸𝘂𝗻𝗳𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀" an der @tuda.bsky.social 🗓 15.7.2026, 18 Uhr 📍 TU Darmstadt, Großer Hörsaal im Schloss (S 313/30) 🔗 zevedi.de/ringvorlesun...
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Veranstaltungsplakat mit dem Titel „Die Zukunft des Geldes“ für eine Citizen Lecture im Sommersemester 2026. Oben Logos der Technischen Universität Darmstadt, des Instituts für Philosophie Darmstadt und des Projekts „Rechtspolitik für den digitalen Finanzsektor“. Zentrale Illustration zeigt eine Hand mit Smartphone und Smartwatch sowie biometrische Fingerabdruckerkennung und Euro-Symbol, ergänzt durch grüne Häkchen als Zeichen für digitale Zahlungssysteme.

Darunter eine Terminübersicht von April bis Juli 2026 mit Vorträgen verschiedener Referierender, darunter Volker Wieland, Co-Pierre Georg, Martijn van der Linden, Manfred Richel, Katharina Pistor, Martina Metzger, Petra Gehring, Andreas Kerkemeyer, Roland Broemel, Cederic Meier, Frank Engster, Cornelia Manger-Nestler, Martin Diehl und Stefan Eich, zu Themen rund um digitalen Euro, Finanzsysteme und Geldpolitik.

Rechts unten Hinweise zum Veranstaltungsort: mittwochs um 18 Uhr im Großen Hörsaal im Schloss (S 313/30) der TU Darmstadt. Unten Logos der beteiligten Institutionen und Förderer, darunter ZEVEDI, eFin & Demokratie, das Hessische Ministerium für Digitalisierung und Innovation sowie die Stiftung Mercator.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My book Against Money, coauthored with Arjun Jayadev, is coming out from University of Chicago Press on May 5. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Against Money
A powerful deconstruction of humanity’s most influential invention, from the acclaimed economists J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev.Money is everywhere in our daily lives. It lurks in the swipe of a card ...
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
This Friday! Don’t forget to RSVP @natashalennard.bsky.social @joncatlin.bsky.social
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Join us next Friday at 12:30pm at the Remarque Institute (@remarquenyu.bsky.social)! SEYLA BENHABIB ON AT THE MARGINS OF THE MODERN STATE: CRITICAL THEORY AND LAW as.nyu.edu/research-cen...
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
ICYMI: "Critical Theory of Finance" Wendy Brown, Stefan Eich, Aaron Benanav and Paul North discuss the separation of #capital from the productive #economy and #finance as an abstraction. #Philosophy #CriticalTheory Please like and subscribe on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo6j...
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Critical Theory of Finance: Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich & Aaron Benanav with Paul North
YouTube video by The Philosopher
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Ben Crum @bencrum.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Read @stefeich.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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Stefan Eich (@stefeich.bsky.social)
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023) https://stefaneich.com/
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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Coming up: Mon. Mar. 9 ~ 12:15pm ET / 4:15pm UK "Critical Theory of Finance Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North On the effects of the enormous shift around who has economic control. #Philosophy www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
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Select tickets – "Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom
"Critical Theory of Finance": Wendy Brown, Melinda Cooper, Stefan Eich and Aaron Benanev in conversation with Paul North – Zoom, Mon 9 Mar 2026 - For the last 50 years, finance played an ever-larger r...
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This year I made two big changes to my graduate International Political Economy syllabus: 1) I leaned in to money and capital as organizing themes, and 2) I assigned (nearly) all books. Here's our reading list, ft. Karl Polanyi, Benjamin Cohen, @stefeich.bsky.social, Ngaire Woods, J.C. Sharman ...
Stack of books:
The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
International Political Economy by Ben Cohen
The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich
The Globalizers by Ngaire Woods
The Money Laundry by J.C. Sharman
The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor
Bankers' Trust by Aditi Sahasrabuddhe
Unexpected Revolutionaries by Manuela Moschella
Rating Politics by Zsofia Barta and Alison Johnston
Bucking the Buck by Daniel McDowell
The Meddlers by Jamie Martin
The Entangled Legacies of Empire (eds. Gilbert, Bourne, Haiven, and Montgomerie)
Depletion by Shirin Rai
Chip War by Chris Miller
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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We are delighted to share this fascinating Watson School of International and Public Affairs Podcast with Leah Downey, author of Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysMz... #money #democracy #economics #policy
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Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters
YouTube video by Watson School of International and Public Affairs
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The Signal @the-signal.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
It's not as simple as central bank independence good, political involvement bad. As highlighted in our conversation with Stefan Eich. @stefeich.bsky.social
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Airidas @airidas.eurosky.social · 19/12/2025
Une merveilleuse analyse sur la tension entre la promesse d'efficacité technocratique et les institutions démocratiques. D'actualité frappante en suivant le débat européen sur les omnibus.
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Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Thx friends @adamtooze.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, @mollycrabapple.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @stefeich.bsky.social, @danielloick.bsky.social & others who signed condemning malicious cuts at The New School @newschoolaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org Join them! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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TNS Community and Supporters Demand: Stop The Cuts!
To President Towers and The New School Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned members of The New School community and supporters, write to demand you put an immediate halt to planned downsizing, layo...
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Steven Klein @stevenklein.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
excited to have a research note for DERISK, co-authored with my two amazing post-docs Virginia De Biasio and Robert Reamer. In the note, we outline some of the threats posed by systemic risks to democracy and discuss a potential pathway forward. Check it out here: www.derisk.org.uk/working-papers
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Working Papers | DeRisk
DERISK explores how systemic risks are transforming governance in western democratic societies…
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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
The Rhodes Center Podcast is back. Me and Leah Downey on her wonderful book Our Money: Monetary Policy as if Democracy Matters. This is part one of two. In part two we discuss what happens when democracy starts to get the upper hand. Coming soon: player.captivate.fm/episode/eb5e...
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Independent from who exactly? Central banks and democracy (part 1)
Quickly and easily listen to The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth for free!
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Bailey’s obsession w/ quantitative tightening should be a *much* more important story in any account of what’s going on w/ UK gilts. But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Bank of England urged to slow bond-selling plan to help cut record UK borrowing costs
Ex-MPC members say ‘quantitative tightening’ should be scaled back or halted entirely, saving the Treasury up to £10bn a year
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Graham Hubbs @grahamhubbs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
@rlspang.bsky.social provides lots of details here on the politics of recent goldsilverbuggery. Also helpful: this article from a few years ago by @stefeich.bsky.social on crypto and the politics of depoliticization: academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
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Old Utopias, New Tax Havens: The Politics of Bitcoin in Historical Perspective
AbstractCryptocurrencies are frequently framed as future-oriented, technological innovations that decentralize money, thereby liberating it from centralize
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Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now Should be hitting shelves in October! www.sup.org/books/theory...
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Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...
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Bentley Allan @bentleyallan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Tim is writing the first draft of history ya'll, if you aren't already reading Polycrisis religiously you need to get on that.
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Heartening to see the spirit of Keynes channeled in today’s Letters to the FT. The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Appropriately perhaps, today is the birthday of Maynard Keynes, Britain's greatest ever financial warrior: 142 years young today. #AgeofMammonandMars
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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors? I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓 Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thanks for reading! Actually working on some projects on “counterfeit democracy” (including of the crypto variety) with Leah Downey, whose recent excellent book you might also appreciate.
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Samuel Baudinette @sambaudinette.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Bloch: “I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present. If we had not already gone beyond the barriers, we could not even perceive them as barriers.”
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Anna Jurkevics @annajurkevics.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hi folks! Discount code incoming for my new book Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds.
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Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English) undpress.nd.edu/978026820325... @mattpolprof.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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Alasdair MacIntyre
This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...
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akrubic.bsky.social @akrubic.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I'm just going to throw this book by @stefeich.bsky.social into the ring, as I think it talks about the most important aspect of money fundamental at play here: "... to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule."
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!? "[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
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Rebecca Kingston @rkingston.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Congrats to Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social‬ on winning the 2024 David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Currency of Politics
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
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Michael Lazarus @michaellazarus.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Kind words from a fantastic editor and theorist — it was great pleasure to work with Stefan
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Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book! Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic. Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social! www.sup.org/books/politi...
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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
In my article “Future Theft” I argue that fossil capitalization relies on a temporally inverted form of “original accumulation” (Marx) and ask if and how climate reparations can help to reclaim the stolen future. Open Access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Andreas Folkers @afolkers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage ‪@sciencespo.bsky.social‬ and I edit for ‪@theoryculturesociety.org‬ on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
11/ Choose your climate future. Our political/social/econ choices over coming years will determine how severe consequences will be. Politics of who wins & loses,& how ppl & nations make justice @iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics. thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 19/05/2025
Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.
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Keynes’ Ökonomie von Überfluss und Freiheit
Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.
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The Cambridge School @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will take place on 24 June 2025 at 9am. To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
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Leo Barasi @leobarasi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Shortlist for the first Climate Fiction Prize has just been announced @climate-fiction.bsky.social - short thread
Pile of 5 books shortlisted for the Climate Fiction Prize (books described in thread below)
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
met this thing for the very first time yesterday at @peoplesbooktakoma.com— a weird feeling, truthfully, to see eight years of your life condensed into a 1-pound stack of paper. But it is very pretty & I hope some of you guys like it 🌿
Photograph of action without hope on a stand at people’s book, Takoma Park, MarylandA stack of copies of action without hope, at peoples book, Takoma Park, Maryland
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Politik & Ökonomie @politoekonomie.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot? Keynes ging es nicht darum, die Auseinandersetzung mit der Zukunft zu diskreditieren. Vielmehr ging es ihm um eine Kritik von Zukunftsvorstellungen, die nur die Gegenwart extrapolieren, schreibt @stefeich.bsky.social: politischeoekonomie.com/auf-lange-si...
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Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot? - Politik & Ökonomie Blog
Die gängigen Lesarten seines Ausspruchs »Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot« haben Keynes‘ Denken völlig verkannt. Keynes ging es nicht darum, die Auseinandersetzung mit der Zukunft und ihren Möglichke...
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Victor Loxen @victorloxen.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Sehr lesenswerter Essay von Stefan Eich über Keynes "in the long run". politischeoekonomie.com/auf-lange-si...
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Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot? - Politik & Ökonomie Blog
Die gängigen Lesarten seines Ausspruchs »Auf lange Sicht sind wir alle tot« haben Keynes‘ Denken völlig verkannt. Keynes ging es nicht darum, die Auseinandersetzung mit der Zukunft und ihren Möglichke...
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