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Vanessa Ogle

@vanessahistory.bsky.social
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History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️‍🌈

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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Starting to dig into this, very different from Beckert obviously 🧐🤓📚
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
This is great!
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
AI made a word cloud from the text of Beckert's Capitalism. Not so surprising (if you've read the book): merchants, trade, labor, state, among others. More surprising: French (?), distribution, family
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Good 'books in the mail day' yesterday, can't wait to dig in. Muldrew is unsurpassed at showing how we can't understand capitalism, merchant networks, and banking, no matter how global, without talking about social foundations and institutional mechanisms
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 08/02/2026
From “flags of convenience” to shell companies, the “offshore economy requires such legal abstractions” to ensure “it can be neatly separated from the ‘real’ economy onshore.” —@vanessahistory.bsky.social
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Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 09/02/2026
“For every waterfront revitalization project in Europe or North America, there is a port somewhere else that was not downsized and cleaned up but expanded, often at appalling cost.” —@vanessahistory.bsky.social
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Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle
Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Emerging here briefly to share what I find to be a mind-boggling factoid from today's writing so far (and to disappear again into writing mode just as quickly 😊 )
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Just Money @justmoney.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🚨New international Finance and Society Conference happening in Copenhagen in September 11-12! Keynotes by Christian Borch (University of Copenhagen), Fabian Muniesa (Mines Paris – PSL), and @vanessahistory.bsky.social (Yale University) 💸🗺️
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AnnouncementFinance and Society conference 2025
Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
So proud of the work @emiliafavuzzi.bsky.social is doing. Such an important field 😍
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Not on here ATM really but re-upping this in light of today's news (which are better than nothing but not what many had called for): www.nybooks.com/online/2024/... www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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Shipping’s Shadow World | Vanessa Ogle
In the early morning hours of March 26, emergency workers in Baltimore received a mayday call from the Dali, a 985-foot container ship. Shortly after
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Read about noblesse without oblige and the effects of secrecy on politics and society in tax havens, out from behind the paywall:
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“Imagine the chief executives of America’s top universities and richest corporations…issued a public statement that spoke clearly and loudly about the dangers…” Those who speak out will at least put themselves on the right side of history. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/w...
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When Will US Academia and Business Speak Up Against Trump? | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik argues that leaders in both sectors bear a disproportionate responsibility to come to democracy's defense.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Offshore finance" is conceived very broadly including historically, do share and check it out!
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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
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Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay  | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You wouldn't know from FoxNews gold coin ads and other rightwing goldbuggery, but there's actually a material economy behind gold and the gold trade. It's often shady and dirty, and, you guessed it, tied to tax havens, today and in the past. Wrote about it here: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
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Nothing Gold Can Stay  | Vanessa Ogle
Gold just ended a banner year. Its price rose 27 percent in 2024, closing at $2,617 per ounce. Only the Nasdaq Composite index, fueled by reliably strong
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
BTW, perhaps nothing would enrage Trump more than US trade partners brushing the tariffs off and saying we‘ll just find other trade partners, thank you very much.
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Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Over at the Socio-Economic Review, we're planning a special issue on offshore finance! Historical contributions are very welcome. CfP here: academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf.... Please share and spread the word! Excited to be working with @ebharrington.bsky.social and Kimberly Kay-Hoang on this!
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Call for Papers
Offshore Finance: The Socio-Economics of a Global System Special Issue of Socio-Economic Review Guest editors Brooke Harrington, Dartmouth College, (Brooke.H
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Rachel Ramirez @rachelreports.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Some news: A few hours after I filed the draft to this story, CNN laid me off. As part of a massive restructuring/changes across the network, my role as climate writer was among the 200 that got cut last week. It’s disappointing, but I’ll be okay. My last day is on Feb 21. A thread.🧵 1/
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Some political graffiti I spotted on my stroll
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Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
With all the news about Elon Musk and the AfD, I guess it’s time to repost my starter pack: “Experts on German Rightwing Extremism” go.bsky.app/DnB9hMz
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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
We’re cooked
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Democrats seek psychologists’ advice on Trump’s ‘authoritarian’ behavior
Jamie Raskin had professionals talk to fellow members of Congress about navigating conflicts in Trump age
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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Reductress headline: Woman Decides to Unwind by Reading a Thousand People's Thoughts on the 68 Most Horrible Things That Happened Today
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Interview with @princetonupress.bsky.social on Erased... including why, in the end, I wasn't actually able to write this history ‘without men’... and the broader and contemporary relevance of the story... press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...
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Patricia Owens on Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men
The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary fie...
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It is amazing how well this has worked out so far, by the numbers and also just in terms of what you see at the river crossings and in midtown. No greater proof of how cowed/dorky/incompetent New York Democrats are that none of them can even find it in themselves to take any credit for it.
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
It's UK publication day of Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. 🥳 Look out for book talks at SOAS (tomorrow), York, LSE, Chicago, Trento, Oxford, Durham... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Erased
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them
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Nina Eichacker @ninaecon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This story in Wired was my first big intro to crypto and what it was enabling. So very worth reading!
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greg @mistergeezy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Shoutout to Doug Emhoff!
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Tim Barker @timbarker.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...
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Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
"G.M. monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds,” Lina M. Khan, chair of the F.T.C. “With this action, the F.T.C. is safeguarding Americans’ privacy and protecting people from unchecked surveillance.”
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Got a new essay in @dissentmag.bsky.social on secrecy havens. The culture of impunity that secrecy fosters has profoundly damaging effects on social&political fabrics especially in places that were turned into tax havens in the context of empire/decolonization www.dissentmagazine.org/article/nobl...
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Noblesse Without Oblige - Dissent Magazine
The super-rich opt out of the social contract by picking and choosing which laws apply to them, whether in offshore tax havens or at home.
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Very cool to see "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" one of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2025". Amazing company: Mishra, Roper, Grandin... foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/31/2... @princetonupress.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social @somervillecollege.bsky.social
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The Most Anticipated Books of 2025
The biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and economics.
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Lori Flores @loriflores.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
For those who could not be in the room: 428 in favor of the Resolution against #scholasticide in Gaza 88 against 4 abstentions #AHA25
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Fascinating piece by @vanessahistory.bsky.social in The Nation on legal fictions around sovereignty that allow for offshoring of asylum seekers, free ports, and tax shelters. www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...
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Duty Free: Life and Luxury beyond the Nation-State
What globalization has come to look like for the rich. ...
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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Anglo-Saxons plagiarized a Roman coin — and it's full of typos
The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian imagery, but they didn't do a very good job.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I wrote about Atossa Araxia Abrahamian's book The Hidden Globe for @thenation.com. Fav part: showing how closely entwined privilege and precarity are in that world. It's a terrific book, both smart and entertaining, and y'all should read it! www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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In the Zone of the Rich
In The Hidden Globe, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian examines what globalization has come to look like for the wealthy.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
First, the owner of the LA Times spiked the editorial board’s endorsement of Harris. Now he has gone full MAGA
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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I put together a starter pack of people who work on political economy histories, and intersections between history and political economy. Let me know if you would like to be added or have suggestions on people to add.
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Stealing this from @janklownesbituk! (who are not on here yet). Could not be more excited about my Viking (US) and Allen Lane (UK) editorial dream team 😊
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Calvin Schermerhorn @calscherm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The Plunder of Black America has a cover and a pub date: 2/25/25! Why has the Black-white racial wealth gap been so wide for so long? This book tells the story of racial economic inequality through several Black families yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... #racialwealthgap #PlunderofBlackAmerica
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The Plunder of Black America
The long history of the racial wealth gap in America told through the stories of seven Black families who struggled to build wealth over multiple generations...
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Vanessa Ogle @vanessahistory.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Going to be spending more time on here than X, methinks.
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