Archive - Finance Capital/ism

If this was the finance COP, where is the finance?

The 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan was hyped up in advance as the ‘finance…

Nov 25, 2024 •

May 2024

Casting about for Caesars

On climate despair and liberal climate politics in crisis

May 14, 2024 •

February 2024

Degrowth, fetish, and capital's ecological crisis

In which, annoyed with Jacobin, I take a stab at articulating a more useful critique of degrowth.

Feb 26, 2024 •

December 2022

A short history of 'the casino economy'

It has always been a fantasy of mine that a boatload of 25 brokers would be shipwrecked and struggle to an island from which there could be no rescue.

Dec 13, 2022 •

Fictions of financialization

Or, I'm writing a book about finance capital

Dec 6, 2022 •

November 2022

New Article: Financial hierarchies, colonialism, and the state

I’ve got a new article out in Development and Change. It’s open access, if you’d like to read the whole thing. A short summary:

Nov 23, 2022 •

Who pays for climate breakdown?

Or, morbid symptoms warmed up

Nov 18, 2022 •

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