@BernardsNick

Reader @warwickGSD. Author: A critical history of poverty finance (https://xitter.cf/t.co/0kI4Oibltb); Fictions of financialization (https://xitter.cf/t.co/NA8LubunhV). Views mine.

 Coventry, UK
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/gsd/aboutus/peoplenew/nicholasbernards
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Happy to be part of this @JournalSpectre roundtable on imperialism! My piece “the money fetish and empire” intervenes in the debates about the alleged imminent fall of the US Dollar by bringing in the connection between world money and global value relations
Spectre Journal@JournalSpectreOct 15
This fall's Spectre is a double issue featuring our roundtable on imperialism today with Scott Aquanno, Adam Hanieh, Kevan Harris ( @kevankharris ), Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven ( @ingridharvold ), Steve Maher ( @SteveMaher18 ), and Sirisha C. Naidu.
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Teddy Paikin@teddy_paikinOct 8
Happy to share my review of @IliasAlami "Spectre of State Capitalism" and Arnaud Orain's "Le monde confisqué" with History of Political Economy. If you're interested in the rise of economic nationalism, industrial policy, and the decline of neoliberalism, check it out >>
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OnlineFirst - "The spatial lives of a failed idea: US industrial policy after Fordism" by Chris Meulbroek: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…

The spatial lives of a failed idea: US industrial policy after Fordism - Chris Meulbroek, 2026

This article asks why the US industrial policy debate of the 1970s and 1980s, around an idea widely regarded as a defeated alternative to neoliberalism, nonethe...

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Stefan Eich@stefeichSep 30
New #openaccess article just dropped in the APSR! Leah Downey & yours truly on why people should stop using “democratize” when they really mean increasing market access. Looking at you, economists! 👀 Also, what would actual “democratization” look like when applied to finance?
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Kai Heron@KaiHeronSep 29
I reviewed @alybatt's Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature for @PoPpublicsphere. I hope it's a useful intervention into discussions around the book and perhaps eco-Marxism more broadly. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. By Alyssa Battistoni. Princeton & Oxford:...

Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. By Alyssa Battistoni. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2025. 328p.

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Surbhi Kesar@SurbhiKesarSep 10
Sharing our new article, with Snehashish Bhattacharya,“Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India”, now published in World Development. 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Alexis Moraitis@moraitisalexisSep 8
An article I really enjoyed writing is now out with Capital&Class
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NEW post!: @CelineCLTan and @paulrgilbert contest the current ideational infrastructure of knowledge, expertise/power on climate finance which privileges certain constituencies (global north/ powerful/ private/ corporate) over others. developingeconomics.org/2026…

Unsettling Epistemologies of Climate Finance for Critical Just Transitions

Celine Tan and Paul Gilbert* 2026 has brought the urgency of just transitions to the fore across different registers. This year has witnessed the capitals of global finance and postcolonial economi…

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Jack Copley@JackCopley6Aug 25
In this article for @phenomenalworld I elaborate on the themes of competition, collusion, and carbon that I explored in my NLR piece. phenomenalworld.org/analysis…

Jack Copley | Cement's Stubborn Emissions

Fierce competition and overcapacity crises are impeding efforts to decarbonize cement production

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Jack Copley@JackCopley6Jul 27
I wrote a critical review of Timothy Mitchell's fascinating and frustrating new book: The Alibi of Capital. There's no paywall, which I'm really pleased about!
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Kai Bosworth@kaibosworthAug 21
'Engels’s “History of the Rifle” is the longest single piece of writing about technology that either he or Marx produced. Yet it has been almost entirely forgotten.' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs…

Rifle Theory: Engels and the History of Technology - Matt Shafer, 2023

Friedrich Engels’s “History of the Rifle” was among the longest and most detailed studies of technological development that either he or Marx produced. Yet the ...

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Why has Eurocentrism and decolonization come to be associated with identity and location rather than with capitalism, displacing more radical decolonization efforts? I argue that it's linked to what Samir Amin calls 'inverted Eurocentrism'. New article👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

Inverted Eurocentrism: The Consumption of Decolonization in the Global North and a Radical Decolo...

In the Global North and elite spaces in the Global South, the concepts of Eurocentrism and decolonization have come to be associated primarily with identity and location rather than with capitalism...

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Matt Shutzer@mshutzerAug 18
Until the Last Ton: Fossil Fuels in India from Empire to the Climate Crisis is out today. In another summer of record heat, my hope is this book can help us understand differently where the fossil economy came from and what it might take to go beyond it press.princeton.edu/books/ha…

Until the Last Ton

A panoramic historical account of India’s ascent in the global fossil economy

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Great this is out & OA!kudos to eds. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr & Sean Jacobs! My ch. is on Decolonising Development For Social Justice.Dream team including @Tilley101 @grundrza @lyn_ossome & many more! Download ur darlings,folks!link.springer.com/book/10.10… @SOASDevelopment @devcomms @IAFFE

The Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs

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Chris O'Kane@chrisokane_nycJul 18
Nature, Class, and Crisis: Locating the State in Ecological Marxism tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1…
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patrick bresnihan@PBresnihanJul 17
V good article by Alex Heffron on the relationships between cheap (unprofitable) Welsh farmland, forestry, investment funds and climate rentierism. Lots of parallels with Ireland 1/2 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Trees devouring sheep: climate rentierism and the financialised land grabbing of Welsh farmland

Welsh farming continues to suffer post-Brexit uncertainty and low profitability. Investment companies are buying relatively cheap Welsh farmland for the purposes of climate rentierism, timber produ...

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William Conroy@WilliamWConroyJul 16
The most sophisticated theories of racialized and gendered capitalism discuss the “articulation” of capital and difference. But how does "articulation" take place? And why are certain "articulations" of race, gender, and capital so enduring? My new article on these questions...
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Alexis Moraitis@moraitisalexisJul 9
My forthcoming book now has a cover, a publication date (December 2026) and a link! manchesteruniversitypress.co…

Manchester University Press - Crises, capitalist governance and the critique of liberalism

Crises, capitalist governance and the critique of liberalism - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Crises, capitalist governance and the critique of liberalism by Alexis Moraitis.

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Nate Holdren@n_holdJul 8
I'm about 1/3 thru this book and it's good, recommended if yr interested in marxism and ecology (tbf idrk that stuff myself), operaismo, and/or occupational health and safety. It's basically those 3 areas plus some qualitative empirical social science versobooks.com/products/3298…

Workers and the World

Workers are not doomed to be merely the victims of environmental devastation. As Lorenzo Feltrin shows, they can be key actors in preventing it. Because labour supports an unsustainable system of...

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Pablo Bortz@pablobortzJul 8
1/ I have the formal pleasure of announcing the publication of the book “The Whip of Global Finance: International Monetary and Financial Subordination and (Under) development”. The link: cambridge.org/core/elements/…

The Whip of Global Finance

Cambridge Core - Social Theory - The Whip of Global Finance

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