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Dillon Wamsley

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Postdoctoral researcher @sperishefuni.bsky.social Researching political economy, state theory, capitalism and democracy

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Mar 6

What role does crisis play in capitalism’s history? Are we in the middle of a new era of poly or permacrisis? Find out in episode 1 of Crisis Point, a new SPERI (@sperishefuni.bsky.social) limited series hosted by me and Chris Saltmarsh. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/0jwW...

Crisis Point: Debating Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh

SPERI Presents... · Episode

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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 5d

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: SECOND of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How asset boom and bust drove MAGA’s rise and also revealed powerful monetary tools that could make socialism—that and more www.thedigradio.com/podcast/from...

From Fiscal Austerity to Monetary Abundance w/ Melinda Cooper

Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Balanced budget conservatism and supply side populism engineered a politics of austerity and budget deficit...

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social · 22d

Does China's party-state capitalist model mean it can fully decarbonise its economy?

Our exec producer Chris Saltmarsh joins Remi to discuss his @ripejournal.bsky.social article on the development of the Chinese political economy and implications for tackling the climate crisis

🎧 shorturl.at/xUwW5

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Mark Blyth @mkblyth.bsky.social · 26d

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...

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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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Sep 5

“What is more, one wonders why something as crucial as borrowing costs to the lives of every citizen should sit beyond a country’s democratic process.”
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I can take or leave central bank independence, frankly

It makes no difference to growth and policymakers are always in hock to someone

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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · Sep 1

My newest piece for Jacobin traces the ideological inheritances of Danielle Smith.

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Meet Danielle Smith, Canada’s Ayn Rand in Cowboy Boots

Danielle Smith, Alberta’s leader, is fusing libertarian dogma with oil-soaked grievance politics. It’s Canada’s version of the New Right, dressed up in provincial pride.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution.

Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.

The Long Twilight of Central Bankism

Historically low levels of inflation and a defeated labor movement made the era of central bank independence possible. But the 2008 crash repoliticized the institution. Donald Trump’s attack on Lisa Cook is a backlash that has been brewing ever since.

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · Aug 14

🏠 Why is the housing market so broken?

Professor Johnna Montgomerie joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to explore how housing became a source of debt instead of security, and what it would take to change it.

🔊 Listen: player.sheffield.ac.uk/events/housi...

#HousingCrisis

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why does austerity keep coming back?

In Crisis Point, Clara Mattei joins us to explain how austerity has shaped capitalist societies for over a century.

Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/45zUEU8

#Austerity #CrisisPoint #PoliticalEconomy

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · Jul 29

Prof Matthew Watson joins @sperishefuni.bsky.social's podcast to ask: was the Long Depression truly a crisis?

From falling profits to class conflict, this period changed how we think about capitalism.

Listen now: bit.ly/3H4K4Lw
#EconomicHistory #PoliticalEconomy #ThePlayerSheffield

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Jul 26

"In the short term, the basic arithmetic of bond markets has deteriorated; more supply coupled with a reduction in both reliable and speculative demand. And that means higher bond yields look probable, forcing governments to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits."
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The bond market maths does not add up for governments

Higher yields look probable, forcing countries to pay more to fund their ever-growing deficits

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · Jul 21

What caused the 2008 financial crash? Why does it still matter today?

Dr Scott Lavery joins SPERI in Crisis Point to talk about how the crisis reshaped politics, the economy, and our everyday lives - and what might come next.

🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/3UiPw0a

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University of Sheffield Player @unishefplayer.bsky.social · Jul 14

What can the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis tell us about capitalism and global crashes?

Jomo Kwame Sundaram speaks to Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley about the role of the IMF, how it hit Asia, and how it connects to 2008.

Listen now on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · May 30

We wrote about the US ruling class taking the reins to manage its own decline. What do the Trumpist factions of capital want? Can that be squared with the interests of the MAGA base? Capable state managers could potentially thread the needle, but that's all gone. With @cedricdurand.bsky.social.

America’s Braudelian Autumn | Benjamin Braun & Cédric Durand

Factions of capital in the second Trump administration

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · May 17

“the debt crisis creates constraints beyond any Caesarist ambition. Either Trump has to make decisions on tariffs that calm bond markets, or, he will have to rely on the Fed’s willingness to activate more QE”https://unherd.com/2025/05/trumps-new-world-disorder/

Trump’s new world disorder

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · May 4

“Thatcher didn’t plan to financialise the British economy; nor did she think she could survive unemployment of more than 10 per cent... By 1990, she’d shown you could do all these things and still win elections. This was the Thatcher transformation.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · It’s a shitshow: Thatcher’s Failed Experiment

Tim Lankester, Thatcher’s private secretary for economic affairs for the first two and a half years of her tenure,...

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social · Apr 29

💭NEW BLOG💭

Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series

📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO

🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social · Apr 22

On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired

More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX

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Mike McCarthy @itsmccarthy.bsky.social · Apr 15

The journal I help edit, Critical Sociology, is running a special issue on Antonio Gramsci’s notion of the “passive revolution.” Here is one of the articles by @grundrza.bsky.social and Paret that considers absorption as a bottom up process. Check it out online first.

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Apr 15

Last episode of Crisis Point is out now. We wrap up the series offering a working theory of crisis and covering polycrisis, the novelty of 2008 and its aftermath, climate change, and what political economy can offer to make sense of the present. open.spotify.com/episode/3shV...

Crisis Point: A Theory Of Crisis w/ Dillon Wamsley & Chris Saltmarsh

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Apr 11

Yield on 10y Treasuries back above 4.5%. We're not sure who's selling but we know who the holders are. I wrote a short post with some hopefully helpful dataviz based on TIC and financial accounts. Key points:

1. Foreign holdings as % of total: declining since 2008.
benjaminbraun.org/posts/treasu...

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Apr 10

Episode #11 of Crisis Point with Jeremy Green (@jbrgreen.bsky.social) is out now. What is the relationship between climate change, capitalism, and modernity? How does it force us to rethink our understanding of crisis?

Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social · Apr 10

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

Climate crisis threatens human life & with it the conditions of capitalist production. Can we stop it? How does it relate to other capitalist crises?

@jbrgreen.bsky.social joins Chris & Dillon to discuss perhaps the most pressing crisis of all. open.spotify.com/episode/4pYE...

Crisis Point: Climate Crisis w/ Jeremy Green

SPERI Presents... · Episode

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Whatever the plan may have been, its extent and its timing were ultimately determined by the movement of capital."

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Markets 1, Trump 0

Plenty of game left to play, though

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Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute @sperishefuni.bsky.social · Apr 7

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️

Does the rise of right-wing populism represent a crisis of democracy in the West? What does this have to do with the 2008 crisis?

Michael Bray joins Chris and Dillon to discuss democracy in the history of capitalism and populism.

Listen now: shorturl.at/syXzE

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Dillon Wamsley @dillonwamsley.bsky.social · Apr 7

Episode #10 of Crisis Point on populism, capitalism, and democracy with Michael Bray is out now: open.spotify.com/episode/20TJ...

Crisis Point: Populism w/ Michael Bray

SPERI Presents... · Episode

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Ryan Kelpin @ryankelpin.bsky.social · Apr 4

My newest scholarly article on Doug Ford, neoliberalism, (anti)majoritarianism, and the use of inherited institutional and constitutional frameworks to insulate austerity from critique.

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#dougford #ontario #onpoli #ontariopolitics #neoliberalism

Doug Ford, neoliberal parliamentarism and oscillating majoritarianism: The use of constitutional tools to centralize power and undercut democratic decision-making processes | Canadian Poli...

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