Nick Bernards
@nickbernards.bsky.social
Critical Political Economist -- Author: A critical history of poverty finance (http://bit.ly/3pEV7Cf); Fictions of financialization (http://bit.ly/3PUWzdR) -- Reader in Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick.
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Really enjoying this!
November 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Really enjoying this!
Probably as good a time as any for Sivanandan on the British state's contortions around immigration.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
November 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Probably as good a time as any for Sivanandan on the British state's contortions around immigration.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Really enjoyed this book! Raises a whole bunch of really vital questions about power and transition, and does so much to get us beyond a rote insistence on state action in climate politics.
This kind of half-hopeful take hoping that some imminent Chinese hegemony will save us from climate breakdown is grimly fascinating.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
This kind of half-hopeful take hoping that some imminent Chinese hegemony will save us from climate breakdown is grimly fascinating.
Giving up my principled refusal to take ideas about ‘neo-/techno-feudalism’ seriously and giving this a (skeptical) read:
October 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Giving up my principled refusal to take ideas about ‘neo-/techno-feudalism’ seriously and giving this a (skeptical) read:
The word ‘despite’ is doing an incredible amount of work here.
How else *would* an asylum hotel provider make a £180m profit? This is exactly the ‘efficiency’ the private sector offers…
How else *would* an asylum hotel provider make a £180m profit? This is exactly the ‘efficiency’ the private sector offers…
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
The word ‘despite’ is doing an incredible amount of work here.
How else *would* an asylum hotel provider make a £180m profit? This is exactly the ‘efficiency’ the private sector offers…
How else *would* an asylum hotel provider make a £180m profit? This is exactly the ‘efficiency’ the private sector offers…
Exciting new arrival on my pile of books I don’t know when I’ll get to read now that term has started!
October 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Exciting new arrival on my pile of books I don’t know when I’ll get to read now that term has started!
September 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Have just started this. It’s really brilliant.
September 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Have just started this. It’s really brilliant.
Just bleak as hell that doing peer reviews apparently now includes ticking this box...
August 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Just bleak as hell that doing peer reviews apparently now includes ticking this box...
Free books!
For reasons too complicated to explain I now have multiple copies of all of the books 👇… if you’re fairly local (ie. in the UK) and would like any/all of them please let me know…
For reasons too complicated to explain I now have multiple copies of all of the books 👇… if you’re fairly local (ie. in the UK) and would like any/all of them please let me know…
August 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Free books!
For reasons too complicated to explain I now have multiple copies of all of the books 👇… if you’re fairly local (ie. in the UK) and would like any/all of them please let me know…
For reasons too complicated to explain I now have multiple copies of all of the books 👇… if you’re fairly local (ie. in the UK) and would like any/all of them please let me know…
Another SI article now out!
Bridget Kenny looks at emerging forms of exploitation linked to the rise of logistics and e-commerce in Gauteng, showing how these ‘adapt and reproduce’ historic racial hierarchies.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bridget Kenny looks at emerging forms of exploitation linked to the rise of logistics and e-commerce in Gauteng, showing how these ‘adapt and reproduce’ historic racial hierarchies.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Another SI article now out!
Bridget Kenny looks at emerging forms of exploitation linked to the rise of logistics and e-commerce in Gauteng, showing how these ‘adapt and reproduce’ historic racial hierarchies.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Bridget Kenny looks at emerging forms of exploitation linked to the rise of logistics and e-commerce in Gauteng, showing how these ‘adapt and reproduce’ historic racial hierarchies.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Another SI contribution now out!
Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Another SI contribution now out!
Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ben Selwyn on capital's appropriation of the living world, through the conjoined exploitation of labour and extraction of nature, exacerbated through the restructuring of global production around capitalist value chains.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New article!
In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism.
Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism.
Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
New article!
In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism.
Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In this extended introduction to an imminent SI, I argue for renewed engagement with key Marxist debates about exploitation as a way of understanding the mutations of contemporary global capitalism.
Now out in @NPEjournal! (Open Access)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Really excited for this collection! On renewing Marxist debates about exploitation as a lens on the transformations of contemporary capitalism.
Coming soon...
Coming soon...
July 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Really excited for this collection! On renewing Marxist debates about exploitation as a lens on the transformations of contemporary capitalism.
Coming soon...
Coming soon...
The Economist joining Larry Summers in noticing that mobilizing private capital isn’t working…
May 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The Economist joining Larry Summers in noticing that mobilizing private capital isn’t working…
‘AI is inevitable; we need to teach students how to use it’. Also, unrelatedly, ChatGPT can’t afford for you to say ‘please’.
April 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
‘AI is inevitable; we need to teach students how to use it’. Also, unrelatedly, ChatGPT can’t afford for you to say ‘please’.
Strongly suspect that ChatGPT has written most of the statement we've just been sent from my employer's 'Chief Information and Transformation Officer' on AI in education...
April 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Strongly suspect that ChatGPT has written most of the statement we've just been sent from my employer's 'Chief Information and Transformation Officer' on AI in education...
In honour of Larry Fink reviving the 'democratization of investment' bit, I'm posting one of my favourite bits of delirious Marxology, from Robert Shiller's writing about the democratization of finance...
April 1, 2025 at 9:22 AM
In honour of Larry Fink reviving the 'democratization of investment' bit, I'm posting one of my favourite bits of delirious Marxology, from Robert Shiller's writing about the democratization of finance...
Textbook demonstration from the Economist of the uncomfortably thin line between liberalism and fascism…
March 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Textbook demonstration from the Economist of the uncomfortably thin line between liberalism and fascism…
Really enjoyed this one. Despite the slight red herring ‘age of genomic capital’ bit in the title, it does a really nice job of historicizing a lot of biotech solutionism.
March 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Really enjoyed this one. Despite the slight red herring ‘age of genomic capital’ bit in the title, it does a really nice job of historicizing a lot of biotech solutionism.
Just got a surprisingly big (i.e., not 0) royalty statement from Taylor & Francis. My book sold a total of 6 copies last year (for which I earn GBP 1.48).
The rest comes from what the statement calls 'Electronic data licensing'.
Which led me to this horror:
taylorandfrancis.com/contact/righ...
The rest comes from what the statement calls 'Electronic data licensing'.
Which led me to this horror:
taylorandfrancis.com/contact/righ...
March 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Just got a surprisingly big (i.e., not 0) royalty statement from Taylor & Francis. My book sold a total of 6 copies last year (for which I earn GBP 1.48).
The rest comes from what the statement calls 'Electronic data licensing'.
Which led me to this horror:
taylorandfrancis.com/contact/righ...
The rest comes from what the statement calls 'Electronic data licensing'.
Which led me to this horror:
taylorandfrancis.com/contact/righ...
Really looking forward to this!
(Also, pleasantly surprised that it’s quite hefty)
(Also, pleasantly surprised that it’s quite hefty)
February 28, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Really looking forward to this!
(Also, pleasantly surprised that it’s quite hefty)
(Also, pleasantly surprised that it’s quite hefty)
4) The headline figure of '90%' is somewhat alarmist -- somewhere halfway down there's a more detailed breakdown of what students are actually using AI for.
February 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
4) The headline figure of '90%' is somewhat alarmist -- somewhere halfway down there's a more detailed breakdown of what students are actually using AI for.