Stefan Eich
@stefeich.bsky.social
Political theorist of 💵 ⌛️ ⚖️ 🌱 at Georgetown; Author of THE CURRENCY OF POLITICS (PUP 2022) / DIE WÄHRUNG DER POLITIK (Hamburger Edition, Herbst 2023)
https://stefaneich.com/
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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)
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September 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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...
Bailey’s obsession w/ quantitative tightening should be a *much* more important story in any account of what’s going on w/ UK gilts.
But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England urged to slow bond-selling plan to help cut record UK borrowing costs
Ex-MPC members say ‘quantitative tightening’ should be scaled back or halted entirely, saving the Treasury up to £10bn a year
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Bailey’s obsession w/ quantitative tightening should be a *much* more important story in any account of what’s going on w/ UK gilts.
But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
But, perversely, if a Chancellor were to point out that the Bank of England wields quasi-fiscal powers, this would be seen as a violation of central bank independence
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it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Bank of England urged to slow bond-selling plan to help cut record UK borrowing costs
Ex-MPC members say ‘quantitative tightening’ should be scaled back or halted entirely, saving the Treasury up to £10bn a year
www.theguardian.com
September 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
it's Monday, another day when Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, enjoys fiscal powers nobody gave him, and uses them against the government
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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@rlspang.bsky.social provides lots of details here on the politics of recent goldsilverbuggery. Also helpful: this article from a few years ago by @stefeich.bsky.social on crypto and the politics of depoliticization:
academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
July 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
@rlspang.bsky.social provides lots of details here on the politics of recent goldsilverbuggery. Also helpful: this article from a few years ago by @stefeich.bsky.social on crypto and the politics of depoliticization:
academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
academic.oup.com/book/36505/c...
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Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Neoliberalism and Race | Stanford University Press
Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studi...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very exciting to see that my book has its own page on the SUP website now
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
Should be hitting shelves in October!
www.sup.org/books/theory...
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Tim is writing the first draft of history ya'll, if you aren't already reading Polycrisis religiously you need to get on that.
Trade, Dollars,Energy...even MODERNITY & the FUTURE. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order
A quarter of the way to the 22nd Century, everything is up for grabs
TY for inspo:Mark Blyth,Helen Thompson,Bentley Allan
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
A quarter of the way to the 22nd Century, everything is up for grabs
TY for inspo:Mark Blyth,Helen Thompson,Bentley Allan
phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Tim is writing the first draft of history ya'll, if you aren't already reading Polycrisis religiously you need to get on that.
Heartening to see the spirit of Keynes channeled in today’s Letters to the FT.
The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
June 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Heartening to see the spirit of Keynes channeled in today’s Letters to the FT.
The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
The CB rush to gold is far darker than portfolio diversification. It represents an admission of international institutional collapse and a tragic shift into unproductive hoarding. Bravo Vishnu Nair!
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Appropriately perhaps, today is the birthday of Maynard Keynes, Britain's greatest ever financial warrior: 142 years young today. #AgeofMammonandMars
June 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Appropriately perhaps, today is the birthday of Maynard Keynes, Britain's greatest ever financial warrior: 142 years young today. #AgeofMammonandMars
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What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The limits to derisked decarbonization: state capacity unevenness in domestic green transition strategies
With the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, governments around the world committed to developing national plans to reduce emissions and limit average global temperatures to below 2 °C above p...
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June 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
What does de-risked decarbonization mean for state capacity across sectors?
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I am THRILLED that this article is now out in @ripejournal.bsky.social! 🔓
Current climate finance regimes lock in lopsided transitions - states need resources for unbankable transitions.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Thanks for reading! Actually working on some projects on “counterfeit democracy” (including of the crypto variety) with Leah Downey, whose recent excellent book you might also appreciate.
Just finished @stefeich.bsky.social's challenging but excellent 2022 book The Currency of Politics. Covering various thinkers from Aristotle to neoliberals, it was an interesting intellectual history of attempts to politicize (and often democratize) money and to de-politicize (de-democratize) it.
June 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thanks for reading! Actually working on some projects on “counterfeit democracy” (including of the crypto variety) with Leah Downey, whose recent excellent book you might also appreciate.
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Bloch: “I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present. If we had not already gone beyond the barriers, we could not even perceive them as barriers.”
May 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Bloch: “I believe, Teddy, that we are certainly in agreement here: the essential function of utopia is a critique of what is present. If we had not already gone beyond the barriers, we could not even perceive them as barriers.”
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Hi folks! Discount code incoming for my new book Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds.
May 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hi folks! Discount code incoming for my new book Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds.
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For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English)
undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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@mattpolprof.bsky.social
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
Alasdair MacIntyre
This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinki...
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May 26, 2025 at 12:21 AM
For what it’s worth, I still think one of the best studies of the late Alasdair MacIntyre & his thought is this 2005 intellectual biography by Emile Perreau-Saussine (now translated into English)
undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
undpress.nd.edu/978026820325...
@mattpolprof.bsky.social
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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I'm just going to throw this book by @stefeich.bsky.social into the ring, as I think it talks about the most important aspect of money fundamental at play here: "... to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule."
May 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I'm just going to throw this book by @stefeich.bsky.social into the ring, as I think it talks about the most important aspect of money fundamental at play here: "... to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule."
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This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!
The Supreme Court goes out of its way to say that its order today does NOT allow Trump to remove members of the Federal Reserve because it is "uniquely structured" and has a "distinct history tradition." (I do not think those distinctions hold water.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
May 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!
Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!?
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
May 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Did I mention that ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE includes a terrific chapter on Alasdair MacIntyre?!?
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
"[MacIntyre’s] journey from Marxism is less a reactionary departure and more a story of his thinking through of modernity in terms already indicated in his earlier Marxist work."
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Congrats to Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social on winning the 2024 David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)!
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The Currency of Politics
Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s
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May 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Congrats to Stefan Eich @stefeich.bsky.social on winning the 2024 David and Elaine Spitz Prize from the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)!
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Kind words from a fantastic editor and theorist — it was great pleasure to work with Stefan
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
May 22, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Kind words from a fantastic editor and theorist — it was great pleasure to work with Stefan
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
May 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Be sure to get your hands on this beautiful book!
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
Michael Lazarus’s ABSOLUTE ETHICAL LIFE is at once magisterial & elegant, profound & written from the heart. This will be a classic.
Out in paperback in our SUP series on June 3. Congrats @michaellazarus.bsky.social!
www.sup.org/books/politi...
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In my article “Future Theft” I argue that fossil capitalization relies on a temporally inverted form of “original accumulation” (Marx) and ask if and how climate reparations can help to reclaim the stolen future. Open Access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
In my article “Future Theft” I argue that fossil capitalization relies on a temporally inverted form of “original accumulation” (Marx) and ask if and how climate reparations can help to reclaim the stolen future. Open Access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage @sciencespo.bsky.social and I edit for @theoryculturesociety.org on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0
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May 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Very excited to announce the first drop of a Special Issue Alain Pottage @sciencespo.bsky.social and I edit for @theoryculturesociety.org on “Planetary Property". Together with our brilliant contributors we seek to advance ecological critiques of property. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/0/0
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11/ Choose your climate future. Our political/social/econ choices over coming years will determine how severe consequences will be. Politics of who wins & loses,& how ppl & nations make justice
@iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics.
thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...
@iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics.
thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...
May 21, 2025 at 5:30 AM
11/ Choose your climate future. Our political/social/econ choices over coming years will determine how severe consequences will be. Politics of who wins & loses,& how ppl & nations make justice
@iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics.
thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...
@iliasalami.bsky.social & I chat about the Geo in Geo-Politics.
thedigradio.com/podcast/new-...
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Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.
Keynes’ Ökonomie von Überfluss und Freiheit
Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.
www.surplusmagazin.de
May 19, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Für John Maynard Keynes sollte wirtschaftliches Wachstum das moralische und politische Leben verändern. Seine Ökonomik war so widersprüchlich wie produktiv.
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The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will take place on 24 June 2025 at 9am.
To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk
Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk
Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
May 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History will take place on 24 June 2025 at 9am.
To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk
Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
To register, please click this link: ptih-graduate-conference.eventbrite.co.uk
Visit our website for more details: www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
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Shortlist for the first Climate Fiction Prize has just been announced @climate-fiction.bsky.social - short thread
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Shortlist for the first Climate Fiction Prize has just been announced @climate-fiction.bsky.social - short thread