Evgeny Morozov

Great new paper (via @syllabus_tweets) on how big consulting firms have profited from the pandemic [link] (paywalled alas)

Thread on Web3. In 1991 Albert O. Hirschman published a great book, The Rhetoric of Reaction, which outlined three common critical narratives in response to social change & social transformation. With Hirschman, we can identify three types of critiques of crypto/Web3... 1/6

Another great paper to hit my radar is this great *environmental* history of the Bank of America (!). I hope someone will write an equally detailed environmental history of Blackrock [link] (also via @syllabus_tweets)

There is a great new paper with the charming title of "Cyberpunk Victoria," which argues that the ascent of the British financial capitalism in the mid-19th (!) century was due to the mastery of (mostly human) [link] via @syllabus_tweets

This is such a great analysis of how the political economy behind Web3 actually drives it *towards* centralization and *away* from privacy. A spectacular job by @moxie

I re-read Tim May's Crypto Anarchist Manifesto today. Amazing how, in the same paragraph, he got things both outrageously right and outrageously wrong. So, thanks to crypto, we did get "liquid market in words and pictures" (i.e. NFTs) but it definitely didn't dismantle IP!

Trying to understand the accident of history that led Einaudi to publish this stellar book by Jurij Davydov, virtually unknown in the Soviet Union then -- and now.

I somehow missed this great piece from two weeks ago exposing ESG ratings for the great fraud that they are (published in Bloomberg of all places)

This excellent new paper by @ecuarauz reveals a side to crypto you don't hear about: the global financial system is becoming more US-centric, US banks even more powerful. What happened to the blockchain undermining state power & traditional finance?

Every week, we pick our favorite new open-access paper at @syllabus_tweets. This week's edition features this fantastic new piece by @mbabic_1 on geoeconomics and the rise of states as owners in the global political economy. Fantastic visuals too!