Quinn Slobodian
zeithistoriker
A short thread on my article just published in Critical Historical Studies on the rise of the categories of "country risk" and "political risk" and the reordering of the world
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Who killed Bretton Woods? Historians have analyzed the economists around Nixon that pushed for the decision to float the US dollar in 1971. In our new Open Access @VersoBooks book,
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Watching @LalehKhalili’s zoom lecture at @HarvardGSD. Great granular archival detail from McKinsey, Shell, Rothschild on tankerization, an empirical test of Mitchell’s carbon democracy thesis. Can’t wait to read—and teach—the @VersoBooks
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Two differences between 2008 and 2020 for the Left: money and climate. We didn’t think much about either then and have thought about little else since. opening up the black
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