Nick Bernards

My book is out! Fictions of Financialization is a critique of ‘financialization’ discourses, and an effort to articulate a renewed Marxist perspective on the power of finance in capitalism. Just published with @PlutoPress! plutobooks.com/9780745348896/…

NEW POST: @farwasial unpacks what the rise of private equity for the global South means, especially when it comes to indebtedness, public markets, and the public subsidy function of development finance. Locusts? Vampires? Have a read 👇 developingeconomics.org/2025/07/23/pri…

Well, this is exciting. Writing this with @KeirMilburn and @alterurbanist was a blast. I can't wait to share it with the world this September. Preorder with @PlutoPress: plutobooks.com/9780745351353/…

We've got a super exciting new initiative for early career scholars at the journal Economy and Society ! Submit your papers for a £1000 Early Career Paper Prize 2026. Link below.

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. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I have a new piece in @RIPEJournal which is part of a forthcoming special issue on Raced Finance. Thanks to @IliasAlami @VincentGuermond & Ali Bhagat for being such fantastic editors 🌟 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Really excited for this collection! On renewing Marxist debates about 'exploitation' as a lens on the transformations of contemporary capitalism. Coming soon...

A nice review of Fictions of Financialization in @IJURResearch: ijurr.org/book_review/fi…

Now reading - really quite enjoying this one. Has its limits, but more takes on climate politics that put the political economy of asset stranding at the centre would be very welcome.

🧵Don Goldstein & I edit a symposium on “Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine" in Review of Radical Political Economics. 5 powerful essays that place Palestine at the heart of global capitalism’s contradictions. Intro: doi.org/10.1177/048661…

Some weeks ago I was invited by @IIPPE_ to speak at @SOAS and review @BernardsNick's latest book on financialisation (plutobooks.com/9780745348896/…). This review has now been published by @CapitalClass2 as an extended book review. contd. in comments journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

An extended review of my book in Capital and Class, by Christian Koutny. Unsurprisingly I don’t agree with all of it, but it is really quite nice to see this kind of engagement with the book! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

My book 'The Personal Life of Debt' is published today 🥳 and you can read the free e-book here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/bo… #debt #inequality #coercion #subjectivity #ethnography #sociology #anthropology #Britain