Cédric Durand

Now in your favorite bookshop! "How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy". Thanks @VersoBooks and @broderly for his fantastic translation ! versobooks.com/products/2790-…

Trump govt is giving private equity what they have been salivating for decades -- 401ks! @STOmarova @BJMbraun & @cedric_durand: "the single biggest prize for the private finance faction is access to the vast pool of individual retirement assets." phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

Unemployment weakens governments. Inflation kills. The politically destructive power of inflation had been forgotten. Standard policy tools left us unprepared and fueled inequality. The re-election of Trump should serve as a warning to all democrats. My first @nytopinion. 1/

New WP - "Further expansion of historically oversized financial systems faces structural limits. In the context of debates regarding systemic shifts away from finance-led accumulation regimes , this research highlights the monetary dimension as a crucial locus of transformation."

This great piece from @BJMbraun and @cedric_durand on the factions competing over the White House has given me some of the greatest clarity on what is going on right now. Among other things, BlackRock moving right to bring 401(k)s into private markets. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

Capital's factions clashes in the Trump2 era. "The ambitions of the new Silicon Valley elite is not only to incapacitate the federal bureaucracy, but also to dethrone Wall Street." with @BJMbraun in @phenomenalworld phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

ESG standards and the sovereign debt markets in a historical perspective - Ür-ESG, Brazil and the Rothschilds ft.com/content/14c854… via @ft

"Face à l'agression du tandem Trump-Musk, vers un front anti-techno-féodal. "Echapper au processus de colonisation numérique (...) implique un protectionnisme numérique et un nouvel internationalisme technologique".

"Forming an anti-technofeudal front that reaches beyond the left to various democratic forces and fractions of capital at odds with Big Tech. (...) This would imply a form of digital protectionism (..) as well as a new digital internationalism"

Direction BS / Moving to BS too

The text is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10… All SI papers have now been published. We'll provide a link to the full special issue once available. Papers among others by such wonderful scholars as @yousafnibo @MattWThompson @MaxGruenberg @Technolowicz

Ya online nuevo número de la @NewLeftReview en español Con Rashid Khalidi y Tariq Ali sobre Palestina, Tony Wood sobre México, Radhika Desai sobre la India, Cédric Durand sobre Brett Christophers y Owen Hatherley sobre Andy Beckett, y mucho más ➕info: newleftreview.es

What kind of moment are we living in? The Left is on the defensive as crises multiply, polarization deepens, and authoritarianism spreads. Join us in Berlin on 15-16 November to discuss strategies and socialist perspectives: rosalux.de/en/event/es_de…

C'est ce soir !

Suzanne de Brunhoff: "ce que signifie cette étrange manière d’être de la monnaie, indissociable et distincte des autres relations caractéristiques du capitalisme" Merci @Ed_Sociales pour cette réédition et @r_bellofiore pour la collaboration.

Quels objectifs et quels moyens publics pour l’industrie ? 1ère table ronde du colloque industrie avec : - Cédric Durand, Professeur d’économie politique à l’université de Genève - Anne-Laure Delatte, Directrice de recherche au CNRS - Vincent Vicard, Adjoint au directeur du CEPII

"most countries have almost no say in their digital future (...) we should press forward with the old idea of computing as a public utility." with @CeciliaRikap @jacobin jacobin.com/2024/10/brazil…

"Google is a natural and an intellectual monopoly, (...). Under a natural monopoly, boosting competition would come at the expense of efficiency and worsen search results. (...) increasing competition in this market would not make it free or fair."