This talk contrasts five different mainstream theories of the economic crisis with David Harvey's Marxist analysis. He build the talk around the rhetorical device of a question which the Queen asked the London School of Economics: How come you guys didn't see the crisis coming?
The very entertaining RSA ( (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) artistic animation enhances the presentation considerably.
I looked at this after I'd started reading his Enigma of Capital. The RSA animations are incredibly helpful in providing a simple viualisation of his approach to blockages in the circuits of capital and the nature of the crisis.
AI and Liability
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Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI
search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves,”
and...
Open State Foundation zoekt nieuwe directeur
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Bij de Open State Foundation (waar ik voorzitter ben) zoeken we een nieuwe
directeur! Herken jij je in het profiel (PDF), en ben je net zo bevlogen
als ons...
AI #174: You're It
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Fable remains in limbo, with renewed hope that we will get it back soon
(45% by tomorrow, 69% by July 1, nice.) The full capabilities post is now
available.
Overcoming Sincere Prestige Bias
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Humans suffer two big but under-discussed biases, which together make us
overly favor people we see as prestigious and sincere. First, humanity’s
superpowe...
RIP Climate Etc.
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by Judith Curry It’s time to declare victory against climate stupidity and
move on. Well, the definition of victory here is about as fuzzy as that for
th...
Quick Thoughts on Wealth
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from Dean Baker Elon Musk’s trillion-dollar payday from the IPO of SpaceX
has hugely amplified the public’s focus on extreme wealth inequality.
Musk’s econ...
In Defense of the Marginal Baby
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This Father’s Day, I took some notes on parenting and put them together
here. The purpose of this post is to strongly advocate for people to
increment thei...
The Hypostasis of The Archons
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Several readers have asked that I publish my complete rendition of The
Hypostasis of The Archons, having been intrigued by excerpts from that work
which I ...
Iran Broke the Spell
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Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai argue that the Iran war has exposed the
limits of US military, financial and oil power. They examine how rising oil
pric...
Call for workshop proposals: FOCS 2026
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[Guest post by Sam Hopkins] We invite groups of interested researchers to
submit workshop proposals for FOCS 2026 by July 31, 2026. The FOCS 2026
workshops...
An academic year aburst
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[image: An orange and blue sunset against the Puget Sound.]The sunset in
Edmonds, WA, late summer 2025.
It’s the first Monday after the end of my 2025–26 a...
Octonions and the Standard Model
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Paul Schwahn and I have come out with a new paper about octonions and the
Standard Model: • The Standard Model gauge group from the exceptional
Jordan alge...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
iTunes extension for Scratch
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In this post, I want to share a new Scratch extension I made today. It uses
the iTunes Search API to let you search for songs, and play 30 second
previews ...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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I looked at this after I'd started reading his Enigma of Capital. The RSA animations are incredibly helpful in providing a simple viualisation of his approach to blockages in the circuits of capital and the nature of the crisis.
Hope you're keeping well Bill!
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