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🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ Rising prices have dominated social and political life, being dubbed the cost-of-living crisis. Is this a crisis of capitalism, or the system working as normal? Martijn Konings discusses with Chris and Dillon shorturl.at/GWVk8

Episode #9 of Crisis Point on inflation, cost-of-living, and the bailout state with Martijn Konings is out now. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/18o4xC…

Episode #10 of Crisis Point on populism, capitalism, and democracy with Michael Bray is out now.

"Whatever the plan may have been, its extent and its timing were ultimately determined by the movement of capital." on.ft.com/4lp51QD

Climate crisis threatens destruction of human life & with it the conditions of capitalist production. Can we stop it? How does it relate to other crises in capitalism? Jeremy Green joins Chris and Dillon to discuss perhaps the most 'crisis' crisis of all. open.spotify.com/episode/4pYE4I…

Episode #11 of Crisis Point with Jeremy Green is out now. What is the relationship between climate change, capitalism, and modernity? How does it force us to rethink our understanding of crisis? open.spotify.com/episode/4pYE4I…

'Globalization cannot simply be reversed at the stroke of a pen. Its unravelling would require a challenge to the dominant fractions of capital more serious than anything Trump is willing to contemplate.' Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno on Trump's tariffs: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

As Trump triggers "sell America", will the result be "stage 4", the politicization of financial markets? The latest Chartbook newsletter just dropped tinyurl.com/4mr43uhp

🎙️SPERI Presents...🎙️ CRISIS POINT, final episode Dillon and Chris propose a theory of capitalist crisis In the post-2008 era, crises of accumulation and legitimation entangle and intensify absent a popular social force to break the deadlock shorturl.at/hMG7e

Mr. Poilievre is resuscitating COVID-era arguments that inflation is a 'tax' (caused by Justin Trudeau's deficits and Tiff Macklem's ATM), and that he can 'cancel the tax' with federal spending cuts. Here are the top 4 reasons his economics are all wrong: #cdnecon #cdnpoli /2

On 3 April 2025, SPERI hosted a workshop on the British Political Economy Tradition to examine its character, insights and contributions, and celebrate the life's work of Professor Andrew Gamble who recently retired More here: shorturl.at/X9qrX

💭NEW BLOG💭 Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley develop Seven Theses on Crisis in capitalism, illuminated by their discussions with experts in their recent 12-part podcast series 📝Read the blog: shorturl.at/sfKqO 🎧Listen to the series: shorturl.at/wxXZJ

'Seven theses on crisis' Dillon Wamsley & I write for the SPERI blog reflecting on Crisis Point podcast series, putting forward a theory of crisis, and arguing our current conjuncture is characterised by a unique combination of two great crises. speri-blog.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog/2025/seve…

‘Donald Trump can appear to defy even the possibility of political explanation.’ Helen Thompson POLIS seeks method in his madness 👇 buff.ly/wdTEcGm

We are in this late stage neoliberalism where the IMF becomes a source to be quoted against austerity imposed by center left governments. Same happened a couple of years ago in Germany.

Political economy at its best: “Just a few months in, the antinomies of Trumponomics are on full display, and without obvious resolution.” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ameri…

Bizarre that Reform are the only national party raising this - it’s an absolute fortune we are paying to banks now, c.£130bn over next five years!

Work requirements in any welfare or social support system are primarily about punishing people for not taking jobs that don't actually exist.

July 4th, 2025

Was the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis an early sign of 2008? Economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram joins Chris Saltmarsh and Dillon Wamsley to unpack what happened and why it still matters. Listen on The Player: bit.ly/3TACefp