The Opposite of Growth Is Not Degrowth
I read this book from a Marxian tradition, and my three reservations are recognizably those a Marxist puts to a Foucauldian: that the framework struggles to say what makes capitalism historically distinctive, what makes capitalist production productive, and how either has ever been politically contested. Mitchell has been having that argument since Rule of Experts and will not be surprised. Two of the three have since been pressed from a similar direction by Jack Copley in New Left Review. The reader may discount accordingly.
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8.09.2026
The Opposite of Growth Is Not Degrowth
I read this book from a Marxian tradition, and my three reservations are recognizably those a Marxist puts to a Foucauldian: that the framework struggles to say what makes [...]
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History of Political Conflict: How Economy and Geography Shape the Political Field
Elia Stebach reviews Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty’s A History of Political Conflict: Elections and Social Inequalities in France, 1789-2022 (Belknap Press – Harvard [...]
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America’s Disengagement and Its Consequences
In this podcast the participants discuss the United States’ disengagement from institutions of global governance and what that has meant for multilateral support for human rights and democracy; [...]
3.09.2026
A State Within the State: Lessons from Iran and Beyond
In this special-series podcast with Saeid Golkar, we discuss his latest essay “Why IRGC is the war’s Biggest Winner” published in the Jully issue of the Journal of Democracy. Professor Golkar [...]