Category: Commodity
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Where the Money Goes
National tax composition in the UK and the local government finance layer underneath it.
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PIG IRON: The Great Transformation
In which we explain how Polanyi shows that the regulating mechanisms of capitalism are constructed not inevitable.
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PIG IRON 10: The Antithesis
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. In which we set out the objections to our views.
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Why Do You Put Up With This?
In which we explore the contradictions which pervert the spectacle of football
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PIG IRON: Dollar Hegemony: The Habit Nobody Can Quit
Essays in Political Economy: In Which we Explore Dollar Hegemony and Why it Might Change
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Sexy Greedy: Caryl Churchill, the City Comedy, and the World Big Bang Made
Serious Money: A deep dive into an essential English drama
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Harvey and the Continentals
David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity and the Cultural Spine of Political Economy
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Co-option of Black music by a White industry
In which we outline a century of economic extraction dressed as cultural appreciation
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What’s the Big Idea
A list of thinkers whose ideas do most to inform this blog.
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The Stuff of Dreams and Exploitation: The Experience Economy Eats Itself
In which we conclude that genuine experience is more resilient than the system that tries to sell it.
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PIG IRON: Pete and Bernie’s Philosophical Steakhouse
In which Alan Partridge goes to Paris, eats a testicle, and unknowingly demonstrates everything this series has been arguing.
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The Stochastic Parrot and the Armchair Progressive
On AI, the commodification of thought, and why the machine that embodies the problem might also illuminate the argument.
