Fulya Apaydin
@fulyaapaydin
Associate Prof. | Political economy, industrial policy, finance and development | PI: Governing Private Debt | Writing a book on Space policy for Verso Books 🚀 🛰 Views: my own
Here are some pics from today's solar eclipse--unfortunately clouds blocked the rest, so no full-eclipse shots, but it was indeed an experience! 🔭
"With AI shrinking the runway for entry-level coders, ambitious students are...gravitating toward fields tied to engineering, manufacturing, infrastructure, and finance and imagining a decade where growth comes from building physical things..." www.reveliolabs.com/news/social/...
Happy Sant Jordi- celebrating with a rose and a book here in Barcelona 🌹📚
Wrapping up my slides for the Critical Narratives of Outer Space Workshop later this week at Oxford, very excited and looking forward! @alinau27.bsky.social
It’s really a shame that we depend on private money just to have a public conversation, and even worse when that exchange often turns into a yelling contest funded by some profit seeking investor. Hard to provide public goods with private capital, Bluesky edition.
From Braudel, vol.1. And what will the picture look like after private credit?
Macron already in mourning mode for the Atlantic order: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre www.ft.com/content/7692...
And authoritarian leaders can instrumentalize the banking sector in different ways, also see our study with @piroskadora.bsky.social and @mkeremcoban.bsky.social:
To add: I am not sure whether Central Bank Independence is the magic bullet that would solve the inflation problem here, as it is not a mere technical issue that is easily addressed by some technocratic intervention. The struggle over controlling the rate is more of a political story, also see:
Combine David Brooks and his nostalgia for the past, and this is what you get:
I would elaborate further, but busy revising the first draft of my book, so hopefully I can explain it better in about 90000 words if you’d like to read it when it comes out.
That’s pretty much it, really. “Big tech’s ‘elite victim complex’ www.ft.com/content/bb8e...
The conference is on, with a very exciting program! And a great badge design 😊