Martijn Konings

Jan 24, 2025 | newleftreview.org | Martijn Konings

The revival of Keynesian ‘supply-side economics’ and a proactive industrial policy under the Biden administration appeared to mark a significant shift. Neoliberals had long insisted that governments let the forces of market globalization unfold, accommodated by ensuring a noninflationary environment through austere fiscal and monetary policy.

Sep 19, 2024 | annpettifor.substack.com | Lisa Adkins |Melinda Cooper |Martijn Konings |Ann Pettifor

Continuous and accurate valuation of assets is at the nerve-wracking heart of today’s financial capitalism. Flawed valuations can be the cause of systemic crisis - and of losses for investors and pensioners - unless and until we are compelled to face reality. Why so? readers may ask. Karl Marx hinted at an answer in The Communist Manifesto. “All that is solid” he wrote, “melts into air.

May 17, 2023 | paperity.org | Martijn Konings

Finance and Society, Mar 2023 Martijn Konings. , Finance and Society, 2023, pp. 80-83, Volume 9, Issue 1,

Apr 25, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Lisa Adkins |Martijn Konings

IntroductionThe pausing of economic activities and stay-at-home orders put in place by authorities around the world to mitigate COVID-19 infection rates have been widely understood to have upended and transformed the collective experience of time (see, for example, Grove et al., 2021; Suckert, 2021).