Donald Trump complains that they are undermining the supremacy of the dollar.
Henry Farrell (and Abraham Newman), “America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs,” Financial Times, September 19, 2024.
America Should Think Twice Before Replacing Sanctions with Tariffs – with Abraham Newman
Other Writing:
Essay
Remaking Fantasy: China Miéville’s New Crobuzon Novels
Some months ago, Jennifer Howard used a critical review of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell to argue that fantasy should be about “high seriousness,” “magic that battles for the soul of the world,” and above all, “the epic sense of Good and Evil, of things larger than ourselves, that makes the best fantasy ...
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Academic Article
The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism – with Marion Fourcade
This short piece compares 21st century machine learning to 19th and 20th century bureaucracy – we hope to write more. While people in and around the tech industry debate whether algorithms are political at all, social scientists take the politics as a given, asking instead how this politics unfolds: how algorithms concretely govern. What we ...
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