Dan Cohen
Critical urban and economic geographer studying the marketization of education and other social institutions (he/him). scholar.google.ca/citations?user=S265…
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- Notable ideas like postal banking and taking on Canada's price grocery oligopoly from the Lewis campaign. Given the effects of concentrated market power (seller's inflation, low wages, personalized pricing), they are important challenges to market-based discourse. lewisforleader.ca/ideas/public...
- Reposted by Dan CohenAI allows the results of human sociability and collective pursuit of knowledge to be appropriated as private property. That’s the killer app.
- Reposted by Dan CohenWilliam Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Dan CohenBit of analysis from me - “The clash between progressive policies and the powerful financial sector laid bare in the Epstein emails is still evident – and as in the case of Jamie Dimon, even some of the characters are the same”: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Dan CohenApplications are open for the Finance Summer School 2026. Last two have been at Brown. This one is at LSE thanks to LSE European Institute and Huth Initiative, plus the Berkeley Program on Finance and Democracy. Stellar Line up. Apps open: forms.gle/WsEVk4Yy52Dn...
- Reposted by Dan CohenWe're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
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- Reposted by Dan CohenAs a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
- Reposted by Dan CohenI really wish we could take some of the negative valence off of “performative” because performance is tremendously important right now especially
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- Experiencing both of these temperatures in under a month is a bit of a trip.
- Reposted by Dan CohenHey Folks, please help spread the word. We are hosting GENIUS again and we want your undergrads! This is a great opportunity for all involved www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
- Reposted by Dan CohenThe labor share of GDP is lower today than it has been at any time since records began being kept in 1947. The share of the nation’s income going to workers has fallen 16 points in that 78-year stretch. The share going to capital has risen by the same amount. prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
- My university has postdoc funding for those without a current affiliation with a Canadian uni working in specific areas, some of which overlap with geography (see below). Limited spots unfortunately but teach out if you are interested in a nomination. Due on Feb 9. www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...
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- Being over 40 is noticing a Dead Kennedys song when you see the SpongeBob Movie in theatre.
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- Reposted by Dan CohenBe our colleague… Hiring an Assistant Prof of Urban Geography & Climate Crisis. www.sfu.ca/geography/ab...
- Reposted by Dan CohenHow did ESG go from BlackRock's mainstream opportunity to a political battlefield? Christiansen et al's new commentary maps the anti-ESG backlash: 418 legislative proposals, $12B in divested funds, and the rise of explicitly anti-ESG investment products.
- I'm out somewhere with youths where they are playing a seemingly new synth pop cover of 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'; like if Flock of Seagulls had written the song. And let me tell you, I am temporally disoriented.
- My university, Queen's in Kingston, Canada, has announced its portion of the Canadian government's 'poach American scholars' program if anyone is interested. www.queensu.ca/vpr/sites/vp...
- Cool, cool, cool... Just a Bank of Canada paper investigating the idea of central banks buying stocks the next time CBs save the financial system. The last crisis pushed open the window for CBs to buy corporate debt, the state's backstop of finance marches on. www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/12/staf...
- Reposted by Dan Cohen"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
- At my university we found that an obscure accounting decision was leading to overprojected deficits that justified austerity while channeling money into capital projects at the same time as admin was laying off teaching and research support staff. The uproar shifted $5 million back into operating.
- Reposted by Dan CohenPeople should take a page out of New School faculty's book and start doing forensic accounting for their own institutions using public documents
- There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff. This should be headline news. x.com/uaw7902/stat...
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- Reposted by Dan CohenGotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted
- Reposted by Dan CohenNew research found that Instacart is charging shoppers different prices — despite ordering the same items from the same store at the same time. The price differences could amount to an extra $1,200 a year for the average household of four. Corporate greed is out of control.
- Announcing a workshop on financial geographies in an era of asset management and corporate concentration. Held at Queen's Toronto classrooms in mid-July, the focus will be on learning from each other's methods with a mix of academics and practitioners. See CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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- Reposted by Dan CohenNEW PUBLICATION 'Capitalising on conjunctures: Tesla's ups and downs in financialised capitalism' With Tobias Klinge and Stefan Ouma (@econgeo.bsky.social), we analyze the driving forces behind Elon Musk's wealth. Open access with @finandsoc.bsky.social here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- New pub with some wonderful collaborators: 'The war on ‘woke’: anti-ESG investing and research directions in financial geography' We unpack the actors involved in the anti-ESG movements and the multiscalar practices through which the US culture war is expanded via finance. doi.org/10.1080/2833...
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[Not loaded yet] - Arrived in New Zealand! Here's the details for my talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th on relational financial geography and the spatiality of monetary policy for any followers in NZ. And here's a picture of a steampunk dragon from the Auckland Santa Claus parade for everyone else.
- Reposted by Dan CohenYou have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.
- I've identified an untapped university/industry collaboration. Universities love to inflate their liabilities to justify cutting humanities. Firms like Meta want to hide their liabilities to justify dividends and protect their credit... lets get some accountants together and make this happen!
- Reposted by Dan CohenRelated - here’s a snapshot of Meta and the lender (Blue Owl) for its Louisiana data center trying to position themselves limit the damage if things implode. pitchbook.com/news/article...
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- Reposted by Dan CohenSomeone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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- If there's such a thing as the Odd Lots confidence index, the latest few episodes are pointing in a worrying direction. The call is coming from inside the house at this point.
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- Excerpt from the Bank of Canada's rate decision. Monetary policy cannot target specific sectors. Unless of course you are talking about the financial sector... then we've got hundreds of billions, can lend to new actors, and can 'crank it up to 11' as a BoC deputy governor put it.
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- Damn been walking around for almost three months with a completely torn ACL, an LCL sprain, and a meniscus tear. I think this may be the end of my dreams of making the NBA.
- I've used Larry Summers ridiculous quote that women must be dumber than men because markets are efficient as a foil to teach about the importance of Feminist approaches to the economy for a half decade. So I knew he was terrible, but just wow....
- I spend too much time on presentation slides, but I'm happy with this one about the need for financial geographers to think more about liquidity and what Martine August, @emilyrosenman.bsky.social and I call relational financial geographies (see here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
- Reposted by Dan CohenApply now — Antipode’s 10th Institute for the Geographies of Justice, “Organizing and Solidarity in a Polycrisis”, deadline 20 December 2025 antipodeonline.org/2025/11/13/a...
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- Working on my first comprehensive talk on the work I've been doing on the spatiality of monetary policy. Unreasonably happy with this slide on central banks (lack of) spatial imaginaries. If I have any NZ followers, I'll be giving the talk at the University of Auckland on December 5th.
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- Reposted by Dan CohenSo it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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- Canadians are being asked to make sacrifices for a budget that meets the moment. Apparently that means cutbacks to services to fund $1 billion to "support new and emerging fund managers" and to incentivize pension funds into investing in venture capital. Austerity for thee, largesse for finance.
- The de-risking state lives! Canada's new budget includes $2 billion for "equity investments, loan guarantees, and offtake agreements [for] critical minerals." Will be interesting the mix of uses and what equity investments entail. @danielagabor.bsky.social www.miningweekly.com/article/cana...
- Did not know that Zohran's dad was college roommates with former Canadian Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff.
- Reposted by Dan Cohengood morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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- Reposted by Dan CohenThis is quite a story: the US employed every strongarm tactic available, including personal threats against delegates and their families, to derail an agreement on reducing shipping emissions that was almost finalized. on.ft.com/47lq3dZ
- Reposted by Dan Cohen🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Dan CohenPlayers with 30+ hits in a single MLB playoff run: Ernie Clement That's it.
