Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. His most recent book is Beyond Self-Interest: Why the Market Rewards Those Who Reject It (Bloomsbury and Oxford Press, 2022). He is currently working on a book about taste in the modern economy, titled Wanting What We Want to Want.
Krzysztof Pelc
Articles
Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
Ozempic is a drug against addiction. Is it also a drug for … virtue? wonders political scientist Krzysztof Pelc.
Weaponized Plumbing: On Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire”
Krzysztof Pelc mostly agrees with Henry Farrell and Abraham L. Newman’s “Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy” but quibbles that it’s hard to draw the line between the peculiarly 21st-century type of influence they describe—which flows from fiber-optic cables, data centers, and dollar clearinghouses—and more conventional types of power.
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202405Gro%CC%88nsaker_pa%CC%8A_piano_34-BC_-_Birger_Carlstedt.jpg)
:quality(75)/https%3A%2F%2Fassets.lareviewofbooks.org%2Fuploads%2F202309Underground-Empire-How-America-Weaponized-the-World-Economy.jpg)