A Political Theory of Money. Anush Kapadia, Cambridge University Press 2024. Understanding money’s nature as political, institutional, and material answers today’s big money questions. Money remains a foundational question of social theory. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How do money systems make promises function like …
Catastrophe time! How do we live in a world that we’re actively unmaking? Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 31 January 2024, 18.00–20.00 GMT. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen, and Bahar Noorizadeh. …
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JP Morgan to BlackRock. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, Verso 2024. This book tells the story of financial power in American capitalism, from the collapse of the J.P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. It traces the making …
Capitalization and the start-up economy: Critical perspectives on innovation, entrepreneurship and venture capitalism. University of Lausanne, 20-21 June 2024. Loïc Riom (Lausanne) and Tanja Schneider (St-Gallen) are organising a workshop on capitalization and the start-up economy, to be held at the University of Lausanne in June next year. Keynotes include …
The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) is seeking doctoral students to join a research group on wealth and social inequality. The Research Focus investigates continuity and discontinuity in wealth, especially from a sociological perspective. Institutions, mechanisms, and practices that sustain the retention of wealth over the …
Taming the Cycles of Finance? Central Banks and the Macro-prudential Shift in Financial Regulation. Matthias Thiemann, Cambridge University Press 2023. Macroprudential regulation is a set of economic and policy tools that aim to mitigate risk in the financial and banking systems. It was largely developed in response to the financial …
Political economy of finance summer school. Brown University, 17-21 June 2024. The Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University is running a summer school next year on the political economy of finance, organized by Benjamin Braun (Max Planck) and Mark Blyth (Brown). Who will finance the green …
Launching the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK, 20 October 2023, 17.00-19.00. The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies is launching a new research centre, the Centre for Capitalism Studies. The launch event features renowned artist Hito Steyerl, the pre-eminent economist Professor Ha-Joon Chang and commentary …
The Money and Finance Idea Lab at Columbia University is inviting applications for a full-time postdoctoral research scholar. This Postdoctoral Research Scholar will be embedded in the idea lab on “Money and Finance,” which explores the relation of money and finance both in theoretical terms and in institutional configurations, including …
Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century. Amin Samman and Earl Gammon (eds), Manchester University Press 2023. The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the …
