New book: Taming the cycles of finance

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 …

Forthcoming book: Central bank capitalism

Central Bank Capitalism: Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis. Joscha Wullweber, Stanford University Press 2024. Today’s global financial system bears little resemblance to what it was at the end of the twentieth century. Shadow banking—financial activity taking place outside existing regulatory frameworks—has grown so important that it now serves as …

Political economy of finance summer school, June 2024

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 …

Launch: UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies

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 …

News: Finance and Society relaunches with CUP

Finance and Society relaunches with Cambridge University Press. The editors are delighted to announce the official relaunch of Finance and Society as a Cambridge University Press journal. Finance and Society promotes the analysis of finance as a set of powerful institutions and widely diffused logics of organisation, valuation, and distribution …

Postdoctoral research scholarship at Columbia Money and Finance Idea Lab

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 …

New book: Clickbait capitalism

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 …

Online seminar series: Political economy of liquidity

Money and finance seminar series: The political economy of liquidity. Online, October-December 2023. The Columbia Center for Political Economy are running a webinar series on the political economy of liquidity hosted by Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) and Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po). Money and finance are at once deeply imbricated …

PERN salon: Surveillance and capture

Surveillance and capture: An exploration of computational perception. PERN Salon, 19 October 2023, 19.00 EST.     The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) will be holding the final PERN Salon for 2023 with Alexander Galloway (NYU MCC). Galloway will discuss computational perception through two different operations: surveillance and capture. Here …

FSN 2023: Final programme available

Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The final programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. With inflation …