Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation. Daniel Souleles, University of Chicago 2024. Markets are messy, and no one knows this better than traders who work tirelessly to predict what they will do next. In Whoosh Goes the Market, Daniel Scott Souleles takes us into the day-to-day experiences of …
The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People. Martijn Konings, Polity Books 2024. How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble. In The Bailout …
Special issue CFP: When finance becomes tech. Finance and Society, 2024. The editors of Finance and Society invite submissions for a special issue on how financial services are fusing with digital technology and what the broader implications of this are in social, political, and economic terms. The seamless incorporation of …
Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Edited by Torsten Andreasen et al., Goldsmiths Press 2024. What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted …
Household finance in an unequal world: Social approaches. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 5-6 December 2024. The Emmy Noether Research Group on “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe” is inviting paper proposals for a conference on household finance. We invite contributions studying household finance from …
Advancing the understanding of everyday financial risk through intersectionality. Goldsmiths University of London, 7-8 November 2024. Ariane Agunsoye, Kate Padgett Walsh and Hayley James are organising an ISRF funded workshop on financial risk and intersectionality. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who research different experiences of …
Finance and Society is celebrating its ten year anniversary! In celebration we invite you to browse a curated collection of content representing the pioneering research that has been published in the journal over the last decade. Featuring the inaugural editorial, which outlined the need for and scope of this innovative journal, through to …
Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2024. The settlement between finance and society continues to come under strain from multiple directions: climate change, geopolitical rivalries, powerful new technologies, resurgent nationalism, cost of living …
Call for papers: Money on the Left. A new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, has put out a general call for papers. The editors are inviting papers that address issues including the following: Contemporary politics and provisioning: critiquing political language and rhetorical framing (public spending as funded …
Homo Numericus: ‘The Coming ‘Civilization’. Daniel Cohen, Polity 2024. As the industrial revolution did in the past, the digital revolution is creating a new economy and a new sensibility, bringing about a radical revaluation of society and its representations. From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no …
