FSN 2022: Conference CFP open

Intersections of finance and society, 2022. City, University of London, 15-16 September. After a two-year hiatus, we are delighted to announce that a 5th edition of the FSN conference will return to London in September this year. The call for papers is now open and can be found here. Events …

New article: Bitcoin and stone money

Bitcoin and stone money: Anglophone use of Yapese economic cultures, 1910-2020. Jo Walton. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Recently parallels have been drawn between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money. This article focuses on Fitzpatrick and McKeon’s (2019) exploration of similarities and differences. The analogy between Bitcoin and Yapese stone money is …

Book launch: Liam Stanley’s Britain Alone, 16 March 2022

Book launch – Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation City, University of London, 16 March 2022. CITYPERC will be hosting a public event to launch Liam Stanley’s new book, Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation (Manchester University Press, 2022). Stanley will be joined …