Figuring volatility. Ackbar Abbas. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). This article argues that there are parallels between developments in modern science and in art and culture, including the culture of finance, and that these developments can be tracked by a notion of volatility not just as change, but as how change …
Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 1 (2023). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 1. The issue features a keynote essay by Janet Roitman on platform economies beyond the North-South divide. Research articles address climate change central banking (Matthias Thiemann et …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The FSN conference this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium. The call for papers is open and can be found here. With inflation and interest rates on the rise, the age of expansionary monetary policy is over. At …
Systemic stablecoin and the brave new world of digital money. Jamie Morgan. Cambridge Journal of Economics, OnlineFirst (2023). New forms of money invite informed speculation regarding future possibilities. In this extended commentary, we explore five issue-areas that the growth of cryptocurrency and, more particularly, stablecoin have evoked. This new form …
Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present. Joseph Vogl, Polity 2022. The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon and exploited by populist and …
Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide. Janet Roitman. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However, different assumptions are made …
Critical finance studies conference 2023. Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Crete, 21-23 June. The deadline for this year’s Critical Finance Studies conference has been extended by two weeks. The new deadline for submissions is 15 February 2023. Confirmed keynote addresses: Teresa Heffernan on ‘AI as the New Oil’ Paul Langley on …
BISA-IPEG annual workshop, 2023. King’s College London, 11-12 May. The BISA-IPEG annual workshop this year will take place in London on theme of ‘Building Solidarity in Times of Permacrisis’. Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy have always produced and have fed upon crises. Yet the multi- layered and mutually amplifying crises we …
The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Leon Wansleben, Harvard University Press 2023. While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. We are delighted to announce that the FSN conference this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium. The call for papers is now open and can be found here. With inflation and interest rates on the rise, the age …
