Institutional Change and Performativity: The Impact of Globalization and Financialization on Accounting in Japan. Noriaki Okamoto, Palgrave Macmillan 2024. This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed. Integrating theoretical perspectives from institutional economics and performativity studies, …
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 …
Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. The final programme for this year’s conference is now available here. 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 crises. Whilst there …
