A research group at the Global Climate Forum in Berlin is seeking a PhD researcher for a project on financing green transition. The research group ‘The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations: Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition’ (OBFA-TRANSFORM)—funded via the Emmy Noether programme of Deutsche …
The Scales of Corporate Harm Lab in the Department of Geography at Penn State University is recruiting a PhD student. Potential applicants should have interests in one or more of the following: health, economies, and spatial and social analysis. The PhD student will have the opportunity to work on data …
Paranoid Finance. Fabian Muniesa, Polity 2024. There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: …
The Sexual Economy of Capitalism. Noam Yuran, Stanford University Press 2024. Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. This book argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the …
Digital Currencies and Public Law: History, Constitutionalism and the Revolutionary Nature of Money. Andrew Dahdal, Routledge 2024. This book supports the deeper engagement of public lawyers in digital currency developments which threaten dramatic changes in the relationship between individuals and government authorities. No contemporary issue is more widely acknowledged and …
