Will capitalism survive the 21st century? Institute for Education, University College London, 5 December 2024, 18.00-19.30. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is hosting its inaugural Annual Conversation with Gillian Tett, Ash Sarkar, and Thomas Piketty. The event is free and open to all but registration is required. Join us …

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 …

Mini-conference: The socio-economics of asset stranding. Montréal SASE 2025, 18-20 July 2025. Colleagues are organizing a mini-conference on asset stranding in Montréal next year as part of SASE 2025. Our mini-conference aims to develop the analysis of asset stranding by assembling presentations that investigate climate change as a problem of …

Decrypting financial discourses: the narratives, documents, and writings of financial industries and institutions. Aberdeen SIEF 2025, 3-6 June 2025. Colleagues are organizing a panel on decrypting financial discourses at the annual conference of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) in Aberdeen next year. Besides operationalizing governmental bureaucratic structures (Hull …