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 …
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 …
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 …
