Cutting the network? Facebook’s Libra currency as a problem of organisation. Daniel Tischer. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2020). This essay explores the organisational character of Facebook’s Libra currency by undertaking a critical reading of documents published by the Libra Association. Drawing on the conceptual work of Marilyn Strathern and Michel Serres, …
Financialisation and the limits of circuit theory. Photis Lysandrou. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2020). The theory of the monetary circuit aims to provide a highly stylised account of the workings of a modern monetary production economy. While there may have been a time when it succeeded in this aim, that time …
Finance and Society, vol. 5 no. 2 (2019). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 5, number 2. The issue includes research articles by Julian Gruin on authoritarian fintech in China, Mirjam Büdenbender and Andrea Lagna on peripheral housing financialisation, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn …
Financializing authoritarian capitalism: Chinese fintech and the institutional foundations of algorithmic governance. Julian Gruin. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2019). Digital credit scoring is driving a number of significant transformations in Chinese economy and society, catalyzing financial liberalization, deepening financial inclusion, and shifting economic power beyond the previously state-controlled commercial banking system. …
Finance and Society, vol. 5 no. 1 (2019). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 5, number 1. The issue includes research articles by Donald MacKenzie on dark pools, Bart Stellinga on credit rating reform, Nicholas Dorn on the history of sovereign …
Finance and Society, vol. 4 no. 2 (2018). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 4, number 2. The issue includes research articles by Jacob Assa on the rhetoric of GDP and Reijer Hendrikse et al. on the embrace of FinTech by …
Finance and Society, vol. 4 no. 1 (2018). Edited by Christian Kloeckner and Stefanie Mueller. With contributions from Elena Esposito, Andreas Langenohl, Kate Padgett Walsh, Simone Knewitz, Johannes Voelz, Dennis Mischke, Peter Moertenboeck, Helge Mooshammer, and an interview with Gerald Nestler. This special issue explores how finance deploys time, structures …
Finance, social value, and the rhetoric of GDP. Jacob Assa. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2018). The global financial crisis is usually seen as a failure of neoclassical economic theory and neoliberal policy, but it also represented an epistemological failure. Forecasters who missed the crisis neglected to include the financial sector in …
The Appleization of finance: Charting incumbent finance’s embrace of FinTech. Reijer Hendrikse, David Bassens and Michiel van Meeteren. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2018). The rise of financial technology (FinTech) engenders novel business models through integrating financial services and information and communication technologies (ICT). Digital currencies and payments, data mining, and other FinTech …
Finance and Society, vol. 3 no. 3 (2017). Edited by Nina Boy, John Morris, Mariana Santos. With research articles from Anthony Amicelle, Andreas Langenohl, and Joyce Goggin, and a forum discussion featuring Marieke de Goede, Paul Langley, Emily Gilbert, S.M. Amadae, and Nina Boy. When, seven years ago, Marieke de …
