Platform economies: Beyond the North-South divide. Janet Roitman. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). Platform economies are depicted as the foundation for a new era of economic production. This transpires through the incorporation of digital technologies and algorithmic operations into the heart of economic and financial practices. However, different assumptions are made …
Globalizing financial valuation: International property consultants in São Paulo. Lucia Shimbo, Daniel Sanfelici. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). International property consultants (IPCs) have become key intermediaries in the globalization of property markets by providing a range of services that generate transparency and comparability in land and property-based investments. While their role …
Beyond market neutrality? Central banks and the problem of climate change. Matthias Thiemann, Tim Büttner, Oliver Kessler. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Starting with a landmark speech by Mark Carney on the ‘Tragedy of the Horizon’ in 2015, climate change entered central banking discourse, causing some of its key convictions to …
Finance and Society, vol. 8 no. 2 (2022). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 8, number 2. The issue includes a major new editorial statement on the future of finance and society studies, based on a joint meeting of the editorial team and …
The everyday construction of value: A Canadian investment fund, Chilean water infrastructure, and financial subordination. Michael Pryke and John Allen. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Infrastructure in several economies in the Global South has rapidly undergone financialization, aided and abetted by governments opening-up their infrastructure assets to global institutional investors in …
The financialization of remittances in Nepal: Governing through the pedagogy of fear and hope. Lekh Nath Paudel and Rahel Kunz. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). In the last decade, remittances have become connected to financialization, expanding financial markets and deepening financial logics in what has been termed the financialization of remittances …
Open call for submissions and proposals. Finance and Society. The editors of Finance and Society are inviting submissions in a range of formats: (1) Research articles of 8-10,000 words; (2) Essays of 4-6,000 words; (3) Review articles of 2-3,000 words; and (4) Book reviews of 1-2,000 words. Proposals from guest …
Tokyo’s booms and busts: Placing Japan in the global financial network. Liam Keenan and Dariusz Wójcik. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Tokyo is conspicuous for its now decades-long absence in the headlines of global financial news. In this article, we revisit the evolution of Tokyo as an international financial centre through …
Money as a computational machine. Inigo Wilkins and Bogdan Dragos. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). This article presents a speculative philosophical account of money as a computational machine. It does so by leveraging a computational and machinic framework, drawing primarily from the work of Philip Mirowski and Jean Cartelier. The argument …
The ‘fintech revolution’ is here! The disruptive impact of fintech on retail financial practices. Gordon Kuo Siong Tan. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Fintech is celebrated for its disruptive and democratizing qualities that dis/reintermediates the finance value chain. Claims of a ‘fintech revolution’ assume that fintech is ‘disruptive’ because of its …
