Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 17 no. 4 (2024). Edited by Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie, and Paul Gilbert. With contributions from the editors, Ashley Cordes, Emmanuel Guerisoli and Santiago Mandirola, Kavita Dattani, and more. In this special issue, we take up the metaphor of the ghost to identify …

Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation. Daniel Souleles, University of Chicago 2024. Markets are messy, and no one knows this better than traders who work tirelessly to predict what they will do next. In Whoosh Goes the Market, Daniel Scott Souleles takes us into the day-to-day experiences of …

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 …

Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Edited by Torsten Andreasen et al., Goldsmiths Press 2024.   What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted …

Household finance in an unequal world: Social approaches. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 5-6 December 2024. The Emmy Noether Research Group on “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe” is inviting paper proposals for a conference on household finance. We invite contributions studying household finance from …

Advancing the understanding of everyday financial risk through intersectionality. Goldsmiths University of London, 7-8 November 2024. Ariane Agunsoye, Kate Padgett Walsh and Hayley James are organising an ISRF funded workshop on financial risk and intersectionality. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who research different experiences of …

Call for papers: Money on the Left. A new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, has put out a general call for papers. The editors are inviting papers that address issues including the following: Contemporary politics and provisioning: critiquing political language and rhetorical framing (public spending as funded …

Homo Numericus: ‘The Coming ‘Civilization’. Daniel Cohen, Polity 2024. As the industrial revolution did in the past, the digital revolution is creating a new economy and a new sensibility, bringing about a radical revaluation of society and its representations. From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no …

Political economy of green-digital transition: International workshop and summer school. LUT University, 4-6/10-14 June 2024. The research group on Economy, Technology, and Society at LUT University in Finland is running a workshop and summer school the political economy of green-digital transition. In an era defined by pressing environmental concerns and …

Symposium on Jakob Feinig’s Moral Economies of Money. Just Money, Winter 2024. With contributions from Stephanie Mudge, Josh Pacewicz, Adam Slez, Pierre-Christian Fink, and David Freund. Monetary orthodoxy has long drawn strength from its simplicity. Pedagogically, it is easy to explain the three functions of money and give a self-contained …