FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance. Paul Langley and Andrew Leyshon, Zone Books 2026. How people pay, make savings and investments, buy insurance, and take on debt is undergoing digital transformation across the globe. This book argues that FinTech is a distinct form of intermediary and …
The Player and the Played: From Gamed Capitalism to 21st-Century Fascism. Max Haiven, MIT Press 2026. In an age when capitalism feels like an unwinnable game, extreme reactionary ideas and politics are on the rise. The Hunger Games, Game of Thrones, Squid Game, and much of reality TV are cultural reflections …
Corporate Capitalism in the Era of Financialization and Intangible Capital: Value Forms Beyond Fixity. Tansel Güçlü, De Gruyter Brill 2026. This book investigates the transformation of corporate capitalism under conditions of financialization and the rising centrality of intangible capital. It challenges conventional distinctions between financial and non-financial activity by tracing …
Women, money and markets, 1770–1914: Representing the invisible hands of the economy. Edited by Emma Newport and Joyce Goggin, Boydell Press 2026. This collection redefines the role of women in the development of modern capitalism, revealing their active participation as investors, entrepreneurs, theorists, and cultural producers between 1770 and 1914. …
Colleagues at Goethe University Frankfurt are recruiting a PhD student to work on a funded research project (Financial Empire: China’s Construction of an Alternative Financial System). The successful applicant will work as part of a team that examines the transformation of global financial structures in the context of increasing geopolitical …
Money and violence. Friends House, London, UK, 17 September 2026. Christopher Harker and Sebastian Paredes Smith are organising a one-day conference on money and violence in London. This one day, in-person only conference brings together scholars from across the social sciences to interrogate how monetary forms, institutions and imaginaries are implicated …
Finance and ruination: A symposium on critical finance, collapse and speculative futurity. University of Applied Arts Vienna, 23 April 2026. Colleagues at the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures in Vienna are hosting a one-day symposium on the theme of finance and ruination. This symposium explores the entanglements of critical finance, …
Foundational issues in biodiversity finance. University of Groningen, 2 July 2026. Job de Grefte is organising a one-day workshop on biodiversity finance. As financial instruments and metrics are increasingly leveraged to govern biodiversity, urgent questions arise regarding their legitimacy, efficacy, and justice. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from …
Colleagues at the University of Glasgow are recruiting a PhD student to work on a funded research project (Exploring Alternative Finance for Impact-Driven Deep Tech Ventures). This project investigates whether alternative and social models of finance (such as impact investing, venture philanthropy, and blended finance) can be adapted to support …
Law, political economy, and the legal geography of money. Sciences Po Paris, 25-26 June 2026. Pieter-Augustijn Van Malleghem is organising an event at Sciences Po this June on the legal geography of money. In recent years, scholars have shown renewed interest in the geography of money and finance. While economic geography …
