The Social Foundations of Global Finance. Edited by Ben Clift and Chris Clarke, Agenda Publishing 2025. Through the interrogation of the social foundations of global finance, Tim Sinclair revealed the power relations within the global political economy. His unique and pioneering perspective examines the role of private authority, the institutional …

Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space. Susan Zieger, University of California Press 2025. Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don’t flow, then profits don’t either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially valuable data, and much else …

Making climate finance work: Insights from ethics, economics and law. To be published in Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance. A planned special issue of Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance aims to explore climate finance from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This themed issue will examine the role of finance in the climate …

Regulation and Regulators After Global Financial Crises: Enforcement and Adaptation. Aleksandra Jordanoska, Routledge 2025. This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions. It critically addresses the ‘more regulation’ enforcement agenda relating to financial misconduct in the …

State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft. Johannes Petry and Andreas Nölke (eds.), Bristol University Press 2025. What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to …

Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century. Amin Samman and Earl Gammon (eds), Manchester University Press 2025. The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the …

Money and gender: An interdisciplinary online symposium. University of London, December 2025. Colleagues are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on money and gender to be held in early December this year. This symposium explores the entanglement of gender and money. Money might appear to be a neutral economic instrument that transcends …

Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach. Louis Larue, Routledge 2025. A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are …

Valuation, space, and power ECR workshop. University of Sheffield, 23-24 June 2025. Colleagues are organising a workshop for early career researchers at University of Sheffield in June this year. Today, many socio-economic struggles centre not on the organisation of production but on the recognition of, and claims over, asset values. …

Book launch: Finance aesthetics – A critical glossary. Goldsmiths University of London, 8 April 2025, 17.00–19.00 UK time. Goldsmiths Press is hosting a launch event for their new book, Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary.   Join us for the launch of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, a new title from …