CFP: Women, money and markets, June 2026

Women, money, and markets (1650-1950). Foundling Museum, London, 12-13 June 2026. Colleagues are hosting another conference on women, money, and markets next year. We invite submissions for our 9th interdisciplinary conference exploring how women’s interactions with money, markets, and finance have shaped, and been shaped by, economic crises, financial literacy …

Postdoc position in sociology and blockchain at Lucerne

The University of Lucerne is inviting applications for a postdoc position in sociology and blockchain. The Zug Institute for Blockchain Research (ZIBR) is a newly established research institute dedicated to the social study of blockchain and Web3 – thus examining these technologies beyond their purely financial and technical dimensions. It …

Postdoc opportunities at Max Planck

The Max Planck Institute in Cologne is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in the following areas: Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) ƒEconomic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert) Postdoctoral researchers are employed on a two-year contract starting on October 1, 2026. The deadline for applications is 15 December 2025. The job …

New book: Irrational Together

Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior. Adam Hayes, University of Chicago Press 2025. In Irrational Together, economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the often-unseen social forces that shape our financial behavior. Drawing on original research and engaging real-world …

New book: Extroverted Financialisation

Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on US Dollar Debt. Mareike Beck, Cambridge University Press 2025. Extroverted Financialisation offers a new account of the Americanization of global finance through the concept of ‘extroverted financialisation’. The study presents German banks as active participants of financialisation, demonstrating how deeply entangled they were with global markets since post-WWII …

New book: Social foundations of global finance

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 …

New book: Logistics and power

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 …

Special issue CFP: Making climate finance work

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 …

New book: Regulation and regulators after global financial crises

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 …

New book: State, capitalism, and finance in emerging markets

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 …