As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Public Schools. David Backer, The New Press 2026. From the anti-CRT panic to efforts to divert tax dollars to charter schools, the right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. …
Colleagues at the CNRS/Paris Nanterre are inviting applications for a postdoc position in financialization and illicit economies. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to the DEBTCHAINS project, which investigates the financialization of capitalism through a transnational study of debt chains across legal and illegal markets. While there has been growing concern …
Future Finance: Legal Geographies of Financial Centres and the Asset Economy. Sabine Dörry, Agenda Publishing 2025. Finance is no longer just about markets – it shapes societies, politics and the planet’s future. At its centre now stands the asset management industry, where power has shifted from public institutions to private …
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 …
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 …
The Max Planck Institute in Cologne is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in the following areas: Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) Economic 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
