Systemic stablecoin and the brave new world of digital money. Jamie Morgan. Cambridge Journal of Economics, OnlineFirst (2023). New forms of money invite informed speculation regarding future possibilities. In this extended commentary, we explore five issue-areas that the growth of cryptocurrency and, more particularly, stablecoin have evoked. This new form …

Capital and Ressentiment: A Short Theory of the Present. Joseph Vogl, Polity 2022. The proliferation of social media has provided ideal conditions in which feelings of anger and frustration can be expressed and shared, forming a deep pool of ressentiment that is being drawn upon and exploited by populist and …

Critical finance studies conference 2023. Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Crete, 21-23 June. The deadline for this year’s Critical Finance Studies conference has been extended by two weeks. The new deadline for submissions is 15 February 2023. Confirmed keynote addresses: Teresa Heffernan on ‘AI as the New Oil’ Paul Langley on …

BISA-IPEG annual workshop, 2023. King’s College London, 11-12 May. The BISA-IPEG annual workshop this year will take place in London on theme of ‘Building Solidarity in Times of Permacrisis’. Capitalism, imperialism, and patriarchy have always produced and have fed upon crises. Yet the multi- layered and mutually amplifying crises we …

The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Leon Wansleben, Harvard University Press 2023. While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored …

Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds. Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, and James Taylor, University of Chicago Press 2022. Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three …

States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New. Quentin Bruneau, Columbia University Press 2022. Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent …

Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth. Dave Elder-Vass, Cambridge University Press 2022. Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the …

The Department of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor in Finance and Globalization: Candidates will have expertise in the economics and politics of finance as it operates on a global scale. Candidates will study the globalization of finance and how …

Critical finance studies conference 2023. Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Crete, 21-23 June. The Critical Finance Studies conference goes to Crete next year. The 2023 conference will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno. The organisers are encouraging work that “seeks to engage finance in new and critical …