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 …

The Birth of the Financial Thriller: Making a Killing in the 1970s. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Edinburgh University Press 2025. Discover the untold story of the financial thriller, a genre pioneered by Canadian banker-turned-author Paul Erdman from a Swiss prison cell. Starting with the publication of The Billion Dollar Sure Thing …

Money talks: Futures for the economic humanities. University of Edinburgh, 28-29 May 2025. Paul Crosthwaite and Rachel Muers are organising a landmark conference for the economic and financial humanities in Edinburgh this summer. Over the past decade, growing numbers of researchers in the arts and humanities have turned their attention …

Financial nihilism today. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 24 March 2025, 17.30–19.30. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is hosting a talk on financial nihilism by Amin Samman (City) with commentary from William Davies (Goldsmiths).   Nihilism has a long history in philosophy, literature, and politics.   In his lecture, …

Offshore finance: The socio-economics of a global system. To be published in Socio-Economic Review. A planned special issue of Socio-Economic Review aims to explore the past, present, and future of offshore finance. Offshore finance is a central feature of the world economic system, acting as a repository for at least …

Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea. Bohyeong Kim, University of Michigan Press 2025. Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit …