Monetary innovations in financial history: Lessons for CBDC design. Online, Feb-June 2024. A new webinar series has been launched devoted to putting CBDCs in historical perspective. The announcement of the digital euro and the widespread discussions surrounding Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) have sparked an important debate about the future …
Climate Finance Taking a Position on Climate Futures. Gareth Bryant and Sophie Webber, Agenda Publishing 2024. Climate change is increasingly contested on financial terms. Different actors are advancing competing climate visions and interests by adopting financial positions. International institutions urge action by identifying financing gaps needed to meet climate targets. …
Money/Power: Theory, Money Markets, and Personal Finance. Samuel Chambers, Substack. A newsletter exploring the mysteries of money, engaging with some of the crucial money problems that societies face today. By Samuel A. Chambers, Professor of Political Theory and Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University.
Finance and fiction dossier. b20, ongoing from 2023. “Finance and Fiction” is an ongoing dossier edited by Arne De Boever (Cal Arts) and Mikkel Krause Frantzen (University of Copenhagen). While some materials in the dossier were initially presented as part of a two-day event titled “Finance and Fiction” that De …
Clickbait capitalism: A panel discussion. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 23 February 2024, 16.30–18.30 GMT. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome panelists Carolyn Biltoft (Graduate Institute Geneva), Earl Gammon (Sussex), Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths), and Amin Samman (City). Chaired by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (CCS Director). Pushing beyond …
Special issue: ‘Do give up your day job – Basic income for artists, and other stories’. To be published in the journal Cultural Trends. A planned special issue of Cultural Trends aims to explore how basic income schemes impact artists, communities, and the arts sector. Drawing on the growing popularity of …
A political theory of money. City, University of London, 15 March 2024, 17.00–18.30. Anush Kapadia will be launching his new book, A Political Theory of Money, in London this March at CITYPERC. Sahil Jai Dutta will act as discussant. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How …
The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy and Contemporary Film. Alasdair King, Palgrave Macmillan 2023. The Financial Image draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how …
A Political Theory of Money. Anush Kapadia, Cambridge University Press 2024. Understanding money’s nature as political, institutional, and material answers today’s big money questions. Money remains a foundational question of social theory. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How do money systems make promises function like …
Catastrophe time! How do we live in a world that we’re actively unmaking? Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 31 January 2024, 18.00–20.00 GMT. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen, and Bahar Noorizadeh. …
