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 …

Financialisation in Latin America. BISA-IPEG webinar series, February 2025. The BISA International Political Economy Group is running a webinar series on financialisation in Latin America. The webinar series that critically engages with the variegated pathways of financialisation across Latin America, shedding light on its interplay with state institutions, social relations, and …

Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Edited by Torsten Andreasen et al., Goldsmiths Press 2024. What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted contemporary …

Methodological pluralism in critical finance research. Goethe University Frankfurt, 3-4 July 2025. Colleagues are organising a workshop on methods in critical finance studies, to be held at the Goethe University Frankfurt in July this year. [C]ritical finance scholarship has developed a remarkably pluralist research agenda. Topics range from financial hegemony …

Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa. Kevin Donovan, Cambridge University Press 2024. Decolonization in East Africa was more than a political event: it was a step towards economic self-determination. In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in …

b2o: an online journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (2024). Edited by Martijn Konings. With contributions from Stefan Eich, Amin Samman, Dick Bryan, Janet Roitman, and Michelle Chihara. We should perhaps consider ourselves as occupying the mental space that Keynes did after he completed A Treatise on Money, which catalogued the …