Household finance in an unequal world: Social approaches. Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, 5-6 December 2024. The Emmy Noether Research Group on “Peripheral Debt: Money, Risk and Politics in Eastern Europe” is inviting paper proposals for a conference on household finance. We invite contributions studying household finance from …
Advancing the understanding of everyday financial risk through intersectionality. Goldsmiths University of London, 7-8 November 2024. Ariane Agunsoye, Kate Padgett Walsh and Hayley James are organising an ISRF funded workshop on financial risk and intersectionality. This interdisciplinary workshop will bring together scholars from diverse disciplines who research different experiences of …
Call for papers: Money on the Left. A new journal, Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice, has put out a general call for papers. The editors are inviting papers that address issues including the following: Contemporary politics and provisioning: critiquing political language and rhetorical framing (public spending as funded …
Homo Numericus: ‘The Coming ‘Civilization’. Daniel Cohen, Polity 2024. As the industrial revolution did in the past, the digital revolution is creating a new economy and a new sensibility, bringing about a radical revaluation of society and its representations. From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no …
Political economy of green-digital transition: International workshop and summer school. LUT University, 4-6/10-14 June 2024. The research group on Economy, Technology, and Society at LUT University in Finland is running a workshop and summer school the political economy of green-digital transition. In an era defined by pressing environmental concerns and …
Symposium on Jakob Feinig’s Moral Economies of Money. Just Money, Winter 2024. With contributions from Stephanie Mudge, Josh Pacewicz, Adam Slez, Pierre-Christian Fink, and David Freund. Monetary orthodoxy has long drawn strength from its simplicity. Pedagogically, it is easy to explain the three functions of money and give a self-contained …
Digital platform economies: Value from data? PERN conference, 25-26 April 2024, The New School. The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) will be holding a two-day conference at the New School in New York interrogating how digital platforms produce and structure value. You can find the full programme here and register …
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.
