Paranoid Finance. Fabian Muniesa, Polity 2024. There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value – of ‘value creation’ – that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: …

Digital Currencies and Public Law: History, Constitutionalism and the Revolutionary Nature of Money. Andrew Dahdal, Routledge 2024. This book supports the deeper engagement of public lawyers in digital currency developments which threaten dramatic changes in the relationship between individuals and government authorities. No contemporary issue is more widely acknowledged and …

Institutional Change and Performativity: The Impact of Globalization and Financialization on Accounting in Japan. Noriaki Okamoto, Palgrave Macmillan 2024. This book analyzes the recent development of accounting in Japan from an interdisciplinary perspective, focusing specifically on how institutional reality is constructed. Integrating theoretical perspectives from institutional economics and performativity studies, …

Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 17 no. 4 (2024). Edited by Clea Bourne, Max Haiven, Johnna Montgomerie, and Paul Gilbert. With contributions from the editors, Ashley Cordes, Emmanuel Guerisoli and Santiago Mandirola, Kavita Dattani, and more. In this special issue, we take up the metaphor of the ghost to identify …

Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation, and Alienation. Daniel Souleles, University of Chicago 2024. Markets are messy, and no one knows this better than traders who work tirelessly to predict what they will do next. In Whoosh Goes the Market, Daniel Scott Souleles takes us into the day-to-day experiences of …

The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People. Martijn Konings, Polity Books 2024. How did we end up in a world where social programs are routinely cut in the name of market discipline and fiscal austerity, yet large banks get bailed out whenever they get into trouble. In The Bailout …

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 …

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 …