The conference, to be held at the Graduate Institute Geneva, wishes to investigate from an interdisciplinary perspective the complex and multifaceted links connecting democracy and finance in the longue durée. What is the relationship between finance and democracy? Are they antagonistic or symbiotic? Is the former detrimental to the latter? What influence does the financial community exert in political affairs? For this event, organisers seek to invite scholarly discussions on the complex or nuanced relations between the two.