Political economy of finance summer school. Brown University, 17-21 June 2024. The Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University is running a summer school next year on the political economy of finance, organized by Benjamin Braun (Max Planck) and Mark Blyth (Brown). Who will finance the green …
Launching the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK, 20 October 2023, 17.00-19.00. The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies is launching a new research centre, the Centre for Capitalism Studies. The launch event features renowned artist Hito Steyerl, the pre-eminent economist Professor Ha-Joon Chang and commentary …
Finance and Society relaunches with Cambridge University Press. The editors are delighted to announce the official relaunch of Finance and Society as a Cambridge University Press journal. Finance and Society promotes the analysis of finance as a set of powerful institutions and widely diffused logics of organisation, valuation, and distribution …
The Money and Finance Idea Lab at Columbia University is inviting applications for a full-time postdoctoral research scholar. This Postdoctoral Research Scholar will be embedded in the idea lab on “Money and Finance,” which explores the relation of money and finance both in theoretical terms and in institutional configurations, including …
Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century. Amin Samman and Earl Gammon (eds), Manchester University Press 2023. The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the …
Money and finance seminar series: The political economy of liquidity. Online, October-December 2023. The Columbia Center for Political Economy are running a webinar series on the political economy of liquidity hosted by Katharina Pistor (Columbia Law School) and Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po). Money and finance are at once deeply imbricated …
Surveillance and capture: An exploration of computational perception. PERN Salon, 19 October 2023, 19.00 EST. The Platform Economies Research Network (PERN) will be holding the final PERN Salon for 2023 with Alexander Galloway (NYU MCC). Galloway will discuss computational perception through two different operations: surveillance and capture. Here …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The final programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. With inflation …
Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 3 (2023). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 3, which is a special issue on ‘Volatility in finance, art, and culture’. The issue features an introductory article by guest editors Benjamin Lee and Emily Rosamond, …
Finance and Society to be published by Cambridge University Press. The editors of Finance and Society are delighted to announce that as of January 2024, the journal will be published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). Since launching in 2015, Finance and Society has provided a platform for innovative research on finance from …
