The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment. Charly Coleman, Stanford University Press 2021. How did the economy become bound up with faith in infinite wealth creation and obsessive consumption? Drawing on the economic writings of eighteenth-century French theologians, historian Charly Coleman uncovers the surprising influence …
The market, the regulator, and the government: Making a blockchain ecosystem in the Netherlands. Inês Faria. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). This article presents a socio-anthropological analysis of the formation of a business ecosystem around blockchain technology in the Netherlands, within the broader context of the European Union and the digital …
Libidinal economies of contemporary capitalism, 2021. Online workshop, 15-16 April. The full workshop programme is now available here. This will be a closed event but there is limited scope for some non-presenting attendees. If you are interested in joining in this capacity, please get in touch with Amin Samman (amin.samman.1@city.ac.uk) …
The aporetic financialisation of insurance liabilities: Reserving under Solvency II. Charalampos Fytros. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). The valuation of insurance liabilities has traditionally been dealt with by actuaries, who closely monitored underlying illiquid features, assumed a long-term perspective, and exercised their own subjective, expert judgment. However, the new EU regulatory …
Passive nihilism and ontotheology: A reply to Husbands on derivative temporality. Austin Hayden Smidt. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). Conor Husbands’ defense and expansion of Elena Esposito’s temporality of finance is a much-needed intervention. However, in this response essay, I will show a few of the fundamental weaknesses of Esposito’s project, …
A window into chaos? Covid-19 and the new temporal order of capitalism. UCL/IAS online event, 26 January 2021, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm GMT. The UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is running an online panel discussion on global capitalism in Covid times. How do our late capitalist societies imagine their future …
Session on ‘Impacts of finance and financing of impacts’. Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association (SSA) in Geneva, 28-30 June 2021. Colleagues at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) are organising a paper session on economic sociology and impact financing in Geneva this year as part of SSA 2021. We welcome …
Libidinal economies of contemporary capitalism. City, University of London/Online, 16 April 2021. The call for our workshop on the ‘libidinal economies of contemporary capitalism’ will close at the end of the month. The workshop is being organised in collaboration with CITYPERC at City, University of London, but all signs point …
Assets need audiences: How venture capitalists boost valuations by recruiting investors to asset circles. Dave Elder-Vass. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2021). Narratives and conventions have received considerable attention in recent discussions the valuation of financial assets. Narratives and , however, can only be effective to the extent that they attract and …
The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) is inviting candidates to apply for its doctoral program in economic sociology and political economy. The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) is a unique international three-and-a-half-year …
