The Department of International Politics at City, University of London, is inviting applications for a Fixed Term Lectureship in the field of International Politics or International Political Economy. The Department is home to the City Political Economy Research Centre, which you can read about on the CITYPERC website. Fixed Term …
Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 2 (2023). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 2. The issue features a keynote article by Samuel Chambers on the theory and history of money. Research articles address the sociology of middle-class debt in Chile …
Entangled legacies of empire: Race, finance, and inequality. Online book launch, 20 June 2023, 17.00–19.00 GMT.
Financing climate futures: Six positions on climate finance. CITYPERC seminar, 25 May 2023, 17.00–18.30 GMT. The City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) is hosting a seminar on politics of climate finance. Presenter: Gareth Bryant (University of Sydney) Discussant: Robert Kirsch (Arizona State University) International climate politics is dominated by ‘gap …
Intersections finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The call for papers for this year’s FSN conference will close at the end of the month. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Daniela Gabor (UWE Bristol), Karen Lai (Durham University), and Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College). There will also …
Sociological perspectives on the bank failures of 2023. Warren Center online event, 19 April 2023, 11.00–12.00 ET. The Charles Warren Center at Harvard and Just Money are hosting an online panel on the bank failures of 2023 from a sociological perspective: Following the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature …
Figuring volatility. Ackbar Abbas. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). This article argues that there are parallels between developments in modern science and in art and culture, including the culture of finance, and that these developments can be tracked by a notion of volatility not just as change, but as how change …
Finance and Society, vol. 9 no. 1 (2023). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 9, number 1. The issue features a keynote essay by Janet Roitman on platform economies beyond the North-South divide. Research articles address climate change central banking (Matthias Thiemann et …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. The FSN conference this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium. The call for papers is open and can be found here. With inflation and interest rates on the rise, the age of expansionary monetary policy is over. At …
Systemic stablecoin and the brave new world of digital money. Jamie Morgan. Cambridge Journal of Economics, OnlineFirst (2023). New forms of money invite informed speculation regarding future possibilities. In this extended commentary, we explore five issue-areas that the growth of cryptocurrency and, more particularly, stablecoin have evoked. This new form …
