The Rise of Central Banks: State Power in Financial Capitalism. Leon Wansleben, Harvard University Press 2023. While central banks have gained remarkable influence over the past fifty years, promising more stability, global finance has gone from crisis to crisis. How do we explain this development? Drawing on original sources ignored …
Intersections of finance and society, 2023. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 14-15 September. We are delighted to announce that the FSN conference this year will take place in Brussels, Belgium. The call for papers is now open and can be found here. With inflation and interest rates on the rise, the age …
Globalizing financial valuation: International property consultants in São Paulo. Lucia Shimbo, Daniel Sanfelici. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2023). International property consultants (IPCs) have become key intermediaries in the globalization of property markets by providing a range of services that generate transparency and comparability in land and property-based investments. While their role …
Invested: How Three Centuries of Stock Market Advice Reshaped Our Money, Markets, and Minds. Edited by Paul Crosthwaite, Peter Knight, Nicky Marsh, Helen Paul, and James Taylor, University of Chicago Press 2022. Who hasn’t wished for a surefire formula for riches and a ticket to the good life? For three …
States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New. Quentin Bruneau, Columbia University Press 2022. Today, states’ ability to borrow private capital depends on stringent evaluations of their creditworthiness. While many presume that this has long been the case, Quentin Bruneau argues that it is a surprisingly recent …
Beyond market neutrality? Central banks and the problem of climate change. Matthias Thiemann, Tim Büttner, Oliver Kessler. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Starting with a landmark speech by Mark Carney on the ‘Tragedy of the Horizon’ in 2015, climate change entered central banking discourse, causing some of its key convictions to …
Finance and Society, vol. 8 no. 2 (2022). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 8, number 2. The issue includes a major new editorial statement on the future of finance and society studies, based on a joint meeting of the editorial team and …
Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth. Dave Elder-Vass, Cambridge University Press 2022. Value is central to the market sectors of the contemporary economy, yet the best-established theories of value fail to expose how it operates and how it is manipulated for profit. This book begins to reconstruct the …
The Department of Global Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara is inviting applications for an Assistant Professor in Finance and Globalization: Candidates will have expertise in the economics and politics of finance as it operates on a global scale. Candidates will study the globalization of finance and how …
The everyday construction of value: A Canadian investment fund, Chilean water infrastructure, and financial subordination. Michael Pryke and John Allen. Finance and Society, EarlyView (2022). Infrastructure in several economies in the Global South has rapidly undergone financialization, aided and abetted by governments opening-up their infrastructure assets to global institutional investors in …
