Clickbait capitalism: A panel discussion. Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 23 February 2024, 16.30–18.30 GMT. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to welcome panelists Carolyn Biltoft (Graduate Institute Geneva), Earl Gammon (Sussex), Emily Rosamond (Goldsmiths), and Amin Samman (City). Chaired by Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou (CCS Director). Pushing beyond …
Special issue: ‘Do give up your day job – Basic income for artists, and other stories’. To be published in the journal Cultural Trends. A planned special issue of Cultural Trends aims to explore how basic income schemes impact artists, communities, and the arts sector. Drawing on the growing popularity of …
A political theory of money. City, University of London, 15 March 2024, 17.00–18.30. Anush Kapadia will be launching his new book, A Political Theory of Money, in London this March at CITYPERC. Sahil Jai Dutta will act as discussant. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How …
The Financial Image: Finance, Philosophy and Contemporary Film. Alasdair King, Palgrave Macmillan 2023. The Financial Image draws on a broad range of narrative feature films, documentaries, and moving image installations in the US, Europe, and Asia. Using frameworks from contemporary philosophy and critical finance studies, the book explores how …
A Political Theory of Money. Anush Kapadia, Cambridge University Press 2024. Understanding money’s nature as political, institutional, and material answers today’s big money questions. Money remains a foundational question of social theory. What is money? Why does something so insubstantial have value? How do money systems make promises function like …
Finance and society conference 2024. University of Sheffield, 12-13 September. We are delighted to announce that the finance and society conference this year will take place in Sheffield, UK. The call for papers is now open and can be found here. The settlement between finance and society continues to come …
Finance and Society archive now hosted on Cambridge Core. As part of its relaunch as a Cambridge University Press journal, the entire Finance and Society archive is now hosted on Cambridge Core. You can browse past issues of the journal here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/finance-and-society/all-issues
Catastrophe time! How do we live in a world that we’re actively unmaking? Institute of Advanced Studies, London, 31 January 2024, 18.00–20.00 GMT. The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is pleased to present this multi-media event, film screening and discussion with Gary Zhexi Zhang, Klara Kofen, and Bahar Noorizadeh. …
The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From JP Morgan to BlackRock. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno, Verso 2024. This book tells the story of financial power in American capitalism, from the collapse of the J.P. Morgan’s vast empire to the rise of finance behemoth BlackRock. It traces the making …
Press release from Cambridge University Press. 8 December 2023. Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce that it will publish Finance and Society from January 2024, in partnership with the Finance and Society Network. Finance and Society is a cross-disciplinary journal dedicated to interrogating the central role of …
