Offshore finance: The socio-economics of a global system. To be published in Socio-Economic Review. A planned special issue of Socio-Economic Review aims to explore the past, present, and future of offshore finance. Offshore finance is a central feature of the world economic system, acting as a repository for at least …
Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea. Bohyeong Kim, University of Michigan Press 2025. Critically Capitalist presents an ethnography of South Korea’s asset seekers, including amateur stock investors, real estate enthusiasts, and money coaches, to demonstrate how financialized asset capitalism is sustained. As they hunt for profit …
Financialisation in Latin America. BISA-IPEG webinar series, February 2025. The BISA International Political Economy Group is running a webinar series on financialisation in Latin America. The webinar series that critically engages with the variegated pathways of financialisation across Latin America, shedding light on its interplay with state institutions, social relations, and …
Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Edited by Torsten Andreasen et al., Goldsmiths Press 2024. What does finance capital look like? How do the push and pull of debt and credit shape our feelings and relations? Across fifty-five unforgettable entries, Finance Aesthetics offers an unorthodox appraisal of our bizarre, distorted contemporary …
Methodological pluralism in critical finance research. Goethe University Frankfurt, 3-4 July 2025. Colleagues are organising a workshop on methods in critical finance studies, to be held at the Goethe University Frankfurt in July this year. [C]ritical finance scholarship has developed a remarkably pluralist research agenda. Topics range from financial hegemony …
Money, Value, and the State: Sovereignty and Citizenship in East Africa. Kevin Donovan, Cambridge University Press 2024. Decolonization in East Africa was more than a political event: it was a step towards economic self-determination. In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in …
b2o: an online journal, vol. 6 no. 1 (2024). Edited by Martijn Konings. With contributions from Stefan Eich, Amin Samman, Dick Bryan, Janet Roitman, and Michelle Chihara. We should perhaps consider ourselves as occupying the mental space that Keynes did after he completed A Treatise on Money, which catalogued the …
Finance and Society, vol. 10 no. 3 (2024). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 10, number 3. The issue includes articles on the asset condition, Apartheid financing, and Insurtech, plus a forum on postcapitalist finance and review articles on books by Melinda Cooper, …
Economic Sociology, vol. 26 no. 1 (2024). Edited by Leon Wansleben. With contributions from Jens Beckert, Neil Fligstein, Ute Tellmann, Caleb Scoville, and Annika Rieger. Economic activities force earth systems to undergo dramatic changes, while some ecosystems collapse. In consequence, conditions for economic activities change, sometimes rapidly and sometimes in …
From Croesus to Nakamoto: How currencies emerge, between practice and theory. To be published in the Revue de la Régulation. A planned special issue of Revue de la Régulation aims to explore how currencies emerge. There is a vast panorama of work on money in the social sciences. They focus …
