The Max Planck Institute in Cologne is inviting applications for postdoctoral positions in the following areas: Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Lucio Baccaro) Economic Sociology (Prof. Dr. Jens Beckert) Postdoctoral researchers are employed on a two-year contract starting on October 1, 2026. The deadline for applications is 15 December 2025. The job …
Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior. Adam Hayes, University of Chicago Press 2025. In Irrational Together, economic sociologist Adam S. Hayes takes readers on a fascinating journey to uncover the often-unseen social forces that shape our financial behavior. Drawing on original research and engaging real-world …
Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on US Dollar Debt. Mareike Beck, Cambridge University Press 2025. Extroverted Financialisation offers a new account of the Americanization of global finance through the concept of ‘extroverted financialisation’. The study presents German banks as active participants of financialisation, demonstrating how deeply entangled they were with global markets since post-WWII …
Finance and Society, vol. 11 no. 2 (2025). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 11, number 2. The issue includes articles on the global politics of Insurtech, macro-financial dynamics in Canada, and digital microcredit regulation in Kenya, plus a special section on central …
The Social Foundations of Global Finance. Edited by Ben Clift and Chris Clarke, Agenda Publishing 2025. Through the interrogation of the social foundations of global finance, Tim Sinclair revealed the power relations within the global political economy. His unique and pioneering perspective examines the role of private authority, the institutional …
Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space. Susan Zieger, University of California Press 2025. Movement is the lifeblood of capital, even more so than growth. If goods, people, and information don’t flow, then profits don’t either. Ensuring that laborers, shipping containers, media, commercially valuable data, and much else …
Making climate finance work: Insights from ethics, economics and law. To be published in Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance. A planned special issue of Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance aims to explore climate finance from a cross-disciplinary perspective. This themed issue will examine the role of finance in the climate …
Making banks: Speculative, central, decentralised, impossible. Copenhagen Business School, 10 September 2025, 10.30–12.30. The Finance and Society Network (FSN) and the Organizations, Markets and Governance Research Group (OMG) at Copenhagen Business School are hosting a half-day design workshop on the theme of banking. The workshop invites participants to collectively imagine …
Finance and society conference 2025. Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September. The programme for this year’s conference is now available here. There are limited places available for those not on the programme who may wish to attend. If you would like to join the conference, please register here. All signals indicate that the …
Trading Beyond Understanding: Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets. Christian Borch, Stanford University Press 2026. Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by human experts—executed manually or through pre-coded rules—firms now build models that generate the strategies themselves. These are not just tools but trading …
