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 …
Critical finance studies conference 2023. Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Crete, 21-23 June. The Critical Finance Studies conference goes to Crete next year. The 2023 conference will take place at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno. The organisers are encouraging work that “seeks to engage finance in new and critical …
Politics & Society, vol. 50 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Florence Dafe, Sandy Brian Hager, Natalya Naqvi, and Leon Wansleben. With contributions from the editors, Ayca Zayim, Lena Rethel, Elsa Clara Massoc, Benjamin Braun, and Manolis Kalaitzake. The contributions to this special issue engage with how decades of financialization …
Economy and Society, vol. 51 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Nathan Coombs and Matthias Thiemann. With contributions from the editors, Jacqueline Best, Edin Ibrocevic, Stephanie Mudge and Antoine Vauchez, and Hirokazu Miyazaki and Annelise Riles. This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks …
Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 15 no. 4 (2022). Edited by Paul Langley and Daivi Rodima-Taylor. With contributions from the editors, Andrew Leyshon, Vincent Guermond, Abbi Kedir and Euphrasie Kouame, Rob Aitken, and more. Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over …
