Regulation and Regulators After Global Financial Crises: Enforcement and Adaptation. Aleksandra Jordanoska, Routledge 2025. This book provides an original theoretically and empirically grounded analysis of regulatory enforcement activism in post-crisis periods and the ensuing regulatory interactions. It critically addresses the ‘more regulation’ enforcement agenda relating to financial misconduct in the …
State, Capitalism, and Finance in Emerging Markets: Between Subordination and Statecraft. Johannes Petry and Andreas Nölke (eds.), Bristol University Press 2025. What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to …
Clickbait capitalism: Economies of desire in the twenty-first century. Amin Samman and Earl Gammon (eds), Manchester University Press 2025. The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pursues the …
Money and gender: An interdisciplinary online symposium. University of London, December 2025. Colleagues are organising an interdisciplinary symposium on money and gender to be held in early December this year. This symposium explores the entanglement of gender and money. Money might appear to be a neutral economic instrument that transcends …
Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach. Louis Larue, Routledge 2025. A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are …
Finance and society conference 2025. Copenhagen Business School, 11-12 September. The call for papers for this year’s conference will close on 1 May 2025. All signals indicate that the global economy is entering a period of heightened conflict. Big Tech and the US state are on the rampage to further …
Finance and Society, vol. 11 no. 1 (2025). The editors of Finance and Society are pleased to announce the publication of volume 11, number 1. The issue includes articles on precarious young investors, Tesla stock price dynamics, channels of influence in sustainable finance, and much more, plus a review article by …
Valuation, space, and power ECR workshop. University of Sheffield, 23-24 June 2025. Colleagues are organising a workshop for early career researchers at University of Sheffield in June this year. Today, many socio-economic struggles centre not on the organisation of production but on the recognition of, and claims over, asset values. …
Book launch: Finance aesthetics – A critical glossary. Goldsmiths University of London, 8 April 2025, 17.00–19.00 UK time. Goldsmiths Press is hosting a launch event for their new book, Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. Join us for the launch of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary, a new title from …
The Birth of the Financial Thriller: Making a Killing in the 1970s. Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Edinburgh University Press 2025. Discover the untold story of the financial thriller, a genre pioneered by Canadian banker-turned-author Paul Erdman from a Swiss prison cell. Starting with the publication of The Billion Dollar Sure Thing …
