2019 12th Annual Wheelwright Lecture in Political Economy
Professor Susanne Soederberg (Department of Global Development Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney
17 October, 2019: 6:00 [...]
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12-13 December 2019 | City, University of London
Building on the success of our previous conferences, the 4th annual Finance and Society Network (FSN) conference aims to foster further dialogue between the diverse camps that make up the new field of ‘finance and society’ studies. [...]
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The University of Sydney is seeking to appoint two postdoctoral research fellows in the Department of Political Economy.
These are full time two-year fixed term positions.
Successful candidates will work on one of the following projects: “Women and the Future of Work” [...]
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If there is one theme that unites the various critiques of contemporary finance, it is the emphasis on its speculative character. Financial growth is said to be driven not by the logic of efficient markets, but rather by irrational sentiment, “animal spirits” that do not respect fundamental [...]
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In this talk I’d like to introduce my new book Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason. I will focus on one of the key themes of the book: the question of speculation.
If there is one thing that unites the different political economy critiques of the neoliberal [...]
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Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake [...]
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Intersections of finance and society 2017
2-3 November 2017
City, University of London, UK
Organised in association with the Finance and Society Network at the University of Sydney and the City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) at City University [...]
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The folks at the critical theory podcast Always Already focused on Martijn Konings’ most recent book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed in their January show. You can stream the discussion here or download the episode at the link [...]
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