Announcing a new book series published by Stanford University Press:
Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Edited by Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings (University of Sydney)
In the wake of recent events such as the global financial crisis, the Occupy Wall Street [...]
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Recently I learned that my book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism has been awarded the Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Award, sponsored by the Humanities Research Institute at Arizona State University. The award is given each year to “a non-fiction work that exemplifies transdisciplinary, [...]
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Recent years have seen a growth in innovative research on finance across the humanities and social sciences. Following on from the success of the ‘social studies of finance’ approach and the new literature on ‘financialisation’, scholars are taking up the challenge of theorising money and [...]
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Among progressively minded theorists and other commentators, the financial crisis of 2007-8 produced an instant consensus that the days of neoliberalism—which involved above all financial expansion and capital-friendly public policies—were over. As a consequence, the turn to austerity over [...]
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Let me start this piece on Samuel Knafo’s The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard with a disclaimer: it makes no claims to neutrality or objectivity. I have witnessed the book’s development up close since approximately the turn of the century, when Sam and I [...]
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Once again Academic Trailers have delivered a unique take on a new book addressing issues of political economy from an innovative angle. Here Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed is featured.
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Let me start this piece on Samuel Knafo’s The Making of Modern Finance: Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard with a disclaimer: it makes no claims to neutrality or objectivity. I have witnessed the book’s development up close since approximately the turn of the century, when Sam and I [...]
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This presentation was delivered as part of an event launching my latest book The Emotional Logic of Capitalism at Gleebooks in Sydney (23 June 2015). It was followed by an appraisal by Dr Fiona Allon that is also published on Progress in Political Economy and available HERE.
It is now [...]
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