Join us at Gleebooks for the launch of three ground-breaking books on the contemporary assetisation of the economy on Monday 15 April 2019 at 6:30pm.
1) Michel Feher’s Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age
The hegemony of finance compels a new [...]
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In a previous contribution to this blog, I have made the case for thinking politically about capital controls. This is particularly important, I argued, because on one hand, capital controls tend to be portrayed even by progressive economists as ready-made, neutral, technical measures, [...]
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Join Australian Feminist Studies (AFS) and the School of Social and Political Sciences (SSPS) at the University of Sydney for the launch of AFS’ special issue on ‘Money’. The issue asks: how is money a feminist issue?
Speakers include:
Lisa Adkins (Head of School, [...]
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Capitalism has been analysed to death in academia and elsewhere. Thus we know that capitalism is structurally conducive to exploitation, to the production and reproduction of class-based inequality, to the degradation of nature, and so on. Such analysis is of capitalism at its [...]
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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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‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’: Problematising Property Financialisation
Masterclass with Rachel Weber (University of Illinois at Chicago) and Brett Christophers (Uppsala University)
In this seminar we discuss the burgeoning literature in geography and urban studies on the [...]
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Are the temporal dimensions of money, debt and finance important? How and why should social scientists engage with these questions? These are the key lines of inquiry that drive my new book The Time of Money.
For many social scientists the answer to these questions is obvious, [...]
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In 2011, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde praised Brazil for finding the ‘enviable sweet spot’ between sustained growth and reduced external vulnerability, allowing it to become ‘one of the world’s leading emerging markets’. This statement reflected the enthusiasm of the international [...]
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