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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Finance is changing our lives. Through mortgages and super we now have more debt, and more savings, then ever before. The expansion of financial markets – what sociologists call ‘financialisation’ – creates new winners and losers. It even changes how we think about social rights. The [...]
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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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This is an edited version of a piece that appeared in the European Financial Review and relates to the work I have recently conducted with Stephen Bell concerning our jointly authored monograph Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market and an article published in the British Journal of [...]
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With the news that Susanne Soederberg has been awarded the 2015 British International Studies Association International Political Economy Group Book Prize, we are re-posting this feature on her book. There is also a short trailer on Debtfare States and the Poverty Industry, available [...]
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At first blush, the title of Martijn Konings new book, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism, may seem a little perplexing. After all, we’re quite familiar with understanding capitalism in terms of the “callous cash nexus”, or as a regime of cold, depersonalised calculation that reduces the [...]
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Announcing a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly: “Rethinking Money, Debt, and Finance after the Crisis”, edited by Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings – with contributions from Lisa Adkins, Fiona Allon, Dick Bryan, Marieke de Goede, Randy Martin, Chris Jefferis, [...]
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Call for Papers — Neoliberalism since the Crisis
University of Leeds, 9-11 September 2015
This is a call for papers for a series of panels on ‘Neoliberalism since the Crisis’, being oganised by Damien Cahill and Alfredo Saad-Filho as part of the International [...]
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