Fierce competition and overcapacity crises are impeding efforts to decarbonize cement production

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A “Limitless Frontier”? Neoliberalism, Silicon Valley, and the Commercialization of Space

The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...

Wealthy countries and corporations are seeking to rewrite international law to undermine the neutrality of space and privatise its land and resources.

A decade after Peter Thiel backed Donald Trump, the ascent of the “tech right″⁣ has made billionaire founders “evil geniuses” in the eyes of many.

This article investigates a neglected aspect of charismatic authority: the problem of economic practices of charismatic leaders and their communities. Drawing on Weber’s classical theory of charism...

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

YouTube video by Cultural Economy in the Kitchen

Heads up, y'all. Big news! 📰 🗞️ It's almost launch time for the fantastic new podcast from the Journal of Cultural Economy editorial collective. It's *Cultural Economy in the Kitchen*. Hosted by t...

Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

Volume 18, Issue 5 of Journal of Cultural Economy

PhD position for research project: Talking Empire – Prime Ministerial Rhetoric and the Search for a Usable Past in Post-Imperial Britain The Department of Language and Culture at the University of Sou...

Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)

Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 06/19/2025 · 42m

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Israel attacks Iran.

A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter

Austerity might not have reduced the net spend of the state, but it has certainly transformed it into something more centralised, coercive, and managerial. The austerity literature often explains t...

This event brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming...

In his farewell address this January, then US President Joe Biden delivered a striking warning: a “tech oligarchy”, he said, now threatens American democracy. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning about the mi...

Retirement planning can be daunting – especially in the UK, where a weakened welfare state has led to one of the lowest pension provisions among OECD countries. Rising living costs, job insecurity, an...

This event brings together scholars to discuss political economy and accounting perspectives on the challenges for transforming...

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls have increasing political ambitions, as spectacularly illustrated by Peter Thiel’s and Elon Musk’s involvements in the US 2022 midterm elections and 2024 presidential e...

Wealthy countries and corporations are seeking to rewrite international law to undermine the neutrality of space and privatise its land and resources.

In a techno-libertarian twist on traditional pronatalism, Silicon Valley elites position reproduction as an ideological instrument to ‘future-proof’ innovation, based on a privileged upper-class posit...