by C.R.Yadu and Kavita Yadaw* India’s economic growth story increasingly sits alongside a less visible crisis: the weakening of the social foundations on which development depends. While headline e…

Dear ES/PE community members, as a new academic year begins in many countries, dive into and benefit from an abundant list of valuable academic opportunities: 30 calls for papers for conferences (s…

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

Dear ES/PE community members, as a new academic year begins in many countries, dive into and benefit from an abundant list of valuable academic opportunities: 27 calls for papers for conferences (s…

by Robert (Robby) Cserni* I arrived in the UK with a US-trained PhD, a CV formatted for the American academic market, and a stack of materials that no British search committee was asking for. I had…

by Robert (Robby) Cserni* I arrived in the UK with a US-trained PhD, a CV formatted for the American academic market, and a stack of materials that no British search committee was asking for. I had…

by Martino Comelli* Finance dominates headlines and economies alike. Pension funds, insurance companies, and investment firms control capital rivalling entire GDPs, shape corporate governance, move…

Gilles Deleuze, an eminent French philosopher and political theorist: These days, information technology, communications, and advertising are taking over the words “concept” and “…

by M. Fatih Karakaya* In early September of 2025, Berlin buzzed with sociological energy as scholars from across Europe and beyond gathered at the Weizenbaum Institute for the 2025 Midterm Conferen…

by Andreas Nölke* The share of emerging markets in the global financial system has grown tremendously during the last decades. This is particularly true for the large economies that are members of …

:-) “Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our tu…

Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 14 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues…

by Ivan Light* A review of Eugene McCarraher’s The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism became the Religion of Modernity. Harvard University Press. Max Weber famously declared in 1917 that …

by Nina Bandelj* In the summer of 2024, U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory about something that would have seemed an unlikely candidate for federal alarm: parenting. More than 40 …

by Nina Bandelj* In the summer of 2024, U.S. Surgeon General issued a public health advisory about something that would have seemed an unlikely candidate for federal alarm: parenting. More than 40 …

Alan Greenspan, Fed Chair from 1987 to 2006: glimpses a fateful tenure and a defining era. “Regulation – which is based on force and fear – undermines the moral base of business dealings&#823…

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

Join us in April and May for two webianrs to prepare for the upcoming 2027 Socioeconomics & Law Conference "Democracy under Pressure"

While the Brexit process is underway and UK politicians are tearing themselves apart over this overwhelmingly and multidimensionally complicated  issue, an economics professor from Warwick Universi…

by Robert (Robby) Cserni* On a Zoom call, Greg, a graduate student in social work, described a problem that had nothing to do with his ability. Strong grades, clear research questions, two years in…

Neal Harris and Robin Jervis, (Oxford Brookes University) 'Cracks in left strategy: Interstitial revolution in E. O. Wright and John Holloway' Capital & Class https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Transition Security Project (TSP) investigates the U.S. and U.K. military-industrial complexes as economic, climate, and geopolitical threats. You can find more about their work here. TULE has joi...

by Ivan Light*  How can they still back him? During the Trump presidency, this question arose again and again when, despite a relentless succession of failures, lies, outrages, and scandals, h…

As you probably know, we regularly share, exclusively through ES/PE’s social media channels, information about some of the most interesting and promising online talks and webinars in economic socio…

Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject…

The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University has launched the Bibliographic Database of International Scholarship – a project dedicated to exploring Karl Polanyi’s …

The Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy at Concordia University has launched the Bibliographic Database of International Scholarship – a project dedicated to exploring Karl Polanyi’s …

by Noé Kabouche* Over the last few decades, initiatives involving ‘sustainable’, ‘ethical’ and ‘responsible’ finance have been thriving. Among this flourishing renewal of morality in the financial …

by Kaveh Yazdani*  How come the world’s eight wealthiest men are as rich as half the planet’s population? Why do the vast bulk of the super-rich come from the West despite the rise of Chinese…

Detaching ‘neoliberalism’ from ‘free markets’: monopolistic corporations as neoliberalism’s ideal market form Speaker: Ian Bruff is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Mancheste...

A lecture with Dr Ana Saggioro Garcia.

The right to shelter is heavily undermined by the assetization of housing, a tension this webinar will engage with critically.

Dear ES/PE community members, find below and benefit from an abundant list of great academic opportunities: 17 calls for papers for conferences (some are partly and fully funded) and special issues…

Mareike Beck will present her new book Extroverted Financialisation: Banking on USD debt in this session of our CITYPERC lecture series

Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis - a public talk by Prof Andreas Bieler and Dr Vincenzo Maccarrone.

Friedrich Nietzsche: “Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make us…

by Koray Caliskan* Over the past few decades, the idea of performativity has quietly reshaped how many of us think about markets, identities, technologies, and institutions. The basic intuition is …

by Koray Caliskan* Over the past few decades, the idea of performativity has quietly reshaped how many of us think about markets, identities, technologies, and institutions. The basic intuition is …

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2025/2026 SER CAFE - PLATFORM ECONOMY (JAN 30). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Inga Rademacher (City) presents her working paper: 'Finance and the far right: financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world' Discussants: Owen Worth (University of Limerick) and Alen Topl...

3rd Seminar Series on Governance, Institutions and Sustainability

The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) is delighted to welcome Prof Mary Davis for a critical talk on Women and Class