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As microfinance has expanded in India, so have efforts to regulate the sector. The competing regulatory authority of the state governments and the central bank have produced unexpected refusals by ...

Volume 55, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

This paper explains the political economy of cryptocurrency expansion in Latin America. Based on qualitative research and in-depth interviews, the paper explains the motivations that promote crypto...

Volume 55, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Scholars have unearthed how tech companies exert unprecedented power through new modes of accumulation and control. Less attention has been paid to the social actors who command these companies. In...

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

The scope of scientific inquiry is contracting as research focuses on data-rich problems

Volume 55, Issue 1 of Economy and Society

Volume 55, Issue 1 of Economy and Society

A report produced by the Canadian research team of the Global Media and Internet Research Project Now drawing upon 40 years of data, this report places some of the most significant recent developmen...

Scholars cite subscription paywalls and recurring fees as evidence of a wider political-economic shift from commodification to assetization by digital enclosure, but the mechanics of the subscripti...

PDF | On Feb 5, 2026, Aaron Shapiro published Subscription's entanglements | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

First coined by American indoor climate engineers in the 1920s, the concept of the comfort zone has since gained traction beyond buildings and houses, in domains as varied as psychology, business m...

First coined by American indoor climate engineers in the 1920s, the concept of the comfort zone has since gained traction beyond buildings and houses, in domains as varied as psychology, business m...

(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

Accounting was designed to facilitate economic growth and, as such, tends to reinforce dynamics that are harmful to the environment. Promoted today as a corrective, green accounting is often portra...

(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

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...

Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society