We are inviting collective and individual projects to submit proposals on the ideological, affective and technopolitical dimensions of (post)neoliberal authoritarianism for participation in this hybri...

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...

Workshop: "The Public Uses of the History of Economics: Economics Between Institutions and Public Debates"

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) is a centre for the cultural and political analysis of economic life, at Goldsmiths, University of London. This website is regularly updated, bringing toge...

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...

Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors

Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors

A Critical Glossary

Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors

Rates of ‘anxiety disorder’ have risen rapidly in the 21st century, provoking much public debate as to the causes. However, despite attending to varieties of me...

Launch of a new book - with conversation from authors and editors

Silicon Valley helped elect a president who is clearly looking out for its interests – by weakening antitrust laws, rolling back regulations, cutting social programs, and loosening labor protections. ...

Capital controls are restrictions on international capital flows which may include taxes, prohibitions, or approvals. These restrictions were used extensively in the post-war era but progressively los...

Capital controls are restrictions on international capital flows which may include taxes, prohibitions, or approvals. These restrictions were used extensively in the post-war era but progressively los...