Geographies of debt and indebtedness: everyday and comparative frames

23rd January 2015

Call for papers for a panel at the RGS conference in Exeter in September on Geographies of debt and indebtedness. Organised by Christopher Harker and Samuel Kirwan. Deadline Feb 10th. Read More

Why More Diversity on Wall Street Might Fight Bubbles

15th December 2014

Might ethnic diversity help combat market bubbles? Two recent pieces featuring David Stark on a recent paper that he co-authored Read More

The New Politics of Indebtedness in Britain, December 18th

2nd December 2014

A forthcoming event marking the launch of a major new report into the politics UK indebtedness, the outcome of a six month study involving Johnna Montgomerie, Joe Deville, Carl Packman, Daniel Tischer and Liam Stanley Read More

Investigating High-Frequency Trading

26th August 2014

A call for papers for an international series of workshops on High Frequency Trading. Confirmed participants include Donald Mackenzie, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Yuval Millo, Evangelos Benos, Nathan Coombs, Alexandre Laumonier, Alex Preda, and Christian Borch Read More

Governing Money After Bitcoin and the “Sharing Economy”

11th August 2014

An invitation to attend a public lecture by Professor Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine on 8 September 2014 at University of Warwick. Addressing questions including: What happens when “peer currencies” and the peer economy recode private moneys and renting as liberation and revolution? What happens to money and exchange when it occurs through closed loops connected by private gateways? Read More

Consuming Credit: Special Issue of Consumption Markets & Culture

14th July 2014

Announcing a new Special Issue of Consumption Markets & Culture on the consumption of credit. It is edited by Paul Langley, who also features in the collection alongside fellow Charisma members José Ossandón, Joe Deville and Donncha Marron, with a Postscript by Bill Maurer Read More

Innovating Financial Information Infrastructures

29th May 2014

New article by Charisma member Antonios Kaniadakis, co-written with Panos Constantinides. looking at the introduction of mortgage securitization in the UK, the role played by financial information infrastructure innovation and the implications for the calculation of financial risk Read More

Risk and Regulation magazine

28th April 2014

Check out the current edition of Risk and Regulation, edited by Martha Poon, and featuring articles by, amongst others, Janet Roitman, Natasha Dow Schüll and Michael Power Read More

Journal of Peer Production: Issue #4

17th April 2014

A new issue of the Journal of Peer Production is out now, with papers exploring how peer production is entangled with a range of practices of valuation and expressions of worth Read More

Gain an edge with the sociology of finance

25th March 2014

Daniel Beunza introduces a new summer course run by the LSE aimed at taking SSF into finance! Read More