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For a post-disciplinary study of finance and society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2023

Amin Samman ,
Nathan Coombs  and
Angus Cameron
Amin Samman*
Affiliation:
City University London, UK
Nathan Coombs
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, UK
Angus Cameron
Affiliation:
University of Leicester, UK
*
Corresponding author: Amin Samman, City UniversityLondon, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK. Email:amin.samman.1@city.ac.uk
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The financial crisis of 2007-8 sparked a variety of responses from elites and popular movements across the world. Its legacy also continues to shape capitalist societies through ongoing processes of regulatory reform, state restructuring, and financial innovation. While these processes are open-ended, they are increasingly subject to critical attention from a range of commentators. The usual suspects are out in force – academics, politicians, and pundits – but they are now joined by a wider array of theorists and activists, playwrights, novelists and artists. The financialisation of capitalism, it seems, has finally been met with a blooming of the financial imagination. Finance and Society will provide a space for the further development of this imagination, generating new insights into how money and finance organise social life.

Keywords

Social studies of financecritical finance studiespolitical economyeconomic humanitiesfinancialisation
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Finance and Society , Volume 1 , Issue 1: Hard cash , 2015 , pp. 1 - 5
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