finance studies
Central Bank Capitalism
Monetary Policy in Times of Crisis
Joscha
Wullweber
As Joscha Wullweber shows, there has been a radical change in the state-market nexus. With governments refraining from strong and comprehensive fiscal and financial regulatory policies, central banks have become the main stabilizing force and the nodal point of financial circulation. These overburdened institutions are called on to make near-daily interventions to avert crisis. Wullweber calls this historic phase central bank capitalism. His book offers a lucid account of our current state of permanent crisis with its new dilemmas and paradoxes that pose enormous challenges to financial and economic stability.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
August 2024 25 figures 258pp
9781503639621 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Capital and Time For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason
Martijn Konings
Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment continue to proliferate in the wake of major economic crises? Konings offers a new interpretation of both the economic problems that emerged during the 1970s and neoliberalism’s response. This book moves beyond mere denouncements of financial speculation to rethink the role of uncertainty, contingency, and time in contemporary capitalism.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
January 2018 184pp
9781503604438 £21.99 PB now £15.39
Fintech Explained
How Technology Is Transforming Financial Services
Michael R. King
Fintech Explained provides a rigorous, accessible introduction to the landscape of fintech. The book profiles the successes and failures of over thirty high-profile fintechs, combining insights from founders, early-stage investors, financial incumbents, and other stakeholders in this dynamic ecosystem. Combining clear descriptions and case studies with the latest findings from academic research, Fintech Explained provides a complete course for educating interested professionals.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
October 2023 36 b&w figures, 49 b&w tables 396pp
9781487544096 £35.00 PB now £24.50
The Banker Ladies
Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks
Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Unapologetically biased towards a group of women who have been purposely sidelined and put down for what they do, The Banker Ladies highlights how, in order to educate oneself about their contributions to politics and economics, it is imperative to listen to the voices of hundreds of Black women in charge of financial services for their communities. This book sheds light on the activism of the Black women who act as Banker Ladies in their communities, educating readers about their contributions to economic cooperation.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
June 2024 14 b&w illus., 7 b&w tables, 6 b&w figures 344pp
9781487557034 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies
A Behavioral Lens
Edited by Jiaying Zhao, Saugato Datta & Dilip Soman
The latest title in the Behaviourally Informed Organizations series offers practical advice on how best to successfully design, deliver, and evaluate efficient cash transfer programs. With contributions from leading academics as well as seasoned practitioners, Cash Transfers for Inclusive Societies presents a new model to policymakers to study and shift the discourse on poverty alleviation from purely economic factors to also behavioral ones.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS
Series: Behaviorally Informed Organizations
October 2023 1 b&w illus., 1 b&w map, 29 b&w figures, 15 b&w tables 264pp
9781487545178 £24.99 HB now £17.49
History in Financial Times Amin Samman
Critical theorists of economy tend to understand the history of market society as a succession of distinct stages. Rather than each present leaving a set past behind it, the past continually circulates through and shapes the present. This vision of history rests on a chronological conception of time whereby each present slips into the past so that a future might take its place. This book argues that the linear mode of thinking misses something crucial about the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.Pushing beyond linear accounts of economic history, author Samman instead argues in History in Financial Times that the past continually circulates through and shapes the present in unexpected ways.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
May 2019 232pp
9781503609457 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Making a Killing States, Banks, and Terrorism
Ian Michael Oxnevad
The international financial system is not only economic, but political. Making a Killing explores the often-overlooked world of terrorist financing and the involvement of the international banking system. Connecting the fields of security studies, political economy, and finance, Oxnevad argues that a bank’s institutional link to a state (as a stateowned bank or a bank with strong state connections) will protect it from any enforcement action for violations of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations. Oxnevad seeks to assess how effective new laws and regulations have been, as well as to identify best practices for future attempts to counter the financing of terrorism.
MCGILL-QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY PRESS
October 2021 4 diagrams, 4 tables 224pp
9780228008767 £29.99 HB now £20.99
Moral Economies of Money
Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society
Jakob Feinig
In this astute new work, Feinig shows how the relation between money users and money-issuing governments changed from British colonial North America to today's United States, discussing how popular movements reshaped money-creating institutions, and how their opponents attempted to silence them. He also reveals how monetary and political history unfolds in the tension between "moral economies of money" and "monetary silencing." Offering an introduction to money creation practices since the colonial era, the book enables readers to understand why most people are disconnected from knowledge about money creation today.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times October 2022 208pp
9781503633445 £23.99 PB now £16.79
The Political Theory of Neoliberalism
Thomas Biebricher
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary for understanding the varieties of capitalism across space and time. This book looks to distinguish between neoliberal theory and practice, as well as to theoriez their relationship. By examining the views of state, democracy, science, and politics in the work of six major figures including Eucken and Freidman, it offers the first comprehensive account of the varieties of neoliberal political thought.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
February 2019 272pp
9781503607828 £23.99 PB now £16.79
Moments of Capital
World Theory, World Literature
Eli Jelly-Schapiro
Undertaken at the interface of critical theory and world literature, Moments of Capital sets out to grasp the unity and heterogeneity of global capital in the postcolonial present.Eli Jelly-Schapiro argues that global capital is composed of three synchronous moments: primitive accumulation, expanded reproduction, and the "synthetic dispossession" facilitated by financialization and privatization. These moments correspond to distinct economic and political forms, and distinct strands of theory and fiction. This book develops a new conceptual key for the mapping of contemporary theory, world literature, and global capital itself.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
March 2023 266pp
9781503635432 £23.99 PB now £16.79
The Bankers' Blacklist
Unofficial Market Enforcement and the Global Fight against Illicit Financing
Julia C. Morse
Trillions of dollars flow across borders through the banking system every day. While bank-tobank transfers facilitate trade and investment, they also provide opportunities for criminals and terrorists to move money around the globe.In
The Banker's Blacklist, Julia C. Morse demonstrates how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has enlisted global banks in the effort to keep "bad money" out of the financial system, in the process drastically altering the domestic policy landscape and transforming banking worldwide.
CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Cornell Studies in Money
January 2022 1 diagram, 10 charts 258pp 9781501761515 £47.00 HB now £32.90
The Time of Money
Lisa Adkins
Speculation is often associated with financial practices, but The Time of Money makes the case that it not be restricted to the financial sphere. Replacing a logic of extraction, speculation changes our relationship to time and organizes our social worlds to maximize the productive capacities of populations around flows of money for finance capital. Examining five features of our contemporary economy, Lisa Adkins reveals the operations of this speculative rationality. Moving beyond claims that indebtedness is intrinsic to contemporary life and vague declarations that the social world has become financialized, Adkins delivers a precise examination of the relation between finance and society, one that is rich in empirical and analytical detail.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
September 2018 4 hfts 240pp
9781503607101 £23.99 PB now £16.79
