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Posts Tagged ‘finance’

         
 

Can divestment save us?

Swapnik Sanagavarapu | November 1, 2022

In recent years, the climate movement has adopted a strategy of pressuring institutions to divest from their holdings of fossil fuel related shares. Divestment is certainly an enticing proposition for otherwise powerless activists – the idea that such a simple financial decision could [...]

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Dick Bryan, ‘Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement’

Gareth Bryant | October 17, 2022

Political Economy Seminar

Cryptocurrencies as units of account: possibilities for a postcapitalist, distributed mode of measurement

Presenter: Dick Bryan

Date: Oct 25 2022 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time) Location: Room 650, [...]

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Valuation is political

Gareth Bryant | Claire Parfitt | October 10, 2022

In the right-wing backlash against environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing, everyone is accusing everyone else of placing politics over financial returns. The ESG vs anti-ESG debate has led various commentators to argue that ESG investing should be split into purely risk-based and [...]

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For a critical history of poverty finance: Placing neoliberalism in colonial capitalism

Nick Bernards | August 9, 2022

In this short blog post, I want to make the case for why a critical study of ‘poverty finance’ is crucial to understanding neoliberalism and its limits, following the publication of my new book A Critical History of Poverty Finance.

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Beyond greenwashing: The hollow foundations of ethical capital

Claire Parfitt | July 21, 2022

ESG investment funds, which claim to invest according to environmental, social and governance criteria, grew to almost US$3 trillion in 2021.  With a 53% increase since 2020, this made ESG the fastest growing sector of the asset management industry. The rapid flow of funds into ESG [...]

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Game of Claims: On Speculative Finance and the Social Logic of Leverage

Martijn Konings | December 28, 2021

Martijn Konings in conversation with Erik Bordeleau and Laura Lotti

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Another Speculation is Possible: The Political Lesson of r/WallStreetBets

Michel Feher | February 5, 2021

In the flurry of hot takes on the GameStop adventure, three common features emerge. First, almost everyone agrees, this is so much fun! That a Reddit community of amateur traders could take on a big hedge fund and win – at least temporarily – is cause for a roaring gotcha. Second, the [...]

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Green Structural Adjustment in The World Bank’s Resilient Cities

Patrick Bigger | Sophie Webber | June 16, 2020

Cities across the world are facing a double-barreled existential problem: how to adapt to climate change and how to pay for it. Over the next thirty years, more than 570 coastal cities are poised to face frequent catastrophic flooding owing to sea level rise and more intense storms, while as [...]

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    • Debating Debtfare States
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    • Debating The Making of Modern Finance
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    • Feminist Global “Secureconomy”
    • Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Global Crises
    • Scandalous Economics
    • The Military Roots of Neoliberal Governance
    • Politicising artistic pedagogies
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