Trailer: The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

Once again Academic Trailers have delivered a unique take on a new book addressing issues of political economy from an innovative angle. Here Martijn Konings, The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed is featured.

Author: Martijn Konings

Martijn Konings works in the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Development of American Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed (Stanford University Press, 2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, Polity, 2017) and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Stanford University Press, 2018). With Melinda Cooper, he edits the new Stanford University Press series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times.

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