Martijn Konings is a political economist at the University of Sydney. His latest books are Capital and Time (Stanford University Press, 2018) and The Asset Economy (Polity, 2020 with Lisa Adkins and Melinda Cooper), and he is currently completing a book on the bailout state.
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