Matthias Thiemann: 'The scientization of central banks: How economists shape macroprudential policy'
How do economists shape central bank policy? Do we need to place our focus on the legitimating discourses of economists, be they within or o...
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Warwick Critical Finance
The Warwick Critical Finance (WCF) Group is a study group based at the PAIS department of the University of Warwick which takes a critical approach to new and emerging trends in finance. We...
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11 episodes
Big-data credit scoring: risk management in Chinese social credit programmes
In this talk, Ruowen Xu examines the organisation process by which Big Data credit scoring models are produced, investigating the analytical...
WCF in discussion with Daniela Gabor
A decade after the 2008 financial crisis, new political economic imaginaries have emerged to make sense of our financialised world. Critical...
WCF Dialogue: Operationalisations of Financialisation
If 'globalisation' was the dominating concept of the 1990s and 'neoliberalisation' followed in the 2000s, then 'financialisation' is arguabl...
Gendered flexitime in asset finance — work-life balance at month-end
The talk presented empirical findings on the use of flexitime policies in financial institutions as a way to manage workload fluctuations ar...
Gendered flexitime in asset finance - Q&A
The talk presented empirical findings on the use of flexitime policies in financial institutions as a way to manage workload fluctuations ar...
Resilience, Market Subjects and Performative Politics
The post-crisis period has seen a growing emphasis on nurturing complex adaptive (financial) networks that have the ability to ‘bounce back’...
Lauren Tooker: Going to uncomfortable places: Redemptive critique and ordinary agency
Lauren Tooker began by addressing the problematic of developing a reflexive critique of finance. While we might want to move beyond a form o...
Nathaniel Tkacz: Critique of financial devices - behaviourist interfaces and designed experience
Nathaniel Tkacz observed an inversion of the relationship between Political Economy and Media Studies whereby critical issues are gradually...
Johnna Montgomerie: Fighting finance’s opacity – technical terms, historical hangover and intersectionality
Johnna Montgomerie continued by pointing out the way that finance’s opacity, both in terms of its terminology as well as its legal contexts,...
Bill Maurer: Philanthrocapital, infrastructure, automaticity - where are the ‘choking points’?
Bill Maurer opened the panel highlighting three recent trends in finance: The shift of investment from traditional markets to non-market bas...