This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks
after the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic requires interrogating the sources of …

Stock market indices are among the important figures that are followed in the trading rooms:
on the movements of the Dow Jones or the S&P 500 depends the allocation of billions of …

There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history,
anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular …

This Open Access book from the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy
explains how money creation and banking works, describes the main problems of the …

As we witness, once again, looming debt crises in capitalism's periphery, understanding the
dynamics of how governments manage debt, lending, and financing is critical for social …

This chapter makes the case for a social studies of financial regulation taking inspiration
from science and technology studies. Acknowledging that the regulatory field poses …

There is a widespread phenomenon of trading goods ordered in advance in the commodity
market, and consumers choose to imitate others for security reasons, to form a herd …

The acknowledgements, arguably the most widely read part of a thesis, are intended to do
justice to those who made it possible. Any four-year project requires the support of many …

This book is a translation and adaption of the Dutch report 'Geld en schuld. De publieke rol
van banken', published by the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR) …

This chapter assesses the financial monetary system on the basis of four characteristics:(1)
its economic contribution;(2) its stability;(3) its fairness in the distribution of benefits, costs …