"Today's global financial system bears little resemblance to what it was at the end of the twentieth century. Shadow banking--financial activity taking place outside existing regulatory frameworks--has grown so important that it now serves as the backbone of the entire system. The shadow banking...

The aim of this article is twofold: First, I would like to theoretically contribute to Science and Technology Studies, and to Science, Technology and Innovation Studies , respectively, by introducing a hegemony-and discourse-theoretical inspired political economy as an interdisciplinary...

Theories of performativity can enhance the study of global finance. Taking everyday financial practices seriously, they emphasize the potentially structuring effects and disciplinary nature of finance, and foreground the performative role of economics, financial models, and formulas. However, it...

This report discusses the overall instabilities inherent in the current global financial system in general, and the system's performance in reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic in particular. It explains why the financial crisis induced by the COVID-19 outbreak was not an unpredictable black swan...