Lisa Adkins

Sep 19, 2024 | annpettifor.substack.com | Lisa Adkins |Melinda Cooper |Martijn Konings |Ann Pettifor

Continuous and accurate valuation of assets is at the nerve-wracking heart of today’s financial capitalism. Flawed valuations can be the cause of systemic crisis - and of losses for investors and pensioners - unless and until we are compelled to face reality. Why so? readers may ask. Karl Marx hinted at an answer in The Communist Manifesto. “All that is solid” he wrote, “melts into air.

Jun 3, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Lisa Adkins

As part of this special issue on Wealth, Australian Feminist Studies Co-Editor Lisa Adkins met with Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac to discuss their book, The Gender of Capital: How Families Perpetuate Wealth Inequality (2023). Published by Harvard University Press and translated by Juliette Rogers, The Gender of Capital was first published in French as Le Genre du Capital: Comment la Famille Reproduit les Inégalités (2020, La Découverte).

Apr 25, 2023 | journals.sagepub.com | Lisa Adkins |Martijn Konings

IntroductionThe pausing of economic activities and stay-at-home orders put in place by authorities around the world to mitigate COVID-19 infection rates have been widely understood to have upended and transformed the collective experience of time (see, for example, Grove et al., 2021; Suckert, 2021).