Author: Martijn Konings

Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Emotional Logic of Capitalism: What Progressives Have Missed (Stanford University Press, 2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, Polity, 2017) and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Stanford University Press, 2018). With Melinda Cooper, he edits the new Stanford University Press series “Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times.”

  • COVID Life and the Asset Economy

    Following the 2007-08 financial crisis the creation of a less unequal and fairer world appeared to be a major prospect. As is by now all too familiar, after the financial … Keep reading »

    Economy  •  May 27, 2020  •  Lisa Adkins and Martijn Konings

  • The Time of Finance

    The global financial crisis has done next to nothing to change the convictions of mainstream economists. But the widespread lament over their willful blindness seems misplaced: there was never a realistic possibility that the economics profession would voluntarily break with the methodological sophistication and statistical formalism at the heart of its identity. Keep reading »

    Economy  •  January 28, 2018  •  Martijn Konings

  • Neoliberalism: A Useful Concept?

    It is only over the past decade-and-a-half or so that scholars have begun to explore in greater depth the ideological roots of the neoliberal project. Such contributions tend to focus … Keep reading »

    Economy  •  December 1, 2017  •  Damien Cahill and Martijn Konings

  • Progressives, Neoliberalism, and Austerity: Beyond the Polanyian Impasse

    It is now sometimes hard to remember – and for the generation that is now in college and wasn’t necessarily reading the opinion pages at the time, it may seem … Keep reading »

    Economy  •  July 14, 2015  •  Martijn Konings