The Resilience of Finance Capitalism: Assessing the role of money in the global political economy

英国脱欧和特朗普当选打破了欧洲和美国公民已经习惯的一些常规。保护主义和民族主义再次成为真正的政策选择，区域一体化和建立贸易集团已失去了尊重。不过，保持不变的是，英国和美国对金融业健康的重视。金融资本主义生机勃勃。全球金融资本主义的这种弹性是我们提议的网络的核心。为了理解这种弹性，我们试图评估货币在全球资本主义整体基础设施中的基本作用。结合货币理论和金融经济学的最新进展，我们的目标是建立货币研究，这是全球资本主义政治经济学的支柱，作为政治学的重要组成部分。资本主义货币是国家、银行和人民之间的一种公私合作关系。人们一直在争论什么才算钱，应该有多少钱，多少钱的价格。因此，资本主义民族国家、企业和个人之间互动的支柱和结构条件，是由特定的行动者不断塑造和重新创造的。在六个研讨会中，我们将通过提出以下问题来聚焦这些斗争的复杂性及其含义：什么是钱，它是如何创造的？关键角色和机构如何参与货币的生产？全球和国家货币关系中的等级制度是如何建立和维持的？金钱对国家和全球财富不平等有何影响？通过将一群从事货币、信贷、银行和资本主义理论研究的国际经济学家、社会学家和政治学家聚集在一起，该网络旨在更清晰、更细致地理解金融资本主义的弹性，以及货币在其中扮演的角色。

Brexit and the election of Trump have shattered some of the routines citizens in Europe and the USA have grown accustomed to. Protectionism and nationalism are real policy options again, regional integration and the creation of trade blocks have lost esteem. What has remained the same, though, is the emphasis placed on the well-being of the financial sector both in the UK and the US. Finance capitalism is alive and well. This resilience of global finance capitalism is at the heart of our proposed network. To understand this resilience we seek to assess the fundamental role of money within the overall infrastructure of global capitalism. Engaging with recent advances in money theory and financial economics we aim to establish the study of money, which is the backbone of the global capitalist political economy, as an essential part of political science. Capitalist money is a public-private partnership between the state, banks and the people. There is constant struggle over what counts as money at all, how much of it there shall be and at what price. The backbone and structural condition of the interaction between capitalist nation states businesses and individuals is thus constantly shaped and re-created by specific actors. In six workshops we will zoom in on the intricacies of theses struggles and their implications by asking these questions: What is money and how is it created? How do key actors and institutions partake in the production of money? How are hierarchies in global and national monetary relations created and maintained? How does money matter for national and global wealth inequality? By bringing together an international group of economists, sociologists and political scientists working on money, credit, banking, and the theory of capitalism more broadly, the network aims to develop a clearer and more fine-grained understanding of what explains the resilience of finance capitalism and what role money plays in this.