Karl Polanyi Research Center
for Global Social Studies

Where does the money come from and who controls it? Against the background of a powerful worldwide financial expansion that ushered in a series of major financial crises between 2007 and 2014, some new (old) truths have been (re)learnt. This talk by anthropologists Don Kalb and Chris Hann (who co-edited the book “Financialization: Relational Approaches”, 2020) will dwell on this recent learning about the deeply political nature of money and finance, including on the ongoing c