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Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. The hegemony of finance compels a new orientation for everyone and everything: companies care more about the moods of their shareholders than about longstanding commercial success; governments subordinate citizen welfare to appeasing creditors; and individuals are concerned less with immediate income from labor than with appreciation of their capital goods, skills, connections, and reputations. In this…

Finance beyond Numbers: The Humanities after Neo-Liberalism

Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia 19 University Place, 2nd Floor, New York City

Please join us for a workshop, “Finance beyond Numbers: The Humanities after Neo-Liberalism,” on Friday, May 5th. The workshop is co-sponsored by the NYU German Department. Click here to download the workshop program! From the Jordan Center.

Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia

Harriman Institute 420 West 118th St., New York City

Please join us for a talk with Sergei Antonov (Department of History, Columbia University) for a talk about his new book, Bankrupts and Userers of Imperial Russia: Debt, Property, and the Law in the Age of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy (Harvard University Press, October 2016). As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial…