Outputs (3)

Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies (2023)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P., & Langley, P. (2024). Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies. Geoforum, 151, Article 103848. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103848

This paper examines how digital gamification techniques, which incorporate video gaming elements (rather than full-fledged games) into apps, are reshaping the logics and practices of intermediation that are core to FinTech economies. First, we argue... Read More about Playful finance: Gamification and intermediation in FinTech economies.

State action and inaction in the shaping of value and wealth entanglements: The role of Singapore in the global ‘gold chain’ (2023)
Journal Article
Thomsen, L., Lai, K. P., & Ponte, S. (2023). State action and inaction in the shaping of value and wealth entanglements: The role of Singapore in the global ‘gold chain’. Environment and Planning A, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x231181128

Value and wealth creation, capture and protection are important features of contemporary global capitalism. However, global value chains and global wealth chains have been studied mostly in isolation from each other. In this article, we address this... Read More about State action and inaction in the shaping of value and wealth entanglements: The role of Singapore in the global ‘gold chain’.

Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus (2023)
Journal Article
Lai, K. P. (2023). Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus. Progress in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/03091325231170756

In the first of my reports on financial geography, I focus on a growing body of work that engages with the state as a vital and strategic actor in financial markets and in the global economy. After the 2008 global financial crisis, austerity measures... Read More about Financial geography I: The state-finance nexus.