Outputs (39)

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.

FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China (2023)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2023). FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 16(2), 257–268. https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsad005

This paper develops case studies of the United Kingdom (UK) and China to analyse divergent national financial regulatory approaches to FinTech as a novel political economy of platforms. Regulating with platforms is core to the approach taken in the U... Read More about FinTech platform regulation: Regulating with/against platforms in the United Kingdom and China.

Nigel Dodd: An appreciation (2023)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Ashenden, S., Barry, A., Bear, L., Kelly, A., McGoey, L. J., …Weszkalnys, G. (2023). Nigel Dodd: An appreciation. Economy and Society, 52(1), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2023.2157584

Professor Nigel Dodd was a long-standing and much-loved member of the Editorial Board of Economy and Society. He sadly passed away in August 2022. In this short piece, we express our heartfelt gratitude for Nigel’s contributions to the journal and br... Read More about Nigel Dodd: An appreciation.

Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa (2022)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2022). Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2028652

This paper makes a three-fold contribution to social science research into FinTech in Africa. First, we build on existing research into mobile payments to show how FinTech providers offer unsecured short-term credit products via mobile wallets. Secon... Read More about Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa.

FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction (2022)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Rodima-Taylor, D. (2022). FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction. Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(4), 387-400. https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2022.2092193

Applications of digital technologies to retail money and finance have gathered pace across the globe over the last decade or so, constituting novel ‘FinTech’ economies. Although FinTech is registering across critical social scientific research, insuf... Read More about FinTech in Africa: An Editorial Introduction.

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Lewis, S., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2023). Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin. Urban Geography, 44(2), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2003586

The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets (2021)
Journal Article
Langley, P., Bridge, G., Bulkeley, H., & van Veelen, B. (2021). Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets. Economy and Society, 50(3), 494-516. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1860335

rivate investment capital is now widely regarded as strategically significant to the governance of climate change. A dedicated and dynamic carbon finance sector has emerged that features techniques and practices for decarbonizing capital, facilitatin... Read More about Decarbonizing capital: Investment, divestment and the qualification of carbon assets.

Economy and society in COVID times (2021)
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Langley, P. (2021). Economy and society in COVID times. Economy and Society, 50(2), 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2021.1900653

The Editorial Board of Economy and Society has assembled a virtual collection of 12 free access papers to mark a very significant anniversary – Volume 50 of the journal is being published during 2021. This overview explains the rationale for the coll... Read More about Economy and society in COVID times.

Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism (2020)
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Langley, P. (2021). Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism. Review of International Political Economy, 28(2), 382-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1830828

In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09, political economists have typically identified and interrogated speculative logics and credit-debt relations as the markers of financialized capitalism. This paper argues that assets, and the con... Read More about Assets and assetization in financialized capitalism.

Central banks: Climate governors of last resort? (2020)
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Langley, P., & Morris, J. H. (2020). Central banks: Climate governors of last resort?. Environment and Planning A, 52(8), 1471-1479. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x20951809

The global and regional leadership of central banks in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened public and political debates over their role in the governance of an arguably more fundamental planetary crisis: the climate crisis. Strategically... Read More about Central banks: Climate governors of last resort?.