Economy & Society

Comfort zones: Thermal environments for life and capital in a warming world First coined by American indoor climate engineers in the 1920s, the concept of the comfort zone has since gained traction beyond buildings and houses, in domains as varied as psychology, business m...

Out this week - Jamie Cross and Alex Nading explore how 'comfort zones' are both contributing to the climate crisis and shaping responses to it
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Economy and Society (Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

📣 Publication alert
Just before the break, a special issue co-edited with Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’ was published in @econsocjournal.bsky.social. /1
👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/5...

New open-access paper out (with Valérie Boisvert) in @econsocjournal.bsky.social , as part of this great special issue!
Read it here: shorturl.at/L2Ui8

Core question: If conventional accounting is a growth infrastructure, then what exactly are the different forms of green accounting?
A short 🧵 1/7

📖 New publication: JProf Matthias Kranke co-edited a special issue of @econsocjournal.bsky.social on ‘(Post-)Growth Infrastructures’, which brings together scholarship on (post-)growth, transformations, infrastructures and socio-material relations. Most articles open access.
#PostGrowth #SocSci

Economy and Society (Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

Drum roll ... Our final Issue of 2025 is a very Special Issue on (Post-)Growth Infrastructures, edited by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke.
This was one of two winners supported by funding from our Special Issue Competition.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Economy and Society (Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

Drum roll ... Our final Issue of 2025 is a very Special Issue on (Post-)Growth Infrastructures, edited by Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke.
This was one of two winners supported by funding from our Special Issue Competition.

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Monday 15th December 2025 is the final closing date for submissions to our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026. Last-minute submissions are very welcome!
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Monday 15th December 2025 is the final closing date for submissions to our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026. Last-minute submissions are very welcome!
files.taylorandfrancis.com/economy-and-...

Happy to report from the December Editorial Board meeting that there are many fantastic papers and superb special issues and special sections forthcoming. The cheese board was excellent, too

Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award

Tis the season to ... submit to Economy and Society’s Early-Career Paper Prize 2026.
Competition closes 15th December 2025. The winner will receive a £1,000 award

I know things are feeling like end of year limp/crush right now … but this is too good an opportunity to pass by if you are considering submitting an article to @econsocjournal.bsky.social 💫

‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

Check out the brilliant @cibled.bsky.social in @econsocjournal.bsky.social on the extremes of Becker's human capital theory & its normalisation of inequality.

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Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945-2025, a key contributor to our journal in recent decades, Issue 3 of 2025 is out today.
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Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

Open Access Journal Special Section 👉 Beyond Islam: A tribute to Sami Zubaida
Featured in Economy and Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social

Explore: spr.ly/633257K6ux

‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’: Human capital and endogenous mortality in Gary Becker’s work Chicago School economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Gary Becker writes that ‘most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent “suicides” in the sense that they could have been postponed if more re...

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

Excellent. Fitting tribute to a brilliant scholar.

Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Pull up for a bumper issue, nine articles, from ecologization as a mode of economization to the prompting of generative AI models in UK government, with stops in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and the US along the way!

www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

No recent explosion, more sustained growth. Too many submissions are speculative and seem to be driven by the journal's metrics rather than aims and scope.

Economy and Society Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945–2025. Volume 54, Issue 3 of Economy and Society

Dedicated to Michel Callon, 1945-2025, a key contributor to our journal in recent decades, Issue 3 of 2025 is out today.
www.tandfonline.com/toc/reso20/c...

53 years young and still trending

It's great to know that one of our Latest Articles will be the focus for this reading group. We look forward to hearing about the conversations of @orgorgorgorgorg.bsky.social

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

New from algorithmic societies - The Politics of the Prompt: Government in the Age of Generative AI @econsocjournal.bsky.social So proud of this one, it reflects longstanding research tracing the politics of AI prompting. I love working with these fabulous folks www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

So excited for the expansion of the E&S board with excellent colleagues! Welcome!

@kimberlychong.bsky.social
@joyzhang.bsky.social
@iliasalami.bsky.social
@cleabourne.bsky.social
@will-davies.bsky.social
@hyoyoonkang.bsky.social
@ft-highbury.bsky.social

We are delighted to welcome four new members to our Editorial Board:

- Kimberly Chong (UCL)
- Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS)
- Paul R. Gilbert (Sussex)
- Joy Y. Zhang (Kent)

Their disciplinary expertise and research interests will broaden and deepen our editorial collective.

‘Land makes me feel so secure’: Property, dependence and escape from ‘wageless life’ on Nairobi’s peri-urbanizing peripheries With reference to Michael Denning’s concept of ‘wageless life’, this paper illustrates the social and economic conditions under which young men in central Kenya attempt to escape precarious lives o...

Now available in Latest Articles. Peter Lockwood investigates property's promise of escape from a life of labour in Nairobi
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