Securing Finance, Mobilizing Risk: Money Cultures at the Bank of England - Paperback

by John Morris (Author)

This book examines how cultural understandings of finance became increasingly speculative of risk before and after the Global Financial Crisis.

Author Biography

John Hogan Morris is Research Assistant in Responsible Finance in the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University. He completed his PhD in 2015 in the Geography Department at Durham University (UK), and earlier that year his work won 'Best Graduate Student Paper' at the New Directions in International Political Economy Conference at University of Warwick. John has published in the Journal of Cultural Economy and is currently co-editing a special issue on 'Security and Finance' in the journal Finance & Society. He also has a section on 'Financial Security' in the International Political Economy of Everyday Life project. He has taught Economic Geography and International Political Economy at Durham University and University College London. John was an invited judge at the London Area Final of the Bank of England's Two Point Zero challenge and has provided informal advice on public communications to the European Central Bank.