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The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation (2020)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2021). The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation. New Political Economy, 26(3), 376-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766432

‘FinTech’ is the digital sector of retail money and finance widely proclaimed to be transforming banking in the global North and ‘banking the unbanked’ in the global South. This paper develops a perspective for critically understanding FinTech as a p... Read More about The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation.

Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market (2019)
Journal Article
Coslor, E., Crawford, B., & Leyshon, A. (2020). Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market. Organization Studies, 41(7), 945-967 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840619883371

This research examines gatekeepers' categorization work to assess and sort audience members. Using a multi-sited ethnography and interpretivist qualitative lens, we explore how high-value art gallerists sort buyers via categories, but also encourage... Read More about Collectors, investors and speculators: gatekeeper use of audience categories in the art market.

Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread (2019)
Journal Article
Brackin, R., Jackson, M. J., Leyshon, A., & Morley, J. G. (2019). Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(1), Article 34. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8010034

The topic of technology development and its disruptive effects has been the subject of much debate over the last 20 years with numerous theories at both macro and micro scales offering potential models of technology progression and disruption. This p... Read More about Taming disruption?: pervasive data analytics, uncertainty and policy intervention in disruptive technology and its geographic spread.

Unfinished business (2018)
Journal Article
Leyshon, A. (2018). Unfinished business. Environment and Planning A, doi:10.1177/0308518x18784599. ISSN 0308-518X

This short commentary responds to James et al.’s report on the employment of economic geographers within in departments of business and management in UK universities. An initial ambivalence about the numbers of economic geographers working outside th... Read More about Unfinished business.

Money and finance after the crisis: taking critical stock (2017)
Book Chapter
Christophers, B., Leyshon, A., & Mann, G. (2017). Money and finance after the crisis: taking critical stock. In B. Christophers, A. Leyshom, & G. Mann (Eds.), Money and finance after the crisis: critical thinking for uncertain timesWiley

Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2017). Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation. Finance and Society, 2(1), 11-31. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v3i1.1936

A new form of digital economic circulation has emerged, wherein ideas, knowledge, labour and use rights for otherwise idle assets move between geographically distributed but connected and interactive online communities. Such circulation is apparent a... Read More about Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation.

Capitalising on the crowd: the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding (2017)
Journal Article
Langley, P., & Leyshon, A. (2017). Capitalising on the crowd: the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding. Environment and Planning A, 49(5), 1019-1039. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16687556

‘Crowdfunding’ is a method of raising money and finance to capitalise projects of various kinds. Drawing on the networking capabilities of the internet and software platforms, those seeking project funding appeal to potentially diverse audiences who... Read More about Capitalising on the crowd: the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding.

Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy (2016)
Book Chapter
Leyshon, A., Thrift, N., Crewe, L., French, S., & Webb, P. (2016). Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy. In B. J. Hracs, M. Seman, & T. E. Virani (Eds.), The production and consumption of music in the digital age (248-262). London: Routledge

This chapter considers the promises and problems of fandom and enthusiasm within capitalism, with particular reference to rise of crowdsourcing as a means of mobilising fan enthusiasm to fund new creative projects, with a particular focus on the musi... Read More about Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy.