Cultural Studies and Finance Capitalism

Mark Hayward is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, France. His research focuses on television, cultural policy and representations of the economy in popular culture. He has published essays on Modern Italy and Cultural Studies as well as translating several texts from Italian and French.

• 1. The Economic Crisis and After: Recovery, Reconstruction and The Promise of Cultural Studies Mark Hayward 2. Modernity & Commensuration: A Reading of the contemporary (economic) crisis Lawrence Grossberg 3. The Lost Histories of American Economic Rights Jayson Harsin 4. Spirits in the Night: Reasonableness and the Etho-Politics of Securities Law Darrin Hicks and Mathew Dunn 5. After Neo-liberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare John Clarke 6. Celebrity and Schadenfreude: the cultural economy of fame in freefall Jo Littler and Steven Cross 7. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly–Economies of Parable Randy Martin 8. Unfinished Business: labour, management, and the creative industries Stefano Harney 9. Afterword: After Austerity? Mark Hayward