Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Development of American Finance (2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, 2017), Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal reason (2018), and The Asset Economy (with Lisa Adkins and Melinda Cooper, 2020). He is currently working on a book on the politics of asset inflation. He is also the co-editor of the book series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times. at Stanford University Press. During the 2021-22 academic year he holds a fellowship at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.