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Congratulations to CIM Director Celia Lury, on securing an ESRC Professorial Fellowship

After the one-day conference 'Where Do Neoliberals Go After The Market', CIM's Will Davies and Nate Tkacz sat down with Professor Philip Mirowski to talk more about some of the main themes of the conference. Mirowski talks more about his recent research, including the developments that led to his new book . The podcast also includes discussions of the reemergence of openness; the position of Popper within the Mont Pelerin Society; Wikipedia and Facebook; Neo-positivism and Big Data; and the limits of Social Studies of Finance in relation to Neoliberal political strategy.

, Lancaster University, will give a paper at the fortnightly CIM seminar. 4pm, Cowling Room.

Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets. What then is the strategic neoliberal response to the various economic crises of the past five years? Are markets simply to be designed better or extended further? Or are there new devices, arenas and ideologies through which this technical and positivist reinvention of liberty is pursued? For example, are notions of openness (as in open data and open government) coming to replace 'the market' as the means to liberty and to what extent can openness be considered neoliberal? Are we witnessing a shift from faith in 'price' to faith in 'data'?

This one-day conference, featuring , will address these questions, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including software studies, international political economy, economic sociology, social studies of finance and history of economics, to consider neoliberalism in terms of the specific instruments and formats through which its promise of freedom might now be offered.