Book launch: The sexual economy of capitalism
01 May 2025, 5:00 pm–7:00 pm

The Centre for Capitalism Studies, in collaboration with the Finance and Society Network, is pleased to welcome Noam Yuran (Bar Ilan), Anat Rosenberg (IALS), and Amin Samman (City) to launch Yuran’s new book, The Sexual Economy of Capitalism.
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Institute of Advanced Studies
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IAS Common GroundG17, ground floor, South WingUCL, Gower Street, LondonWC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
Economics has long modeled its theories on bakers and butchers rather than husbands, wives, lovers, and prostitutes. In his new book, Noam Yuran argues that exchanges involving sex and intimacy, far from being external or exceptional in relation to the workings of the economy, come closest to the reality of capitalist money.
In conversation with psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and the heterodox tradition of economic thought, Yuran will outline his understanding of capitalism in its unique articulation of love, sex, and money.
Anat Rosenberg and Amin Samman will respond with commentary on the themes of the book.
Please register to attend: https://ccs-sexualeconomy.eventbrite.co.uk
Noam Yuran’s book, The Sexual Economy of Capitalism, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024.
The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies is a world-leading centre for critical interdisciplinary research into the past, present, and future of capitalism. It brings together UCL faculty and students studying how markets, finance and economic institutions shape our everyday life, structure societies’ capacity to change, and are contested and remade across time and space.
The Finance and Society Network is a cross-disciplinary research network dedicated to fostering new perspectives on the social character of contemporary finance. Its core activities include a regular newsletter, an annual conference, and a peer-reviewed journal, Finance and Society.
About the Speakers
Noam Yuran
Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel
Dr Yuran studies the history and philosophy of economic thought, the history of capitalism, and media theory, using these to develop alternative accounts of the relations between economy and society. He is author of What Money Wants (Stanford University Press 2014) and The Sexual Economy of Capitalism (Stanford University Press, 2024).
More about Noam YuranAnat Rosenberg
Professor of Law and the Humanities at Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London
Professor Rosenberg studies the history of modern capitalism, liberalism, and media, drawing on multidisciplinary methods including law and visuality, law and materiality, and law and literature. She is author of Liberalizing Contracts (Routledge 2018), The Rise of Mass Advertising (Oxford University Press 2022).
More about Anat RosenbergAmin Samman
Reader in International Political Economy at Department of International Politics at City St Georges, University of London
Dr Samman is a Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies. He studies the temporal, historical, and existential aspects of contemporary capitalism, with an emphasis on how these relate to the workings of money, debt, and finance. He is author of History in Financial Times (2019) and editor of Clickbait Capitalism (2025). His forthcoming book is titled Currency of Nihilism.
More about Amin Samman