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Centre for Economic Cultures

Description

The Centre for Economic Cultures is a research and teaching centre dedicated to investigating the cultural assumptions and social relationships that shape and have shaped economic activity, from the medieval period to the present day.

The Centre's core principle is that economic life can only be fully understood through engagement with the tools and methods of the humanities. As was frequently pointed out in the wake of the 2007 financial crash, economics is too important to be left only to economists.

The Centre draws together a broad range of scholars based in History, English and American Studies, Business, Economics and Law to advance an interdisciplinary agenda focused around the following themes:

  • capitalism from below;
  • capitalism in the long durée;
  • communication of economic knowledge;
  • economic imaginaries;
  • alternative economic systems.

The Centre is located in a major research university, in the world's first industrial city, and has world-class research resources on its doorstep, including the John Rylands Library, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Chetham's Library, the Museum of Science and Industry, People's History Museum, and the Working Class Movement Library.

The Centre is a dynamic group of established and early career scholars, and supports a new generation of postgraduate research students and research fellows in the field.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2017

Contact details

University Of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9PL
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/history/research/centres/centre-for-economic-cultures/
  • @ForCultures

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  • University-based infrastructure
  • Centre

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  • Cultural studies tag
  • Economics tag
  • History tag
  • Law tag
  • Library studies tag
  • Museum studies tag
  • Science tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Manchester
Manchester

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2023-11-17 19:31:13

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