Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money

Presentation by Dariusz Wójcik and Julien Migozzi

Atlas of Finance is the first ever published book-size collection of maps and visuals dedicated to the topic of finance and a unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history. The Atlas uses graphics and maps to bring the complex and abstract world of finance down to earth, showing how geography is fundamental for understanding finance, and vice versa. Critically acclaimed in Financial Times, Money Week, and Nature, following its first publication in September 2024 by Yale University Press, the Atlas will be published in over a dozen foreign languages in 2025. In March 2025, the Association of American Publishers selected it as the best book in economics, and the best reference book. In this colloquium, authors of the atlas, Dariusz Wójcik and Julien Migozzi will showcase selected maps and visuals from the atlas and uncover the creative process behind them.

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Speaker bios:

Dariusz Wójcik is a Professor of Financial Geography at National University of Singapore and an Honorary Research Associate at Oxford University. While specializing in financial geography, he has published widely in human geography and urban studies, finance and economics, and political economy. His recent books include The New Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (OUP), International Financial Centres After the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit (OUP), and Sticky Power: Global Financial Networks in the World Economy (OUP). He is the Editor-in-Chief of Finance & Space journal, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Julien Migozzi is an Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, and currently a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative at UC Berkeley. At the intersection of urban studies and economic sociology, his research examines the urban process under digital capitalism, questioning how housing and financial markets reshape cities, markets, and inequalities, with a particular emphasis on the stratifying effects of digital technologies. He has a PhD from the University of Grenoble Alpes, an MA in Geography and Planning from the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and worked as a lecturer in the/ at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris).

Taking a walk after the talk...