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Dr Nils Peters

Dr Nils Peters

LSE Fellow in Economic Sociology

Department of Sociology

Email
n.peters1@lse.ac.uk
Room No
OLD.3.17
orcid
0000-0001-9628-261X
Languages
English, German
Key Expertise
Financialisation, Venture Capital, Platform Capitalism, Asset Economy

About me

Nils Peters is a Fellow in Economic Sociology at LSE. His research and teaching explore how finance formats the world we live in, with a particular focus on the digital economy.

Nils earned his PhD at the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths, University of London. His thesis was entitled ‘Solving the Problem of Abundance: Venture Capital and the Rise of the Platform Economy’. In this study, he explored the financial infrastructures that enabled the capital-intensive making and functioning of digital platforms. Nils holds an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick and a BSc in Economics from the University of Münster.

Expertise Details

Financialisation; Venture Capital; Platform Capitalism; Asset Economy

Selected publications

Peters, N., 2024. Solving the problem of abundance: venture capital and the making of asset-driven inequalities. Review of International Political Economy.

Peters, N. 2023. ‘Holding the Strings’. Transnational Institute. TNI State of Power Report.

Peters, N. 2021. ‘Book Review: The Asset Economy by Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper and Martijn Konings’. LSE Review of Books. 

Hanna, T., Lawrence, M. & Peters, N. 2020. ‘A Common Platform’. Common Wealth. Digital & Data Report.

Research

Nils’ research explores the nexus between finance and the digital economy. His research interests span the sociology of finance, financialisation, asset economy and the political economy of platforms. He is interested in a historicist study of finance that centres on identifying asset-driven inequalities. He has taken this angle to projects on the history and power of US  and UK venture capitalists, and more recently completed a project on the material political economy of generative AI, which has been exhibited at the LSE Ideas Festival.

Teaching and PhD supervision

Nils teaches on the MSc Economy and Society programme. He co-teaches SO4D1 Economic Sociology and convenes the optional course SO4C9 Risk Governance. He also lectures on SO201 Advanced Social Theory.

Nils is not available for PhD supervision.

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