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Andrew Leyshon is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, and Social Sciences. Within these areas, they have focused on subfields such as Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics, and Information Systems.

Their work addresses several key topics including FinTech, Crowdfunding, Digital Finance, Digital Platforms and Economics, Digital Economy and Work Transformation, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism, Private Equity and Venture Capital, as well as Urban Planning and Governance.

Andrew Leyshon has authored several papers, with notable recent publications including:

  • The Platform Political Economy of FinTech: Reintermediation, Consolidation and Capitalisation (2020, New Political Economy)
  • Economic geography I: Uneven development, 'left behind places' and 'levelling up' in a time of crisis (2021, Progress in Human Geography)
  • Neo-colonial credit: FinTech platforms in Africa (2022, Journal of Cultural Economy)
  • FinTech platform regulation: regulating with/against platforms in the UK and China (2023, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society)
  • Negotiating platformisation: MusicTech, intellectual property rights and third wave platform reintermediation in the music industry (2022, Journal of Cultural Economy)

The frequent venues where Leyshon has published include Progress in Human Geography, Journal of Cultural Economy, New Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society, and Cultural Trends.

Collaboration is a component of Leyshon's research, with frequent co-authors such as Paul Langley, Allan Watson, George Windsor, Roger C. Brackin, and Michael Jackson.

In addition to journal articles, Leyshon has contributed to book publications, including a forthcoming work titled The Rise of the Platform Music Industries, scheduled for 2025 with Agenda Publishing eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Money/Space: Geographies of Monetary Transformation

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel J. Thrift

  • Geographies of financial exclusion: financial abandonment in Britain and the United States

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Platform capitalism: the intermediation and capitalization of digital economic circulation

    Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

  • Financializing space, spacing financialization:

    Shaun French;Andrew Leyshon;Thomas Wainwright

  • The Capitalization of Almost Everything: The Future of Finance and Capitalism

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Alternative economic spaces

    Andrew Leyshon;Roger Lee;Colin C. Williams

  • Services and Uneven Development

    J Marshall;P Wood;P Daniels;A McKinnon

  • On the reproduction of the musical economy after the Internet

    Andrew Leyshon;Peter Webb;Shaun French;Nigel Thrift

  • Lists come alive: electronic systems of knowledge and the rise of credit-scoring in retail banking

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Time–Space (and Digital) Compression: Software Formats, Musical Networks, and the Reorganisation of the Music Industry

    Andrew Leyshon

  • A very geographical crisis: the making and breaking of the 2007–2008 financial crisis

    Shaun French;Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • The remit of financial geography—before and after the crisis

    Roger Lee;Gordon L. Clark;Jane Pollard;Andrew Leyshon

  • The Software Slump?: Digital Music, the Democratisation of Technology, and the Decline of the Recording Studio Sector within the Musical Economy

    Andrew Leyshon

  • A phantom state? The de-traditionalization of money, the international financial system and international financial centres

    Nigel Thrift;Andrew Leyshon

  • Bridges into Work? An Evaluation of Local Exchange and Trading Schemes (LETS)

    Colin C. Williams;Theresa Aldridge;Roger Lee;Andrew Leyshon

  • The restructuring of the U.K. financial services industry in the 1990s: a reversal of fortune?

    Andrew Leyshon;Nigel Thrift

  • Gibson-Graham, J.K. 1996: The end of capitalism (as we knew it): a feminist critique of political economy. Oxford: Blackwell

    Roger Lee;Andrew Leyshon;J.K. Gibson-Graham

  • Financial Exclusion and the Shifting Boundaries of the Financial System

    A Leyshon;NJ Thrift

  • The platform political economy of FinTech: reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation.

    Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

  • Capitalizing on the crowd : the monetary and financial ecologies of crowdfunding.

    Paul Langley;Andrew Leyshon

  • The place of music

    Andrew Leyshon;David Matless;George Revill

  • The Geography of the World Economy

    Andrew Leyshon;Paul Knox;John Agnew

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Colin C. Williams
Colin C. Williams University of Sheffield
Jonathan V. Beaverstock
Jonathan V. Beaverstock University of Bristol
Paul Langley
Paul Langley Durham University
Gordon L. Clark
Gordon L. Clark University of Oxford
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Anne E. Green
Anne E. Green University of Birmingham

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