PhD defence: Robin Porsfelt

The thesis traces the epistemological history, structure, and influence of an overlooked school of nineteenth-century economic thought rooted in semiotics. The analysis shows how the development of designated economic and financial techniques of sign analysis were critical to how phenomena like national economies, financial markets, and value were imagined, became seen as predictable, and how it conventionalised modes of representing economic life that still live on today.

Primary Supervisor:
Professor Hans Krause Hansen
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School

Secondary Supervisor:
Professor Mitchell Dean
Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy
Copenhagen Business School

Assessment Committee:
Associate Professor Ana Alacovska (Chair)
Department of Management, Society and Communication
Copenhagen Business School

Professor Peter Knight
English, American Studies and Creative Writing
Manchester University

Dr Liz Moor
Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications
Goldsmith University

Thesis:
The thesis will be available from research.cbs.dk

Reception:
The CBS PhD School will host a reception, which will take place immediately after the defence in DHV2.88 (second floor).