%0 Journal Article
%T The geographies of social finance: Poverty regulation through the ¡®invisible heart¡¯ of markets
%A Emily Rosenman
%J Progress in Human Geography
%@ 1477-0288
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0309132517739142
%X The global financial and anti-poverty industries are embracing an investment philosophy called social finance, which claims that private profit-making can create positive benefits for society. Attempting to resolve the problems of capitalism from within the system, social finance reframes finance as a force for engendering, rather than disrupting, the public good. This article argues that social finance raises theoretical concerns for geographical research on finance, poverty, and neoliberalizing capitalism. I outline a typology of social finance¡¯s forms and propose a geographical research agenda, arguing that social finance practitioners¡¯ simplistic framings of geography belie many other geographies that constitute what is both an emerging financial marketplace and a logic of poverty regulation
%K capitalism
%K economic geography
%K financialization
%K poverty
%K social finance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0309132517739142