The PERN Salon | Discounting the Future with Liliana Doganova was livestreamed to the public on Friday, 14 November 2025, 8 AM (AEDT), featuring Liliana’s recent book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology (2024).
It was a lively discussion focused on the spread of financial discounting into many domains, including assessments of climate/environment valuations and the realm of venture capital.
The recording of the stream is available here.
Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at the Centre de sociologie de l’innovation, Mines-ParisTech. She works at the intersection of economic sociology and Science and Technology Studies. She is co-author of Capitalization: A Cultural Guide (2017). Her latest book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology (2024, Zone Books), explores the links between valuation and temporality through a historical sociology of the technique of discounting. Liliana is co-director of the program in Public Affairs and Innovation at Ecole des Mines and sits on the editorial boards of Valuation Studies and The Journal of Cultural Economy.