Dr Nils Peters

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

Financialisation, Venture Capital, Platform Capitalism, Asset Economy