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ANNOUNCEMENTS
PhD Studentships at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Three PhD studentships on offer, to work with Celia Lury on themes including economic models and economic life, mapping political spaces, and digital economies and publics
PhD Funding
Sociology of financial markets PhD position
A new PhD scholarship in the sociology of financial markets has just been announced at Copenhagen Business School
Call for papers
Calculative Devices in the Digital Age
Call for papers for "Calculative Devices in the Digital Age" conference at Durham University in November, with keynotes including Pat O’Malley, Marieke de Goede and Rita Raley. Deadline August 1st
Public lecture
Bill Maurer and Vincent Lepinay, Open Lecture, OU, 20 June
The University of Leicester Management School, CRESC Social Life of Methods and Charisma are delighted to announce that Bill Maurer and Vincent Lepinay will be giving an open lecture as part of the 'Understanding the Knitting: new methods for investigating the interactions of low and high finance' workshop.
New interviews
Estudios de la Economía podcast interviews
Two new podcast interviews from Estudios de la Economía, featuring David Stark talking to Stefano Palestini and Paul du Gay on bureaucracy and cultural economy
New website
Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Economía website
Announcing a new website for Centro de Estudios Sociales de la Economía, including a release of original articles in Spanish by Pierre Bourdieu, Viviana Zelizer and others
Call for Papers
3rd Interdisciplinary Market Studies Workshop
Call for abstracts/paper proposals for the 3rd interdisciplinary market studies workshop, to take place near Aix en Provence, France, on June 5 and 6 2014.
Journal News
CMC Best Paper Award
Journal Consumption Markets and Culture announces its Best Paper award for articles published in 2012FEATURED
The Fairest Exchange? On art, money and ‘artmoney’
Mark Banks looks at the Artmoney project, exploring the implications of this alternate, affective and communicative form of money
Leaky data: How Wonga makes lending decisions
Joe Deville investigates how Wonga and other payday lenders are using unwittingly leaked online data in their credit assessments
In praise of Ken Morrison
Karel Williams on careful Ken Morrison whose better way of organising meat supply persists in Morrison's, the supermarket chain he founded, whose meat is still largely British
Fashion, Male Beauty and the ‘Men’s Dress Reform Party’
Simon Carter on the Men’s Dress Reform Party (MDRP), an overlooked 1930s lobbying group seeking to change male fashion in order to make men more ‘beautiful’
Are markets matching Callon and Roth?
Jose Ossandon reflects on overlaps between work on 'market design', associated in part with economist Alvin Roth, and that on 'markets as calculative collective devices', developed by Michel Callon and colleagues
