Bill Maurer and Vincent Lepinay, Open Lecture, OU, 20 June

6th June 2013

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. Read More

Paying Attention to Observation Theory: A Conversation on finance, networks and observation theory

14th May 2013

Seminar at the Copenhagen Business School, continuing an ongoing conversation between Elena Esposito and David Stark on observation theory (see Stark’s post on this site for more on this) Read More

New Perspectives on Consumer Behavior in Credit and Payments Markets

15th April 2013

Call for papers for New Perspectives on Consumer Behavior in Credit and Payments Markets, co-sponsored by the Research Department and Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Read More

Loaded Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Money and the Global Financial Crisis

5th March 2013

New collection, edited by David Bennett, debating “the links between psychology, money and economic crashes”. Read More

New in Economy and Society: Metamorphoses of credit: pastiche production and the ordering of mass payment behavior

9th January 2013

A new article by Daniel Seabra Lopes, highlighting the interplay between innovation and imitation in markets, drawing on an ethnographic case-study of retail credit services Read More

Brazilian Gypsies as financial entrepreneurs

7th January 2013

Highlighting a PhD thesis by anthropologist Martin Fotta on the credit networks deployed by Calon Gypsies in Brazil Read More

Interview with Donald MacKenzie

18th December 2012

“The risk in the financial system can often develop in areas that people think of dull, technical and boring”. An interview with Donald MacKenzie by Javier Fernandez published on Estudios de la Economía Read More

Value and Currency in Peer Production

6th December 2012

Call for papers for a new special issue from The Journal of Peer Production. Deadline January 28, 2013. Read More

New in Economy and Society by Paul Langley

31st October 2012

Anticipating uncertainty, reviving risk? On the stress testing of finance in crisis Read More

BSA Presidential Event ‘Understanding the financial crisis: sociology, political economy and heterodox economics’

4th October 2012

Charisma member Zsuzsanna Vargha on Unfailing crisis: the uses and limits of understanding
finance as a problem of failure Read More