Are markets matching Callon and Roth?

8th April 2013

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 Read More

A new partner for Charisma: What Makes Organization?

13th December 2012

Announcing a new partnership with a project based at the Copenhagen Business School, led by Paul du Gay and Signe Vikkelsø Read More

What stops ranking?

10th December 2012

Jose Ossandon reflects on issues surrounding quantification in rankings and scores, as explored in a recent workshop at the Copenhagen Business School Read More

On Market Ties: How the Market Makes Society

12th November 2012

An exclusive extract from a new collection On Market Ties (Du lien marchand), edited by Franck Cochoy, featuring Charisma members and with an afterword by Michel Callon Read More

A summer of Charisma encounters

30th October 2012

Joe Deville reports on a sequence of summer events that showcased a growing body of important new work on consumer markets Read More

Designing Market Spaces

24th July 2012

A review of the EGOS colloquium on design, the academy and trying to make things work better on purpose… Read More

Presenting Books and Ideas

12th June 2012

Jeanne Lazarus gives an overview of Books and Ideas, an English-language version of the French online journal La vie des idées Read More

Introducing Limn

9th June 2012

Stephen Collier, Christopher Kelty, and Andrew Lakoff introduce Limn, an online Open Access publication, focusing on genealogical framings of contemporary problems Read More

“Contesting Markets”: Special issue of JAPE just out

29th February 2012

On the latest issue of the Journal of Australian Political Economy (JAPE) – a special issue on ‘Contesting Markets’ Read More

Ignorance

‘Making a buck in a blind man’s world’

19th February 2012

Linsey McGoey on new perspectives on the political and economic value of ignorance and the deliberate harnessing of ways of not-knowing Read More