Are Markets Good for People? Exploring the politics and culture of social insurance

13th June 2014

Outlines, reading lists and presentations from the SUNY NEH seminar exploring social insurance schemes Read More

Silent lectures

5th June 2014

David Stark introduces his ‘silent lectures’, which are available to download. There are four silent lectures – Performance, Models, Demonstrations, and (with Gernot Grabher) Frequently Asked Questions Read More

Framing the place of observation networks in the recent sociology of finance

13th May 2014

Jose Ossandon introduces some key ongoing debates within economic sociology, while highlighting an ongoing conversation between Elena Esposito and David Stark about how we might attend better to ‘observation networks’ Read More

‘BREAKING BAD’: markets, healthcare and drug money

31st March 2014

Simon Carter explores what Breaking Bad can teach us about the role that markets play in our lives Read More

Devising or agencing markets?

5th December 2013

Are consumer markets devised or ‘agenced’? Liz McFall wonders in this first follow up to the ESF Agencing Markets workshop and extract from her forthcoming book Devising Consumption. Read More

Life Insurance as Technology of Care

18th November 2013

Sofía Ugarte looks at life insurance as a market device. How do policyholders and their families experience the life insurance market? And what what role might kinship ties of care play? Read More