Are Markets Good for People? Exploring the politics and culture of social insurance
Outlines, reading lists and presentations from the SUNY NEH seminar exploring social insurance schemes Read More
Silent lectures
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
Economization of Uncertainty: New Journal of Cultural Economy Special Issue
New Special Issue of Journal of Cultural Economy on the ‘Economization of Uncertainty’ out now. Edited by Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Ine Van Hoyweghen, the issue contains articles by Pat O’Malley & Alex Roberts, Stephen J. Collier, José Ossandón, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, plus review articles by Dean Pierides and Christopher Kelty. Read More
Innovating Financial Information Infrastructures
New article by Charisma member Antonios Kaniadakis, co-written with Panos Constantinides. looking at the introduction of mortgage securitization in the UK, the role played by financial information infrastructure innovation and the implications for the calculation of financial risk Read More
Framing the place of observation networks in the recent sociology of finance
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
The Limits of Performativity: Politics of the Modern Economy now out in HBB
Edited by Franck Cochoy, Martin Giraudeau, Liz McFall
The economy is often described either as the apolitical realm of calculation or as the fully political one of domination… Read More
