First issue of Valuation Studies, out now
The first issue of the peer reviewed open access journal Valuation Studies has been published, and features an introduction to the
study of valuation as a social practice by Claes-Fredrik Helgesson and Fabian Muniesa, and articles by writers including Hans Kjellberg, Alexandre Mallard, François Vatin, Alexander Styhre, Christian Bessy and Pierre-Marie Chauvin Read More
Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? Calculation, computation and crisis
The financial crisis has been perceived by some as the outcome of this collision between markets and increasingly ‘performative’ economics. But where does this leave neoliberalism and its technical ideal of freedom? Does it simply require more markets or greater computational power to prevent future crises? Read More
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 Read More
Debunking economics?
An extract from Will Davies’ excellent review of the recently published Economists and the Powerful, by Norbert Häring & Niall Douglas Read More
New podcasts from Esudio de la Economia
Three new podcast-interviews from Estudios de la Economia, featuring Timothy Mitchell, Gil Eyal and Daniel Beunza. Read More
CFP: London Conference in Critical Thought 2013
Call for Papers for London Conference in Critical Thought, including streams on The Soul at Work and in Debt, Pragmatism and Political Criticism, and Sociocultural Criticism After Lehman Brothers. Deadline March 25th, 2013. Read More
New Post: 3 Year Fixed Term Lecturer in Sociology
Applications for a full time, 3 year fixed term lecturer at the Open University are invited, particularly from those who have teaching and research experience in research methods, especially quantitative methods. Read More
New Post: CRESC Research Associate
New research post working in CRESC with John Law on the Social Life of Methods Read More
A new partner for Charisma: What Makes Organization?
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?
Jose Ossandon reflects on issues surrounding quantification in rankings and scores, as explored in a recent workshop at the Copenhagen Business School Read More
