Monthly Archives: October 2011

Call for Proposals for Research 2012-2013 – IMTFI

Call for Proposals for Research 2012-2013 The Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at the University of California, Irvine is soliciting proposals for original scholarly research on mobile money services and platforms, the harnessing of new and existing social and technological infrastructures to promote savings and other forms of value storage and the facilitation of payments at scale for poor people [...]

Sociologies of Rankings

Breve artículo de José Ossandón para journal online griego: Re-Public cuyo tema puede ser de eventual interés acá…. There is no doubt: rankings are everywhere. We are surrounded by thousands of lists measuring a vast array of variables such as: competitiveness, productivity, quality of life, risk, and even happiness. Some globally famous examples are: Fortune 500, [...]

Los judíos y el dinero

Columna de Ariel Wilkis en Página 12. La encuesta que se dio a conocer ayer, producida por el IIGG de la UBA por pedido de la DAIA, nos recuerda los niveles de infraracismo que asuelan diferentes regiones de nuestra sociedad, que en no pocas ocasiones se elevan a racismo explícito. Encontramos en ese informe un [...]

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