Tag Archives: Granovetter

Economies in search of a theorist: an interview with Richard Swedberg

I met Richard Swedberg on March 18th in the lobby of his hotel in Copenhagen (therefore the music that accompanies this recording). The interview was carried out the day before the beginning of his activities at Copenhagen Business School, where he gave a public lecture and conducted a smaller seminar. I was lucky to sneak into both of them, which helped me to better grasp some of the topics discussed in this interview. Particularly, Swedberg’s recent attempt to conceptualize the role played by confidence in financial markets, and, perhaps more fundamentally, his passionate defense of theorizing (not in the sense of automatically recycling the classics, but as an active research practice). In these events, I got the impression that this latter project is motivated by a deep dissatisfaction (that I don’t know if I share) with the state of sociological theory today. There were certainly many other things discussed during these two days that are not registered in this conversation (for instance, a story about Swedberg interviewing Parsons and a recorder that didn’t work as well as an analogy between doing theory and dancing tango). What you do get here are answers to nine questions about key challenges of current economic sociology from one of the most important actors in the institutionalization of this influential sub-discipline.

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Sobre la personalización de las relaciones

Un poco de auto-promoción. Se encuentra en libre acceso durante no sé cuanto tiempo un artículo que se sumará a los 15 mil que mencionaba Granovetter el otro dia! BRINGING PERSONALIZED TIES BACK IN: Their Added Value for Biotech Entrepreneurs and Venture Capitalists Interorganizational Networks Read More »

Entrevista a Wolfgang Streeck

Wolfgang Streeck es sociólogo y economista político. En su vasta carrera académica, desarrollada principalmente en Alemania y Estados Unidos, ha trabajado sobre distintas temáticas todas ellas relacionadas  con la tensión entre democracia y capitalismo: corporativismo (con Philippe Schmitter), relaciones industriales y Estado de Bienestar, sistemas nacionales de producción (con Colin Crouch), variedades de capitalismo y cambio institucional. Actualmente se desempeña como director del Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. La siguiente entrevista, realizada por Stefano Palestini, se desarrolló el 28 de Marzo del 2011, en el Instituto Universitario Europeo de Florencia. Read More »

Conversando con Mark Granovetter

Utilizando algunas de las sugerencias del último post, Pilar Opazo entrevista a Mark Granovetter en NYC.

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Entrevista conjunta a Mark Granovetter

Nuestra corresponsal en NYC, Pilar Opazo , tendrá la posibilidad de entrevistar para estudiosdelaeconomia al mismísimo Mark Granovetter. Para aprovechar la ocasión, y como una forma de discutir interactivamente el trabajo de este muy influyente autor, Pilar ha propuesto que la entrevista se alimente de las preguntas y comentarios sugeridas en este post durante los próximos días. Entonces, ¿qué le preguntarían al fundador de la nueva sociología económica?….

 

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