Will Davies nos avisa de la siguiente conferencia:
Where Do Neoliberals Go After the Market? – A one day conference, 13th June. University of Warwick. 10am-6.30pm. Room S0.21.
Neoliberalism is commonly identified as a belief in the self-regulating powers of markets, especially financial markets. Markets, from this perspective, are powerful information-processors, which are uniquely capable of governing complex societies while preserving liberty. In recent decades, financial institutions have added further computational power, which, among other things, has led to the automation of trading and the calculation and simulation of market scenarios to manage risk. The financial crisis has been perceived by some as the outcome of this collision between markets and increasingly ‘performative’ economics. Read More »
“The call for abstracts/paper proposals for the 3rd interdicplinary market studies workshop is now out. The workshop will be held in The Couvent Royal de Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume, near Aix en Provence, France, on June 5 and 6 2014. Invited guest speakers will be Jane Guyer (Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins, US) and Don Slater (Reader of Sociology, London School of Economics, UK). Deadline for submitting a 3-page abstract/paper proposal is January 31st 2014. You can find the CFP here: CFP_IMSW3.”
¿Interesados en los estudios sociales de los mercados? Dos nuevos llamados para llenar posiciones: en Sociology Goldsmtihs buscan post-docs para el proyecto dirigido por Daniel Neyland: Market-Based Initiatives as Solutions to Techno-Scientific Problems (MISTS); en Warwick, Politics and International Studies, buscan un estudiante de PhD para trabajar en el proyecto de Matthew Watson sobre el concepto del mercado. Read More »
[Como parte de nuestra colaboración inter-redes este post es publicado conjuntamente conCharisma-Network]
The last meeting of our “Copenhagen market group”[i] was devoted to an increasingly influential stream within current economics, namely “market design”. The discussion left me with the somehow perplexing puzzle I am trying to unfold in this post: isn’t this type of economics almost too close to the ‘markets as calculative collective devices’[ii] approach developed by Michel Callon and colleagues so influential among us -non-economists market researchers- in the last years? Read More »
Ignacio Farías nos hace llegar este video con Neil Fligstein dando la charla titulada: “The Spread of the Wordlwide financial crisis” en el Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB):
Timothy Mitchell is a political theorist and historian and currently a professor and chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Mitchell’s research has focused on the Middle East, particularly Egypt’s recent history, but his work on subjects such as the making of modernity, the material and technical politics of modern States, and the role of economics and other forms of expert knowledge in governing collective life has influenced scholars from different “areas”, including certainly several of the contributors of this blog. In the interview podcasted in this post, which was carried out in Columbia University last January 24th, we discuss Mitchell’s work in chronological order[i], from Colonising Egypt (1991) to Carbon Democracy (2011). Enjoy! Read More »
Donald MacKenzie, sin duda uno de los más influyente sociólogos de las ciencias y figura clave en el reciente desarrollo de los estudios sociales de las finanzas es entrevistado especialmente para estudiosdelaeconomía por Javier Hernández. [Interview in English, Answers in audio files].
Question 1.Thanks very much for your time. Social Studies of Finance is a multi disciplinary field that is attracting increasing interest, especially after the recent financial crisis. What is, in your opinion, the main focus, but also your balance, of the 10 recent years of research and what are the strengths, weaknesses, or changes of focus or directions you see happening in this field? Read More »
El número 70 de la Revista Apuntes publicada por la Universidad del Pacífico en Perú es un especial sobre empresas y grupos económicos. Además de varios otros capítulos (entre ellos un texto en español de Ben Ross Schneider) trae un artículo de Gastón Beltrán y una reseña de Mariana Heredia.
El número 9 de la Revista Papeles de Trabajo publicada por el Instituto de Altos Estudios de la Universidad de San Martín incluye un dossier editado por Ana Castellani y Luciana Strauss sobre debates teóricos contemporáneos en Sociología Económica. Entre otras interesantes contribuciones se puede encontrar una revisión sobre la sociología de los mercados escrita por Federico Lorenc Valcarce.
