Bill Maurer and Vincent Lepinay, Open Lecture, OU, 20 June
The University of Leicester Management School, CRESC Social Life of Methods and Charisma are delighted to announce that Bill Maurer and Vincent Lepinay will be giving an open lecture as part of the ‘Understanding the Knitting: new methods for investigating the interactions of low and high finance’ workshop. Read More
Leaky data: How Wonga makes lending decisions
Joe Deville investigates how Wonga and other payday lenders are using unwittingly leaked online data in their credit assessments Read More
Paying Attention to Observation Theory: A Conversation on finance, networks and observation theory
Seminar at the Copenhagen Business School, continuing an ongoing conversation between Elena Esposito and David Stark on observation theory (see Stark’s post on this site for more on this) Read More
New Perspectives on Consumer Behavior in Credit and Payments Markets
Call for papers for New Perspectives on Consumer Behavior in Credit and Payments Markets, co-sponsored by the Research Department and Payment Cards Center of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Read More
Observing Observers Observing Observers
David Stark introduces three recent papers that observe observers observing others, including exploring how processes of valuation are shaped by an actor’s location in ‘attention networks’ Read More
Loaded Subjects: Psychoanalysis, Money and the Global Financial Crisis
New collection, edited by David Bennett, debating “the links between psychology, money and economic crashes”. Read More
Occupy London
A gallery of photographs taken by Andrew Hill in early November 2011 outside St Paul’s and at Finsbury Circus Read More
New in Economy and Society: Metamorphoses of credit: pastiche production and the ordering of mass payment behavior
A new article by Daniel Seabra Lopes, highlighting the interplay between innovation and imitation in markets, drawing on an ethnographic case-study of retail credit services Read More
Brazilian Gypsies as financial entrepreneurs
Highlighting a PhD thesis by anthropologist Martin Fotta on the credit networks deployed by Calon Gypsies in Brazil Read More
Interview with Donald MacKenzie
“The risk in the financial system can often develop in areas that people think of dull, technical and boring”. An interview with Donald MacKenzie by Javier Fernandez published on Estudios de la Economía Read More
