Financial Value, Anthropological Critique, and the Operations of the Law with Fabian Muniesa, Mines ParisTech, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI)

CEE General Seminar

Sciences Po,  Salle du Conseil, 13 rue de l'Université, 75007 Paris or Via Zoom, Compulsory Registration

An anthropological critique of value is defended, inspired by Michel Foucault and Yan Thomas, which considers the rhetoric of ‘true value’ as a political technology and which locates in legal artifice the prime engine of such technology. The case of financial valuation is considered, with particular attention to the foregrounding of ‘investor protection’ as a leading principle for economic conduct. A critical reflection is offered on ‘Law and Finance’, a doctrine that embeds in institutional measures this particular formulation of value.

Speaker

Fabian Muniesa, Mines ParisTech, Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI)

Fabian Muniesa is a researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), a research center at Mines ParisTech. His primary research fields are science and technology studies, economic sociology, organization studies and anthropology. He develops interest in topics such as financial capitalism, market algorithms, automation, quantification, performance in management, business education, valuation, innovation policy, architecture and experimental methods, topics which he approaches from an anthropological, qualitative, pragmatist angle.

Discussion

Mattia Luppi, Sciences Po, CEE & MaxPo

Matthias Thiemann, Sciences Po, CEE

Chair

Patrick Le Galès, Sciences Po, CEE, CNRS

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