Crisis, Valuation and De-commodification: How Bankers Reinvented Karl Polanyi in 2008

A Max Planck Sciences Po Center (MaxPo) event in the series Seminars and Colloquia On Ökonomie, Politics and Society (SCOOPS), with:

 

Guest speaker: Bruce CARRUTHERS, Northwestern University

Discussant: Colin HAY, CEE-Sciences Po

Bruce G. CARRUTHERS is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He is spending this academic year as a visiting fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and is the current president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). He works in the areas of economic sociology and comparative-historical sociology, and has done research on a variety of topics including: corporate bankruptcy law, money and finance, modern derivatives markets, the history of credit ratings, accounting, the regulation of consumer credit, and the emergence of the early modern London stock market. His co-authored book, Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis (2009), won three book prizes from the American Sociological Association. He is currently writing a book on the history of credit in the US during the 19th and 20th centuries.

 

Colin HAY is Professor of Political Science in the Centre d’etudes européennes at Sciences Po Paris.  He is the author of a number of books including, most recently, Institutional Crisis in 21st Century Britain (Routledge, forthcoming, with David Richards and Martin Smith), The Legacy of Thatcherism (Open University Press, 2014, with Stephen Farrell), The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and The Political Economy of European Welfare Capitalism (Palgrave, 2012, with Daniel Wincott). He is working on books on Civic Capitalism (with Tony Payne) and Globalisation & the State and Anti-Politics (with Gerry Stoker).  He is editor of the journals New Political Economy, Comparative European Politics and British Politics and chair of the UK REF panel for Politics and International Studies. 

 

 

Please make sure to register before 23^th May with Marina Abelskaïa-Graziani at marina.abelskaiagraziani@sciences-po.fr