Very much looking forward to be teaching @mpifg.bsky.social signature #economicsociology PhD course this year. The course is a slightly modified version of the one developed by Jens Beckert featuring three amazing guest lectures I look particularly forward to!
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Moral economy isn’t nostalgia — it’s institutional design. A concise lineage from embedded norms to modern decoupling and re-embedding.
Read Essay:
thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
A guided map of moral economy — Thompson, Polanyi, Scott, Granovetter & Akbar — showing how proximity, reciprocity, and voice sustain legitimacy.
Essay
thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness
#PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign
The moral economy tradition argues that markets are never morally neutral: legitimacy depends on embedded norms and enforceable obligations. This essay traces that lineage from E. P. Thompson’s account of “just price” expectations in English crowds, through Polanyi’s embeddedness and “fictitious commodities,” to Scott’s subsistence ethics, Granovetter’s networked markets, and Akbar’s built-environment responsibility regimes — ending with a practical framework for diagnosing modern “decoupling” and what re-embedding requires. #MoralEconomy #Polanyi #Thompson #Granovetter #SocialTheory #Governance #Legitimacy #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology #InstitutionalDesign #Accountability Moral Economy Embeddedness Political Economy Economic Sociology Institutional Design Accountability Legitimacy Social Theory Karl Polanyi E. P. Thompson James C. Scott Mark Granovetter Jamel Akbar Built Environment Governance Re-embedding
Why markets aren’t morally neutral: from grain riots to fictitious commodities to network embeddedness — an intellectual genealogy of responsibility.
Read Essay:
thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-moral-...
#MoralEconomy #SocialTheory #Embeddedness #PoliticalEconomy #EconomicSociology
Very excited for my first @asanews.bsky.social conference. I'll be presenting some ongoing work on multiplex exchanges across village economies in Thailand. Looking forward to meeting everyone there!
#ASA #research #economicsociology #sociology #emergingmarkets
💸🚨I am hiring 2 Postdocs for my ERC-funded project SOCDEBT on #debt dynamics across countries. One position: #SocialStratification + strong quantitative skills. The other: qualitative research and #EconomicSociology. waitkus.github.io/SOCDEBT/ 🚨💸
A small working paper revisiting Universe 25 —
not as pathology, but as a structural case of participation collapse under abundance.
Preprint here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#economicsociology
Das Buch-Cover von »Labor Turnover in Ethiopia's Textile Industry« auf türkisem Hintergrund.
Between rural-based orientation and industrial work: Women in the Ethiopian textile industry.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6247-4/
#TextileIndustry #Ethiopia #LaborStudies #SocialScience #Women #Rural #Globalization #Work #EconomicSociology #Africa #Sociology
Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology
So if you plan on gifting me something, here’s the deal: either signal care by choosing thoughtfully, or signal efficiency by giving cash—but if you try to do neither, at least have the decency to include a gift receipt.
#EconomistsRuinedChristmas #SocialTheory #EconomicSociology #GiftGiving
Join us next year in Cologne for the 4th Doctoral Conference at the @mpifg.bsky.social. All PhD students in the fields of #economicsociology, #politicaleconomy and related fields are encouraged to submit their abstracts.
The deadline has been extended to December 8!
The book this year is finally in my hands after a delay in delivery! It is the translation of the orientation for the field of network research: "Twelve basic assumptions of network research" into English. #Springer
#Networks #EconomicSociology #Sociology
Our article bridges Varieties of Capitalism and Crozier’s Strategic Actor Theory, showing how despite institutional barriers and occupational fragmentation, the pandemic created opportunities for workers to engage with unions. #creativelabour #tradeunions #economicsociology
Excellent motivation for studying #economicsociology (stated about #culturalanthropology, but I think the lesson holds for us, too!)
#socialscience #research
Interested in the complex interplay of different forces that shaped the destiny of countless workers during the privatization processes?
📖 Read more: doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx...
#SocialScience #LaborStudies #Privatization #Yugoslavia #BosniaAndHerzegovina #WorkersRights #EconomicSociology
⚡: Read this new publication: "Designing markets, governing data: Engineering value in the American healthcare system" by @puellaludens.bsky.social!
🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#datafication #governance #marketdesign #healthcare #value #scienceandtechnologystudies #economicsociology
This week at #SASE2025 I’m speaking about how inclusion and exclusion shape illegal wildlife markets. Succulents are just one example.
How do we build markets that centre justice, livelihoods, and ecological care?
#Succulents #IllegalMarkets #IWTChallengeFund #DEFRA #EconomicSociology
📔My book comes out May 29! Based largely on my own research at the intersection of #EconomicSociology and #BehavioralEconomics, it is intended for an educated general audience.
You can pre-order now on Amazon ($24.00):
amazon.com/dp/0226839311
📣 Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies is currently seeking a Senior #Researcher (f/m/d) in the field of #Economic Sociology | #Köln
📅 Application deadline: April 3, 2025
Link to the job posting:
👉 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/d...
#Job #EconomicSociology #Sociology
The application deadline for doctoral positions in #PoliticalEconomy and #EconomicSociology is fast approaching. We look forward to receiving your application by February 28.
👉 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/9...
👉 career.mpifg.de/jobposting/1...
Now Available. Includes book cover of Inertia: Purposeful Inefficiencies in Financial Markets, by Yuval Millo, Crawford Spence, and James J. Valentine. A blur from Chris Carter and 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu
Now available! INERTIA demonstrates how long-standing social relationships within the investing world contribute to a state of inertia, which prevents substantive change to the status quo. https://buff.ly/4hgI4MR #SociologyOfFinance #InertiaInFinance #EconomicSociology #NewBookAlert
Join us at the Villa Vigoni conference organized w/ @trgn.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @katemcnamara.bsky.social and @manuelamoschella.bsky.social
#EarlyCareerResearchers #PhDStudents #PostDocs #EconomicSociology #PoliticalEconomy #VillaVigoni #EuropeGeoeconomics
Anyone in #academicsky or #economicsociology have thoughts?
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
How can this emergent tech be called “behind schedule” when markets+orgs are still figuring out how it fits into the organizational fabric of work?
Such timetables feel the opposite of “blue ocean” science.
Did anyone get around to creating an economic sociology starter pack? #econsoc #economicsociology #sociology #politicaleconomy #polecon
@mpifg.bsky.social has a call for postdoctoral researchers in #EconomicSociology and #PoliticalEconomy. Having visited the institute for three months last year, I can highly recommend its intellectually ambitious and inspiring atmosphere. Application dl in mid-Dec career.mpifg.de/jobposting/d...
Great conversation about Mark Granovetter’s work and about the evolution of #network studies in #management research. #weakties #economicsociology
www.talkingaboutorganizations.com/86-networks-...
