SCOOPS - Seminars and Colloquia on Ökonomie, Politics, and Society

Stephanie L. Mudge Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She is a historical, political, and economic sociologist specialized in the theoretically-driven analysis of Western politics, economies, and expertise. Her new book, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (May 2018, Harvard University Press), develops a century-long comparative, historical, and biographically-sensitive analysis of the American Democrats, the German and Swedish Social Democrats, and the British Labour Party.

Andrew Lakoff holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Communication. He was trained as an anthropologist of science and medicine, and has conducted research in Argentina, France and the United States. His areas of interest include globalization processes, the history of the human sciences, contemporary social theory, and risk society.

Genevieve LeBaron is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Co-Chair of the Yale University Modern Slavery Working Group. Her current research focuses on the global business of forced labour and the politics and effectiveness of governance initiatives to combat it. Genevieve currently holds a UK Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leaders Grant and in 2015 was awarded the British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award by the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Basak Kus is lecturer at the Wesleyan University. Read more about Basak Kus here.

Matthias Thiemann is Assistant Professor of European Public Policy at Sciences Po Paris. Read more about Matthias Thiemann here.

Ken-Hou Lin is lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Marie Bergström is member of the editorial committee of "RESET" and a postdoc in the program OXPO of the Departement of Sociology of Oxford University.

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Chris Howell is James Monroe Professor of Politics at the Oberlin College and Conservatory. He received his PhD in Political Science from Yale University. He is the recipient of a German Marshall Research Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant. His research is in the fields of comparative politics, comparative political economy, and industrial relations. He has published numerous articles and books on labor politics, comparative political economy, and left parties in Western Europe.

Avishai Benish is lecturer at the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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Emanuele Ferragina is Assistant Professor at Sciences Po. He is affiliated with the OSC and the LIEPP, since January 2015. He is also Associate Member of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford.

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Kai Koddenbrock is a lecturer and assistant professor in International Relations and International Political Economy at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. He is working on money theory, dependency, and the Global South. His publications have featured in the European Journal of International Relations, Third World Quarterly and Politische Vierteljahresschrift among others. During his research stay at MaxPo, he will pursue a project on monetary dependency and the West African Franc CFA zone.

Kako Nubukpo is Directeur de la Francophonie économique et numérique à l'Organisation internationale de la Francophonie à Paris.

Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linköping University. His research focuses on European integration, EU migration policy, political economy, citizenship and postwar European geopolitics. His most recent book is Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (co-authored with Stefan Jonsson, Bloomsbury, 2015). In 2015 Hansen was commissioned by the OECD to write a research report on the EU's external labour migration policy (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers, No. 185, 2016). He is currently writing a book on the EU's migration crises.

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Virginie Guiraudon Virginie Guiradon is a CNRS research director. She is the author of Les politiques d'immigration en Europe (2000). She co-authored Controlling a New Migration World (Routledge, 2001), Immigration Politics in Europe: The Politics of Control (Taylor and Francis, 2006), Politiques publiques (Presses de Sciences Po, 2008 and 2010), The Sociology of European Union (Palgrave, 2010) and Europe's Prolonged Crisis: The Making or Unmaking of a Political Union (Palgrave, 2015).

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Katherine J. Cramer is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Elections Research Center, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the LaFollette School of Public Affairs, the Institute for Research on Poverty, the Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, the Center for Nonprofits, the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, and the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems. Her work focuses on the way people in the United States make sense of politics and their place in it. Her book, The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, examines rural resentment toward cities and its implications for contemporary politics (University of Chicago Press, 2016), and was much discussed after the U.S. presidential election of Trump in 2016.

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Florence Faucher is Professor of political science at Sciences Po, Centre d'études européennes (CEE). She is Associate Fellow at Nuffield College and in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Faucher’s research focuses on the ways in which forms of political activism have changed over the last thirty years in political parties and social movements. She is currently working on two major projects: the first argues in favour of bringing an anthropological imagination to political analysis; the second, developed with Laurie Boussaguet (European Univerity Institute), focuses on the symbolic dimension of public policy through the example of the French government's responses to the 2015 terrorist attacks.

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Mark Vail joined the Tulane faculty in 2005, after receiving his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests focus on the comparative political economy of advanced industrial societies, with a particular focus on Western Europe, economic and social policy, and the influence of political ideas and ideologies. His first book, Recasting Welfare Captialism: Economic Adjustment in Contemporary France and Germany, was published by Temple University Press in 2010.

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Colin Hay is Professor of Political Science in the Centre d'etudes europeennes at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of a number of books including, most recently, Developments in British Politics 10 (Palgrave, 2017, with Richard Heffernan et al.), Civic Capitalism (Polity, 2015, with Anthony Payne), The Legacy of Thatcherism (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Stephen Farrell), and The Failure of Anglo-Liberal Capitalism (Palgrave, 2013). A new collection, The Coming Crisis will be published with Polity later this year. He is editor of the journals New Political Economy, Comparative European Politics and British Politics.

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Linsey McGoey studied journalism at Carleton University, Ottawa, before working briefly as a news editor and freelance journalist. She moved to the UK for a MSc in Social Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics. This was followed by an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Geography, University of Oxford, and a James Martin Fellowship at the Said Business School, Oxford. McGoey is a Research Associate of the LSE's Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR), and has acted as an advisor to the World Health Organization. From 2013 to 2016, she led the ESRC seminar series, Spaces of Evidence. She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Economy and Society and Finance and Society.

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Mary O'Sullivan is a Professor of Economic History and director of the Department of Economic History at the University of Geneva. She is interested in the comparative history of capitalism and economic development with a particular focus on enterprises, industries and financial institutions. She is the author of Dividends of Development: Fits and Starts in the History of U.S. Securities Markets, 1866-1922, (Oxford University Press, 2016); Contests for Corporate Control: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance in the United States and Germany (Oxford University Press, 2000); and co-editor of the book Corporate Governance and Sustainable Prosperity (Macmillan, 2002). Her recent articles include A Fine Failure: Relationship Lending, Moses Taylor, and the Joliet Iron & Steel Company, 1869–1888 in Business History Review (Winter 2014), which was awarded the 2014 Henrietta Larson Award for the best article in that journal, and Yankee Doodle went to London: Anglo-American Breweries & the London Securities Market, 1888-1892 in Economic History Review (August 2015). She earned her Ph.D. in business economics at Harvard University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin. She is working on a new project called A Blind Spot in the History of Capitalism: The Shifting Roles of Capital.

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Claire Lemercier is a CNRS research professor of history and a member of the Center for the Sociology of Organizations. Primarily a specialist of 19th-century France, she is interested in relationships between the state, firms, laws, and the market. Using quantitative as well as qualitative methods, she is currently involved in research projects about the largest French firms and their directors and CEOs in the late 19th to early 21st centuries (with Pierre François), apprenticeship in 18th- and 19th-century France (with Clare H. Crowston and Steven L. Kaplan), and the alleged disembedding of commercial relations from the 18th to the 19th centuries (with, among others, Arnaud Bartolomei and Veronica A. Santarosa).

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Daniel Seabra Lopes graduated in Anthropology from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1994. He completed his Master's Degree in Anthropology: Heritage and Identities at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon in 1999 before defending his PhD degree in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2007. In 2008, Seabra Lopes joined the SOCIUS-ISEG Research Centre in Economic and Organizational Sociology at the University of Lisbon School of Economics and Management (ISEG-ULisboa), where he has since served as a post-doctoral research fellow focusing on sociological studies of finance and organizational ethnography. He is also assistant professor at the same Lisbon School of Economics and Management. Seabra Lopes has published seventeen articles in peer-reviewed journals, two conference proceedings, seven book chapters and one authored book. Between 1998 and 2015, he participated in four research projects. Presently, Seabra Lopes coordinates two research projects. He is a social scientist, with a focus on the fields of sociology and anthropology. Thus far, Daniel Seabra Lopes interacted with thirteen collaborators as co-authors of scientific work.

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Mike Savage is Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. He is also the Academic Director of the Atlantic Fellows programme at the LSE's International Inequalities Institute. His research focuses on social stratification and inequality, especially the intersectional and cultural dimensions of social inequalities. Savage is the author of many influential books: Class Analysis and Social Transformation (Open University Press, 2000), Culture, Class, Distinction (Routledge, 2009 with Tony Bennett, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, and David Wright) and Social Class in the 21st Century (Penguin Books, 2015). Savage also works on urban sociology, historical sociology, social theory, and mixed methods. He is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and Fellow of the British Academy.

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John S. Earle received his undergraduate degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory and his PhD from Stanford University. Now a Professor of Public Policy at George Mason University, he has also taught at Stanford University (Fairfax, VA), Stockholm School of Economics, University of Vienna, and Central European University. His main research interests are in labor, development, transition, and institutions, including topics such as employment policies, financial constraints, reallocation, and the effects of structural and institutional change on firms and workers. A former President of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, Earle has published articles in leading journals such as Journal of Political Economy, Economic Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Labour Economics, and Economics and Politics.

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Gilles Favarel-Garrigues holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po and joined the CERI in 2001. His doctoral dissertation dealt with the fight against economic crime in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia from 1965 till 1995. His post-doctoral works are devoted to the international mobilizations against transnational criminal threats and to criminal policy in contemporary Russia. In 2006, he received the bronze medal of the CNRS. He has been a member of the section 40 of CNRS from 2008 to 2012 and scientific secretary of this section from 2010 to 2012. He holds a "habilitation à diriger des recherches" since December 2014. He co-edits the CERI working papers series Questions de recherche/Research in question and is a member of the editorial board of Critique internationale, Cultures & Conflits and Politix.

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Martin Schröder holds a professorship in Economic Sociology at the University of Marburg in Germany. He did his graduate work at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and spent one year each at Sciences Po Paris and Harvard University. His research focuses on social inequality, welfare states, varieties of capitalism, the influence of morality on economic action, and life satisfaction. In 2013, he published the monograph Integrating Varieties of Capitalism and Welfare State Research: A Unified Typology of Capitalisms (Palgrave). In 2016, he published "How Income Inequality Influences Life Satisfaction" in the European Sociological Review and "Varieties of Regulation: How to Combine Sectoral, Regional and National Levels" in Regional Studies. He has also published on welfare regimes in journals such as Social Forces and the Journal of Social Policy.

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Carlo Barone's research interests are among others: "Social Inequalities in Education: The Role of Family Background, Gender and Ethnicity" and "Labor Market Returns to Education and the Role of Education for Social Mobility in Dynamic and Comparative Perspective".

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Matthias Schmelzer works at the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig and is associated with the Center for Social and Economic History at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Economic Growth Paradigm (winner of the best dissertation prize at the World Economic History Congress 2015) and has written on twentieth century social and economic history, monetary politics, international organizations, and degrowth. His current research interests include neoliberalism, the history of critiques of economic growth, the OECD, and social-ecological transformations.

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Jenny Andersson is an economic historian and CNRS Research Professor at the Center for European Studies (CEE), Paris. She is an ERC Principal Investigator of FUTUREPOL, a Sciences Po project on the political history of the future, knowledge production and future governance in the post-war period.

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Jens Beckert is professor of sociology and director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He studied sociology and business administration at the Free University of Berlin and the New School for Social Research in New York. He received his doctorate and his habilitation in sociology from the Free University. Beckert was a visiting fellow in the sociology department of Princeton University, at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University, at the European University Institute in Florence and at Sciences Po Paris. In 2012/13 he was a resident at the Institut d'études avancées in Paris. His research focuses on the fields of economic sociology, sociology of inheritance, organization theory and social theory. His new book Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics has been recently published by Harvard University Press.

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Henri Bergeron conducts research on healthcare policy and changes in medical practice through study of various subjects: illegal drugs, alcohol, obesity, medical research, and public healthcare. He uses methods from the fields of sociology of public action and sociology of organizations to evaluate forces at work in the creation of public healthcare policies and in changes in the healthcare field. He is particularly interested in the interconnection of knowledge, expertise, and politics. He also focuses on the role of knowledge in professional practice and its affect on the way collective opinions are formed.

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Larry M. Bartels holds the May Werthan Shayne Chair of Public Policy and Social Science at Vanderbilt University. His research focuses broadly on American democracy, including public opinion, electoral politics, and public policy. He is the author (with Christopher Achen) of Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government (Princeton University Press, 2016). He is also co-edited a number of books including Mass Politics in Tough Times (Oxford University Press, 2014) with Nancy Bermeo. Bartels was educated at Yale University (B.A., M.A.) and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD). He has served as vice president of the American Political Science Association and president of its Political Methodology section. He is currently a trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and the National Academy of Sciences.

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Nonna Mayer is CNRS Research Director Emerita at Centre d’études européennes de Sciences Po. She chairs the French Political Science Association (Association française de science politique/AFSP) and coordinates the AFSP Research group on Electoral Studies: FEEL/Futur des études électorales. She is the editor of the series "Contester" at the Presses de Sciences Po. Her main research topics are political participation, electoral sociology, racism and anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism.

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Philipp Ther is professor at the University of Vienna (since 2011, after having worked in Florence and Frankfurt), and has specialized in the contemporary history of Central and Eastern Europe. His book Die neue Ordnung auf dem alten Kontinent: Eine Geschichte des neoliberalen Europa (Suhrkamp 2014) won the Essay Prize at the Leipzig Book Fair. His other publications include Die dunkle Seite der Nationalstaaten: „Ethnische Säuberungen“ im modernen Europa (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011) and In der Mitte der Gesellschaft: Operntheater in Zentraleuropa 1815–1914 (Oldenbourg 2006).

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Jenny Andersson is CNRS fellow researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po (CEE) and co-director of the Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo). She holds a PhD in Economic History from Uppsala University (2003). Before joining the CNRS and Sciences Po in October 2009, she was postdoctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Florence, and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. She was also a research fellow of the Swedish National Scientific Council and an associated professor with the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm from 2007-2009.

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Heather A. Haveman is Professor of Sociology and Business at the University of California–Berkeley. She studies how organizations, industries, and employees’ careers evolve. Her publications, which cover various periods from the 18th to the 21st century, have appeared in several major business and sociological journals. The organizations she has investigated include the thrift industry, telephone companies, hotels, hospitals, and power plants in the United States as well as large firms in China. Her book Magazines and the Making of America was just published by Princeton University Press. After getting a BA in history and an MBA in management and finance from the University of Toronto, Haveman obtained her PhD in Organizational Behavior and Industrial Relations from UC Berkeley. She has taught at (1990-94), Cornell (1994-99), and Columbia (1998-2007). Her current research examines wineries, the emerging marijuana market, law professors, and Chinese listed firms. When she is not moving around the country, she studies how organizations, industries, and employees’ careers evolve. Her published studies have investigated California thrifts (1872-1928 and 1960s-1990s), Iowa telephone companies (1900-1917), Manhattan hotels (1898-1990), California hospitals (1978-1991), U.S. electric power plants (1980-1992), American magazines (1741-1860), and large Chinese firms (1992-2007). These studies have appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Business Venturing, Management and Organization Review, Organization Science, Poetics, and Sociological Science. A book on magazines is being published by Princeton University Press in August. Her current research involves antebellum American magazines, post-Prohibition U.S. wineries, and 21st-century Chinese firms.

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Julia Cagé is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Sciences Po Paris. She completed her PhD at Harvard University in 2014. Her research interests focus on political economy, economic history, international trade, industrial organization and development economics. She is particularly interested in the media, especially the question of how media competition affects the provision of information and political attitudes. She is a Member of the Commission Economique de la Nation, non partisan Council of Economic Advisors to the French Finance Minister. Her work has been published in the Journal of Globalization and Development, the Journal of International Economics, the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, as well as in several handbook chapters. She is the author of Sauver les médias: Capitalisme, financement participatif et démocratie (Le Seuil, 2015) (English translation forthcoming: Harvard University Press, 2016).

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Orfeo Fioretos is associate professor of Political Science at Temple University in Philadelphia. He received his PhD from Columbia University, and publishes work in international and comparative political economy. Fioretos is the author of Creative Reconstructions: Multilateralism and European Varieties of Capitalism After 1950 (Cornell 2011), and articles in International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Comparative Political Studies, Review of International Studies among others. He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism (2016), and editor of International Politics and Institutions in Time (Oxford UP, forthcoming). His current projects include a book on the origins and evolution of informal global economic governance with a particular focus on the Group of 7 and similar organizations. Fioretos served as the 2012-2014 Chair of the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and is currently member of the executive councils of APSA’s Politics and History Section and European Politics and Society Section.

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Since the defense of his PhD in history in 2005 at the European University Institute in Florence, Thomas Cayet has tried to develop an original analysis at the crossroads of social and economic history, international relations and political science. His research has progressively focused on the problem of scale in implementing modes of social and economic regulation. Without overlooking the specificity of national issues, he has tried to build a new way of assessing the historical role of international organizations and networks in domains of competence usually considered as essentially "national". Thomas Cayet is currently working at the French Ministry of Labour and is a member of the ESOPP research group (EHESS).

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Francesco Boldizzoni is research professor in economic history at the University of Turin and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has held visiting appointments at several academic institutions in Europe and the United States, including the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Dartmouth College, the London School of Economics and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Boldizzoni’s main interests are the history of capitalism and the history of economic ideas, concepts and ideologies. Over the past few years, he has also contributed to the philosophy of history and the study of non-European historiographies in the context of a broader reflection on the power and limits of historical explanation. Boldizzoni’s chief publications include Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500–1970 (Macmillan, 2008), The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History (Princeton University Press, 2011), On History and Policy: Time in the Age of Neoliberalism (Journal of the Philosophy of History 9, 2015) and the Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History, co-edited with Pat Hudson (Routledge, 2015). His new book, Welfare States: A History, will be published by Polity Press in 2016.

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Emanuele Ferragina is Departmental Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his doctoral thesis. Prior to his PhD, Emanuele received a double BA in international politics from Science Po Bordeaux and Turin University. He is interested in the political economy of the welfare state, the individual and macro determinants of social and political participation, and the innovative use of the comparative method.

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David Stark is Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, where he directs the Center on Organizational Innovation. His book, The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life (Princeton University Press, 2009), is an ethnographic account of how organizations and their members search for what is valuable. His recent article on cognitive diversity and network social structures Game Changer: The Topology of Creativity, appeared in the January 2015 issue of American Journal of Sociology (AJS). Stark has published widely in the field of economic sociology in the AJS (2006 and 2010) and the American Sociological Review (2012). His essay on observation theory was published in Sociologica 2/2013. Within the social studies of finance, Stark has conducted ethnographic field research with Daniel Beunza and network analysis of patterns of attention with Matteo Prato. He has also done experimental lab work on ethnic diversity and market bubbles with Sheen Levine and recently published This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains (Columbia University Press, 2013) with photographer Nancy Warner.

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Olivier Godechot is MaxPo's co-director and an economic sociologist interested in the study of labor markets, especially finance and academic labor markets, as a means to understand the development of unequal exchange relations at work and their impact on the dynamics of inequality.

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Thomas Reverdy teaches economic sociology, the sociology of work and the sociology of organizations at Grenoble Institute of Technology. His research at PACTE – Social Science Research Laboratory – investigates the shaping of the market in the energy sector and the management of technological uncertainty within complex organizations. He has published a book about the liberalization of the French energy sector (Sciences Po Press) and articles on energy traders and purchasers. He is currently working on the interplay between economic, political and institutional actors in the processes of "valuation" of demand response services through the wholesale electricity market. He is also studying technological projects in high-risk industries, seeking to understand the links between the practice of forecasting, planning and contracting, and the need for adaptation and resilience.

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David Spector is associate member of the Paris School of Economics and the CNRS.

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Neil Fligstein is the Class of 1939 Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Berkely. He is also the Director of the Center of Culture, Organization, and Politics at the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California. He is the author of numerous papers and books including The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of 21st Century Capitalist Societies (Princeton, 2001), Euroclash: The European Union, European Identity, and the Future of Europe (Oxford, 2008), and A Theory of Fields (with Doug McAdam, Oxford, 2012). He has written extensively in the fields of economic sociology, organizations, political sociology, social stratification, and European economic and political integration. Neil Fligstein is most well-known for his work on the sociology of markets. His work combines elements of political economy, organizational theory, and field theory, to propose how to think about the dynamics of markets. He is currently working on studying different aspects of the 2007-2010 financial crisis. He is also engaged in a project exploring how financialization has affected household attitudes towards debt and investment.

Neil Fligstein is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the Center of Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, and a fellow at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio.

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For the last decade, sociologist Pierre François has been using economic sociology tools to analyze the dynamics of art worlds. He is currently conducting research on contemporary poetry since the 1960s in collaboration with Sébastien Dubois. In addtion, he is also working on a historical sociology of firms and their managing directors since the beginning of the 19th century, as part of a study he is conducting with Claire Lemercier. As the co-director of the research chair PARI (Sciences Po and ENSAE), he also works on the regulation of insurance business in Europe. He is the author of Le monde de la musique ancienne (Economica), Vie et mort des institutions marchands (Armand Colin), and of papers published in the Revue française de sociologie, Sociologie de travail or Poetics.

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Sébastien Chauvin is Assistant Professor of Sociology (UD1) at the University of Amsterdam and a researcher at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research in the program group Political Sociology: Power Place and Difference.

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Patrick Le Galès, is CNRS Research Professor of Sociology and Politics, at Sciences Po Paris, Centre d’études européennes and founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School. He also co chairs the "Cities are back in town" research group. His research deals, with Comparative Public policy, policy instruments and the political sociology of the state; Comparison of large global metropolis and European cities; Economic sociology/political economy – the making of a market society and the sociology of Europe with a special interest for the UK.

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Mitchell Abolafia is Professor in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany/State University of New York. He has also taught at Sloan School of Management at MIT, Johnson School of Management at Cornell, and the School of Management, University of California at Davis. Professor Abolafia’s research interests include economic sociology, organization theory, and ethnographic methods. He is the author of Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997/2001 (translated into Chinese as Hua Er Jie, China Society Press. Beijing, 1999). He has published over 30 articles in such journals as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Studies, Strategic Management, Administration and Society, Group and Organization Management, Sociological Forum, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review of Public Administration, Ethnography, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. He is working on a book about the Federal Reserve’s response to the financial crisis.

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Eric Monnet is a research economist at the Bank of France and teaches economic history at the Paris School of Economics. He has held visiting and research positions at Columbia University, Rutgers University, Ghent University and has been a fellow at the think tank Bruegel. He obtained his Phd in economics from the EHESS and Paris School of Economics (awarded Gerschenkron prize 2013 by the Economic History Association). His current work focuses on the history of monetary policy and central banking in Europe from WWII to the 1980s as well as on the history of the Bretton Woods system. He was editor of the review of social sciences Tracés and he is the economics and economic history editor for La Vie des Idées. He has recently published Euro, les années critiques (with Claudia Sternberg).

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Ronald S. Burt's work describes social networks creating advantage, focusing on personal networks and the network structure of markets. He coined the famous concept of Structural Holes (1992, Harvard University Press) which redefines social capital. His last book, Neighbor Networks: Competitive Advantage Local and Personal (2010, Oxford University Press), shows the extent to which network advantage depends on the person at the center of the network. After obtaining his sociology PhD from the University of Chicago, he has been affiliated to multiple institutions, of which the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and INSEAD. He continues today at the University of Chicago.

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Sean Safford was previously an Assistant Professor of Organizations and Strategy at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business, a Lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. His research is on social, economic and technological change, particularly in mature industrial economies, as well as historical social network analysis. He was a lead researcher with the MIT Local Innovation Systems Project which examined the role of universities in economic development in the US and several countries around the world.

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Isabela Mares is a Professor of Political Science at Columbia University in New York City. Her research has covered a wide range of topics in comparative social policy and comparative political economy, including the development of social insurance institutions, the effects of wage bargaining institutions on economic outcomes and social policy reform in developing countries.

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Nicolas Sauger is Co-Director of the LIEPP "Evaluation of Democracy" Research Group and Associate Professor of Sciences Po since 2004. His research focuses on the analysis of the transformation of structures of political competition in France and in Europe. He has a specific interest in laboratory experimentation issues in the social sciences as well as in repeated comparative surveys

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Fabian Muniesa is senior researcher at Mines ParisTech (Ecole des Mines de Paris), where he directs the Observatory for Responsible Innovation. He is the author of The Provoked Economy: Economic Reality and the Performative Turn (Routledge, 2014). Working at the interface of science and technology studies and economic sociology, he has been a long-time contributor to the social studies of finance. His current research concentrates on the anthropology of capitalization, funded by an ERC Starting Grant.

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Poul Fritz Kjær is professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School and principal investigator of the European Research Council project Institutional Transformation in European Political Economy – a socio-legal approach (www.itepe.eu). He is the author of the books Between Governing and Governance: On the Emergence, Function and Form of Europe’s Post-national Constellation (Oxford, 2010) and Constitutionalism in the Global Realm: A Sociological Approach (London, 2014).

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Cornelia Woll is professor of political science at Sciences Po and co-director of MaxPo. Her research focuses on international and comparative political economy. A specialist on business-government relations, she has recently published The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparison (Cornell University Press, 2014). Other research includes lobbying in Europe and the United States, the transformation of business-government relations, financial regulation and trade, the Europeanization of economic policy domains and French politics

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Peter F. Cowhey is the Dean and Qualcomm Professor of Communications and Technology Policy at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UC San Diego. In 2009, he served as Senior Counselor to Ambassador Kirk in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative where he advised on the agenda for trade policy while supervising multiple USTR offices. In the Clinton Administration he served as Senior Counselor and then Chief of the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission during its overhaul of its global competition policies and forging of a WTO agreement on telecommunications services. Peter F. Cowhey is former Director of the UC system's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and head of policy studies for the California Institute on Telecommunications and Information Technology. He serves on several policy committees on innovation and technology, amongst others as chairman of the CONNECT Innovation Institute and Vice Chair of the California Council on Science and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. His newest book is Transforming Global Information and Communications Markets: The Political Economy of Change (MIT Press, 2009).

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Catherine Hoeffler is lecturer in political science at the Catholic University of Lille, at the European School of Political and Social Sciences (ESPOL). Her main research areas are comparative public policy and international political economy. She has mainly worked on the comparison of defense industrial policies in the European Union (France, Germany and the UK) as well as on the sociology of elites in the US defense and health policies. She has had the opportunity to do research or teach in French institutions (Sciences Po Paris, Sciences Po Toulouse, University of Montpellier 1) as well as abroad (Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung, Cologne; CERIUM, Université de Montréal).

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Desmond King is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College Oxford since 2002. His research falls into two main areas: the politics of race in the United States and the comparative political economy of labour market policy and responses to the 2008 economic crisis. His publications include Sterilized by the State: Eugenics in North America (with Randall Hansen) (Cambridge, 2013), Still A House Divided: Race and Politics in Obama’s America (with Rogers M Smith) (Princeton, 2011) and The Unsustainable American State (with Lawrence Jacobs) (Oxford, 2009). He is presently finishing a book examining the causes of persistent material racial inequality in the United States and a project with Lawrence Jacobs about the Federal Reserve’s response to the economic crisis of 2008. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003 and during 2013-14 he was a Straus Fellow at the NYU School of Law.

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Jenny Andersson is CNRS fellow and researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po. She has published on the transformations on social democracy in the post war period, on the political economy of the knowledge economy and the origins of futures studies. Since 2012, Jenny Andersson is directing her ERC funded project on the political history of the future (Futurepol). She recently published Governing the future: science, policy and public participation in the construction of the long term in the Netherlands and Sweden (History and Technology, 30(1-2), 2014) (with Anne-Greet Keizer).

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Vitezslav Sommer is junior researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po. As a member of the ERC project Futurepol, he is currently working on the institutional and social background of the Czechoslovak “future studies”. His main research topics are state socialism and post-socialism and governance in socialist and post-socialist East Central Europe. He recently published The ‘Club of Politically Engaged Conformists’? The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, Popular Opinion and the Crisis of Communism, 1956 (CWIHP Working Paper 66, March 2013) (with Kevin Mc Dermott).

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Daniel Ziblatt is Professor of Government at Harvard University, and in Spring 2014 is interim director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He is the author of Structuring the State: the Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism (Princeton University Press, 2006), as well as co-editor (with G. Capoccia) of The Historical Turn in Democratization Studies (2010). He is currently completing a book under contract with Cambridge University Press that analyzes how old regime elites cope with democratic institutional changes, entitled Conservative Political Parties and the Birth of Modern Democracy in Europe, 1848-1950. Ziblatt is the director of a new historical geospatial data collection project, the Comparative History of Elections Program housed at the Institute of Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University. His work has won numerous prizes and serves on the editorial board of several prestigious journals.

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• Paper: The Dangers of Weak Conservatism for Democracy in Germany: Long Run Legacies into the Twentieth Century

Jan Rovny is an assistant professor at Sciences Po. After studies in Canada and Belgium, He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has taught in Belgium, the United States, the Czech Republic, Germany and Sweden. His research concentrates on political competition in Europe with the aim of uncovering the ideological conflict lines in different countries. His projects address the interplay between political issue dimensionality, party strategies and voter responses. He’s also one of the principal investigators of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey on party positioning - the most comprehensive survey assessing ideological placements of political parties in Europe.

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Paul Pierson is the John Gross Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a Senior Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His research focuses on American and comparative political economy as well as social theory. Together with Jacob Hacker, he is the author of the highly influential book Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class (Simon and Schuster 2010), whose impact goes much beyond the scientific realm. Other recent books include The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism (Princeton University Press 2007), co-edited with Theda Skocpol, and Off-Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (Yale University Press 2005), co-authored by Jacob Hacker, and Politics in Time: History, Institutions and Social Analysis (Princeton University Press 2004).

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• Paper: After the “Master Theory”: Downs, Schattschneider, and the Rebirth of Policy-Focused Analysis

Bruno Palier is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po. His research focuses on welfare reforms in Europe, a subject he investigates through various comparative projects: on social investment policies, on social dualisations, and on the politics – both national and European – of welfare reforms. He was a visiting scholar at Stockholm University, Northwestern University, Harvard University and the European University Institute in Florence and is Honorary Professor of Welfare State Research at Odense University, South Denmark. He also acted as scientific coordinator of an European Network of Excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare).

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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 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.

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• Paper: Financial Decommodification: Risk and the Politics of Valuation in U.S. Banks.

Colin Hay is Professor of Political Sciences in the Centre d'études européennes and Affiliate Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield, UK, where he was the founding co-director of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute). He was previously Professor of Political Analysis and Head of Department in POLSIS at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is a founding co-editor of the journals Comparative European Politics (with Ben Rosamond of Warwick University and Martin A. Schain of New York University) and British Politics (with Peter Kerr of the University of Birmingham, Dave Marsh of the Australian National University and Stephen Kettell of the University of Warwick) and is lead editor of New Political Economy.

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Claus Offe teaches Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He completed his PhD at the University of Frankfurt and his Habilitation at the University of Konstanz. In Germany, he has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He has worked as fellow and visiting professor at, among others, the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York.

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Jenny Andersson is CNRS fellow and researcher at the Centre d’études européennes at Sciences Po (CEE). She holds a PhD in Economic History from Uppsala University (2003). Before joining the CNRS and Sciences Po in October 2009, she was post-doctoral fellow and visiting scholar at the European University Institute, Florence, and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. She was also a research fellow of the Swedish National Scientific Council and an associated professor with the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm from 2007-2009. Jenny has published several works on the transformations on social democracy in the post war period, Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way, published in 2006 by Manchester University Press, and The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in an Age of Knowledge, Stanford University Press, 2009.

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Cornelia Woll is professor of political science at Sciences Po, where she co-directs MaxPo and LIEPP. Her research focuses on the international political economy and economic sociology, in particular regulatory issues, economic policy and finance in the European Union and the United States. A specialist on business-government relations, she is the author of Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade (Cornell University Press, 2008) and has just published The Power of Inaction: Bank Bailouts in Comparison (Cornell University Press, 2014).

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Donald MacKenzie is Professor of Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, and is known for his seminal contribution to the field of science and technology studies. His research deals first with the social construction of scientific knowledge and of technology (Statistics in Britain, 1865–1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge, 1981; Inventing Accuracy: A Historical Sociology of Nuclear Missile Guidance, 1990; The Social Shaping of Technology, 1999). Since early 2000, Donald MacKenzie has become a major author in the field of social studies of finance, where he studied how theoretical finance shapes and transforms financial reality (An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets, 2006). His most recent work is devoted to the role of models in the financial crisis and to high frequency trading. Donald MacKenzie received numerous awards for his research, including the Chancellor's Award from HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, for his contributions to the field of Science and Technology Studies and the 1993 Robert K. Merton Award of the American Sociological Association. He has worked in the past on topics ranging from the sociology of nuclear weapons to the meaning of proof in the context of computer systems critical to safety or security.

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• Paper: A Sociology of Algorithms: High-Frequency Trading and the Shaping of Markets

Marc Lenglet is a Lecturer at the European Business School Paris (Management, Strategy and Systems Department). With interests in phenomenology and anthropology, his research focuses on the compliance function and the dissemination of norms within financial practices. Before joining the academia, he worked as an Equities Compliance Officer in a European brokerage house. He is now studding algorithmic trading and published several papers recently on this topic, including Conflicting codes and codings: how algorithmic trading is reshaping financial regulation in Theory, Culture and Society (2011).

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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey is Professor and past chair of sociology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is interested in the processes that generate workplace inequality. He has projects on the impact of financialization upon US income distribution, workplace desegregation and equal opportunity, network models of labor market structure, and relational inequality as a theoretical and empirical project. His long-term agenda is to work with others to move the social science of inequality to a more fully relational and organizational stance. He is advancing this agenda through studies of jobs and workplaces, as well as social relationships between jobs within workplaces and the social relationships that link organizations to each other. Recent publications from these projects have appeared in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Work and Occupations, the American Sociological Review, and the American Journal of Sociology. He has published three monographs: Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the Corporate Distortion of National Policy (Routledge, 1983), Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation (Cornell, 1993), and Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012).

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Louis Chauvel was appointed Professor of Sociology at the Université du Luxembourg in July 2012 as part of the PEARL programme. He was full professor at Sciences Po between 2005-2012 and an Honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2003). His research topics are Social Inequalities and Public Policies, Social Change, Social Stratification and Mobility, Advanced Methodology of social sciences and population studies.

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Mark S. Mizruchi is the Barger Family Professor of Organizational Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the economic and political behavior of large American corporations as well as the methods of social network analysis. His primary current project is a study of the changing nature of the American corporate elite, from the period immediately after World War II to the present. He is also studying the globalization of American banking and a study of methods for measuring the effects of social network ties, the determinants of corporate lobbying activities, and the estimation bias in the network autocorrelation model (an approach for measuring the effects of social network ties). Besides his most recent publication, The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (Harvard University Press, 2013), he has published three books and more than 100 articles and reviews.

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Claire Lemercier is a CNRS research professor in history at Sciences Po / CSO. A specialist of economic institutions and especially of the role of justice and arbitration in relationships between firms, she is also investigating the boards of the largest French firms from the 1840s to the 2000s (with Pierre François). This research aims at putting together insights from business history, economic sociology, and the history and sociology of economic elites.

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Pierre François is a CNRS research professor at Sciences Po / CSO and professor at the École Polytechnique. An economic sociologist who has extensively studied dynamics of art worlds, he is currently conducting research on contemporary poetry since the 1960s in collaboration with Sébastien Dubois. He is also working on a historical sociology of firms and their managing directors since the beginning of the 19th century (with Claire Lemercier).

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Mark Lutter is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne. His research focuses on social structures in economic life. Currently, he is doing research on the emergence of extreme inequalities in markets, so-called winner-take all markets. He studied sociology, psychology, and statistics and was a doctoral student at the International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy. He received his Doctorate from University of Duisburg-Essen, and has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University and ETH Zurich.

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• Paper: Is There a Closure Penalty? Cohesive Network Structures, Diversity, and Gender Inequalities in Career Advancement

Emmanuel Lazega is professor of sociology at Sciences Po and a member of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations. He develops a neo-structural sociology, mainly applied to organizations and markets. His current research focuses on institutions of joint regulation of markets by business and the state.

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Kimberley J. Morgan is an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University. Her research focuses on comparative public policy in advanced industrialized countries, with particular interests in family policies, immigration, health care, and taxation. She teaches undergraduate classes on European politics, comparative politics, immigration and identity, and graduate courses on comparative politics and comparative social policy. Her most recent book, The Delegated Welfare State: Medicare, Markets, and the Governance of American Social Policy, has been published by Oxford University Press.

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Bruno Palier is CNRS Researcher at Sciences Po. His research focuses on welfare reforms in Europe, a subject he investigates through various comparative projects: on social investment policies, on social dualisations, and on the politics of welfare reforms – both national and European. He was a visiting scholar at Stockholm University, Northwestern University, Harvard University and the European University Institute in Florence and is Honorary Professor of Welfare State Research at Odense University, South Denmark. He currently serves as scientific coordinator of the European Network of Excellence RECWOWE (Reconciling Work and Welfare).

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Alice Goffman is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an urban sociologist who grew up in Philadelphia. Her dissertation was an ethnographic account of the heavily policed ghetto that emerged as the US continues a War on Drugs and imprisons poor black men on a massive scale, and received the 2011 Best Dissertation Award from the American Sociological Association. With Mitchell Duneier, she recently completed a history and sociology of the ghetto from early modern Europe to the present.

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Nonna Mayer is CNRS Research Director at the Centre for European Studies of Sciences Po (CEE). An expert in electoral sociology, she has published on the extreme right, racism, anti-Semitism and political participation. She is President of the French Political Science Association (AFSP) since 2005 and edits the series Contester (Protest), at the Presses de Sciences Po devoted to the transformations of the collective action repertoires.

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Peter Alexis Gourevitch is Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego, of which he is also the Founding Dean. As a world-renowned expert on international relations and comparative politics, Gourevitch specializes in corporate governance systems in a globalizing world economy, comparing differences in the way countries structure companies and their relationship to shareholders. He is an expert on international political economy with a particular focus on national responses to pressures arising from international trade and economic globalization, trade disputes among countries, and international trade negotiations. Recently he has been working on corporate social responsibility and the relationship between NGO's, regulation and international institutions.

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Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas is Professor of economics at UC Berkeley. His main research interests are in international macroeconomics and finance. His recent research focuses on the importance of the valuation channel for the dynamics of external adjustment and the determination of exchange rates, on the determinants of capital flows to and from developing countries, on international portfolios, on global imbalances, on international price discrimination and on the global financial crisis. He was educated at Ecole Polytechnique and received his PhD from MIT and taught at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Princeton University.

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Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, studies organizations, inequality, economic behavior, and public policy. His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton, 2009) shows how corporate personnel managers defined what it meant to discriminate. Professor Dobbin's work in economic sociology generally is both historical and contemporary. His Forging Industrial Policy: United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age (Cambridge, 1994), traces nations' modern industrial strategies to early differences in their political systems. The New Economic Sociology: A Reader (Princeton, 2004) assembles classics in economic sociology.

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Laure Bereni, Permanent Researcher in Sociology (CNRS), Centre Maurice Halbwachs, is interested in gender issues, social movements, and anti-discrimination policies. Her current research focuses on corporate diversity initiatives in an comparative perspective (France/USA) and on gender and high civil servants' carrers in France. She is the author of Introduction aux études sur le genre (with S. Chauvin, A. Jaunait and A. Revillard. De Boeck, 2012) and La parité (Economica, forthcoming 2012).

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Jens Beckert is professor of sociology and director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. Currently he is a fellowat the Institut d’études avancées in Paris. He studied sociology and business administration at the Freie Universität Berlin and the New School for Social Research in New York, received his Ph.D. in sociology from the Freie Universität in 1996 and his Habilitation in 2003. Beckert was a visiting fellow at the sociology department of Princeton University in 1994/95 and at the Center for European Studies of Harvard University in 2001/02. In 2007 he was a Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and in 2008 a guest researcher at the CSO in Paris.

His research focuses on the fields of economic sociology, organization theory and social theory. Recent publications: 2011: The Worth of Goods. Valuation and Pricing in the Economy (edited together with Patrik Aspers), Oxford University Press 2011, Inherited Wealth, Princeton University Press, 2008. Beyond the Market. The Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency, Princeton University Press 2002. International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology (edited together with Milan Zafirovski), Routledge 2006.

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Richard Bronk is a writer and Visiting Fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, where hetaught from 2000-2007. His academic expertise is in the history of ideas, philosophy of economics, comparative corporate governance and European political economy. He is author of Progress and the Invisible Hand - the Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance (Little Brown, 1998); and The Romantic Economist - Imagination in Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Educated at Merton College, Oxford, with an MA (Oxon) in Classics and Philosophy, Richard spent seventeen years in the City of London – positions including head of European equities at Baring Asset Management, European equity strategist at Merrill Lynch, and Adviser on European capital markets and political economy at the Bank of England – before returning to academia in 2000. Richard’s current research interests centre on uncertainty; the role of imagination, language and metaphor in economics; the dangers of economic monoculture; and the epistemology of markets. His approach to philosophy of economics is grounded in a history of ideas perspective and in his practical experience in markets and economic policy. He is currently working on Hayek and the information provided by prices.

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Matthew Desmond is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Studies at Harvard University. After receiving his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, he joined the Harvard Society of Fellows as a Junior Fellow. His primary teaching and research interests include urban sociology, race and ethnicity, poverty, social theory, organizations and work, and ethnography. Desmond is the author of On the Fireline: Living and Dying with Wildland Firefighters (2007), which won the Max Weber Award for Distinguished Scholarship by the American Sociological Association, as well as two books on race in America (both with Mustafa Emirbayer): Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology of Race in America (2009) and The Racial Order (forthcoming). He has written essays on educational inequality, dangerous work, political ideology, race and social theory, and the inner-city housing market. Desmond is the principal investigator of the Milwaukee Area Renters Study, an original survey of tenants in Milwaukee’s low-income private housing sector. His work has been supported by the MacArthur, Ford, and National Science Foundations, as well as by the American Philosophical Society; it also has been profiled in major news outlets such as The New York Times, National Public Radio, Science, and Das Erste. His current project combines ethnographic fieldwork, survey data, and documentary analysis to explore the causes, dynamics, and consequences of eviction among the urban poor and, more broadly, to plumb the inner workings of disadvantaged neighborhoods and the low-cost housing market.

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Sébastien Chauvin is a tenured assistant professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He has formerly taught at the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and as a visiting lecturer at the University of Chicago. His research deals with labor, migration, gender and sexuality issues, mainly in France and the United States. He has published Les Agences de la Précarité. Journaliers à Chicago (Seuil 2010) and is a contributor to the collective study exploring the labor-market experience and union-supported mobilization of undocumented immigrant workers in France (On bosse ici, on reste ici. La grève des sans-papiers: une aventure inédite [La Découverte 2011, with Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Nicolas Jounin and Lucie Tourette]). More recent research projects focus on social capital and the sociology of global elites in Europe and the Caribbean (with Bruno Cousin), and on the critical history of the commodity form (with Olga Sezneva).

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Elizabeth Popp-Berman is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Albany, SUNY, working at the intersection of economic sociology, organizations, the sociology of science and knowledge, and political sociology. She will present her first book, Creating the Market University (Princeton University Press), which has received the prestigious Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award. In this work, Popp-Berman asks why US academic science, which historically set itself apart from the world of commerce, made such a dramatic move toward the market over the last several decades.

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Christine Musselin is the director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations. She specializes in comparative studies of higher education systems, focusing on university governance, public policies on higher education and research, state-universities relationships and academic labour markets. She is the author of La longue marche des universités françaises, PUF, 2001 (English translation by Routledge in 2004) and The Market for Academics Routledge, 2010.

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Devah Pager is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Joint Degree Program in Social Policy at Princeton University. She is also Faculty Associate of the Office of Population Research and the Woodrow Wilson School. Her research focuses on institutions affecting racial stratification, including education, labor markets, and the criminal justice system. Pager's recent research has involved a series of field experiments studying discrimination against minorities and ex-offenders in the low-wage labor market. Her book, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration (University of Chicago, 2007), investigates the racial and economic consequences of large-scale imprisonment for contemporary U.S. labor markets.

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Olivier Godechot is a research scholar at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs and at the Quantitative Sociology Laboratory. He works on remuneration in the financial industry and on networks and recruitment in the academic world. He is the author of Working Rich: Salaires, Bonus et appropriation du Profit dans l’Industrie Financière (La Découverte 2007) et Les Traders: Essai de Sociologie Financière (La Découverte 2001).

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Cornelia Woll is director at MaxPo and LIEPP. A political scientists, she studies economic policy-making in industrialized countries, most notably financial regulation and trade. She is the author of Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on global trade (Cornell University Press, 2008) and has published widely on lobbying in Europe and the United States on international trade, the liberalization of service sectors and network industries, the transformation of business-government relations, the Europeanization of economic policy domains and French business representation.

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Philippe Martin is currently chairman of the Economics Department at Sciences-Po Paris. His research focuses on international economics (trade and international macroeconomics) and economic geography.

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