Academic Identity
I am assistant professor of Sociology at Barnard College. My book (and my dissertation research) is a comparative study of technology and futures trading, an ethnography of open outcry and electronic traders. My current research is on how art specialists price cultural commodities, particularly how categories and commensuration work in the secondary/resale fine arts market. I teach courses in economic sociology, organizations, and gender.
Professional Identity
I occasionally consult, focusing on organizational change, the future of technology and financial markets, and environmental markets. I do strategic assessments of markets, technology and organizational design, with qualitative and quantitative components. If you are interested, please email me.
Personal Identity
I grew up outside Chicago, and went to school(s) at Wesleyan University, USC, and Northwestern University. I currently live in New York, with a partner who is a marketing manager for an educational nonprofit. I love movies, like to cook, and I can do a mean lindy swing out. I am INTP.
June 13, 2005
brackishness and economic sociology
Filed under: Daily — Peter @ 5:19 pm
For my ’special fields’ paper as a graduate student, we had to write what was effectively an extended literature review - or rather an Annual Review of Sociology article. Mine was about ‘organizing accounts’ of economic activities. Clearly an idea worked out in combination with Berger and Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality and Mary Douglas’s How Institutions Think, I wanted to show that we need some sort of recovery efforts to get at economic institutions before they were stylized as ‘markets.’ Once there, they were transformed into a black box of effeciency, rationality, and self-evidence.
What this really meant, as I think about it a bit removed from it, was that I needed to be reading more economic historians.
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