Peter Levin’s Rethinking Markets

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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.

About, Archives, &c.

My name is Peter Levin, and I am a sociologist at Barnard College. The work I do is on technological change, markets, and organizations. This includes work on the shift from face-to-face to electronic trading in fixed income financial markets. And more recently I have become interested in art specialists and how cultural value is related to economic value.

My professional affiliations (and homepages) are the sociology department at Barnard College and a faculty fellow at Columbia’s ISERP.

If you like, you can subscribe to this site’s feed, or contact me at plevin {at} barnard {dot} edu.

Popular Posts

I use Mint to track stuff around here, which works pretty well. According to it, the most popular internal links for my site are:
Peter Levin’s Rethinking Markets
Why are comments on Crooked Timber so bad?
Blog Archive » Can I ask?
Peter, meet Jennifer Lena
Mint: Rethinking Markets

For a more comprensive set of archives:

By year and month:

2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug
2007: Jan Feb Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2006: Sep Oct Dec
2005: Mar May Jun

By category:

Ramble (42)
Daily (38)
Markets (27)
Culture (25)
Art (21)
Technology (14)
Prices (12)
Institutional (9)
Organizations (7)
Uncategorized (3)
Front Page (3)
Data (2)
Pollution (2)
Management Schools (2)
Ambiguity (2)

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Documents, Links, and Hijinks

CV, Resume, or what I do in a nutshell

CV - academic (.pdf)
Resume - Professional (.pdf)

Volunteer or give, it will make you feel better


DonorsChoose.org. This is where my partner works. It is an educational nonprofit devoted to obtaining resources for underfunded public schools.
VolunteerMatch. VM is a first stop for volunteering. You can plug in your interests, your zip code, and it will return things to do for a week, a week, or a lifetime.
Idealist.org. More than a place to volunteer, Idealist is probably the number one place my students go for career work. It is a kind of warehouse for nonprofit jobs, internships, volunteering, and the like.
Kaboom! Kaboom builds playgrounds in areas where they are needed and supported by the community. You can participate in a one-day build (though the interface kinda stinks), and they could use your money as well.
Partners in Health. This organization is just making the world better and healthier by attending to HIV and tuberculosis patients in the most impoverished places in the world. More here.

This site is hand-woven, and heavily borrows from the wonderful blueprint framwork. Rock on, grids!

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