Earlier this summer, Daniel Beunza and Pierre Christian-Fink organized an online “book salon” on recent sociological treatments of finance. Hosted by the Program on Law and Political Economy, Harvard Law School. They say:

Financial sociologists contribute important insights to analyses of today’s political economy. This event convenes the authors of nine recent books – all published since 2020 – into a series of panel conversations. The first panel will explore moral questions in the legal gray areas within financial markets that are variously considered to have normative import or not. The second panel will investigate how central bankers and organizers of financial markets make their projects visible to some members of society but not others. The third and final panel will ask which elements of the current financial system are roadblocks on the path to a new democratic political economy, and which ones can be leveraged to achieve a more equitable, inclusive, and sustainable society.

Participating authors: Jakob Feinig, Kimberly Kay Hoang, Simone Polillo, Donald MacKenzie, Philip Roscoe, Leon Wansleben, Fred Block and Robert Hockett, Terri Friedline, Robert Meister.

Recordings of the event are now available here: https://lpe.law.harvard.edu/events/finance-book-salon/