El COES (Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social, ese mega-aglomerado de la investigación en social en Chile) acaba de publicar en su serie de documentos de trabajo dos entrevistas que aparecieron primero como podcast acá y acá. Ambas conversaciones fueron llevadas a cabo por Tomás Undurraga y contaron con la colaboración de José Ossandón en la elaboración de las preguntas. Acá van las referencias:
Undurraga, T., Ossandón, J. (2020) “Facebook te enseña a ser neoliberal. Entrevista a Philip Mirowski” Documento de Trabajo 39, Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social. https://coes.cl/wp-content/uploads/N%C2%BA39.-Facebook-te-ensena-a-ser-neoliberal.-Entrevista-a-Philip-Mirowski.pdf
Undurraga, T., Ossandón, J. (2020) “Los emprendedores son violentos: operan sin ningún tipo de régimen de justificación, simplemente actúan. Entrevista a Will Davies”, Documento de Trabajo 40, Centro de Estudios de Conflicto y Cohesión Social. https://coes.cl/wp-content/uploads/N%C2%BA40.-Los-emprendedores.-Entrevista-a-Will-Davies.pdf
Keith Tribe’s academic work combines an original mix. Tribe is a recognized scholar in history of economics who has played a very important role in the dissemination and translation of the work of Wilhelm Hennis and Reinhart Koselleck in English speaking academic circles, and he is currently working on a new translation of Max Weber’s Economy and Society for Harvard University Press.
This interview was recorded in the context of his visit to Copenhagen Business School in 2016 (one of Tribe’s talk on that visit was recently published in this special section in Sociologica). In our conversation, Tribe kindly answered questions about his different academic interests. In the first two answers, he expands on the original method of analysis of economic ideas unfolded in his book The Economy of the Word: Language, History, and Economics (2015, Oxford University Press). The answers to questions 3, 4 and 5 are about Weber, particularly the strange role Hayek played in making the first English translation of Economy and Society, the contemporary relevance of Hennis’s interpretation, and a clarification about the long lasting confusion with the term “iron cage”. Continue reading →
By joseossandon
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Tagged Borges, Gane, Gil Villegas, Hayek, Hennis, Historia Económica, Koselleck, Lenguage, Parsons, Piglia, Tribe, Weber
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Liz McFall (Head of the Department of Sociology at the Open University, one of the editors of the Journal of Cultural Economy and site manager of Charisma-Market Studies) has been crafting a very distinctive approach, in the context of recent SSF, to finance. She doesn’t write about esoteric derivatives but about domestic financial goods such as insurance and consumer lending. Most of her research is based on historical data, not on interviews or participant observation, and her conceptual interest is not calculation, rankings or formulae but charisma. In this conversation, carried out last May in Copenhagen, I use McFall’s last book Devising Consumption. Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending as an excuse to make her expand on some of the characteristic features of her work.
Q1. Devising Consumption has five main chapters, accordingly have I prepared five questions, although, and I am sorry for that, my questions neither follow the order of the book nor do they necessarily correspond to particular chapters. Continue reading →
By joseossandon
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Tagged Attachment, Callon, Carisma, Deville, Devising, dispositivo/device, Finanzas, Finanzas domésticas, Frankel, Hennion, James, Latour, Market Devices, McFall, Mercados, Muniesa, Privatización, Seguros, Weber
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Annelise Riles’s (Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies and Professor of Anthropology at Cornell) work is characterized by an intense and productive dialogue between law and anthropology. This results in a form of research which, simultaneously, brings legal reasoning to the center of the ethnographer’s concern (as an object of social scientific investigation) and makes this same reasoning a productive tool for anthropological inquiry. In this conversation carried out right after the workshop ‘Markets for Collective Concerns?’ held last December at Copenhagen Business School, Riles discusses her latest book on her long-term ethnographic work with financial regulators and lawyers in Japan, Collateral Knowledge, and her more recent articles on collaborative research. The interview was conducted by José Ossandón and Gustavo Onto helped elaborate the questions. Continue reading →
By joseossandon
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Tagged Abogados, Boltanski, Callon, Chiapello, Collateral, Conocimiento Económico, Derecho, Deuda, Etnografía, Etnografía colaborativa, Graeber, Han, Hayek, Japón, Performatividad, Riles
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In 2013, Damon Phillips, James P. Gorman Professor of Business Strategy at Columbia University, published the book Shaping Jazz: Cities, Labels and the Global Emergence of an Art Form with Princeton University Press. This book is filled with insightful arguments and findings for the study of economic life and, in particular, of the role that organizations and geography play in shaping cultural markets. The book combines network analysis and archival research in innovative ways while, at the same time, presenting Damon’s thoughts and stories which gives the reader a glimpse into the author’s creative mind. Damon and I met to chat about his book. Below I present a summary of our conversation with the attempt to provide you with some “backstage” information about this relevant and enjoyable piece of work: Continue reading →
Will Davies is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics at Goldsmith, University of London where he also co-directs the newly created Political Economy Research Centre, and a prolific blogger. His recently published book The Limits Of Neoliberalism: Authority, Sovereignty And The Logic Of Competition examines the efforts paid by economic and innovation experts to model society in terms of competition. In this conversation we discuss the usefulness of the concepts developed by the recent sociology of critique to study the limits of neoliberalism and how the economic critique of the state has been employed precisely to legitimate, empower and expand the state.
Introduction
Q1. TU. In the introduction of your book you mention that critics of neoliberalism will probably feel disappointed if they are expecting to find a sort of conspiracy theory being unveiled through your research. However, what your research does is to unveil the theoretical and ontological underpinning of competition and neoliberalism. But maybe I am missing part of your intentions. An introductory question: what were your initial hypotheses and/or motivations for studying competition and the rationality and authority of the neoliberal state?
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By tomasundurraga
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Tagged Becker, Boltanski, Chicago School, Coase, competition, Davies, Economía Política, entrepreneurship, Hayek, Innovación, Neoliberalismo/Neoliberalización, Porter, Riles, Schumpeter, sovereignity, Thevenot
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Foto: ICSO, Universidad Diego Portales
Director emérito del CNRS y miembro del Centro de sociología europea de la EHESS, Yves Dezalay es una referencia mayúscula en el estudio de los economistas. Su obra pionera publicada en 2002 junto a Bryant Garth La internacionalización de las guerras de palacio guío la reflexión de muchos de los análisis sobre economistas y abogados a escala global y local. Tras sus investigaciones en América Latina, Dezalay estudió en profundidad estos fenómenos en varios países de Asia (más publicaciones acá). En esta conversación, llevada a cabo en Paris en mayo 2014, Dezalay hace un balance de sus hallazgos y sintetiza sus conclusiones sobre la ‘Berkeley Mafia’ y la actualidad de los economistas en la crisis de algunos países de Europa. El audio esta vez es en francés, aunque abajo van las preguntas traducidas al español. Continue reading →
Like a sociological detective of ideas, professor of sociology at the University of Warwick Nicholas Gane (2012, 2014 a, b) has been following the traces of social scientific thought in neoliberalism. The initial clue was given by Michel Foucault who in his Birth of Biopolitics argued that Max Weber’s work not only influenced critical theorists such as Adorno and Horkheimer but also one of the main branches within neoliberal thinking, German ordoliberalism. While Gane’s research ended up finding Foucault’s Weber-Ordoliberals connections rather thin, the investigation took him to an even more worrying result, namely, Weber’s influence on the work of Ludwig von Mises and his followers in Vienna, including the über neoliberal Friedrich Hayek. In this interview carried out at Warwick early June, Gane talks about his recent inquiry and its consequences. Continue reading →
Eden Medina has written one of the most fascinating books about Chile’s recent history, Cybernetic Revolutionaries (MIT Press) published originally in 2011 and recently translated by LOM as Revolucionarios Cibernéticos. Tecnología y política en el Chile de Salvador Allende. From a STS approach, and based on archive material and extensive interviews, the book describes in detail the history of ‘Proyecto Synco’, the attempt lead by British cybernetician Stafford Beer and Fernando Flores to coordinate and manage the Chilean socialist economy. Taking the translation of the book as an excuse, we asked Eden to talk to Estudios de la Economía. The only problem was that at that time, November 2013, we were each in a different country, Eden in the US, Manuel in the UK and José in Denmark. But we finally had the Skype conversation we share with you here. Unfortunately, at the time of the meeting Manuel was in a very noisy café. Therefore, some parts (particularly answer to question 1) are difficult to hear. Anyway, we are very happy to share this podcast, hoping it will motivate listeners to read Eden’s book and inspire more detailed historical research of this kind. Continue reading →
By joseossandon
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Tagged Beer, Cibernética, Cybersyn, Economistas, Flores, Ingenieros, Medina, STS, SYNCO, Tecnocracia, Tecnología
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El último número de Accounts – la newsletter de la sección de Sociología Económica de la American Sociological Association- incluye esta entrevista sobre la historia y desafíos futuros de Estudios de la Economía. Continue reading →
Estudios de la Economía 