Please join us for a joint session of the Money, Markets and Governance and Politics, History, and Society workshops, Next Tuesday November 13th, at 3:00 – 4:30 PM in Harper 3B.
October 30, 5 pm, Georg Rilinger presents: Resolving Regulatory Blindspots in California’s Electricity Markets: Deep Blindspots, Conceptual Metaphors and the Power of Unstructured Data
Please join us for a joint session of the Money, Markets and Governance and Politics, History, and Society workshops, Next Tuesday October 30th, at 5:00 – 6:30 PM in SSRB 106. Please note the different date and time.
Georg Rilinger
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Resolving Regulatory Blindspots in California’s Electricity Markets: Deep Blindspots, Conceptual Metaphors and the Power of Unstructured Data
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October 23, 3 pm, Professor Cesar Hidalgo presents: The Principles of Knowledge
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, Next Tuesday October 23rd, at 3:00 – 4:30 PM in Harper Center Room 3B in the Booth School of Business.
Cesar Hidalgo
Associate Professor, Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Principles of Knowledge
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October 16, 3 pm, Professor Daniel Z. Levin presents: Network Shadows: The Enduring Impact of Intra-Organizational Dormant Ties
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, Next Tuesday October 16th, at 3:00 – 4:30 PM in Harper Center Room 3B in the Booth School of Business.
Daniel Z. Levin
Professor, Rutgers Business School, Rutgers University
Network Shadows: The Enduring Impact of Intra-Organizational Dormant Ties
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October 9, 3 pm, Professor Johan Chu presents: Weapons of Mass Attention Direction: Competitive Dynamics of the Korean Popular Music Industry
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, Next Tuesday October 9th, at 3:00 – 4:30 PM in Harper Center Room 3B in the Booth School of Business.
Johan Chu
Assistant Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Weapons of Mass Attention Direction: Competitive Dynamics of the Korean Popular Music Industry
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October 2, 3 pm, Professor Michael Macy presents: The Domino Effect: How Predictability Can Decrease with Signal Strength and Increase with Noise
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, Next Tuesday October 2nd, at 3:00 – 4:30 PM in Harper Center Room 3B in the Booth School of Business.
Michael Macy
Goldwin Smith Professor of Arts and Sciences, Sociology, Cornell University
The Domino Effect: How Predictability Can Decrease with Signal Strength and Increase with Noise
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May 15, 5 pm, Wen Xie presents: Embedded Liberalization and Paths toward Capitalism in China
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, Next Tuesday May 15th, at 5:00 – 6:30 PM in classroom 401 in the Social Science Research Building.
Wen Xie
PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago
Embedded Liberalization and Paths toward Capitalism in China
Discussant:
Yan Xu
PhD Candidate, Political Science, University of Chicago
Abstract: Varieties of capitalism, rather than a uniform market economy, emerged within China. This article provides a theoretical framework for explaining the formation of different political economic orders after liberalization from socialism took place. It argues that liberalization is multifarious and comes from multiple sources, including Smithian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship, changing soft-budget constraints of the former socialist organization, and globalization. Liberalization did not occur in a vacuum but transpired within a local structure rooted in the socialist past. Economic populace and an organization-state nexus are the most important features of the local structure that condition the unfolding of multiple liberalization forces. Various types of political economic orders result from the interactions between the economic field and multiple sources of dis-embedding. Temporality matters in the process because mechanisms mean differently across time and place.
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May 1, 4:30 pm, the Money, Markets and Governance Workshop presents: A Special Panel – Is Marx Still Relevant to the Social Sciences in 2018?
Please join us for our next meeting of the Money, Markets and Governance workshop, on coming Tuesday, May 1st, at 4:30 – 6 PM (note the change from regular starting time), in classroom 401 in the Social Science Research Building.
Is Marx Still Relevant to Social Sciences in Contemporary Academia? A Panel Discussion
Speakers:
John Clegg, PhD Candidate, Sociology, NYU
Nate Ela, PhD Candidate, Sociology, UW-Madison
Stacie Kent, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Michael McCarthy, Assistant Professor, Sociology, Marquette University
Irene Pang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology, Northwestern University
With Comments by:
Prof. William H. Sewell Jr.,
Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus,
Political Science and History, University of Chicago
While Karl Marx is considered part of the canon of several disciplines that read him in their undergraduate and graduate classes, and even though Class is a widespread category in social sciences today, there is a real question regarding the place of Marx’s concepts and form of critique in contemporary mainstream sociology and the other empirical social sciences. The few “islands” in which Marxist theory is still alive and applied, like the Marxist Sociology section of the ASA, are small and, indeed, seem insular. And it is telling that the arguably most influential book in recent years that took on critique of capitalism, was written not by a sociologist, political scientist or even a historian, but rather by an economist (Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century). To mark Marx’s bicentenary (on May 5th), the Money, Markets and Governance Workshop will bring together a panel of young and accomplished scholars, who will reflect on the question of Marx’s contemporary relevance in their academic fields and in their own work. Prof. Sewell will provide comments to the discussion.
For accessibility concerns or other issues please contact the workshop coordinator at yanivr {at} uchicago {dot} edu
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