Assigned Readings
“The 1619 Project.” New York Times Magazine, 2019.
“A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning.” R2D3.
Ahmed, Aziza, and Jason Jackson. 2019. “Sex, Markets and Political Economy.” Law and Political Economy (LPE Blog). September 18, 2019.
Almeling, Rene. 2007. “Selling Genes, Selling Gender: Egg Agencies, Sperm Banks, and the Medical Market in Genetic Material.” American Sociological Review 72(3): 319–340.
———. 2011. Sex Cells: The Medical Market for Eggs and Sperm. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520270961
Anteby, Michel. 2010. “Markets, Morals, and Practices of Trade: Jurisdictional Dispute in the U.S. Commerce in Cadavers.” Administrative Science Quarterly 55: 606–638.
Barsukova, Svetlana, and Vadim V. Radaev. 2012. “Informal Economy in Russia: A Brief Overview.” Economic Sociology – The European Electronic Newsletter 13(2): 4–12.
Beckert, Jens. 2013. “Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations in the Economy.” Theory and Society 42: 219–240.
Beckert, Sven. 2015. The Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN: 9780375713965
Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan. 2019. American Capitalism: New Histories. Columbia University Press. ISBN: 9780231185257
Beckert, Sven, and Seth Rockman, eds. 2018. Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN: 9780812224177
Benjamin, Ruha. 2019. “Introduction: Discriminatory Design, Liberating Imagination” in Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Duke University Press. ISBN: 9781478003816
———. 2019. Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity. ISBN: 9781509526406.
Birla, Ritu. 2008. Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India. Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822342687
———. 2015. “Jurisprudence of Emergence: Neo-Liberalism and the Public as Market in India.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 38(3): 466–480.
Blair, Cynthia M. 2010. I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226597584
Block, Fred, and Margaret R. Somers. 2014. The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi’s Critique. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674970885
Boltanksi, Luc, and Eve Chiapello. 2018. The New Spirit of Capitalism. Verso. ISBN: 9781786633255
Brenner, Neil. 1999. “Globalization as Reterritorialization: The Rescaling of Urban Governance in the European Union.” Urban Studies 36(3): 431–451.
Brenner, Neil, with Daniel Ibanez. 2014. “Globalization as Reterritorialization.” (YouTube)
Brenner, Neil, Jamie Peck, and Nik Theodore. 2010. “Variegated Neoliberalization: Geographies, Modalities, Pathways.” Global Networks 10(2): 182–223.
Burrell, Jenna. 2016. “How the Machine ‘Thinks’: Understanding Opacity in Machine Learning Algorithms.” Big Data & Society 3(1).
Byrd, Jodi A., Alyosha Goldstein, Jodi Melamed, et al., eds. 2018. “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Social Text 36(2) (Special Issue) 2018.
Campbell, John L., and Ove Pedersen. 2001. The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis, Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691070872
———. 2015. “Policy Ideas, Knowledge Regimes and Comparative Political Economy.” Socio-Economic Review, 13(4), pp. 679–701.
Castells, Manuel, and Portes, Alejandro. 1989. “World Underneath: The Origins, Dynamics, and Effects of the Informal Economy” in Alejandro Portes, Manuel Castells, and Laurel A. Benton (eds.), The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN: 9780801837364
Chan, Cheris Shun-Ching. 2009. “Creating a Market in the Presence of Cultural Resistance: The Case of Life Insurance in China.” Theory and Society 38(3): 271–305.
Chibber, Vivek. 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691126234
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. 2014. “The Case for Reparations.” The Atlantic. May 21, 2014.
Cohen, Amy, and Jason Jackson. 2019. “Moral Technologies of Market Construction: Multinational Firms in the Indian Bazaar.”
Dawson, Michael C. 2016. “Hidden in Plain Sight: A Note on Legitimation Crisis and the Racial Order.” Critical Historical Studies 3(1): 143–161.
Dobbin, Frank. 1994. Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781139174183
———. 2001. “How Institutional Economics is Killing Micro-Economics.” Economic Sociology Listserve.
———. 2011. “Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States” in Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg (eds.) The Sociology of Economic Life. Routledge. ISBN: 9780813344553
Dubois, W.E.B. 1935 [1999]. Black Reconstruction in America: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America_, 1860–1880_. Simon and Schuster. ISBN: 9780684856575
Ferguson, James. 2005. “Seeing like an Oil Company: Space, Security and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa.” American Anthropologist 107(3): 377–382.
———. 2009. “Uses of Neoliberalism.” Antipode 41(S1): 166–184.
Fitzmaurice, Connor J., Isak Ladegaard, Will Attwood-Charles, et al. 2018. “Domesticating the Market: Moral Exchange and the Sharing Economy.” Socio-Economic Review 18(1): 81–102.
Fligstein, Neil. 2001. The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691102542
Foucault, Michel. 2007. Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977–1978, trans. Graham Burchell. Picador. ISBN: 9780312203603
Fourcade, Marion. 2017. “State Metrology: The Rating of Sovereigns and the Judgment of Nations” in Kimberly J. Morgan and Ann Shola Orloff (eds.), The Many Hands of the State, Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781316471586
Fourcade, Marion, and Kieran Healy. 2007. “Moral Views of Market Society.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 285–311.
———. 2013. “Classification Situations: Life-Chances in the Neoliberal Era" (PDF). Accounting, Organizations, and Society 38: 559–572.
———. 2016. “Seeing like a Market” (PDF). Socio-Economic Review 15(1) 9-29.
Fraser, Nancy. 2013. “How Feminism Became Capitalism’s Handmaiden - and How to Reclaim It.” The Guardian, October 14, 2013.
———. 2016. “Expropriation and Exploitation in Racialized Capitalism: A Reply to Michael Dawson.” Critical Historical Studies 3(1) 163–178.
Friedman, Milton. 1962 [2003]. Capitalism and Freedom. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226264219
Gereffi, Gary. 2005. “The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development” in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691121260
Gillespie, Tarleton. 2016. “Algorithm” in Benjamin Peters (ed.), Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691167336
Girvan, Norman. 1975. Aspects of the Political Economy of Race in the Caribbean and the Americas. Institute of Social and Economic Research. ASIN: B0000EE9OA
Go, Julian. 2020. “Race, Empire, and Epistemic Exclusion: Or the Structures of Sociological Thought.” Sociological Theory 38(2): 79–100.
Gordon, Colin. 1991. “Governmental Rationality: An Introduction” in Graham Burchell, Colin Gordon, and Peter Miller (eds.), The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226080451
Goswami, Manu. 1998. “From Swadeshi to Swaraj: Nation, Economy, Territory in Colonial South Asia, 1870 to 1907.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 40(4): 609–636.
Gupta, Akhil. 2012. Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and the Poverty in India. Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822351108
Hall, Peter. 1997. “Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State: The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain” (PDF - 3 MB). Comparative Politics 25(3): 275–296.
Hall, Peter, and David Soskice. 2001. “An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism” (PDF) in Varieties of Capitalism, ed. Hall and Soskice. Oxford University Press.
Halley, Janet. 2018. “Conclusion. Distribution and Decision: Assessing Governance Feminism” in Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir (eds.), Governance Feminism: An Introduction. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 9780816698479
Harcourt, Bernard E. 2008. “Neoliberal Penality: The Birth of the Natural Order, The Illusion of Free Markets.” University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 433.
Harris, LaShawn. 2016. Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black Women in New York City’s Underground Economy. University of Illinois Press. ISBN: 9780252081668
Harvey, David. 2007. A Brief History of Neoliberalism. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199283279
Hayek, Friedrich von. 1937. “Economics and Knowledge.” Economica, 4(13): 33–54.
———. 1945. “The Use of Knowledge in Society.” American Economic Review 35(4): 519–530.
———. 1948. Individualism and Economic Order. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226320939
Healy, Kieran. 2006. Last Best Gifts: Altruism and the Market for Human Blood and Organs. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226322377
Hicks, Alexander. 2006. “Free Market and Religious Fundamentalists versus Poor Relief.” American Sociological Review 71(3): 503–510.
Hirschman, Albert O. 1982. “Rival Interpretations of Market Society: Civilizing, Destructive, or Feeble?” (PDF - 3.5 MB). Journal of Economic Literature 20: 1463–1484.
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2015. Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. University of California Press. ISBN: 978052027557
Irani, Lilly. 2019. Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Moddern India. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691175133
James, C.L.R. 1938. [1989] The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Vintage. ISBN: 9780679724674
Jasanoff, Sheila. 2015. “Future Imperfect: Science, Technology and the Imaginations of Modernity” in Sheila Jasanoff and Sang-Hyun Kim (eds.), Dreamscapes of Modernity: Socio-technical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 9780226276526
Johnson, Walter. 2017. River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674975385
Katznelson, Ira. 2014. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. Liveright Publishing. ISBN: 9780871407382
Kelley, Robin. 2017. “What Did Cedric Robinson Mean by Racial Capitalism?” Boston Review, January 12, 2017.
Kitchin, Rob. 2017. “Thinking Critically about and Researching Algorithms.” Information, Communication and Society, 20(1): 14–29.
Krugman, Paul. 2014. “Why We Are in a New Gilded Age.” (Review of Thomas Picketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.) The New York Review of Books, May 8, 2014.
Lenin, Vladimir I. 1916. “Imperialism as a Special Stage of Capitalism” in Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Livne, Roi. 2014. “Economies of Dying: The Moralization of Economic Scarcity in U.S. Hospice Care.” American Sociological Review 79(5): 888–911.
Maclean, Nancy. 2018. Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America. Penguin Books. ISBN: 9781101980972
———. 2018. “The GOP’s Long Game” interview on Real Time with Bill Maher, 8/4/2018. (YouTube)
Marx, Karl. 1972 [1978]. “The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte” in Robert Tucker (ed.), The Marx-Engels Reader. Norton & Company. ISBN: 9780393090406
———. “The German Ideology” pp. 387-406 in Frank Dobbin. 2004. (ed.) The New Economic Sociology: A Reader. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691049069
Matlon, Jordanna. 2016. “Racial Capitalism and the Crisis of Black Masculinity.” American Sociological Review 81(5): 1014–1038.
Mirowski, Philip. 2013. “Shock Block Doctrine: Neoliberalism as Thought Collective and Political Program” in Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown. Verso Books. ISBN: 9781781683026
Mitchell, Timothy. 1999. “State, Economy and the State Effect” in George Steinmetz (ed.) State/Culture: State Formation After the Cultural Turn. Cornell University Press. ISBN: 9780801485336
———. 2002. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520232624
———. 2009. “Carbon Democracy.” Economy and Society 38(3): 399–432.
Morgan, Kimberley J., and Ann Orloff. 2017. The Many Hands of the State. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781316471586
Mozorov, Evgeny. “Capitalism’s New Clothes.” The Baffler, February 4, 2019.
O’Neal, Cathy. 2016. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. Crown. ISBN: 9780553418811
Pasquale, Frank. 2015. The Black Box Society. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674970847
Plehwe, Dietrich. 2009. Introduction to Philip Mirowski and Dietrich Plehwe (eds.) The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674033184
Polanyi, Karl. 1944 [2001]. The Great Transformation. Beacon Press. ISBN: 9780807056431
———. 1947. “Our Obsolete Market Mentality.” Commentary 3: 109–117.
Portes, Alejandro, and William Haller. 2005. “The Informal Economy” in Neil Smelser and Richard Swedburg (ed.) The Handbook of Economic Sociology. Princeton University Press. 9780691121260
Posner, Eric, and E. Glen Weyl. 2018. Radical Markets. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691177502
Quinn, Sarah. 2008. “The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies.” American Journal of Sociology 114(3): 738–80.
Rahman, Sabeel, and Kathy Thelen. 2018. “Broken Contract: The Rise of the Networked Firm and the Transformation of Twenty-First Century Capitalism.” (unpublished manuscript)
Rittich, Kerry. 2017. “Formality and Informality in the Law of Work” in Simon Archer, Daniel Drache and Peer Zumbansen (eds.), The Daunting Enterprise of Law: Essays in Honour of Harry W Arthurs. McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN: 9780773548909
Robinson, Cedric. 1983. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 9780807848296
Rodney, Walter. 1972 [2018]. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Verso Books. ISBN: 9781788731188
Rosenblat, Alex. 2019. Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520324800
Rosenthal, Caitlin. 2013. “From Memory to Mastery: Accounting for Control in America, 1750–1880.” Enterprise and Society 14(4): 732–748.
Roy, Ananya. 2005. “Urban Informality: Toward an Epistemology of Planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association 71(2): 147–158.
———. 2009. “Why India Cannot Plan its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization.” Planning Theory 8(1): 76–87.
———. 2010. Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development. Routledge. ISBN: 9780415876735
———. 2012. “Subjects of Risk: Technologies of Gender in the Making of Millennial Modernity.” Public Culture 24(1) 131–155.
———. 2015. “Urban Informality: The Production and Regulation of Space.” International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, Volume 24. ISBN: 9780080970868
Sandel, Michael J. 2012. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. ISBN: 9780374533656
———. 2012. What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. (assorted videos)
Santos, Alvaro. 2018. “The War on Drugs and the Challenges to Liberal Legality.” (unpublished manuscript)
Sassen, Saskia. 1998. “The Informal Economy: Between New Developments and Old Regulations” in Globalization and its Discontents. The New Press. ISBN: 9781565845183
Scott, James. 1999. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Yale University Press. ISBN: 9780300078152
Seaver, Nick. 2014. “Knowing Algorithms” (PDF). Media in Transition 8.
Skocpol, Theda. 1985. “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current Research” in Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol (eds.), Bringing the State Back In. Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9780511628283
Slobodian, Quinn. 2018. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674979529
———. 2018. “A History of Neoliberalism with Quinn Slobodian.” The Dig podcast, November 14, 2018.
Somers, Margaret, and Fred Block. 2005. “Reply to Hicks: Poverty and Piety.” American Sociological Review 71(3): 511–513.
———. 2005. “From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate.” American Sociological Review 70(2): 260–287.
Song, Lily. 2016. “Planning with Urban Informality: A Case for Inclusion, Co-production and Reiteration” (PDF). International Development Policy Research 38(4): 359–381.
Srnicek, Nick. 2016. Platform Capitalism. Polity Press. ISBN: 9781509504879
Stedman-Jones, Daniel. 2012. Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691161013
Thompson, E.P. 1971. “The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century.” Past and Present 50: 76–136.
Tilly, Charles. 1990. Coercion, Capital and European States, AD 990–1990. Basil Blackwell. ISBN: 9781557860675
Turner, Fred. 2009. “Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production” (PDF). New Media Studies 11(1&2): 73–94.
Williams, Eric. 1994. Capitalism and Slavery. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN: 9780807844885
Zelizer, Viviana A. 1978. “Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th Century America.” American Journal of Sociology 84(3): 591–610.
Ziewitz, Malte. 2016. “Governing Algorithms: Myth, Mess, and Methods.” Science, Technology & Human Values. 41(1): 3–16.
Zuboff, Shosanna. 2018. “The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism.” Franfurter Allgemeine, March 5, 2016.
Further Reading
Block, Fred. 2018. Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520283220
Breslau, Daniel. 2013. “Designing a Market-Like Entity: Economics in the Politics of Market Formation.” Social Studies of Science 43(6): 829–851.
Callon, Michel. 1998. “The Embeddedness of Economic Markets in Economics.” The Sociological Review 46(1): 1–57.
Dubal, Veena. 2017. “Wage Slave or Entrepreneur?” 105 California Law Review 101.
Fligstein, Neil. 1996. “The Politics of Markets” American Sociological Review.
Fligstein, Neil, and Luke Dauter. 2007. “The Sociology of Markets” (PDF). Annual Review of Sociology 33: 105–128.
Fourcade, Marion. 2007. “Theories of Markets and Theories of Society.” American Behavioral Scientist 50(8): 1015–1034.
Geertz, Clifford. 1978. “The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing.” American Economic Review 68(2): 28–32.
Granovetter, Mark. 1985. “Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness.” American Journal of Sociology 91(3): 481–510.
Hirschman, Dan, and Laura Garbes. 2019. “Toward an Economic Sociology of Race.” Socio-Economic Review. mwz054
Krippner, Greta R. 2005. “The Financialization of the American Economy.” Socio-Economic Review 3: 173–208
Krippner, Greta R., and Anthony Alvarez. 2007. “Embeddedness and the Intellectual Projects of Economic Sociology.” Annual Review of Sociology 33: 219–240.
MacKenzie, Donald, Fabian Muniesa, and Lucia Siu, eds. 2007. Do Economists Make Markets? Princeton University Press. ISBN: 9780691138497
Maggor, Noam. 2017. “To Coddle and Caress These Great Capitalists: Eastern Money, Frontier Populism, and the Politics of Market-Making in the American West.” American Historical Review 122(1): 55–84.
Mathew, Biju. 2008. Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City. Cornell ILR Press. ISBN: 9780801474392
Mitchell, Timothy. 2005. “The Work of Economics: How a Discipline Makes Its World.” European Journal of Sociology 46(2), pp. 297–320.
Rizzo, Matteo. 2019. Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780198839057
Rogers, Brishen. 2020. “Beyond Automation: The Law & Political Economy of Workplace Technological Change.” Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review 55.
