What counts? In work, as in other areas of life, it is not always clear what standards we are
being judged by or how our worth is being determined. This can be disorienting and …

A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the
United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to …

To analyze the organization of trading in the era of quantitative finance we conduct an
ethnography of arbitrage, the trading strategy that best exemplifies finance in the wake of the …

Modern civilization revolves around money. However, money is a paradox. It is nothing more
than a representation of and medium for decentralized networks of social trust, but its …

This article seeks to re-imagine the urban economy from a cultural-economy perspective.
The first part summarizes a perspective arguing that economic life is so shot through with …

News journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of
digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it …

Financial markets and information technologies are key issues for contemporary social
theory and the anthropology of globalization. Drawing on fieldwork in Chicago and London, I …

Present-day capitalism is increasingly financial in character. At nearly every turn, finance
and practices of financialization have begun to work their way into most areas of everyday …

Public futures are playing out in culturally and socially contested sites the world where
knowledges are generated and infrastructures are asse empowering some and …

We often think of finance as a glamorous world, a place where investment bankers amass
huge profits in gleaming downtown skyscrapers. There's another side to finance, though …