This article introduces a new social scientific understanding of the relationship between
households and finance. We call it financial oikonomization. Financial oikonomization …

Seen in a longitudinal perspective, Quantified Self-inspired self-tracking sets up “a
laboratory of the self,” where people co-evolve with technologies. By exploring ways in …

The aim of this article is to show Actor-Network Theory's (ANT) potential for accounting for
the alternative-conventional hybridity of alternative food networks. A review of the literature …

Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms? The Feel of Algorithms brings
relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally …

How people detach from financial relations is a critical but overlooked dimension of
economic life. This paper offers a response by exploring how financial loss is reckoned with …

In the insurance industry, digital technologies have been harnessed in pursuit of three goals:
personalising services for customers, obtaining information about them and nudging them …

This paper explores the consequences of a recent Social Impact Bond (SIB) implementation
in the UK at the level of everyday practices in three youth homelessness charities. By …

ABSTRACT Private Wealth Management (PWM) is a market providing financial services to
High and Ultra High Net-Worth individuals and families. Here, efforts developed by wealth …

An array of software apps, from fitness to finance, enrolls behavioral economics, and
economists, in their product designs, value propositions, or else sales pitches, to make …

This paper follows the sinuous trajectory of the joint design of an electricity meter and the
technical architecture of the smart home in France. The analysis points to the articulation …