Eight meeting in the Markets and Valuation cluster's seminar series

Eight meeting in the Markets and Valuation cluster's seminar series

On June 3 the eight meeting in the ongoing seminar series in the Public-Private Platform’s Market and Valuation Cluster took place. The event featured a discussion by Paul du Gay on the chapter (co-authored with Signe Vikkelsø) “’Outside Organization’: The Idea of a ‘Metaphysical Stance’ in Organizational Studies”.

Abstract

Unless a particular academic enterprise – sociology, literary criticism, law, history, economics – is bent on suicide, it will usually present itself, both to its own members and indeed to the ‘outside world’, as uniquely qualified to undertake a particular task. It is this task that gives the enterprise its distinctiveness (furnishing it with a determinate content and its purposeful differences from other enterprises). Organization Studies is currently perceived by its own membership to possess a less than distinctive identity as an academic enterprise, and this is both a source of celebration for some, as well as the cause of considerable regret for others, among that same membership. Whether organization studies should be considered bent on suicide is, of course, a moot point. What seems evident, though, is that implicit in much contemporary scholarship is the idea that organization studies embodies or should embody some goal that can be specified apart from an analysis of organization itself, and which can serve as the standard by which matters organizational are to be evaluated and judged. This is not without some serious consequences.

The cluster is currently in the process of planning furhter meetings for the seminar series and we will be back with more information in this regard as soon as possible.

Previous meetings

2014-2015

Reading group:  Göran Ahrne, Patrik Aspers and Nils Brunsson ‘The Organization of Markets’, April 15th.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Peter Skærbæk & Kjell Tryggestad ‘Accounting inscriptions in outsourcing trials of strength: time-space dynamics’, February 18.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Ann-Christina Lange, ‘Crowding of Adaptive Strategies: Swarm Theory and High-Frequency Trading’, January 21st.

Workshop: Markets for Collective Concerns. Speakers included: Philip Mirowski, Nicholas Gane, Annelise Riles, Daniel Breslau, Daniel Neyland, Liliana Doganova, Brice Laurent, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra and Peter Karnøe, December 12th.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Rasmus Ploug Jenle (IOA), ‘Deploying markets for control – flexibility as liquidity’, November 19th.

Reading group: Luc Boltanski’s book Mysteries and Conspiracies: Detective Stories, Spy Novels and the Making of Modern Societies, October 29th.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Karen Boll (IOA), ‘State regulation through co-production and market mechanisms – Is ‘Neoliberal Tax Management’ taking form?’, October 22th.

2013-2014

Reading group: Chapters 4 to 6 of Philip Mirowski’s book Never Let a Serious Crisis go to Waste, chapters 1 to 3, June 18th.

Reading group: Chapters 1 to 3 of Philip Mirowski’s book Never Let a Serious Crisis go to Waste, chapters 1 to 3, May 7th.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Manuel Tironi, CSISP - Goldsmith, University of London - Instituto de Sociologia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, ‘Neoliberal electricity: economics and the purification of energy’. March 5th, 2014.

Reading group: Chapters (14, 15 and 16) of Bruno Latour’s An Inquiry into Modes of Existence. January 5th, 2014.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Trine Pallesen, Copenhagen Business School, ‘The value of Price’. December 3rd, 2013.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Mariana Heredia, Universidad de San Martin – Argentinian National Scientific Council, ‘The Convertibility puzzle: The intervention of local economists in Argentina’s path to neoliberalism’. November 4th, 2013.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Daniel Neyland, Goldsmiths, 'The Mosquito Multiple: Malaria and Market-Based Initiatives'. October 1st, 2013.

2012-2013

Workshop: ‘Paying Attention to Observation Theory: A Conversation on Finance, Networks and Observation Theory’, with Elena Esposito, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia and David Stark, Columbia University. May 27th, 2013.

Presentation of work-in-progress: Dean Pierides & Jon Roffe (University of Melbourne): ‘What is a market? Melbourne research on organization, society and markets’. April 17th, 2013.

Reading group: Breslau, D. (2011) ‘What Do Market Designers Do When They Design Markets?’ and Roth, A. (2002), ‘The economist as engineer: game theory, Experimentation, and computation As tools for design economics’. March 11th, 2013.

Reading group: T. Mitchell (2011) Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. February 4, 2013.

Presentation of work-in-progress:  Peter Karnøe (Aalborg University) & Liliana Doganova (Mines Tech), ‘Controversial valuations: Assembling environmental concerns and economic worth in clean-tech markets. January 28th, 2013.

Presentation of work-in-progress: José Ossandón (IOA) & Sebastián Ureta (Universidad Alberto Hurtado), ‘Taming Uncivilized Markets’. December 12th, 2012.