On June 5th and 6th, The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at The New School for Social Research sponsored a weekend conference entitled, “The Economization of the Social since the 1970s.”
The event featured a number of illustrious attendees and presenters from a wide array of disciplines who spoke to the conference’s central theme through topics as diverse as New York City’s fiscal crisis, the theory of the firm, insurance, and British prison services.
The list of speakers, their papers, and professional affiliations are all listed below.
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The Economization of the Social since the 1970s
“Marketized Modernity: The New Quality of Contemporary Economization”
Uwe Schimank, Professor of Sociology, University of Bremen
Ute Volkmann, Professor of Sociology, University of Bremen
“How Financial Economics Enveloped the Theory of the Firm and Transformed the
Social”
Gerald Davis, Wilbur K. Pierpont Collegiate Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
“Social Limits to Economization? Growth, Ageing, and the ‘Politics of Potential’”
Stefan Lessenich, Professor of Sociology, University of Munich
“The Moral Economy of the City: Resisting Retrenchment during the New York City Fiscal
Crisis of 1975”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Associate Professor of History, Gallatin School, New York University
“Privatization = Economization? Privatization in the Prison Service of England and Wales
since the 1990s”
Andrea Mennicken, Associate Professor of Accounting, London School of Economics
“Inequality or Social Exclusion: The Economization of the Poverty Industry”
Margaret Somers, Professor of Sociology and History, University of Michigan
“’Society’ Turned Upside Down”
Howard Brick, Louis Evans Professor of U.S. History and Director of the Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies, University of Michigan
“Forget Chicago, It’s Coming from Virginia: The 1970s Genesis of Today’s Attack on
Democracy”
Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History, Duke University
“From Contract to Status? The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets”
Greta Krippner, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
“Neoliberal Environmentalism: The Environmental Defense Fund, Market Technologies,
and the Public Interest”
Eduardo Canedo, Assistant Professor of History, University of Connecticut, Storrs
“Specifying a Political Theory of Neoliberalism”
S. M. Amadae, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University